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William Andreas Brown

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William Brown
United States Ambassador to Israel
In office
November 22, 1988 – January 7, 1992[1]
PresidentRonald Reagan, George H.W. Bush
Preceded byThomas R. Pickering
Succeeded byWilliam Caldwell Harrop
Personal details
Born(1930-09-07)September 7, 1930
Winchester, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedJuly 19, 2024(2024-07-19) (aged 93)
Arlington, Virginia, U.S.
Alma materHarvard University

William Andreas Brown (September 7, 1930 – July 19, 2024)[2] was an American diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand from 1985 to 1988 and U.S. Ambassador to Israel from 1988 to 1992. He also served as the last Chief of mission (Chargé d'affaires) of the U.S. Embassy to the Republic of China (Taiwan) stationed in Taipei, Taiwan after the departure of Ambassador Leonard S. Unger in 1979.[3] After diplomatic ties between Taipei and Washington severed, he remained in Taiwan to set up the Taipei Main Office of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) at the former compound of U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG).[2]: 250  He then served as the Acting Director and Deputy Director of the American Institute in Taiwan (after the inauguration of Charles T. Cross, first Director to Taiwan).[4]

Brown was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, and grew up in East Lexington, Massachusetts, and graduated from Lexington High School (Massachusetts). He majored in history at Harvard on a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps scholarship and served as an artillery officer in the United States Marine Corps from 1952 to 1954 and the reserves from 1954 to 1960.[2][5] He was stationed in Korea after the Korean War from August 1953 for about a year.[2]

Brown died July 19, 2024, at the age of 93.[6]

References

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  1. ^ https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/brown-william-andreas
  2. ^ a b c d "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR WILLIAM ANDREAS BROWN" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. November 3, 1998. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 22, 2024. Retrieved August 7, 2024.
  3. ^ Jimmy R. Williams (2011). A Charmed Life. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. p. 332. ISBN 978-1456463489.
  4. ^ "重建中美新關係 葛樂士充滿信心 昨抵華就新職時表示" ["Full confidence in re-establishing the new ROC-US relation", said by Charles Cross yesterday, upon arriving at the ROC to assume post]. United Daily News. June 18, 1979. p. 02.
  5. ^ "Nomination of William Andreas Brown To Be United States Ambassador to Israel", Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum website, May 20, 1988. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
  6. ^ "William Andreas Brown". The Washington Post. August 4, 2024. Retrieved June 27, 2025.
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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by U.S. Ambassador to Thailand
1985–1988 		Succeeded by
Preceded by U.S. Ambassador to Israel
1988–1992 		Succeeded by


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