United States Ambassador to Haiti
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Ambassador of the United States to Haiti | |
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Nominator | Barack Obama |
Inaugural holder | Benjamin F. Whidden as Commissioner/Consul General |
Formation | July 12, 1862 |
Website | U.S. Embassy - Port-au-Prince |
This is a list of United States Ambassadors to Haiti. As of 2013[update] the ambassador was Pamela White.
Name | Background | Title | Appointment | Presentation of Credentials | Termination of Mission | Notes |
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Benjamin F. Whidden | Commissioner/Consul General | July 12, 1862 | October 1, 1862 | Left post, February 23, 1865 | ||
H.E. Peck | Commissioner/Consul General | March 14, 1865 | September 2, 1865 | Promoted to Minister Resident/Consul General | [1] | |
H.E. Peck | Minister Resident/Consul General | August 6, 1866 | October 11, 1866 | Died at post, June 9, 1867 | [2] | |
Gideon H. Hollister | Minister Resident/Consul General | February 5, 1868 | On or shortly before June 6, 1868 | Presented recall, September 7-September 8, 1869 | ||
Ebenezer D. Bassett | Minister Resident/Consul General | April 16, 1869 | September 7-September 8, 1869 | Presented recall, November 27, 1877 | ||
John M. Langston | Minister Resident/Consul General | September 28, 1877 | November 27, 1877 | Presented recall, June 30, 1885 | [3][4] | |
George W. Williams | Minister Resident/Consul General | March 2, 1885 | [5] | |||
John E. W. Thompson | Minister Resident/Consul General | May 7, 1885 | June 30, 1885 | Relinquished charge about October 17, 1889 | [3][6] | |
Frederick Douglass | Minister Resident/Consul General | June 26, 1889 | November 14, 1889 | Left post, July 1891 | [3][7] | |
John S. Durham | Minister Resident/Consul General | September 3, 1891 | October 3, 1891 | Presented recall, November 7, 1893 | [3][8] | |
Henry M. Smythe | Minister Resident/Consul General | September 15, 1893 | November 7, 1893 | Left post on or shortly after March 9, 1897 | [3] | |
William F. Powell | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 17, 1897 | August 20, 1897 | Left post about November 30, 1905 | [3] | |
Henry W. Furniss | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 23, 1905 | December 30, 1905 | Presented recall, September 17, 1913 | [9] | |
Madison R. Smith | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 15, 1913 | September 30, 1913 | Left post, July 8, 1914 | ||
Arthur Bailly-Blanchard | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 22, 1914 | November 15, 1915 | Left post, September 26, 1921 | |
James C. Dunn | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | April 1922 | February 1924 | |||
George R. Merrell, Jr. | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | March 1924 | October 1926 | |||
Christian Gross | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | October 1926 | November 1927 | |||
Christian Gross | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | April 1928 | December 1928 | |||
Stuart E. Grummon | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | December 1928 | November 1930 | |||
Dana G. Munro | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 28, 1930 | November 16, 1930 | Left post, September 14, 1932 | |
Norman Armour | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 25, 1932 | November 7, 1932 | Recess appointment expired, March 4, 1933 | [10] |
Norman Armour | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 17, 1933 | April 11, 1933 | Left post, March 21, 1935 | [10] |
George A. Gordon | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 5, 1935 | September 6, 1935 | Left post, July 21, 1937 | |
Ferdinand L. Mayer | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 13, 1937 | November 18, 1937 | Left post, November 29, 1940 | |
John Campbell White | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 29, 1940 | March 14, 1941 | Promoted to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary following a joint announcement on March 23, 1943 with seven other Latin American Republics elevating respective legations to embassies. | [11] |
John Campbell White | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 27, 1943 | April 14, 1943 | Left post, February 24, 1944 | |
Orme Wilson | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 21, 1944 | June 2, 1944 | Left post, August 22, 1946 | |
Harold H. Tittmann, Jr. | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 12, 1946 | September 20, 1946 | Left post, July 17, 1948 | |
William E. DeCourcy | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 18, 1948 | October 13, 1948 | Relinquished charge, December 9, 1950 | |
Howard K. Travers | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 3, 1951 | October 30, 1951 | Left post, February 25, 1952 | |
Roy Tasco Davis | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 6, 1953 | September 23, 1953 | Relinquished charge, March 9, 1957 | |
Gerald A. Drew | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 17, 1957 | May 15, 1957 | Left post, July 16, 1960 | |
Robert Newbegin | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 27, 1960 | November 4, 1960 | Left post, December 10, 1961 | |
Raymond L. Thurston | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 7, 1961 | January 4, 1962 | Normal relations interrupted, May 15, 1963; relations not yet resumed when Thurston left post, May 26, 1963 | [12] |
Benson E.L. Timmons III | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 30, 1963 | January 16, 1964 | Left post, May 28, 1967 | |
Claude G. Ross | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 19, 1967 | June 20, 1967 | Left post, October 17, 1969 | |
Clinton E. Knox | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 9, 1969 | November 13, 1969 | Left post, April 26, 1973 | |
Heyward Isham | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 19, 1973 | January 31, 1974 | Left post, July 8, 1977 | |
William B. Jones | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 3, 1977 | August 12, 1977 | Left post, July 12, 1980 | |
Henry L. Kimelman | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 27, 1980 | October 16, 1980 | Left post, February 18, 1981 | |
Ernest H. Preeg | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 20, 1981 | July 28, 1981 | Left post, August 20, 1983 | |
Clayton E. McManaway, Jr. | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 18, 1983 | January 10, 1984 | Left post, August 18, 1986 | |
Brunson McKinley | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 12, 1986 | October 9, 1986 | Left post, November 13, 1989 | |
Alvin P. Adams, Jr. | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 10, 1989 | December 8, 1989 | Recalled, August 1, 1992 | |
Leslie M. Alexander | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | August 1992 | July 1993 | |||
Vicki Huddleston | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | July 1993 | October 1993 | |||
William Lacy Swing | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 8, 1993 | October 13, 1993 | Left post, January 5, 1998 | |
Timothy Michael Carney | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 12, 1997 | January 14, 1998 | Left post, December 11, 1999 | |
Brian Dean Curran | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 28, 2000 | January 12, 2001 | Left post, May 16, 2003 | |
James B. Foley | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 27, 2003 | September 18, 2003 | Left post, August 14, 2005 | |
Janet Ann Sanderson | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 21, 2006 | March 17, 2006 | 2009 | |
Kenneth H. Merten | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 4, 2009 | August 24, 2009 | 2012 | [13] |
Pamela White | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 2012 | July 18, 2012 |
See also
References
- ↑ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 22, 1866.
- ↑ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 11, 1867.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Also accredited to Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic); resident at Port-au-Prince.
- ↑ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on October 23, 1877.
- ↑ Took oath of office, but did not proceed to post.
- ↑ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 13, 1886.
- ↑ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on December 16, 1889.
- ↑ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on December 23, 1891.
- ↑ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on December 13, 1905.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Commissioned during a recess of the Senate. Armour left post March 4, 1933; he returned March 8, and presented a copy of his letter of credence under his new appointment, March 23, 1933.
- ↑ http://history.state.gov/countries/haiti.
- ↑ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 30, 1962. On June 14, 1963 the Government of Haiti requested Thurston's recall, and he did not return to post.
- ↑ http://haiti.usembassy.gov/press_releases/kenneth-h.-merten-u.s.-ambassador-to-haiti-arrives-in-port-au-prince-august-24-2009
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