Arthur Adair Hartman (March 12, 1926 – March 16, 2015) was an American career diplomat who served as Ambassador to France under

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and Ambassador to the Soviet Union under Ronald Reagan.

Career

Hartman served in the

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from 1944 to 1946. He graduated from

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in 1947 and attended Harvard Law School from 1947 to 1948. Rather than pursuing a degree, he took a job in the Marshall Plan administration in Europe, followed by work in the Foreign Service. Among his many postings with the State Department over the years were positions in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

, Saigon,

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and in

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as deputy chief of the U.S. Mission to the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...

. In 1974, Hartman was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs. From 1977 until 1981 he was the Ambassador to

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and from 1981 until 1987 Ambassador to the

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. Hartman was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the

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, the French American Foundation and was on the Advisory Council of the

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. He was awarded the French

Légion d'honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

. In 2004, he was one of the 26 founders of Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change. Hartman died on March 16, 2015, in Washington, D.C., four days after his 89th birthday.Arthur A. Hartman, U.S. ambassador to Soviet Union, Dies at 89
' New York Times, Sam Roberts, March 18, 2015

References

External links

French American Foundation biography
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