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Eddy is kneeling on the left and speaking with the King. William Alfred Eddy, Ph.D., Col., USMC (March 9, 1896 – May 3, 1962) was a U.S. minister to Saudi Arabia (1944–1946); university professor and college president (1936–1942); U.S. Marine Corps officer, serving in World War I and World War II; and U.S. intelligence officer.
The United States ambassador to Saudi Arabia is the official representative of the president of the United States to the head of state of Saudi Arabia.. The United States recognized the government of King Ibn Saud in 1931, but it was not until 1939 when it appointed its first U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Bert Fish, then resident in Cairo and ambassador to Egypt.
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Prince Mansour was born in Qasr Al Hukm, Riyadh, [2] [3] in 1921. [4] He is widely believed to be the ninth son of King Abdulaziz, [5] but William A. Eddy argues that Prince Mansour is the sixth son of Abdulaziz. [6]
Saudi Arabia on the Edge: The Uncertain Future of an American Ally. Potomac Books. 2012. ISBN 978-1597976886. Arabian Knight: Colonel Bill Eddy USMC and the Rise of American Power in the Middle East. Selwa Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0970115720. Inside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia. Basic Books. 2004. ISBN 0813340527.
His diplomatic work would span the globe, though focused on the Middle East. Thessaloniki, Greece was given to him as a debut assignment, where he served as vice consul. . Soon afterward he went to Paris, where he studied Arabic, Amharic, French, and Turkish at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, but by 1933 he was back in the Middle East with a posting in Ba
Michael Alan Ratney [2] (born 1961) is an American diplomat who was the United States ambassador to Saudi Arabia from April 2023 to January 2025. He previously served as the chargé d'affaires of the United States embassy in Israel.
Freeman was born in Washington, D.C., on March 2, 1943, to Charles Wellman Freeman and Carla Elizabeth Park.His mother died when he was nine years old. His father, an MIT graduate from Rhode Island who served in the United States Navy during World War II, "declined to join the family business" in Rhode Island and started his own business, with the help of a G.I. loan.