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William Carlton Eacho III is the former United States Ambassador to Austria. Eacho was nominated by President Barack Obama in June 2009. He was confirmed by the US Senate and sworn in in August 2009. He succeeded David F. Girard-diCarlo as ambassador in 2009 and was succeeded himself by Alexa Wesner in September 2013. In 2013 Ambassador Eacho joined the Center for Transatlantic Relations as a Distinguished Fellow as well as Visiting Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H.