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John L. Hirsch

b. 1936

American diplomat

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About John L. Hirsch

Born 1936.

John Lewis Hirsch (born 1936) is an American career diplomat. He served as the United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone from 1995 to 1998.

Biography Hirsch graduated from Columbia University with a BA in American studies in 1957 and his PhD in European history from the University of Wisconsin in 1965. He was a Fulbright scholar from 1962 to 1963 and studied in Turin, Italy.

He served as chargé d'affaires to Somalia in 1986, and Consul General in Johannesburg, South Africa from 1990 to 1993.

He also worked as Political Adviser to the Commander of UNITAF, General Robert Johnston, and as Deputy to President George H. W. Bush's Special Envoy, Ambassador Robert Oakley from 1992 to 1993. He is the author, with Oakley, of the book Somalia and Operation Restore Hope, published by the United States Institute of Peace. The book has been lauded by Los Angeles Times as one of the two most important postmortems written since the United Nations dismantled its mission to Somalia.

Hirsch was appointed ambassador to Sierra Leone on August 14, 1995, and served in the post from September 13, 1995, to June 17, 1998. Between 2000 and 2001, he was the Director of the International Fellows Program at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

In 2005, he joined Senator James Sasser and Ambassador Patricia M. Byrne to oppose the nomination of John Bolton to be the United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

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Born
1936
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Awards
Fulbright Scholarship
Also known as
John Lewis Hirsch

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Who is John L. Hirsch?

American diplomat

When was John L. Hirsch born?

John L. Hirsch was born in 1936.

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