{{Short description|American diplomat (born 1946)}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Donald Burnham Ensenat | image = Donald Ensenat, U.S. Ambassador.jpg | order = 28th | office = Chief of Protocol of the United States | term_start = June 6, 2001 | term_end = February 18, 2007 | president = George W. Bush | predecessor = Mary Mel French | successor = Nancy Brinker | office2 = United States Ambassador to Brunei | term_start2 = August 11, 1992 | term_end2 = June 13, 1993 | predecessor2 = Christopher H. Phillips | successor2 = Theresa Anne Tull | president2 = George H. W. Bush<br>Bill Clinton | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|2|4}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | birth_name = | party = Republican | alma_mater = Yale University (BA)<br>Tulane University (JD) }}
'''Donald Burnham Ensenat''' (born February 4, 1946) is a retired American diplomat. Until his retirement in 2007, he served as United States Chief of Protocol at the United States Department of State.
==Personal== Ensenat is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. He is a graduate of the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, Yale University, and the Tulane University Law School. As an undergraduate, he was a roommate of George W. Bush at Yale College. In the 1960s and 1970s, Ensenat served as a military reservist.
==Career== Ensenat is a lawyer, and formerly served as Ambassador to Brunei.
==External links== * [https://2009-2017.state.gov/s/cpr/ Office of the Chief of Protocol Website] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311093826/http://www2.tulane.edu/images/protocol1.jpg Photo] * {{cite web|url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/government/densenat-bio.html|title=Ambassador Donald Burnham Ensenat|publisher=White House}}
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