Edmund James Hull is an American diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to Yemen

United States Ambassador to Yemen

This is a list of Ambassadors of the United States to Yemen.Prior to 1990, Yemen had consisted of two nations: North Yemen and South Yemen. The United States had diplomatic relations with North Yemen since 1946...

 from 2001 to 2004, under George W. Bush

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Biography

Edmund James Hull was born in Keokuk, Iowa

Keokuk, Iowa

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 in 1949. He is a graduate of Princeton University

Princeton University

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 and the University of Oxford

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. He was a Peace Corps

Peace Corps

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 volunteer in Mahdia, Tunisia.

From 1993 to 1996, he served as a diplomat in Cairo, Egypt. From 1996 to 1999, he served as Director for UN Peacekeeping Operations in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs

Bureau of International Organization Affairs

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. He has also served as Director for Near Eastern Affairs at the National Security Council

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, and Director of the Office of Iran and Iraq Affairs at the Department of State. As a diplomat, he has also served in Tunis

Tunis

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 and Jerusalem. From 2001 to 2004, he served as United States Ambassador to Yemen

United States Ambassador to Yemen

This is a list of Ambassadors of the United States to Yemen.Prior to 1990, Yemen had consisted of two nations: North Yemen and South Yemen. The United States had diplomatic relations with North Yemen since 1946...

. In the Spring of 2010, he taught at Princeton University

Princeton University

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