Ambassador of the United States to Haiti Anbasadè de la Etazini an Ayiti | |
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Nominator | The President of the United States |
Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
Inaugural holder | Benjamin F. Whidden as Commissioner/Consul General |
Formation | July 12, 1862 |
Website | ht |
This is a list of United States ambassadors to Haiti.
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 | ||
Henry E. Peck | Commissioner/Consul General | March 14, 1865 | September 2, 1865 | Promoted to Minister Resident/Consul General | [1] | |
Henry 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 7–8, 1869 | ||
Ebenezer D. Bassett | Minister Resident/Consul General | April 16, 1869 | September 7–8, 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 30, 1891 | [7] [3] [8] | |
John S. Durham | Minister Resident/Consul General | September 3, 1891 | October 3, 1891 | Presented recall, November 7, 1893 | [3] [9] | |
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 | [10] | |
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 Clement 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 | [11] |
Norman Armour | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 17, 1933 | April 11, 1933 | Left post, March 21, 1935 | [11] |
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. | [12] |
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 | [13] |
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 1, 1992 | July 1993 | |||
Vicki J. Huddleston | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | July 1993 | October 13, 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 | March 15, 2008 [14] | |
Kenneth H. Merten | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 4, 2009 | August 24, 2009 | July 20, 2012 | [15] |
Pamela White | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 2, 2012 | August 3, 2012 | October 6, 2015 | |
Peter Mulrean | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 19, 2015 | October 6, 2015 | February 27, 2017 | [16] |
Brian W. Shukan | Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy Port-au-Prince | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | February 27, 2017 | August 25, 2017 | ||
Robin Diallo | Minister Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | August 25, 2017 | February 21, 2018 | ||
Michele J. Sison | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 2, 2017 | February 21, 2018 | October 9, 2021 | |
Kenneth H. Merten | Foreign Service officer | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | October 12, 2021 | October 28, 2021 | April 16, 2022 | |
Gregory T. Kendrick | Foreign Service officer | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | April 20, 2022 | April 21, 2022 | July 1, 2022 | [17] |
Eric Stromayer | Foreign Service officer | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | July 3, 2022 | March 26, 2024 | ||
Dennis B. Hankins | Foreign Service officer | March 14, 2024 | TBD |
Michele Jeanne Sison is an American diplomat and career member of the Senior Foreign Service serving as the assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs. She has previously served in various other diplomatic posts around the world on behalf of the United States, including ambassador to Haiti. Sison holds the personal rank of career ambassador.
Kenneth H. Merten is an American diplomat who is the United States ambassador to Bulgaria since April 2023. Merten has served in various positions in the Department of State beginning in 1987, most notably as ambassador to Haiti from 2009 to 2012, ambassador to Croatia from 2012 to 2015, and special coordinator for Haiti from 2015 to 2017.