Ambassador of the United States to Tunisia | |
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سفارة الولايات المتحدة في تونس | |
Nominator | The President of the United States |
Inaugural holder | Morris N. Hughes as Chargé d'Affaires |
Formation | June 6, 1956 |
Website | U.S. Embassy – Tunis |
The following is a list of United States ambassadors to Tunisia.
Name | Title | Appointed | Presented credentials | Terminated mission | Notes |
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Morris N. Hughes [2] – Career FSO | Chargé d'Affaires | June 6, 1956 | June 6, 1956 | October 4, 1956 | |
G. Lewis Jones – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 27, 1956 | October 4, 1956 | June 11, 1959 | Presented new credentials on December 9, 1957, when Tunisia became a republic |
Walter N. Walmsley – Career FSO | July 28, 1959 | October 4, 1959 | July 25, 1962 | ||
Francis H. Russell – Career FSO | September 10, 1962 | October 16, 1962 | July 18, 1969 | ||
John A. Calhoun – Career FSO | July 8, 1969 | July 24, 1969 | May 31, 1972 | ||
Talcott W. Seelye – Career FSO | September 11, 1972 | October 20, 1972 | March 22, 1976 | ||
Edward W. Mulcahy – Career FSO | March 4, 1976 | May 31, 1976 | January 5, 1979 | ||
Stephen Warren Bosworth – Career FSO | February 9, 1979 | March 27, 1979 | June 22, 1981 | ||
Walter Leon Cutler – Career FSO | December 11, 1981 | March 2, 1982 | January 2, 1984 | ||
Peter Sebastian – Career FSO | June 11, 1984 | July 3, 1984 | February 19, 1987 | ||
Robert H. Pelletreau – Career FSO | June 15, 1987 | July 1, 1987 | May 11, 1991 | ||
John T. McCarthy – Career FSO | July 2, 1991 | August 2, 1991 | July 16, 1994 | ||
Mary Ann Casey – Career FSO | July 5, 1994 | September 23, 1994 | July 18, 1997 | ||
Robin Lynn Raphel – Career FSO | November 7, 1997 | December 18, 1997 | August 6, 2000 | ||
Rust Macpherson Deming – Career FSO | December 28, 2000 | November 30, 2001 | May 17, 2003 | ||
William J. Hudson – Career FSO | December 12, 2003 | January 12, 2004 | April 14, 2006 | ||
Robert F. Godec – Career FSO | May 30, 2006 | January 17, 2007 | July 29, 2009 | ||
Gordon Gray – Career FSO | August 20, 2009 | November 19, 2009 | July 5, 2012 | ||
Jacob Walles – Career FSO | June 21, 2012 | July 24, 2012 | September 2, 2015 | ||
Daniel Rubinstein – Career FSO | October 15, 2015 | October 26, 2015 | January 15, 2019 | ||
Donald Blome – Career FSO | January 9, 2019 | February 21, 2019 | April 5, 2022 | ||
Joey R. Hood – Career FSO | December 26, 2022 | February 2, 2023 | Incumbent |
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