List of ambassadors of the United States to Guinea-Bissau

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Ambassador of the United States to Guinea-Bissau
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since April 20, 2022
NominatorThe President of the United States
AppointerThe President
with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural holder Dean Curran
as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
FormationJune 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 head of state of Guinea-Bissau. The U.S. ambassador to Senegal is concurrently commissioned to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.

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Until 1974, Guinea-Bissau had been a colony of the Portuguese Empire as Portuguese Guinea. After a period of revolutionary warfare, Guinea-Bissau unilaterally declared its independence on September 24, 1973. Following the April 1974 Carnation Revolution in Portugal, it granted independence to Guinea-Bissau on September 10, 1974. The United States recognized the Republic of Guinea-Bissau on the same day. The U.S. Embassy Bissau was established on June 30, 1976, with Dean Curran as 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

NameTitleAppointed Presented credentials Terminated mission
Melissa F. Wells [4] - Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiarySeptember 16, 1976November 29, 1976March 29, 1977
Edward Marks [4] - Career FSO [5] September 16, 1977October 31, 1977July 11, 1980
Peter Jon de Vos [4] - Career FSOAugust 27, 1980September 22, 1980March 30, 1983
Wesley Egan - Career FSOMarch 18, 1983May 12, 1983January 7, 1985
Barbara C. Maslak Chargé d'Affaires ad interimJanuary 1985UnknownAugust 1986
John Dale Blacken - Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJune 16, 1986August 27, 1986September 29, 1989
William Ludwig Jacobsen - Career FSOOctober 10, 1989November 13, 1989August 25, 1992
Roger A. McGuire - Career FSOJune 15, 1992October 14, 1992August 28, 1995
Peggy Blackford - Career FSOOctober 3, 1995November 4, 1995June 14, 1998
Embassy suspended operations from 1998 to 2002.
Richard Allan Roth [6] - Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 15, 2002February 13, 2004Left Dakar, August 4, 2005
Janice L. Jacobs [6] - Career FSOFebruary 21, 2006May 9, 2006Left Dakar, July 15, 2007
Marcia Bernicat [6] - Career FSOJune 16, 2008November 6, 2008July 15, 2011
Robert T. Yamate Chargé d'Affaires ad interimJuly 15, 2011UnknownAugust 2011
Lewis A. Lukens [6] – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJuly 11, 2011October 19, 2011June 4, 2014
James P. Zumwalt – Career FSOFebruary 3, 2015March 10, 2015January 19, 2017
Tulinabo S. Mushingi – Career FSOMay 19, 2017August 4, 2017February 1, 2022
Michael A. Raynor – Career FSODecember 18, 2021April 20, 2022Incumbent

Notes

  1. ↑ "Guinea-Bissau". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
  2. ↑ "Chiefs of Mission for Guinea-Bissau". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
  3. ↑ "Peggy Blackford". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
  4. 1 2 3 Also accredited to Cape Verde; resident at Bissau.
  5. ↑ "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR EDWARD MARKS" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 12 August 1996. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 June 2024. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Also accredited to Senegal; resident at Dakar.

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