Horace Gates Torbert Jr. (October 7, 1911 – March 24, 2008), also known as Tully Torbert, was an American diplomat. A career Foreign Service Officer, he acted as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim to Hungary from February 1961 to December 1962, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Somalia (1963–1965)[1] and Bulgaria (1970–1973).[2]
Gates was born in Washington D.C. on October 7, 1911.[3] He graduated from Yale University and Harvard Business School.[4] He died on March 24, 2008, at the age of 96.[5]
References
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- ^ "Horace G. Torbert Jr". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
- ^ Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents: Volumes 6–52. Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration. 1970. p. 1236. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
- ^ "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR HORACE G. TORBERT" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 31 August 1988. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 July 2024. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- ^ "Recent alumni deaths". Yale Alumni Magazine. July 2008. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
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