Thomas R. Pickering
| Tom Pickering |
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| Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs |
In office
May 27, 1997 – December 31, 2000 |
| President |
Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by |
Peter Tarnoff |
| Succeeded by |
Marc Grossman |
| United States Ambassador to Russia |
In office
May 21, 1993 – November 1, 1996 |
| President |
Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by |
Robert S. Strauss |
| Succeeded by |
James F. Collins |
| United States Ambassador to India |
In office
August 14, 1992 – March 23, 1993 |
| President |
George H. W. Bush |
| Preceded by |
William Clark |
| Succeeded by |
Frank G. Wisner |
| United States Ambassador to the United Nations |
In office
March 20, 1989 – May 7, 1992 |
| President |
George H. W. Bush |
| Preceded by |
Vernon A. Walters |
| Succeeded by |
Edward J. Perkins |
| United States Ambassador to Israel |
In office
August 6, 1985 – December 28, 1988 |
| President |
Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by |
Samuel W. Lewis |
| Succeeded by |
William Andreas Brown |
| United States Ambassador to El Salvador |
In office
September 5, 1983 – June 7, 1985 |
| President |
Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by |
Deane R. Hinton |
| Succeeded by |
Edwin G. Corr |
| United States Ambassador to Nigeria |
In office
November 30, 1981 – July 9, 1983 |
| President |
Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by |
Stephen Low |
| Succeeded by |
Thomas W. M. Smith |
| Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs |
In office
October 10, 1978 – February 24, 1981 |
| President |
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
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| Preceded by |
Patsy Mink |
| Succeeded by |
James Malone |
| United States Ambassador to Jordan |
In office
March 2, 1974 – July 13, 1978 |
| President |
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
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| Preceded by |
L. Dean Brown |
| Succeeded by |
Nicholas A. Veliotes |
| Executive Secretary of the Department of State |
In office
July 30, 1973 – January 31, 1974 |
| President |
Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by |
Theodore L. Eliot Jr. |
| Succeeded by |
George Springsteen |
| Personal details |
| Born |
Thomas Reeve Pickering
(1931-11-05) November 5, 1931 (age 85)
Orange, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) |
Alice Stover (1955–2011)
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| Children |
2 |
| Education |
Bowdoin College (BA)
Tufts University (MA)
University of Melbourne (MA)
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Thomas Reeve "Tom" Pickering (born November 5, 1931) is a retired United States ambassador. Among his many diplomatic appointments, he served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992.
Born in Orange, New Jersey, Pickering is the son of Hamilton Reeve Pickering and Sarah Chasteney Pickering. He graduated from Rutherford High School in Rutherford, New Jersey.
He began attending Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1949 with plans to join the ministry and graduated cum laude in 1953 with high honors in history and is a member of Theta Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa. He then earned a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Upon graduation from Tufts, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and attended the University of Melbourne in Australia where he received a second master's degree in 1956. In addition to the honorary doctorate-in-laws degree that Bowdoin awarded him in 1984, Pickering has been the recipient of 12 honorary degrees.
Before joining the State Department, Pickering served on active duty in the United States Navy from 1956 to 1959, and later served in the Naval Reserve where he reached the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
His four-decade-long career in Foreign Service included ambassadorships in Russia (1993–1996); India (1992–1993); to the United Nations (1989–1992); Israel (1985–1988); El Salvador (1983–1985); Nigeria (1981–1983); and Jordan (1974–1978). Additionally, he served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 1997 to 2000. He holds the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in the U.S. Foreign Service.
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