Clint A. Lauderdale, Ambassador, 77, Washington Post

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/07/AR2010010703962_5.html

Clint A. Lauderdale Ambassador

Clint A. Lauderdale, 77, a career Foreign Service officer who was U.S.
ambassador to Guyana in the 1980s, died Dec. 11 [2009] of chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease at Capital Hospice in Arlington County. He
lived in Washington.

Mr. Lauderdale joined the State Department as a Foreign Service officer in
1962 and had early assignments in Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro and Brussels.
After working at the State Department's Bureau of European Affairs in
Washington, he served in high-level diplomatic positions at the U.S.
embassies in Bonn and Madrid in the 1970s.

On his return to Washington in 1979, Mr. Lauderdale was director for
recruitment, employment and examination in the State Department's personnel
bureau, and he served as deputy assistant secretary of state from 1980 to
1984.

In 1984, he was appointed ambassador to Guyana, on the northern coast of
South America, and served until 1987. Mr. Lauderdale concluded his career as
assistant inspector general of the State Department and retired in 1993.

Clint Arlen Lauderdale was born in Ackerly, Tex., and he served in the Army
in the 1950s. He was a 1957 graduate of the University of California at
Berkeley and did graduate work in business administration at the University
of Michigan. Before joining the State Department, he was a police officer
and employment interviewer in California, a tax court clerk and a personnel
specialist with the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Mr. Lauderdale was interested in genealogy and in 1998 published the book
"History of the Lauderdales in America, 1714-1850." He was a former
president of the Clan Maitland Society of North America. He also enjoyed
gardening, history and spending time with his family.

He was a member of Diplomatic and Consular Officers Retired and a member of
the boards of the Foreign Service Youth Foundation and the State Department
Federal Credit Union.

Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Maria Huege Lauderdale of
Washington; four children, Michael H. Lauderdale and Teresa J. Lauderdale,
both of Richmond, Stephen A. Lauderdale of Vienna and Regina A. "Nina"
Lauderdale of Austin; a brother; three sisters; and seven grandchildren.

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Matt Schudel