Summary
The United States ambassador to Guinea-Bissau is the official representative of the president of the United States to the head of state of Guinea-Bissau. The U.S. ambassador to Senegal is concurrently commissioned to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.
| Ambassador of the United States to Guinea-Bissau | |
|---|---|
 Seal of the United States Department of State | |
| Nominator | The President of the United States |
| Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
| Inaugural holder | Dean Curran as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim |
| Formation | June 30, 1976 |
| Website | U.S. Embassy - Dakar |
Until 1974, Guinea-Bissau had been a colony of the Portuguese Empire as Portuguese Guinea. After a period of revolutionary warfare, Guinea-Bissau unilaterally declared its independence on September 24, 1973. Following the April 1974 Carnation Revolution in Portugal, it granted independence to Guinea-Bissau on September 10, 1974. The United States recognized the Republic of Guinea-Bissau on the same day. The U.S. Embassy Bissau was established on June 30, 1976, with Dean Curran as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim.[1]
The first three ambassadors to Guinea-Bissau were concurrently commissioned to Cape Verde while resident in Bissau. From 1983 until 1998, U.S. ambassadors were solely commissioned to Guinea-Bissau.[2] In 1998 the U.S. embassy in Bissau was closed,[3] and there has been no U.S. embassy in Bissau since then. Since 2002, the U.S. ambassador to Senegal has also been commissioned as the ambassador to Guinea-Bissau, while resident in Dakar.
Ambassadors and chiefs of mission edit
| Name | Title | Appointed | Presented credentials | Terminated mission | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melissa F. Wells[4] - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 16, 1976 | November 29, 1976 | March 29, 1977 | |
| Edward Marks[4] - Career FSO | September 16, 1977 | October 31, 1977 | July 11, 1980 | ||
| Peter Jon de Vos[4] - Career FSO | August 27, 1980 | September 22, 1980 | March 30, 1983 | ||
| Wesley Egan - Career FSO | March 18, 1983 | May 12, 1983 | January 7, 1985 | ||
| Barbara C. Maslak | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | January 1985 | Unknown | August 1986 | |
| John Dale Blacken - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 16, 1986 | August 27, 1986 | September 29, 1989 | |
| William Ludwig Jacobsen - Career FSO | October 10, 1989 | November 13, 1989 | August 25, 1992 | ||
| Roger A. McGuire - Career FSO | June 15, 1992 | October 14, 1992 | August 28, 1995 | ||
| Peggy Blackford - Career FSO | October 3, 1995 | November 4, 1995 | June 14, 1998 | ||
| Embassy suspended operations from 1998 to 2002. | |||||
| Richard Allan Roth[5] - Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 15, 2002 | February 13, 2004 | Left Dakar, August 4, 2005 | |
| Janice L. Jacobs[5] - Career FSO | February 21, 2006 | May 9, 2006 | Left Dakar, July 15, 2007. | ||
| Marcia Bernicat[5] - Career FSO | June 16, 2008 | November 6, 2008 | July 15, 2011 | ||
| Robert T. Yamate | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | July 15, 2011 | Unknown | August 2011 | |
| Lewis A. Lukens[5] – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 11, 2011 | October 19, 2011 | June 4, 2014 | |
| James P. Zumwalt – Career FSO | February 3, 2015 | March 10, 2015 | January 19, 2017 | ||
| Tulinabo S. Mushingi – Career FSO | May 19, 2017 | August 4, 2017 | February 1, 2022 | ||
| Michael A. Raynor – Career FSO | December 18, 2021 | April 20, 2022 | Incumbent | ||
Notes edit
- ^ "Guinea-Bissau". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
- ^ "Chiefs of Mission for Guinea-Bissau". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
- ^ "Peggy Blackford". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
- ^ a b c Also accredited to Cape Verde; resident at Bissau.
- ^ a b c d Also accredited to Senegal; resident at Dakar.
See also edit
References edit
- United States Department of State: Background notes on Guinea-Bissau
This article incorporates public domain material from U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets. United States Department of State.
External links edit
- United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Guinea-Bissau
- United States Department of State: Guinea-Bissau
- United States Virtual Consulate in Guinea-Bissau