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Brandon H. Grove, former U.S. ambassador to Zaire, will join the Hamilton faculty this fall as the Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs.

The Linowitz Visiting Professorship was established in 1986. It is named in honor of Sol Linowitz, a 1935 Hamilton graduate who served as ambassador to the Organization of American States, chairman of the board of Xerox and co-negotiator of the Panama Canal treaties. He was President Jimmy Carter's representative in the Middle East negotiations from 1979 to 1981. The holder of the Linowitz chair teaches an upper-level seminar course while at Hamilton.

Brandon Grove's diplomatic career spans 35 years in the U.S. Foreign Service under nine presidents and 12 secretaries of state. He holds degrees from Bard College and Princeton University. He served in the Navy as an amphibious boat group commander. Before joining the U.S. Foreign Service in 1959, he worked on the staff of Congressman Chester Bowles of Connecticut. His diplomatic assignments took him to posts in Africa, India, East and East Berlin and Jerusalem, where he was consul general during with war with Lebanon. In 1974, he became the first American diplomat accredited to East Germany, establishing the American embassy in Berlin.

During 1984-87 he served as President Ronald Reagan's ambassador to Zaire. Among assignments in Washington, he has twice filled positions managing relations with Panama, Central America, and the Caribbean and had served on the policy planning staffs of secretaries of state Warren Christopher and Henry Kissinger. From 1988-92 Ambassador Grove was director of the State Department's Foreign Service Institute, responsible for foreign affairs training throughout the government. He has received three presidential awards.

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