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Gordon Giffin
Edit ProfileDiplomat United States Ambassador to Canada
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Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Gordon Giffin moved to Canada before his first birthday. He lived in Montreal and Toronto for 17 years, attending Valois Park Elementary School in Pointe Claire and Richview Collegiate in Etobicoke. Giffin earned a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University in 1971 and a Juris Doctor from Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia in 1974.
The Ambassador was nominated for his position by President Bill Clinton on July 1, 1997, and confirmed by the full United States Senate on July 31.
Unique among United States. envoys to Canada, he spent seventeen years of his childhood growing up in Canada. He has since returned to McKenna Long & Aldridge Limited Liability Partnership and heads the firm"s Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs department.
While on an ambassador"s trip to Montreal he took in a Montreal Canadiens hockey game, where a Molson Ice was dumped on his head for his outward support of Bill Clinton. From 1975 to 1979, he was Legislative Director and Chief Counsel to United States. Senator Sam Nunn in Washington, District of Columbia He is only the second United States. envoy to Canada in history to have come from the southern part of the United States (the first, William Walton Butterworth of Louisiana, served from 1962 to 1968.
David Wilkins of South Carolina served from 2005 to 2009).
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