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Ambassador to Tajikistan and Kazakhstan
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Richard E. Hoagland was born in Fort Wayne in 1950 — "I was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana," he said in a 2008 interview. He took a bachelor's degree at Taylor University and an M.A. and M.F.A. at the University of Virginia, earned a French certificate at the University of Grenoble, taught English in Zaire from 1974 to 1976 and African literature at Virginia, and joined the Foreign Service in 1985. He served as ambassador to Tajikistan (2003–06), chargé d'affaires in Turkmenistan (2007–08), and ambassador to Kazakhstan (2008–11), then as deputy ambassador to Pakistan (2011–13) and principal deputy assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs (2013–15); in 2017 he was interim U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group. He is not Richard C. Hoagland, the New Jersey-born writer on space conspiracies, and he is not the Fort Wayne founder Pliny Hoagland, who stands in the main people section.
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Sources: Centre for International Governance Innovation (biography); Caspian Policy Center (interview, 2020).