Willard Leon Beaulac (July 25, 1899 – August 25, 1990) was an American diplomat. He served as U.S. Ambassador to

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, Colombia,

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and

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Biography

Willard L. Beaulac was born on July 25, 1899, in

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, to Sylvester Clinton Beaulac and Lena Eleanor Jarvis. He attended Brown University before joining the

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in 1918. After his honorable discharge in 1919, he attended the

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and graduated in 1921. Beaulac joined the

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in 1921. He received his first ambassadorial appointment to Paraguay in 1944. in 1947 he was named

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. He married Catherine Hazel Arrott Greene on February 25, 1935. From 1951 to 1953 he was United States Ambassador to Cuba. In 1953 he succeeded Claude G. Bowers as

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. From 1956 to 1960 he was

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. Before retiring around 1962 he was the deputy commandant for foreign affairs of the National War College. Beaulac died from Alzheimer's disease in

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, on August 25, 1990, at the age of 91.

Positions

* US Ambassador to Argentina (1956–60) * US Ambassador to Chile (1953–56) * US Ambassador to Cuba (1951–53) * US Ambassador to Colombia (1947–51) * US Ambassador to Paraguay (1944–47) * US State Department Consul General, Madrid (1941–44) * US State Department Counsellor, Havana (1940–41) * US State Department Assistant Chief, Division of American Republics (1937–40) * US State Department Assistant Chief, Division of Latin American Affairs (1934–37) * US State Department Second Secretary, San Salvador, El Salvador (1933) * US State Department Second Secretary, Managua, Nicaragua (1928–33) * US State Department Third Secretary, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (1927–28) * US State Department Consul, Arica, Chile (1925–27) * US State Department Vice Consul, Puerto Castilla, Honduras (1923–25) * US State Department Vice Consul, Tampico, Mexico (1921–23)

Professor

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* Ball State University

Works

* ''Career Ambassador'', Macmillan, 1951, (memoir) * ''Career Diplomat: A Career in the Foreign Service of the United States'' (1966) * ''A Diplomat Looks at Aid to Latin America,'' Southern Illinois University Press, 1970 * * ''Franco: Silent Ally in World War II'', Southern Illinois University Press, 1986,

References

External links

United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission by Country, 1778-2005

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