William B. Edmondson, American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Africa (born 1927)

William B. Edmondson

American diplomat (1927–2013)

William Brockway Edmondson was an American diplomat in the United States Foreign Service, who served as the United States Ambassador to South Africa from 1978-1981.

List of ambassadors of the United States to South Africa

Before 1902, the southern part of Africa that is now South Africa was under the hegemony of Great Britain. There also were two self-proclaimed independent states: Transvaal, and the Orange Free State. The British and the Boers fought two wars, known as the First Boer War…