{{Short description|American diplomat (1926–2018)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Harry W. Shlaudeman | image = Harry W. Shlaudeman visits with Ronald Reagan.jpg | caption = Shlaudeman with [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1984 | ambassador_from6 = United States | country6 = Venezuela | predecessor6 = [[Robert McClintock]] | successor6 = [[Viron P. Vaky]] | president6 = [[Gerald Ford]] | term_start6 = May 9, 1975 | term_end6 = May 14, 1976 | office5 = 17th [[Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs]] | predecessor5 = [[William D. Rogers]] | successor5 = [[Terence Todman]] | president5 = [[Gerald Ford]] | term_start5 = July 22, 1976 | term_end5 = March 14, 1977 | ambassador_from4 = United States | country4 = Peru | predecessor4 = [[Robert W. Dean]] | successor4 = [[Edwin Gharst Corr]] | president4 = [[Jimmy Carter]] | term_start4 = June 28, 1977 | term_end4 = October 20, 1980 | ambassador_from3 = United States | country3 = Argentina | predecessor3 = [[Raúl Héctor Castro|Raúl H. Castro]] | successor3 = [[Frank V. Ortiz, Jr.]] | president3 = [[Jimmy Carter]] <br />[[Ronald Reagan]] | term_start3 = October 2, 1980 | term_end3 = August 26, 1983 | ambassador_from2 = United States | country2 = Brazil | predecessor2 = [[Diego C. Asencio]] | successor2 = [[Richard Huntington Melton]] | president2 = [[Ronald Reagan]] <br /> [[George H. W. Bush]] | term_start2 = August 5, 1986 | term_end2 = May 14, 1989 | ambassador_from1 = United States | country1 = Nicaragua | predecessor1 = [[Richard Huntington Melton]] | successor1 = [[John Francis Maisto]] | president1 = [[George H. W. Bush]] | term_start1 = June 21, 1990 | term_end1 = March 14, 1992 | birth_name = Harry Walter Shlaudeman | birth_date = {{birth date|1926|05|17|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Los Angeles, California]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2018|12|5|1926|05|17|mf=y}} | party = | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = Diplomat | signature = | website = | footnotes = | awards = [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] | order3 = 41st }}
'''Harry Walter Shlaudeman''' (May 17, 1926 – December 5, 2018) was an American diplomat, who served successively as Ambassador to Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, and Nicaragua.
==Biography== Shlaudeman was born in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], on May 17, 1926. During [[World War II]], he served in the [[United States Marine Corps]] from 1944 to 1946. After the war, he attended [[Stanford University]], receiving his [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in 1952. Shlaudeman died on December 5, 2018, in [[San Luis Obispo, California]], at the age of 92.<ref name= tribune>{{cite web|url=https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/article223219735.html |title= Ambassador who served under 8 U.S. presidents dies in SLO at age 92|access-date= December 18, 2018}}</ref>
==Foreign service career== Shlaudeman joined the [[United States Foreign Service]] in 1954.<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 May 1993 |title=The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR HARRY W. SHLAUDEMAN |url=https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Shlaudeman,%20Harry.toc.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240703175933/https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Shlaudeman,%20Harry.toc.pdf |archive-date=3 July 2024 |access-date=2 August 2024 |website=Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training}}</ref> As a [[Foreign Service Officer]], he was posted to [[Barranquilla]] 1955–56; to [[Bogotá]] 1956–1958; to [[Sofia]] 1959–1962; and to [[Santo Domingo]] 1962–1964. He moved to [[Washington, D.C.]], in 1964, becoming the [[Dominican Republic]] desk officer in the [[United States Department of State]]. In 1965, he became assistant director of the State Department's Office of Caribbean Affairs, and also served as an advisor to [[Ellsworth Bunker]], the [[United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States]]. From 1967 to 1969, he was special assistant to [[United States Secretary of State]] [[Dean Rusk]]. He returned to the field in 1969 as deputy [[chief of mission]] in [[Santiago, Chile]], and then returned to the U.S. in 1973 to become Deputy [[Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs]].
[[President of the United States]] [[Gerald Ford]] nominated Shlaudeman as [[United States Ambassador to Venezuela]] and he held this post from May 9, 1975, until May 14, 1976. Ford next nominated Shlaudeman as [[Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs]], and he held this office from July 22, 1976, until March 14, 1977. President [[Jimmy Carter]] nominated him as [[United States Ambassador to Peru]], holding this post from June 28, 1977, until October 20, 1980. Carter then named him [[United States Ambassador to Argentina]], holding this post from November 4, 1980, until August 26, 1983, during the [[Falklands War]].
Shlaudeman spent 1983–84 as a member of the [[National Bipartisan Commission on Central America]]. In 1984, President [[Ronald Reagan]] named Shlaudeman as the President's Special Envoy for Central America. He then served as [[United States Ambassador to Brazil]] from August 5, 1986, until May 14, 1989. President [[George H. W. Bush]] then nominated him as [[United States Ambassador to Nicaragua]] and he served in this post from June 21, 1990, until March 14, 1992. Shlaudeman received the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] in 1992.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=18497 Bush's Nomination of Shlaudeman as Ambassador to Nicaragua]
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