David D. Newsom

David D. Newsom
David D. Newsom
10th Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
	In office; April 19, 1978 – February 27, 1981
Preceded by	Philip C. Habib
Succeeded by	Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
United States Ambassador to the Philippines
	In office; November 11, 1977 – March 30, 1978
President	Jimmy Carter
Preceded by	William H. Sullivan
Succeeded by	Richard W. Murphy
United States Ambassador to Indonesia
	In office; December 19, 1973 – October 6, 1977
President	Richard Nixon; Gerald Ford; Jimmy Carter
Preceded by	Francis Joseph Galbraith
Succeeded by	Edward E. Masters
United States Ambassador to Libya
	In office; July 22, 1965 – June 21, 1969
President	Lyndon B. Johnson; Richard Nixon
Preceded by	Edwin Allan Lightner
Succeeded by	Joseph Palmer II
4th Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
	In office; July 17, 1969 – January 13, 1974
Preceded by	Joseph Palmer II
Succeeded by	Donald B. Easum
Personal details
Born	David Dunlop Newsom; January 6, 1918
Died	March 30, 2008 (aged 90)

David Dunlop Newsom (January 6, 1918 – March 30, 2008) was an American diplomat. He joined the foreign service in 1952.^[1] Newsom served as the United States Ambassador to Libya from 1965 to 1969, the United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1969 to 1974, the United States Ambassador to Indonesia from 1973 to 1977 and the United States Ambassador to the Philippines from 1977 to 1978.^[2]

In October 1979, when Mohammad Reza Pahlavi checked into the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, he used "David D. Newsom" as his temporary codename without Newsom's knowledge.

Newsom served as Acting Secretary of State in May 1980, and held the same position in January, 1981.^[3]

Newsom was also the author of six books and a regular columnist for The Christian Science Monitor, contributing over 400 columns from 1981 to 2005.

On June 16, 2004, he joined a group of twenty-seven called Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change opposing the Iraq War.

Notes

^ "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR MICHAEL H. NEWLIN" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 29 September 2006. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
^ "David Dunlap Newsom (1918–2008)". U.S. State Department. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
^ "David Dunlap Newsom (1918–2008)". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 2021-11-13.

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Preceded by William H. Sullivan	United States Ambassador to the Philippines 1977–1978	Succeeded by Richard W. Murphy
Preceded by Francis Joseph Galbraith	United States Ambassador to Indonesia 1973–1977	Succeeded by Edward E. Masters
Preceded by Edwin Allan Lightner	United States Ambassador to Libya 1965–1969	Succeeded by Joseph Palmer II

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[1] "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR MICHAEL H. NEWLIN" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 29 September 2006. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.

[2] "David Dunlap Newsom (1918–2008)". U.S. State Department. Retrieved 10 September 2017.

[:Newsom-3] "David Dunlap Newsom (1918–2008)". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 2021-11-13.

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