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James W. Spain is a diplomat who was born on 22 July, 1926 in Spain. He is 82 years old. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the University of Madrid. He has served in the United States Foreign Service since 1951, and has held posts in Spain, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He was the United States Ambassador to Spain from 1989 to 1993. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall and has a slim build. He is not known to be dating or in any kind of relationship. He is the son of William Spain and Mary Spain. James W. Spain has an estimated net worth of $1 million. He has earned his wealth through his career as a diplomat.

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Born 22 July 1926
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2008

In retirement Spain actively engaged in organizing a power and irrigation project in Sri Lanka. He died on January 2, 2008, of natural causes in Wilmington, North Carolina, at the age of 81.

1951

Spain served in World War II, for a time serving on General Douglas MacArthur's staff as a photographer in occupied Japan. He entered the Foreign Service in 1951, and spent the entirety of his career in government service. His assignments took him to Pakistan, Turkey, Tanzania, the UN, and Sri Lanka.

His first post was as Vice Consul in Karachi in 1951. Following that he returned the U.S. where he lived, mostly in Washington, DC, until 1969. He was appointed as Chargé d'Affaires to Pakistan in 1969, Consul General in Istanbul from 1970–1972, Deputy Chief of Mission in Ankara (1972–1974), Ambassador to Tanzania (1975–1979) and Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations under Andrew Young briefly in 1979, Ambassador to Turkey from 1980–1981, and finally as Ambassador to Sri Lanka from 1985 - 1988. He retired a Career Minister in the Foreign Service and remained in Sri Lanka until 2006, when he returned to the United States, settling in Wilmington, NC.

1926

James William Spain (July 22, 1926 – January 2, 2008) was in the US Foreign Service with postings in Karachi, Islamabad, Istanbul, Ankara, Dar Es Salaam, and Colombo and four ambassadorships in Tanzania, Turkey, the United Nations (as deputy permanent representative), and Sri Lanka.

Spain was born in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, to Irish immigrants who worked as a streetcar conductor and a seamstress. He attended St Brendan's Parochial School and Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary where his classmates included priest/author Andrew Greeley and "Vatican Banker" Paul Marcinkus. He received a master's degree from the University of Chicago and a PhD from Columbia University.