George Frost Kennan - People - Department History
George Frost Kennan (1904–2005)
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Career Foreign Service Officer
States of Residence: Wisconsin, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
States of Residence: Wisconsin, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
- Director of Policy Planning
Appointed: May 5, 1947
Termination of Appointment: May 31, 1949- Also served as Counselor Aug 4, 1949-Jul 11, 1951.
- Counselor
Appointed: June 24, 1949
Entry on Duty: August 4, 1949
Termination of Appointment: July 11, 1951 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Russia)
Appointed: March 14, 1952
Presentation of Credentials: May 14, 1952
Termination of Mission: Left post on September 19, 1952- Commissioned to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Government of the Soviet Union declared Kennan persona non grata on October 3, 1952, and he did not return to post.
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
Appointed: March 7, 1961
Presentation of Credentials: May 16, 1961
Termination of Mission: Left Yugoslavia July 28, 1963- Commissioned to Yugoslavia.