President George H. W. Bush President Ronald Reagan Preceded by Edward Morgan Rowell Name Everett Briggs | President Ronald Reagan Education Dartmouth College Preceded by John Arthur Ferch | |
Preceded by Ambler Holmes Moss, Jr. | ||
Succeeded by Elizabeth Frawley Bagley | ||
Everett Ellis Briggs (born April 6, 1934 in Havana, Cuba) is a United States diplomat.
Briggs was born in Havana, Cuba in 1934, to Ellis Ormsbee Briggs and Lucy Barnard Briggs, where his father was stationed as a U.S. diplomat.
He is an alumnus of Dartmouth College.
He served as United States Ambassador to Panama from 1982–1986, United States Ambassador to Honduras from 1986–1989, and United States Ambassador to Portugal from 1990-1993. He also served abroad in Angola, Ecuador.
He worked to indict Manuel Noriega, during his term in Panama. He was Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, on the National Security Council.
He was president of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas.
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