September 2, 1983
The President today announced his intention to nominate Clayton E. McManaway, Jr., of the
District of Columbia, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor,
as Ambassador to Haiti. He would succeed Ernest H. Preeg.
Mr. McManaway served in the United States Navy as lieutenant in 1955 - 1957. In 1959 he was
bond underwriting apprentice with the Fidelity and Casualty Co. of New York in San Francisco,
Calif. In 1959 - 1960 he was flight purser with Trans World Airlines in New York City, and in the
foreign advertising department of the Borden Food Co. in 1960 - 1961.
He was with the Agency for International Development in 1961 - 1971; successively serving as
executive trainee (1961 - 1962); Assistant Program Officer, then acting Program Officer, USAID
Mission on Phnom Penh (1962 - 1964); Special Assistant to the Director of the Office of Vietnam
Affairs (1964 - 1965); Deputy Program Director, USAID Mission in Saigon (1965 - 1966);
Assistant Director of Plans and Evaluations in the Office of Civil Operations
in Saigon (1966 -
1967); Director of Plans, Policies and Programs, MACV/CORDS, in Saigon (1967 - 1970). In
1970 - 1971 he was on detail as fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard
University. In 1971 - 1973 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Office of Systems and
Analysis, Department of Defense. In 1975 he was on detail to the Department of State as Deputy
Director of the Presidential Task Force for the Evacuation of Saigon and the Resettlement of
Refugees from Indochina.
Mr. McManaway served at the Department of State in 1975 as Deputy Assistant Secretary/Acting
Director of the Sinai Support Mission. In the Department he was Director of Management
Operations (1976 - 1978), Senior Inspector of the Office of the Inspector General (1978), Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Classification/Declassification Center (1978 - 1981), and Deputy
Executive Secretary (1981 - 1983).
Mr. McManaway graduated from the University of South Carolina (B.S., 1955) and the American
Institute of Foreign Trade (B.A., 1959). He was born March 5, 1933, in Greenville, S.C.