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Article: Horace Torbert, 96; Longtime U.S. Envoy
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- April 2, 2008
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Horace Gates Torbert Jr., who served as ambassador to Somalia and
Bulgaria and was acting assistant secretary of state for
congressional relations during the Vietnam War, died of cancer March
24 at the Collington Episcopal Life Care Community in Mitchellville.
He was 96.
Ambassador Torbert joined the Foreign Service in 1947 and served
as economic officer in Madrid until 1950. He was political officer
in Vienna and Salzburg, Austria, from 1950 to 1955.
During that time, he was a close associate of the U.S. ambassador
to Austria, Lewellyn E. Thompson Jr., in negotiating the Austrian
State Treaty of 1955, which reestablished Austria as a sovereign
state.
Ambassador Torbert, who was known as ...