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William  Otto  Anderson

A.B. Wabash College, Indiana, 1942 (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa in junior and senior years, first in class), Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts), 1942-1943.  University of Colorado, 1943. U.S. Naval Reserve Intelligence Officer (Naval Agent) 1943.  With War Relocation Agency 1944-45.  Foreign Service Officer, Department of State 1945. Staff, Special War Problems Division, Department of State 1945; assigned Vice Consul, Cape Town, South Africa, 1945-1948; temporarily in charge of consulate, Port Elizabeth, 1948.  Bangkok 1948-51. Attache U.S. Embassy, 1951-1954. Consul, Singapore, 1954-1956.  Assigned to University of Washington Far East-Russian Institute, 1956-1957.  Political Officer, Chinese Affairs, Department of State.  Political Officer, U.S. Mission Berlin, 1957-1960.  Berlin Task Force.  Assigned Department of State, 1960.  Officer in Charge of Soviet Multilateral Political Affairs, 1961.  U.S. Senior Seminar on Foreign Policy 1963-1964.  Distinguished Alumnus Award, Wabash College, 1963. Who Was Who in America,  Vol. 4, 1961-1968  and Who's Who in America,  1962, 1963.

Contributed by Mark William Anderson

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