title: Peggy Blackford
text: # Peggy Blackford
  
  Peggy Blackford (born 1942) was the American Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau from 1995 until relations were suspended in June 1998 and she fled to Senegal to escape the rebellion in Guinea-Bissau.
  
  Born in Trenton, New Jersey, Blackford was raised in nearby Ewing Township, New Jersey and attended Ewing High School.
  
  Blackford graduated from Syracuse University in 1963.
  
  