David M. Ransom

David M. Ransom (November 23, 1938 St. Louis, Missouri-December 4, 2003 New York City) was a career Foreign Service officer (32 years) who served as American ambassador to the State of Bahrain from 1994 to 1997.[1], [2]

Biography

Ransom's father was a civil engineer who served as a career military officer. When his father died when he was 14, the family had lived in Greenville, Texas, Japan and Greece. Ransom graduated from The Choate School (1956), Princeton University (BA, 1960) and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (MA, 1962). He died of a heart attack while on a trip to New York City. [1]

Career

While with the State Department, Ransom was a White House National Security Council staffer from 1973 to 1975, during the Nixon and Ford presidencies, first under both Henry Kissinger and General Brent Scowcroft. From 1978 to 1982, he was assigned to Department of Defense, working as the Director of the Near East, South Asia and Africa Division, serving both the Democrat Harold Brown and Republican Casper Weinberger. When he retired in 1997, Ransom held the rank of Minister-Counselor in the Senior Foreign Service. He founded DMRansom Associates, an international consulting firm focusing on the Gulf Region.[1]

References
  1. "David M. Ransom, Former U.S. Ambassador and Middle East Specialist, Dies at 65". Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  2. "David M. Ransom (1938–2003)". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
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