John Marshall Evans

John M. Evans, a career Foreign Service Officer who served as U.S. Ambassador to Armenia 2004-2006, publicly dissented in 2005 from the policy of the Bush Administration on the 90-year-old issue of the Armenian Genocide. A native of Williamsburg, Virginia, educated at Yale and Columbia, Evans served in Tehran, Prague, Moscow, Brussels (NATO), the OSCE, St. Petersburg, and Washington, reaching the rank of Minister-Counselor. He authored "Truth Held Hostage: America and the Armenian Genocide: What Then? What Now?" Now retired from the State Department, Evans lives with his wife, the former Donna Chamberlain, in Washington, D.C.