Albert W. Sherer Jr.
American diplomat (1916-1986)
Albert William Sherer Jr. (January 19, 1916 – December 27, 1986) was an American diplomat.
Life
In 1938 he received a B.A. from Yale University and an LL.B. in 1941 from Harvard University. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1941 to 1945.
In 1946 to 1949 under the U.S. State Department, Sherer was a commercial officer in Tangier, Morocco and he was temporarily assigned to Casablanca, Morocco, as consular and legal officer from 1947 to 1948. After that in 1949 to 1951, he was political officer in Budapest, Hungary.
In 1951 from 1955, Sherer was the Romanian desk officer in the Office of Eastern European Affairs at the State Department. He was political officer in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, from 1955 to 1957 and an officer in charge of Polish, Baltic, and Czech Affairs in the office of Eastern European Affairs from 1957 to 1960.
From 1960 to 1961 he attended the Bowie Seminar for International Affairs at Harvard University. He was Deputy Chief of Mission in Warsaw, Poland, from 1961 to 1966, and appointed Ambassador to Togo from 1967 until 1970.
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