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Richard Joseph Bloomfield (August 27, 1927 – November 22, 2011) was a career Foreign Service Officer who served as United States Ambassador to Ecuador (1976–1978) and United States Ambassador to Portugal (1978–1982). After retiring from the US Foreign Service in 1982 he became executive director of the World Peace Foundation (1982–1992).

Career

After graduating from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in 1950 and serving in the US Air Force, Bloomfield joined the US Foreign Service in 1952. As well as various postings in Latin America he was Director of the Office of Policy Planning and Coordination at the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs (1973 - 1976), before being appointed United States Ambassador to Ecuador (1976 - 1978) and United States Ambassador to Portugal (1978 - 1982).

After retiring from the US Foreign Service in 1982 Bloomfield became executive director of the World Peace Foundation (1982 - 1992), before becoming a senior visiting fellow at Brown University.

References

1. ^ history.state.gov, Richard Joseph Bloomfield (1927-2011)
2. "Richard J. Bloomfield, 84, retired US ambassador - the Boston Globe". The Boston Globe.
3. "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR RICHARD BLOOMFIELD" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 6 May 1988. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 July 2024. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
4. ^ presidency.ucsb.edu, 22 December 1977, United States Ambassador to Portugal Nomination of Richard J. Bloomfield.
5. ^ Boston Globe, 14 December 2011, Richard J. Bloomfield, 84, retired US ambassador

v t e United States ambassadors to Ecuador
Chargé d'affaires	McAfee Pickett (plenipotentiary) Livingston Van Alen Cushing
Minister Resident	White Buckalew Hassaurek Coggeshall Nunn Wing Wullweber
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Maheny Strobel Tillman Sampson Lee Fox Young Schuyler Hartman Bading Dawson A. Gonzalez Long
Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Long Scotten Simmons Daniels Mills Ravndal Bernbaum Coerr Sessions Burns Brewster Bloomfield R. Gonzalez Hart Rondon Holwill Lambert Mack (a.i.) Romero Alexander Clare Kenney Jewell Hodges Bowen (a.i.) Zúñiga-Brown (a.i.) Namm Chapman Fitzpatrick Brown (Designate)

v t e United States ambassadors to Portugal
Minister Plenipotentiary	Humphreys (Minister Resident) Smith Sumter Graham Dearborn (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
Chargé d'Affaires	Brent Kavanagh Barrow Rencher Hopkins Clay Haddock O'Sullivan
Minister Resident	O'Sullivan G. Morgan Harvey Shellabarger C. Lewis Moran Moran (chargé d'affaires)
Minister Resident/Consul General	Francis Richmond E. Lewis Loring Batcheller Pierce
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Caruth Townsend Irwin Loomis Bryan Gage E. Morgan Woods Birch Dearing South Caldwell Pell Fish Norweb
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Norweb Baruch Wiley MacVeagh Cannon Guggenheim Bonbright Elbrick Anderson Bennett Knight Scott Carlucci Bloomfield Holmes Shakespeare Rowell Briggs Bagley McGowan Palmer Hoffman Stephenson Katz Sherman Glass Levine

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