[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1992, Book I)]
[May 29, 1992]
[Page 859]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]



Nomination of Joseph Monroe Segars To Be United States Ambassador to 
Cape Verde

May 29, 1992
    The President today announced his intention to nominate Joseph 
Monroe Segars, of Pennsylvania, a career member of the Senior Foreign 
Service, class of Counselor, to be Ambassador of the United States of 
America to the Republic of Cape Verde. He would succeed Francis Terry 
McNamara.
    Currently Mr. Segars serves as a member of the Senior Seminar of the 
Foreign Service Institute at the Department of State. Prior to this, he 
served as a career counselor in the Senior Officer Division, Department 
of State Office of Personnel, 1989-91; Deputy Chief of Mission at the 
U.S. Embassy in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, 1986-89; and as Consul General 
of the U.S. Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria, 1983-86. From 1981 to 1983, Mr. 
Segars served as desk officer for Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and Swaziland in 
the Office of Southern African Affairs at the Department of State.
    Mr. Segars graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (B.S., 
1961). He was born January 6, 1938, in Hartsville, SC. Mr. Segars is 
married, has one child, and resides in Washington, DC.