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{{Short description|Hungarian politician}}
{{Infobox Officeholder | name =Ferenc Somogyi
| image           = Somogyi USA.jpg
| order           = [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Hungary)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]]
| term_start      = 1 November 2004
| term_end        = 9 June 2006
| primeminister       = [[Ferenc Gyurcsány]]
| predecessor     = [[László Kovács (politician)|László Kovács]]
| successor       = [[Kinga Göncz]]
| birth_date      = {{birth date|1945|09|01|df=yes}}
| birth_place     = [[Hartkirchen]], [[Allied-occupied Austria|Austria]]
| death_date      = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2021|3|30|1945|09|01}}
| death_place     = [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]]
| profession      = Diplomat
| party           = Independent
| children        = Bence <br>Balázs <br>and 1 daughter
| spouse          = Andrea Somogyi
|}}
{{eastern name order|Somogyi Ferenc}}
'''Ferenc Somogyi''' (1 September 1945 in [[Hartkirchen]], [[Allied-occupied Austria|Austria]] – 30 March 2021) was a Hungarian ambassador to the United States.<ref name="bio">{{cite web|url=http://www.huembwas.org/Staff/Ambassador%20Somogyi%20CV.htm|title=''AMBASSADOR FERENC SOMOGYI''|publisher=Embassy of Hungary|access-date=14 February 2010}}</ref><ref>[http://jaszitarsasag.hu/?p=1043 Gyászhír] {{in lang|hu}}</ref>

==Career==
[[File:Ferenc Somogyi with Bush.jpg|thumb|left|Ferenc Somogyi with President Bush upon presentation of his credentials as Ambassador to the U.S., September 18, 2007]]
A former businessman, he is a member of the [[Hungarian Socialist Party]] and served as [[foreign minister]] from November 1, 2004 until a cabinet shuffle in June 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mfa.gov.hu/kum/en/bal/Ministry/minister/foreign_ministers.htm|title=''Hungarian Foreign Ministers from 7 April 1848 to Our Days''|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary|access-date=14 February 2010|archive-date=21 June 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060621090822/http://www.mfa.gov.hu/kum/en/bal/Ministry/minister/foreign_ministers.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> His appointment to that position was announced in September 2004. Previously, he was the deputy [[ambassador]] to the [[United Nations]] during the 1980s in Hungary's communist government, and was a telephone company executive during the 1990s.  In late 2007, Somogyi was appointed Hungarian Ambassador to the United States.<ref name="bio"/>

==Private life==
Father of three children.<ref name="bio"/>

==References==
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==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080603002300/http://www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Hungary.html The Washington Diplomat Newspaper - Ambassador profile]
*[http://www.huembwas.org/Staff/Ambassador.htm Embassy of Hungary in the USA: The Ambassador]
*[http://www.huembwas.org/Staff/Ambassador%20Somogyi%20CV.htm Embassy of Hungary in the USA: Biography of the Ambassador]

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[[Category:People from Eferding District]]
[[Category:Ministers of foreign affairs of Hungary]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of Hungary to the United States]]
[[Category:Hungary–United States relations]]


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