Donald B. Easum

Donald B. Easum
5th United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso
In office
December 8, 1971  January 19, 1974
President Richard Nixon
Preceded by William E. Schaufele, Jr.
Succeeded by Pierre R. Graham
5th United States Ambassador to Nigeria
In office
May 22, 1975  October 15, 1979
President Richard Nixon
Preceded by John E. Reinhardt
Succeeded by Stephen Low (diplomat)
Personal details
Born Donald Boyd Easum
(1923-08-27)August 27, 1923
Culver, Indiana
Died April 16, 2016(2016-04-16) (aged 92)
Summit, New Jersey
Profession Diplomat

Donald Boyd Easum (August 27, 1923 April 16, 2016) was an United States diplomat.

Foreign service

Easum spent 27 years in the United States Foreign Service at posts in Nicaragua, Indonesia, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Niger, Upper Volta (Ambassador, 1971–74) and Nigeria (Ambassador, 1975–79). During the Nixon/Ford Administration, Easum served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Earlier State Department assignments included Executive Secretary of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Staff Director of the United States National Security Council's Interdepartmental Group for Latin America. Easum was also president of the Africa-America Institute from 1980 to 1988.[1][2]

Background and education

Easum was born in Culver, Indiana and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin; his father taught at the University of Wisconsin. During World War II, Easum served in the United States Army Air Forces in the Pacific. Easum was Senior Fellow at Yale University's Stimson Seminar from 1998 to 2004 and taught at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He lectured widely in the United States, Europe and Africa on U.S.-African relations. Easum attended The Hotchkiss School, and holds a B.A. degree (Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Easum also received his M.P.A. degree, in 1950, and his Ph.D. degree, in 1953, from Princeton University. He also studied at the University of London on a Fulbright scholarship and in Buenos Aires on a Doherty Foundation grant and a Penfield fellowship. He was a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and Council on Foreign Relations. Easum lived in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. He died in Summit, New Jersey.[3]

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Political offices
Preceded by
David D. Newsom
United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
19741975
Succeeded by
Nathaniel Davis
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