- Interpreter for President Truman at Potsdam Conference (July-August 1945).
- U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1953-57.
- In 1982 an annual Avis Bohlen Award was established, administered by the American Foreign Service Association. The award is named after Avis Bohlen (1912-1981), wife of Charles E. Bohlen, and "honors the accomplishments of a family member of a Foreign Service employee whose relations with the American and foreign communities at post have done the most to advance the interests of the United States".
- Entered U.S. Foreign Service in 1928; first posted at Riga, Latvia.
- In 1934 he joined a staff of 15 at the newly re-opened U.S. Embassy in Moscow, and served there with Llewellyn E. "Tommy" Thompson, Jr. and George F. Kennan - all three would later serve at various times as U.S. Ambassadors to the Soviet Union.
- Attached to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo during 1940-41. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Bohlen was interned along with other U.S. Embassy staff until they were returned to the U.S. in exchange for Japanese diplomats in August 1942.
- Interpreter for President Roosevelt at wartime conferences at Tehran (November-December 1943) and Yalta (February 1945).
- U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, 1957-59.
- U.S. Ambassador to France, 1962-68.
- Deputy Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, 1969.
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