Malcolm Toon

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Malcolm Toon
Malcolm Toon

In office
1969 – 1971

In office
1971 – 1975

In office
1975 – 1976
Preceded by Kenneth B. Keating
Succeeded by Samuel W. Lewis

In office
1976 – 1979
Preceded by Walter John Stoessel, Jr.
Succeeded by Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

Born 1916

Malcolm Toon (born July 4, 1916) is an American diplomat. He graduated from Tufts University in 1937, and served the U.S. Navy during World War II. Toon was the ambassador to Czechoslovakia in 1969-1971, Yugoslavia in 1971-1975, Israel in 1975-1976, the Soviet Union in 1976-1979. He participated in SALT II talks from 1977 to 1979, and American-Soviet summit in Vienna in 1979. In the 1990s Toon also co-chaired U.S.-Russian Joint Commission on POW/MIAs with Russian general Dmitri Volkogonov.

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