Edward Perkins
Edward Joseph Perkins (June 8, 1928 – November 7, 2020) was an American career diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, South Africa, the United Nations, and Australia. He also served as the Director General of the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Corps. Career Minister Edward J. Perkins, a four-time ambassador, is this year’s recipient of the American Foreign Service Association’s Lifetime Contributions to American Diplomacy Award. Ambassador Edward J. Perkins’ extraordinary 92-year journey is well documented in general terms but also more pointedly through his autobiography, “Mr. Ambassador: Warrior for Peace.” Ambassador Perkins died on Nov. 7 at a hospital in Washington. He was 92. His daughter Katherine Perkins said the cause was complications of a stroke. Dr. Perkins, whose grandparents had been... Edward Perkins served as U.S. Ambassador on four occasions, more than all but two other African Americans. He was born Edward Joseph Perkins, Jr. on June 8, 1928, in Sterlington, Louisiana, to Edward Perkins, Sr. and Tiny Estella Noble.
When Edward Perkins went to South Africa as the first black U.S. ambassador to the then apartheid nation, he recalls its leader angrily telling him to stay out of the...
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