Stephen H. Rogers

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Stephen H. Rogers
8th United States Ambassador to Swaziland
In office
1990 (1990)–1993 (1993)
Personal details
Born (1930-06-21) June 21, 1930 (age 93)

Stephen Hitchcock Rogers (born June 21, 1930)[1] was a career Foreign Service officer who served as the American Ambassador to Swaziland (now Eswatini) from 1990 until 1993.[2]

Early life and education[edit]

When he was nine, Rogers and his family moved to Port Washington, New York and he graduated in 1948 from the Port Washington High School. He graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, attending on a Naval ROTC scholarship. After graduation, he spent three years on active duty. He arrived for part of his training in Pensacola, Florida just days before the Korean War broke out on June 25, 1950. He ended up serving on a destroyer in the Pacific. When he was discharged, he studied economics at Columbia University for a year, and took the Foreign Service exam during his first semester, at the end of 1955. He married Mila Kent Brain on June 23, 1956, after they had both received their MA's from Columbia.[3] Rogers attended Harvard University, studying Public Administration, from 1961 to 1962.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. Vol. 6 (2 ed.). July 2, 1990. p. 1174.
  2. ^ "Stephen H. Rogers". Office of the Historian. Retrieved January 27, 2020.
  3. ^ "Stephen Rogers Weds Mila Brain". New York Times. Vol. CV, no. 35946. June 24, 1956. p. 74.
  4. ^ "Stephen H. Rogers" (PDF). The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project. Retrieved January 27, 2020.