Roscoe S. Suddarth
American diplomat, ambassador to Jordan
Roscoe Seldon "Rocky" Suddarth (August 5, 1935 – June 29, 2013) was an American career diplomat. Suddarth was a Foreign Service Officer and served as United States Ambassador to Jordan from 1987 to 1990. He served as the secretary of the American Academy of Diplomacy until his death.
Career
Suddarth graduated from Yale University, where he was a member of Scroll and Key Society, with a Bachelor of Arts in 1956 and from New College, Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts (promoted to a Master of Arts per tradition) in modern history in 1958, studied systems analysis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a master in Music from the University of Maryland in 2012. He served in the Air National Guard from 1958 to 1961.
Suddarth joined the United States Foreign Service in 1961 and served as third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Bamako, Mali, from 1961 to 1963. From 1963 to 1965, he took Arabic language training at the Foreign Service Institute at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. From there he was assigned first as second secretary to the U.S. Embassy in Sana'a, Yemen Arab Republic from 1965 to 1967, and then to the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya from 1967 to 1970.
Suddarth returned to State Department Headquarters as the Libyan desk officer until 1972, when he took university training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with a Master of Science in 1972. From 1972 to 1973, he served as politico-military officer in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs in the Department of State, to be followed as deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan from 1975 to 1979.
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