Harry Walter Shlaudeman (May 17, 1926 – December 5, 2018) was an American diplomat. He was born in Los Angeles, California. He worked as an ambassador during the Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush Sr. presidencies. He was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992.
Shlaudeman was an Ambassador to Venezuela from 1975 to 1976, to Peru from 1977 to 1980, to Argentina from 1980 to 1983, to Brazil from 1986 to 1989 and to Nicaragua from 1990 to 1992.
Shlaudeman died on December 5, 2018 in San Luis Obispo, California, at the age of 92.[1]