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Jonathan Scott Gration is an American retired Major General of the United States Air Force, who worked as a policy advisor to President Barack Obama. On March 18, 2009, Gration was named, and served, as the United States Special Envoy to Sudan.〔 *("Obama chooses Sudan envoy, to announce Wednesday" ) - Reuters〕〔 *("Adding Pressure to Sudan, Obama Will Tap Retired General as Special Envoy" The New York Times ) Published: March 17, 2009〕 He subsequently worked as United States Ambassador to Kenya from 2011-2012.〔 *("President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts" )〕〔 *("Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate" )〕 ==Early life and education== Gration, known by his middle name Scott, was born in St. Charles, Illinois, the son of Dorothy E. (née Harpel) and John Alexander Gration. His paternal grandparents were British.〔http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/celeb/gration.htm〕 He spent his early childhood in the now Democratic Republic of Congo (then the Belgian Congo, later Zaïre), and Kenya where his parents worked as missionary teachers. The first sentence he ever spoke was in Kiswahili, and he has been a Kiswahili speaker his entire life.〔 During the Congo Crisis in the early 1960s, his family was evacuated three times and they became refugees, relocating to Kenya after the third evacuation in 1964.〔http://www2.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/GUIDES/230.htm〕 After his family returned to the United States, he studied at Rutgers University, where he enlisted in the ROTC program and earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. He earned a master's degree in national security studies from Georgetown University in Washington in 1988.〔(Obama Asks Retired Air Force General to Run NASA ) - Space.com News - Brian Berger and Becky Iannotta, Space News Staff Writers, 13 January 2009〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scott Gration」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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