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(CBS/AP) The American ambassador who was killed Tuesday in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya had represented U.S. interests in the nation under two presidents and worked as a diplomat for more than 20 years.

Ambassador Christopher Stevens, U.S. Foreign Service officer Sean Smith and two other Americans died when an unruly mob attacked the consulate in the port city of Benghazi.

Stevens became the sixth ambassador in U.S. history to die in an attack, CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes reports. He is the first U.S. ambassador 진해콜걸 to be killed since 1979, when Ambassador Adolph Dubs was killed in Afghanistan.