In July 1977, following the resignation of Lucey to become the United States ambassador to Mexico, Schreiber succeeded him as Governor for the remainder of their four-year term.
In 2005, he was granted a scholarship by the United States Embassy in Mexico for the North American Competitivness and Asian Challenge Diploma at the Institute of the Americas in California; that same year he attended “The Challenges of the future of Mexico: Leadership and Performance Strategies” Diploma at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in Massachusetts.
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Four governors have resigned: William Barstow due to fraud allegations, Robert La Follette, Sr. to take his seat in the United States Senate, Patrick Joseph Lucey to become Ambassador to Mexico, and Tommy Thompson to become United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.