William R. Crawford Jr.
United States Ambassador to Yemen and Cyprus
William Rex Crawford Jr. (1928 – August 4, 2002) was a United States ambassador to Yemen and Cyprus who served in the United States Foreign Service for 30 years. He was born in Philadelphia and lived abroad for some years during his childhood due to his father's job. After graduating from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, he entered the Foreign Service, where he served in various senior positions, including as an ambassador between 1972 and 1978, until his retirement.
Early life
William Rex Crawford Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to William Rex Crawford and Dorothy (Buckley) Crawford. In the 1930s and 1940s, he accompanied his father, a sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, on his work stints abroad. They spent time in France where his father had a Guggenheim Fellowship, in Chile where his father worked as an exchange professor, and in Brazil where his father was the cultural attaché at the US embassy in Rio de Janeiro.
Crawford obtained a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1949 and a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1950. He also served in the United States Navy and studied abroad at the Institut des Langues Orientales Vivantes in Paris.
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