Larry C. Napper served as the United States Ambassador to Latvia from 1995 to 1998 and as the U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan from 2001 to 2004. Napper was born in San Antonio, Texas. After graduating from Texas A&M University in 1969 with a Bachelors Degree in History, he served in the United States army from 1969-72. Following his honorable discharge from the Army at the rank of Captain, Napper attended the University of Virginia from 1972?74, earning a Masters Degree in Government and Foreign Affairs. Napper entered the United States Foreign Service in August 1974. After a year of Russian language training, Napper was assigned to the United States Embassy in Moscow, where he served as Vice Consul from 1975-77. He then served as a Political Officer at the U.S. embassy in Gaborone, Botswana from 1977-79. Following a year of advanced training in Soviet and East European Affairs at Stanford University, Napper joined the Department's Office of Soviet Union Affairs where he served until 1983. In 1983-84, Napper received an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship in the office of Representative Lee H. Hamilton. [More at Wikipedia]

November 27th, 1947 in San Antonio (Age 76)