May 2021 \ World News \
Former acting secretary of state to head US embassy in New Delhi

Former acting secretary of state, Daniel Smith ...

The New Delhi ambassadorship is considered a high profile post and 15 of the 23 ambassadors have been political appointees. They have included distinguished personalities like former governors Richard Frank Celeste and Chester Bowles (who served twice), former members of Congress including Kenneth Keating, Sherman Cooper and William Saxbe, and public intellectuals like John Kenneth Galbraith and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who had also been a senator.




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