Ambassador of the United States to Morocco | |
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Nominator | The President of the United States |
Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
Inaugural holder | Samuel R. Gummere as Envoy |
Formation | 1906 |
Website | U.S. Embassy - Rabat |
This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to Morocco. Morocco was the first country to recognize the United States of America in 1777. Regular diplomatic relations were established in 1905. In 1912 Morocco came under the control of France and Spain as protectorates. The United States did not initially recognize the French and Spanish protectorates over Morocco. However, in 1917 upon U.S. entry into the First World War, the U.S. government recognized the protectorates. The U.S. Minister at Tangier was downgraded to the status of Diplomatic Agent. In 1956 the U. S. recognized Morocco’s independence, established an embassy in Rabat, and appointed a ranking ambassador, Cavendish W. Cannon. [1]
Name | Title | Start | End |
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Samuel R. Gummere | Envoy | 1906 | 1909 |
Henry Percival Dodge | Envoy | 1909 | 1910 |
Fred W. Carpenter | Envoy | 1910 | 1912 |
Maxwell Blake | Chargé d'Affaires | 1912 | 1917 |
Name | Title | Start | End |
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Maxwell Blake | Consul General | 1917 | 1922 |
Joseph M. Denning | Consul General | 1922 | 1924 |
Maxwell Blake | Consul General | 1925 | 1933 |
Name | Title | Start | End |
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Maxwell Blake | Consul General | 1933 | 1940 |
John Campbell White | Consul General | 1940 | 1941 |
J. Rives Childs | Chargé d'Affaires | 1941 | 1945 |
Paul H. Alling | Consul General | 1945 | 1947 |
Edwin A. Plitt | Consul General | 1947 | 1951 |
John Carter Vincent | Consul General | 1951 | 1953 |
Joseph C. Satterthwaite | Consul General | 1953 | 1955 |
Julius C. Holmes | Consul General | 1955 | 1956 |
Name | Title | Start | End |
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William J. Porter | Chargé d'Affaires | 1956 | 1956 |
Cavendish W. Cannon | Ambassador | 1956 | 1958 |
Charles Yost | Ambassador | 1958 | 1961 |
Philip W. Bonsal | Ambassador | 1961 | 1962 |
John H. Ferguson | Ambassador | 1962 | 1964 |
Henry J. Tasca | Ambassador | 1965 | 1969 |
Stuart W. Rockwell | Ambassador | 1970 | 1973 |
Robert G. Neumann | Ambassador | 1973 | 1976 |
Robert Anderson | Ambassador | 1976 | 1978 |
Richard B. Parker | Ambassador | 1978 | 1979 |
Angier Biddle Duke | Ambassador | 1979 | 1981 |
Joseph Verner Reed Jr. | Ambassador | 1981 | 1985 |
Thomas Anthony Nassif | Ambassador | 1985 | 1988 |
Michael Ussery | Ambassador | 1988 | 1992 |
Frederick Vreeland | Ambassador | 1992 | 1993 |
Marc Charles Ginsberg | Ambassador | 1994 | 1997 |
Gary S. Usrey | Chargé d'Affaires | 1997 | 1998 |
Edward M. Gabriel | Ambassador | 1998 | 2001 |
Margaret D. Tutwiler | Ambassador | 2001 | 2003 |
Thomas Riley | Ambassador | 2004 | 2009 |
Samuel L. Kaplan | Ambassador | 2009 | 2013 |
Matthew Lussenhop | Chargé d'Affaires | 2013 | 2014 [2] |
Dwight L. Bush Sr. | Ambassador | 2014 [3] | 2017 |
Stephanie Miley | Chargé d'Affaires | 2017 | 2019 |
David Greene | Chargé d'Affaires | 2019 | 2020 |
David T. Fischer | Ambassador | 2020 | 2021 |
David Greene | Chargé d'Affaires | 2021 | 2022 |
Aimee Cutrona | Chargé d'Affaires | 2022 | 2022 |
Puneet Talwar | Ambassador | 2022 |
Morocco is a member of the United Nations and belongs to the African Union, Arab League, Arab Maghreb Union (UMA), Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the Non-Aligned Movement and the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN_SAD). Morocco's relationships vary greatly between African, Arab, and Western states. Morocco has had strong ties with the West in order to gain economic and political benefits. France and Spain remain the primary trade partners, as well as the primary creditors and foreign investors in Morocco. From the total foreign investments in Morocco, the European Union invests approximately 73.5%, whereas, the Arab world invests only 19.3%. Many countries from the Persian Gulf and Maghreb regions are also getting more involved in large-scale development projects in Morocco.
Ambassadors of the United States are persons nominated by the president to serve as the country's diplomatic representatives to foreign nations, international organizations, and as ambassadors-at-large. Under Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, their appointment must be confirmed by the United States Senate; while an ambassador may be appointed during a recess, they can serve only until the end of the next session of Congress, unless subsequently confirmed.
A chargé d'affaires, plural chargés d'affaires, often shortened to chargé (French) and sometimes in colloquial English to charge-D, is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador. The term is French for "charged with business", meaning they are responsible for the duties of an ambassador. Chargé is masculine in gender; the feminine form is chargée d'affaires.
The Tangier American Legation (Arabic: المفوضية الأميركية في طنجة; French: Légation américaine de Tanger), officially the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIMS), is a building in the medina of Tangier, Morocco. Formerly the chancery of the United States diplomatic mission to Morocco, it was the first American public property abroad and is the only U.S. National Historic Landmark located in a foreign country.
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This is a summary history of diplomatic relations of the United States listed by country. The history of diplomatic relations of the United States began with the appointment of Benjamin Franklin as U.S. Minister to France in 1778, even before the U.S. had won its independence from Great Britain in 1783.