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{{Infobox US Ambassador
| name=Larry C. Napper
| image=Napperlc.jpg
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| ambassador_from=United States
| country=Kazakhstan
| term_start=August 20, 2001
| term_end=July 7, 2004
| predecessor=[[Richard H. Jones]]
| successor=[[John Ordway (ambassador)|John Ordway]]
| president=
| order2=
| ambassador_from2=United States
| country2=Latvia
| term_start2=August 1, 1995
| term_end2=October 1, 1998
| president2=
| predecessor2=Ints Silins
| successor2=[[James Howard Holmes]]
| birth_date=November 27, 1947
| birth_place=San Antonio, Texas
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'''Larry C. Napper''' (born November 27, 1947) served as the [[United States Ambassador]] to [[Latvia]] from 1995 to 1998 and as the U.S. Ambassador to [[Kazakhstan]] from 2001 to 2004.<ref name=SERVICE>[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/courtney.html#S8N04RL6B Kazakhstan, Central Asia] The Political Graveyard</ref>

Napper was born in [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]]. After graduating from [[Texas A&M University]] in 1969 with a bachelor's 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 master's 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 [[Diplomatic mission|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]].

In 1984, Napper returned to Embassy Moscow for a two-year assignment as Chief of the Foreign Affairs Unit of the Political Section. From 1986-88 he served as Deputy Director of the Department's Office of southern African Affairs. After six months of Romanian language training, Napper became [[Chargé d'affaires]] and later Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]] from 1989-91. He received the Department's Distinguished Honor Award for leadership of the Embassy during the December 1989 [[Romanian Revolution of 1989|overthrow]] of the [[Nicolae Ceauşescu|Ceausescu]] dictatorship.

From August 1991 to July 1994, Napper served as Director of the Department's Office of Soviet Union Affairs, reorganizing it as the Office of Independent States and Commonwealth Affairs following the collapse of the Soviet Union. During his tenure, the United States established diplomatic relations with each of the fifteen independent states that emerged from the Soviet Union, opening embassies in each of their capitals. Napper received the Presidential Meritorious Service Award in 1994, as well as other State Department individual and group awards.

Mr. Napper served as the U.S. Ambassador to Latvia from July 1995 until July 1998. From July 1998 to June 2001, Mr. Napper was Coordinator for United States Assistance to Central and Eastern Europe, administering an assistance budget of more than $600 million.

Following his retirement from the foreign service, Napper took a position as senior lecturer at the [[George Bush School of Government and Public Service]] at [[Texas A&M University]].

==See also==
*[[Ambassadors of the United States]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{C-SPAN|Larry Napper}}

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