Curtis Warren Kamman (born January 15, 1939) is an American former career diplomat. Kamman graduated from

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and

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and entered the

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in 1960."Curtis Kamman Promoted In Foreign Service"
''Prescott Evening Courier'', April 29, 1965, retrieved 2011-11-29. He served as

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to Bolivia,

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

, and Colombia. Kamman also served in various positions in the

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, including Director of East African Affairs, and in diplomatic assignments in

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Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

Kenya ) , national_anthem = " Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi ...

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and the

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. In 1991, he was sent by President George H. W. Bush to re-establish diplomatic relations with the newly independent nations of Latvia, Lithuania and

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

.Alumni Spotlight: Former Ambassador Curtis Kamman & Editor Jon Kamman
''Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus Newsletter'', Winter 2000, retrieved 2011-11-29. Kamman retired from the Foreign Service in 2000. After his retirement, Kamman taught diplomacy and U.S. foreign policy at the

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. He is a member of the

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.The American Academy of Diplomacy - Member List
, retrieved 2011-03-28 Curtis Kamman married the former Mary Glasgow Curtis, and they have three sons.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kamman, Curtis 1939 births Living people People from Chicago Ambassadors of the United States to Colombia Ambassadors of the United States to Chile Ambassadors of the United States to Bolivia Tucson High School alumni United States Foreign Service personnel