Edward Perkins, the first Black Ambassador to South Africa (1986), was nominated UN Ambassador by President George Bush on February 24,1992.
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Served with Army and Air Force Exchange Service in Taiwan and Japan, 1958-66; Agency for International Development (AID), U.S. Department of State, Far East Bureau official, 1967-70; assistant director management, U.S. Mission to Thailand, 1970-72; Office of the Director General of the Foreign Service, U.S. Department of State, staff assistant, 1972, personnel officer, 1972-74; administrative officer, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, 1974-75; management analysis officer, U.S. Department of State, 1975-78; counselor for political affairs, Accra, Ghana, 1978-81; deputy chief of mission, Monrovia, Liberia, 1981-83; director of the Office of West African Affairs, U.S. Department of State, 1983-85; U.S. ambassador to Liberia, 1985-86; U.S. ambassador to South Africa, 1986-89; director general of the Foreign Service, U.S. Department of State, 1989-92; U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, 1992; named ambassador-designate to Australia by the Clinton administration, 1993.
