John Melvin Yates
US Ambassador to Cape Verde, 1983-6
About John Melvin Yates
Born 1939.
John Melvin Yates (born November 25, 1939, in Superior, Montana ) is a Career Foreign Service Officer, who has held several ambassadorships during his career. He was the American Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Cape Verde (1983-1986), Chargé d’Affaires ad interim (Congo (Kinshasa) 1992-1995), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Benin (1995-1998), and concurrent positions to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea (1999-2001).
Yates graduated from Stanford University (A.B., 1961) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (M.A., 1962; M.A.L.D., 1963; Ph. D., 1972).
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US Ambassador to Cape Verde, 1983-6
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John Melvin Yates was born on 25 November 1939 in Superior.
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