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Gwen C. Clare

American diplomat

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ83947191 ↗
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Gwen C. Clare (born 1945) is the former American ambassador to Ecuador (1999–2001) and El Salvador (1992–1993) and was Consul General in Guayaquil, Ecuador (1991–1993) and Sao Paulo, Brazil (1997–1999) and was a diplomat-in-residence at the Carter Center.

Clare is married to Daniel Hunt Clare III who also worked for the State Department and when he retired, was the executive assistant to the under secretary for security assistance, science and technology in Washington.

She graduated from George Washington University and the National War College.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gwen C. Clare” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.