was ambushed in Cibitoke province. He was traveling on a bare highway in Cibitoke, when gunmen with AK-47s attacked the motorcade, before being diverted by Diplomatic Security Service agents Chris Reilly and Larry Salmon. In 1996, he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Botswana and concurrently Special Representative of the Secretary of State to the Southern African Development Community. He held those posts until 2000, when he became a visiting fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and began to write a memoir of his time in central Africa. It was published as From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi: Our Embassy Years during Genocide by the University of Texas Press in September 2007. Later work Krueger served in several academic lectureship positions at the University of North Texas (then known as North Texas State University), the University of Texas at Austin, Rice University, Southern Methodist University, Texas State University, and Texas Tech University, following his service in federal government. He delivered the Inaugural Distinguished Lecture of the Rutgers Council on Public and International Affairs on December 9, 2014. Personal life Krueger was married to the former Kathleen Tobin of Bandera, Texas, who co-authored the book From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi, and served two terms as a City Council Member in New Braunfels, Texas, and as Mayor Pro-tem. The Kruegers have three children. In the late 1980s, Krueger and his family were the victims of a stalker. Their experience led to the passage of a spate of anti-stalking laws in Texas. Krueger died on April 30, 2022, at the age of 86 from congestive heart failure. See also Carl W. A. Groos House References Further reading External links |- |- |- |- |- |- 1935 births 2022 deaths Duke University alumni Duke University faculty Ambassadors of the United States to Burundi Ambassadors of the United States to Botswana Members of the Railroad Commission of Texas University of North Texas faculty Rice University faculty Southern Methodist University alumni Democratic Party United States senators from Texas American people of German descent People from New Braunfels, Texas Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Texas Alumni of Merton College, Oxford 20th-century American politicians 20th-century American diplomats