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James Howard Yellin

American diplomat

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 4, 2022
Entity authorityQ105688601 ↗
Source-derived summary

James Howard Yellin (born 1938) is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Burundi between September 26, 2002, and July 21, 2005.

Editorial summary

“James Howard Yellin” enters the record as american diplomat. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what James, Howard and Yellin can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1938, 2002, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1938-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around James, Howard and Yellin.
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“James Howard Yellin” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, James, Howard and Yellin provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 4, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q105688601. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1938, 2002 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “James Howard Yellin” 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.