List of ambassadors of the United States to Guinea-Bissau
Ambassador of the United States to Guinea-Bissau | |
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Nominator | The President of the United States |
Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
Inaugural holder | Dean Curran as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim |
Formation | June 30, 1976 |
Website | U.S. Embassy - Dakar |
The United States ambassador to Guinea-Bissau is the official representative of the president of the United States to the
U.S. ambassador to Senegal
is concurrently commissioned to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.
Until 1974, Guinea-Bissau had been a colony of the
Chargé d'Affaires ad interim.[1]
The first three ambassadors to Guinea-Bissau were concurrently
commissioned to Cape Verde while resident in Bissau. From 1983 until 1998, U.S. ambassadors were solely commissioned to Guinea-Bissau.[2] In 1998 the U.S. embassy in Bissau was closed,[3] and there has been no U.S. embassy in Bissau since then. Since 2002, the U.S. ambassador to Senegal has also been commissioned as the ambassador to Guinea-Bissau, while resident in Dakar
.
Ambassadors and chiefs of mission
U.S. diplomatic terms |
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Career FSO After 1915, The Latin phrase meaning "for the time being", "in the meantime". |
Name | Title | Appointed | Presented credentials | Terminated mission | |
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Melissa F. Wells[4] - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 16, 1976 | November 29, 1976 | March 29, 1977 | |
Edward Marks[4] - Career FSO | September 16, 1977 | October 31, 1977 | July 11, 1980 | ||
Peter Jon de Vos[4] - Career FSO | August 27, 1980 | September 22, 1980 | March 30, 1983 | ||
Wesley Egan - Career FSO | March 18, 1983 | May 12, 1983 | January 7, 1985 | ||
Barbara C. Maslak | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | January 1985 | Unknown | August 1986 | |
John Dale Blacken - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 16, 1986 | August 27, 1986 | September 29, 1989 | |
William Ludwig Jacobsen - Career FSO
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October 10, 1989 | November 13, 1989 | August 25, 1992 | ||
Roger A. McGuire - Career FSO | June 15, 1992 | October 14, 1992 | August 28, 1995 | ||
Peggy Blackford - Career FSO | October 3, 1995 | November 4, 1995 | June 14, 1998 | ||
Embassy suspended operations from 1998 to 2002. | |||||
Richard Allan Roth[5] - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 15, 2002 | February 13, 2004 | Left Dakar, August 4, 2005 | |
Janice L. Jacobs[5] - Career FSO | February 21, 2006 | May 9, 2006 | Left Dakar, July 15, 2007. | ||
Marcia Bernicat[5] - Career FSO | June 16, 2008 | November 6, 2008 | July 15, 2011 | ||
Robert T. Yamate | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | July 15, 2011 | Unknown | August 2011 | |
Lewis A. Lukens[5] – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 11, 2011 | October 19, 2011 | June 4, 2014 | |
James P. Zumwalt – Career FSO | February 3, 2015 | March 10, 2015 | January 19, 2017 | ||
Tulinabo S. Mushingi – Career FSO | May 19, 2017 | August 4, 2017 | February 1, 2022 | ||
Michael A. Raynor – Career FSO | December 18, 2021 | April 20, 2022 | Incumbent |
Notes
- ^ "Guinea-Bissau". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
- ^ "Chiefs of Mission for Guinea-Bissau". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
- ^ "Peggy Blackford". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
- ^ a b c Also accredited to Cape Verde; resident at Bissau.
- ^ a b c d Also accredited to Senegal; resident at Dakar.
See also
- Guinea-Bissau – United States relations
- Foreign relations of Guinea-Bissau
- Ambassadors of the United States
References
- United States Department of State: Background notes on Guinea-Bissau
- This article incorporates public domain material from U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets. United States Department of State.