deaths
July 15, 2010
James E. Akins, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (born 1926)
James E. Akins
James Elmer Akins was the U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from September, 1973 to February, 1976, just in time to serve during the 1973 Oil Crisis of October, 1973 to March, 1974. Akins was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and on the advisory council of the Iran Policy Committee (IPC). Akins has been involved with the pro-Palestine organization If Americans Knew.
List of ambassadors of the United States to Saudi Arabia
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.