David D. Newsom

David D. Newsom
10th Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
In office
April 19, 1978 – February 27, 1981
Preceded byPhilip C. Habib
Succeeded byWalter J. Stoessel, Jr.
United States Ambassador to the Philippines
In office
November 11, 1977 – March 30, 1978
PresidentJimmy Carter
Preceded byWilliam H. Sullivan
Succeeded byRichard W. Murphy
United States Ambassador to Indonesia
In office
December 19, 1973 – October 6, 1977
PresidentRichard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Preceded byFrancis Joseph Galbraith
Succeeded byEdward E. Masters
United States Ambassador to Libya
In office
July 22, 1965 – June 21, 1969
PresidentLyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Preceded byEdwin Allan Lightner
Succeeded byJoseph Palmer II
4th Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
In office
July 17, 1969 – January 13, 1974
Preceded byJoseph Palmer II
Succeeded byDonald B. Easum
Personal details
Born
David Dunlop Newsom

(1918-01-06)January 6, 1918
DiedMarch 30, 2008(2008-03-30) (aged 90)

David Dunlop Newsom (January 6, 1918 – March 30, 2008) was an American diplomat. He joined the foreign service in 1952.[1] Newsom served as the United States Ambassador to Libya from 1965 to 1969, the United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1969 to 1974, the United States Ambassador to Indonesia from 1973 to 1977 and the United States Ambassador to the Philippines from 1977 to 1978.[2]

In October 1979, when Mohammad Reza Pahlavi checked into the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, he used "David D. Newsom" as his temporary codename without Newsom's knowledge.

Newsom served as Acting Secretary of State in May 1980, and held the same position in January, 1981.[3]

Newsom was also the author of six books and a regular columnist for The Christian Science Monitor, contributing over 400 columns from 1981 to 2005.

On June 16, 2004, he joined a group of twenty-seven called Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change opposing the Iraq War.

  1. ^ "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR MICHAEL H. NEWLIN" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 29 September 2006. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  2. ^ "David Dunlap Newsom (1918–2008)". U.S. State Department. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  3. ^ "David Dunlap Newsom (1918–2008)". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 2021-11-13.