William L. Eagleton
Template:U.S. Near Eastern Affairs Diplomats William Lester Eagleton, Jr. (August 27, 1926 Peoria, Illinois, USA– January 27, 2011 Taos, New Mexico, USA) was a United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat.[1]
Early life
Born in Peoria, Illinois, Eagleton served in the United States Navy from 1944–46, and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He joined the U.S. foreign service in 1949.
Diplomatic career
Eagleton served as United States Ambassador to Yemen 1967, Tunisia 1977, Libya 1978-1979, Algeria 1979, Iraq 1980-1984 and Syria 1985-1988. He is also an author of The Kurdish Republic of 1946 (1961) and, “Iraqi Kurdistan” in The World Today (1956).[2]
After his term as Ambassador to Syria ended in 1988, Eagleton worked with the United Nations as Deputy Commissioner-General for Palestinian Refugees (1988–94), Special Coordinator for Sarajevo (1994–1996), and Director of UN Operations in Western Sahara (1999). He rejoined the State Department in 2003 as a special advisor for Northern Iraq.
Textile Publications
Eagleton's 1988 book Introduction to Kurdish Rugs drew from his experience collecting rugs in Baghdad and elsewhere in the middle east. It remains the standard book on Kurdish pile weavings, which remain relatively unknown even among textile collectors.
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- 1926 births
- 2011 deaths
- American military personnel of World War II
- Yale University alumni
- Ambassadors of the United States to Yemen
- Ambassadors of the United States to Tunisia
- Ambassadors of the United States to Libya
- Ambassadors of the United States to Algeria
- Ambassadors of the United States to Iraq
- Ambassadors of the United States to Syria
- People from Peoria, Illinois
- Writers from Illinois