Thomas Patrick Melady

Thomas Patrick Melady was an American ambassador under three presidents and a sub-cabinet officer for a fourth. From 2002 until his death he served as the Senior Diplomat in residence at The Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC. After his graduation from high school he served in the U.S. Army from 1945–1947, then graduated from Duquesne University in 1950 and The Catholic University of America in 1955. He was an adjunct professor at St. John's University and president of the Africa Service Institute in New York, from 1959 to 1967. From 1966 to 1969 he was adjunct professor at Fordham University. A former consultant for the National Urban League in New York and chairman of Seton Hall University, he was appointed by President Richard M. Nixon as Ambassador to Burundi in 1969, Senior Advisor to the US delegation to the UN General Assembly in 1970, and Ambassador to Uganda from 1972 to 1973. In 1989 he was appointed by President George H.W. Bush as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Holy See.