Albert William Sherer Jr. - People - Department History
Albert William Sherer Jr. (1916–1986)
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Career Foreign Service Officer
State of Residence: Illinois
State of Residence: Illinois
- Concurrent Appointments
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Togo)
Appointed: September 13, 1967
Presentation of Credentials: October 13, 1967
Termination of Mission: Left post on March 5, 1970- Also accredited to Equatorial Guinea; resident at Lome.
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Equatorial Guinea)
Appointed: October 28, 1968
Presentation of Credentials: November 21, 1968
Termination of Mission: Appointment terminated October 13, 1969- Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned on February 7, 1969, after confirmation. During Sherer’s tenure as non-resident Ambassador, Embassy Santa Isabel (now Malabo) was established on August 1, 1969, with Albert N. Williams as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim. Also accredited to Togo; resident at Lome.
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Togo)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Guinea)
Appointed: March 17, 1970
Presentation of Credentials: March 31, 1970
Termination of Mission: Left post on December 21, 1971 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Czechoslovakia)
Appointed: February 15, 1972
Presentation of Credentials: March 15, 1972
Termination of Mission: Left post on July 29, 1975- Commissioned to the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.