Gaston J. Sigur, Jr.

Gaston Joseph Sigur, Jr. was the United States Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1986 to 1989.

Gaston J. Sigur, Jr. was born in Franklin, Louisiana on November 13, 1924. His postsecondary education began at Louisiana State University at the age ofin 1941. In 1943, he joined the United States Army and was pulled from regular duty after basic training to study Japanese at the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, and at Fort Snelling where he was commissioned. At that time the war was over and Sigur was sent to Japan where he served as an Army Air Force intelligence officer for Tachikawa Air Base during the Occupation of Japan until 1946 when he was discharged.

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