John Arthur Ferch

{{short description|United States diplomat|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| order = 15th

| ambassador_from = United States

| country = Honduras

| term_start = August 22, 1985

| term_end = July 9, 1986

| predecessor = John D. Negroponte

| successor = Everett Ellis Briggs

| president = Ronald Reagan

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| office2 = Chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Cuba

| term_start2 = August 1982

| term_end2 = July 1985

| predecessor2 = Wayne S. Smith

| successor2 = Curtis W. Kamman

| president2 = Ronald Reagan

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| birth_place = Toledo, Ohio

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John Arthur Ferch (February 6, 1936 - May 5, 2020) was a United States diplomat.

Ferch was born in Ohio in 1936.{{cite web|url=http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1985/42385c.htm|title=Nominations & Appointments, April 23, 1985|publisher=Ronald Reagan Presidential Library|accessdate=2011-01-26}} He grew up in Toledo and graduated from Princeton University in 1958.{{cite web |date=27 September 1991 |title=The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR JOHN A. FERCH |url=https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Ferch,%20John%20A.toc.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240717154541/https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Ferch,%20John%20A.toc.pdf |archive-date=17 July 2024 |accessdate=17 July 2024 |website=Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training}}

A career Foreign Service officer,{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/11/world/dispute-flares-over-india-envoy-post.html |title=DISPUTE FLARES OVER INDIA ENVOY POST |last=Weinraub |first=Bernard |date=January 11, 1985 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 23, 2018 |language=en}} he served as United States Ambassador to Honduras from 1985 to 1986.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/01/world/us-envoy-to-honduras-leaving-early.html |title=U.S. ENVOY TO HONDURAS LEAVING EARLY |date=July 1, 1986 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 23, 2018 |language=en}}{{cite web|url=http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/kerry/ambassadors100404.html |title=Statement issued by Ambassadors for Kerry Edwards 2004 |publisher=George Washington University |accessdate=2011-01-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100331190507/http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/kerry/ambassadors100404.html |archivedate=2010-03-31 }}