David Everett Mark (November 15, 1923 – September 17, 2005) was a Career Minister in the United States Foreign Service.
He joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1946, serving first in South Korea, Germany, Finland, Romania and Moscow in the 1950s.
[2] Mark met his wife, Elisabeth Ann Lewis, in Moscow in 1958 where she headed the Anglo-American school.
They married in Washington, D.C. in 1959, and moved to Geneva, Switzerland where Mark joined the delegation to the Test Ban Treaty negotiations.
Mark spoke fluent Russian, German, and French, and was conversant in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Japanese.