Clifton Wharton Sr., born May 11, 1899 in Baltimore, Maryland, became the first African-American ambassador and the first African-American Foreign Service Officer to become chief of a diplomatic mission.
He practiced law in Boston before joining the US State Department in the Foreign Service. He became Vice Consul in Monrovia in 1927, Consul in Las Palmas in 1932, Minister to Romania in 1958, and then Ambassador to Norway in 1961 until his death.
Wharton passed away in Phoenix, Arizona in September 1964.
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