Ambassador of the United States to the Gambia | |
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Nominator | The President of the United States |
Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
Inaugural holder | Mercer Cook as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary |
Formation | May 18, 1965 |
Website | U.S. Embassy - Banjul |
This is a list of United States ambassadors to the Gambia, the first of who was appointed on May 18, 1965, exactly three months after it attained independence from the United Kingdom.
Name | Title | Appointed | Presented credentials | Terminated mission | Notes |
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Mercer Cook [1] [lower-alpha 1] - Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 18, 1965 | August 9, 1965 | July 1, 1966 | |
William R. Rivkin [lower-alpha 1] - Non-career appointee | October 13, 1966 | January 16, 1967 | March 19, 1967 | Died in office | |
L. Dean Brown [lower-alpha 1] - Career FSO | October 18, 1967 | January 18, 1968 | August 15, 1970 | ||
G. Edward Clark [lower-alpha 1] - Career FSO | October 12, 1970 | November 24, 1970 | October 16, 1973 | ||
O. Rudolph Aggrey [lower-alpha 1] - Career FSO | November 23, 1973 | January 17, 1974 | July 10, 1977 | ||
Herman J. Cohen [lower-alpha 1] - Career FSO | June 24, 1977 | March 29, 1978 | July 21, 1980 | ||
Larry Gordon Piper - Career FSO | June 30, 1980 | August 21, 1980 | August 23, 1982 | ||
Owen W. Roberts | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | August 23, 1982 | June 1983 | ||
P. Wesley Kriebel | July 1983 | November 1983 | |||
Alan Logan | November 1983 | April 1984 | |||
Edward Brynn | May 1984 | June 20, 1984 | |||
Robert Thomas Hennemeyer - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 11, 1984 | June 20, 1984 | June 27, 1986 | |
Herbert E. Horowitz - Career FSO | September 12, 1986 | October 24, 1986 | November 4, 1989 | ||
Jimmie Stone | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | November 4, 1989 | January 1990 | ||
A. Donald Bramante | January 1990 | December 31, 1990 | |||
Arlene Render - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 22, 1990 | December 31, 1990 | August 8, 1993 | |
Andrew J. Winter - Career FSO | July 11, 1993 | October 29, 1993 | May 31, 1995 | ||
Gerald W. Scott - Career FSO | December 28, 1995 | February 16, 1996 | June 27, 1998 | ||
George Williford Boyce Haley - Political appointee | June 29, 1998 | October 15, 1998 | July 14, 2001 | ||
Jackson McDonald - Career FSO | October 1, 2001 | November 29, 2001 | May 26, 2004 | ||
Joseph D. Stafford III - Career FSO | July 2, 2004 | September 15, 2004 | June 5, 2007 | ||
Barry L. Wells - Political appointee | October 29, 2007 | February 13, 2008 | May 13, 2009 | ||
Pamela Ann White – Career FSO | October 1, 2010 | November 29, 2010 | June 2, 2012 | ||
Edward M. Alford – Career FSO | July 5, 2012 | November 5, 2012 | July 28, 2013 | ||
Patricia Alsup – Career FSO | October 15, 2015 | January 13, 2016 | September 18, 2018 | ||
Richard Carlton Paschall III - Career FSO [2] | January 2, 2019 | April 9, 2019 [3] | February 15, 2022 | ||
Sharon L. Cromer – Career FSO | December 18, 2021 | March 18, 2022 | present |
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