David Crane Halsted (born 1941) is an American diplomat.
Halsted was born in Plainfield, New Jersey on September 7, 1941.
Halsted attended Deerfield Academy and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1963.
He graduated from George Washington University in 1968[3] and later joined the U.S. Foreign Service.
On June 11, 1996, Halsted was nominated by President Bill Clinton to be the United States Ambassador to Chad.