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List of ambassadors of the United States to Senegal

Ambassador of the United States to Senegal
Seal of the United States Department of State
since March 10, 2022
AppointerThe President
with the advice and consent of the Senate
Inaugural holderHenry Serrano Villard
as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
FormationOctober 8, 1960
WebsiteU.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.

Ambassadors and chiefs of mission

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Name Career status Appointed Presentation

of credentials

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

See also

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References

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