List of ambassadors of the United States to Senegal

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Ambassador of the United States to Senegal
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since March 10, 2022
Appointer The president
with the advice and consent of the Senate
Inaugural holder Henry Serrano Villard
as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
FormationOctober 8, 1960
Website U.S. Embassy - Dakar

The United States ambassador to Senegal is the official representative of the president of the United States to the head of state of Senegal. The ambassador is concurrently the ambassador to Guinea-Bissau, while residing in Dakar, Senegal.

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Ambassadors and chiefs of mission

NameCareer statusAppointedPresentation

of credentials

Termination of mission
Henry Serrano Villard Career FSOOctober 8, 1960October 31, 1960Left post, April 30, 1961
Philip Mayer Kaiser Political appointeeJune 22, 1961July 20, 1961Left post, May 18, 1964
Mercer Cook Political appointeeJuly 9, 1964August 29, 1964Left post, July 1, 1966
William Robert Rivkin Political appointeeOctober 13, 1966December 16, 1966Died at post, March 19, 1967
Lewis Dean Brown Career FSOOctober 18, 1967December 22, 1967Left post, August 15, 1970
G. Edward Clark Political appointeeOctober 12, 1970November 18, 1970Left post, October 16, 1973
Orison Rudolph Aggrey Career FSONovember 23, 1973January 17, 1974Left post, July 10, 1977
Herman Jay Cohen Career FSOJune 24, 1977July 22, 1977Left post, July 21, 1980
Walter C. Carrington Political appointeeAugust 27, 1980October 16, 1980Left post, March 3, 1981
Charles William Bray Career FSOJune 30, 1981July 18, 1981Left post, May 17, 1985
Lannon Walker Career FSOJuly 12, 1985August 7, 1985Left post, August 18, 1988
George Edward Moose Career FSOApril 28, 1988October 13, 1988Left post, May 21, 1991
Katherine Shirley Career FSOMarch 25, 1991June 5, 1991Left post, September 1, 1992
Mark Johnson Career FSOMay 25, 1993June 22, 1993Left post, June 15, 1996
Dane Farnsworth Smith Career FSOJune 11, 1996September 16, 1996Left post, July 16, 1999
Harriet L. Elam-Thomas Career FSONovember 16, 1999January 14, 2000Left post, December 6, 2002
Richard Allen Roth Career FSONovember 15, 2002February 13, 2004Left post, August 4, 2005
Janice L. Jacobs Career FSOFebruary 21, 2006April 14, 2006Left post, July 15, 2007
Marcia Bernicat Career FSOJune 6, 2008August 6, 2008July 15, 2011 [1]
Lewis A. Lukens Career FSOJuly 11, 2011August 11, 2011Left post, June 4, 2014
James P. Zumwalt Career FSONovember 19, 2014February 3, 2015Left post, January 20, 2017
Tulinabo S. Mushingi Career FSOFebruary 28, 2017August 4, 2017February 1, 2022
Michael A. Raynor Career FSODecember 18, 2021March 10, 2022Incumbent

See also

References

Specific
  1. ↑ "Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat - People - Department History - Office of the Historian".
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