Terence Todman
Terence Alphonso Todman was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Chad, Guinea, Costa Rica, Spain, Denmark, and Argentina. In 1990, he was awarded the rank of Career Ambassador.Life
He was born on Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, on March 13, 1926.
He was drafted and served in Japan from 1945 to 1949.
He graduated from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico summa cum laude, and earned an M.P.A. degree from the Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, which is the number-one ranked and most prestigious graduate school of public administration. During his Ambassadorship in Guinea, his embassy was under eavesdropping of KGB, Soviet Union. His appointment as ambassador of Costa Rica in 1974 represented the first African American to be given the title in a Spanish-speaking country.
Todman was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
He was a director of Exxcel Group.
On August 13, 2014, he died at the age of 88 at a hospital in Saint Thomas.Family
He married Doris Weston; they had four children.
