Ambassador of the United States to Sierra Leone | |
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Nominator | The President of the United States |
Inaugural holder | Herbert Reiner as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim |
Formation | April 27, 1961 |
Website | U.S. Embassy - Freetown |
The United States ambassador to Sierra Leone is the official representative of the government of the United States to the government of Sierra Leone.
Name | Title | Appointed | Presented credentials | Terminated mission | Notes |
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Herbert Reiner – Career FSO | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | April 27, 1961 | N/A | 1961 | |
A. S. J. Carnahan – Political appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 11, 1961 | June 9, 1961 | July 13, 1963 | |
Andrew V. Corry - Career FSO | January 29, 1964 | February 25, 1964 | May 19, 1967 | ||
Robert Graham Miner - Career FSO | November 7, 1967 | December 7, 1967 | June 16, 1971 | ||
Clinton Louis Olson [2] - Career FSO | June 27, 1972 | July 4, 1972 | November 11, 1974 | ||
Michael Anthony Samuels - Political appointee | December 20, 1974 | February 14, 1975 | May 25, 1977 | ||
John Andrew Linehan - Career FSO [3] | June 24, 1977 | August 30, 1977 | May 9, 1980 | ||
Theresa Ann Healy - Career FSO | August 27, 1980 | September 18, 1980 | July 13, 1983 | ||
Arthur Winston Lewis - Career FSO [4] | May 17, 1983 | August 17, 1983 | June 5, 1986 | ||
Cynthia Shepard Perry - Political appointee | June 16, 1986 | July 16, 1986 | August 30, 1989 | ||
Johnny Young – Career FSO | October 10, 1989 | November 29, 1989 | July 23, 1992 | ||
Lauralee M. Peters - Career FSO | June 15, 1992 | October 8, 1992 | July 6, 1995 | ||
John Lewis Hirsch - Career FSO | August 14, 1995 | September 13, 1995 | June 17, 1998 | ||
Joseph Melrose - Career FSO | October 22, 1998 | November 20, 1998 | September 10, 2001 | ||
Peter R. Chaveas - Career FSO | July 12, 2001 | October 12, 2001 | May 24, 2004 | ||
Thomas Neil Hull [5] - Career FSO | May 12, 2004 | August 19, 2004 | August 27, 2007 | ||
June Carter Perry - Career FSO | July 7, 2007 | October 8, 2007 | January 2, 2009 | ||
Michael S. Owen – Career FSO | August 9, 2010 | September 30, 2010 | October 2, 2013 | ||
John Hoover - Career FSO | September 12, 2014 | December 4, 2014 | July 2, 2017 | ||
Maria Brewer - Career FSO | August 3, 2017 | October 5, 2017 | February 22, 2021 | ||
David Dale Reimer - Career FSO | December 22, 2020 | March 24, 2021 | August 24, 2023 | ||
Bryan David Hunt - Career FSO | July 27, 2023 | September 11, 2023 | Incumbent |
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