Tom C. Korologos

Tom C. Korologos

infobox US Ambassador
name = Tom Chris Korologos


imagesize = 140px
ambassador_from=United States
country = Belgium
order =
term_start = July 14, 2004
term_end = 2007
predecessor = Stephen Brauer
successor = Sam Fox
president = George W. Bush
birth_date = birth date and age|1933|04|06
birth_place = Salt Lake City, Utah
profession = Lobbyist

Tom Chris Korologos, (born April 6, 1933 in Salt Lake City, Utah), is a powerful Republican lobbyist (he donated $107,800 to the GOP in 2004) and the immediate past U.S. Ambassador to Belgium.

Biography

A second generation Greek American, Tom was born to immigrant parents, Chris T. Korologos and Irene M. Kolendrianos, both from the Peloponnese region. His father was a bartender in Utah. Korologos was married to Joy G. Korologos, the couple had three children, Paula, Ann and Philip. Joy died from melanoma in 1997. Tom re-married, to Ann McLaughlin Korologos, who was Secretary of Labor in the Reagan administration and serves on the boards of several major companies and is one of Washington's most prominent socialites.

Career

Ambassador Korologos started out as a journalist with the New York Herald Tribune, the Long Island Press, the Salt Lake Tribune and the Associated Press. He was a U.S. Air Force officer from 1956 to 1957. He earned his B.A. degree at the University of Utah and in 1958, an M.S. degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where he received the Grantland Rice Fellowship and a Pulitzer Fellowship. From 1962 to 1971 he worked for Wallace F. Bennett of Utah. He served in the Nixon and Ford presidential administrations, and has worked closely with President George W. Bush.

Korologos has had a wide and varied Washington, DC experience. He has served as a senior staff member in the U.S. Congress, as an assistant to two Presidents in the White House, was a prominent businessman, and most recently was a senior counselor with the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Baghdad. In addition, he was a long-time member of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy and a charter member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors that has jurisdiction over all non-military U.S. Government radio and TV broadcasting overseas.

Trivia

*Tom is the father of actress Paula Cale
*His family origins are from Tyros and Leonidion, Greece.
*Tom comes from a very large extended Korologos Family

ee also

* United States Ambassador to Belgium
* Foreign relations of Belgium

External links

* [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/34098.htm U.S State Department Profile]
* [http://chnm.gmu.edu/greekam/stories/korologos.html Korologos Family History]
* [http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:o13XB7u8M64J:166.70.46.216/2004/Jun/06172004/utah/176240.asp+Paula+Cale+US+ambassador+to+Belgium++Korologos&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2 The Salt Lake Tribune -- Korologos Confirmation Hearing]
* [http://korologos.com/ Official Korologos Family Site]


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