United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic
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This is a list of United States Ambassadors to the Dominican Republic. The current ambassador is P. Robert Fannin.
Name | Background | Title | Presentation of Credentials | Termination of Mission | Notes |
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John M. Langston | Chargé d'Affaires | 26 March 1884 | Transmitted recall by mail, June 23, 1885 | Accredited to Santo Domingo, also accredited to Haiti; resident at Port-au-Prince. | |
John E. W. Thompson | Chargé d'Affaires | 1 March 1885 | Relinquished charge at Port-au-Prince about October 17, 1889 | Accredited to Santo Domingo, also accredited to Haiti; resident at Port-au-Prince. | |
Frederick Douglass | Chargé d'Affaires | 25 January 1890 | Left Port-au-Prince, July 1891 | Accredited to Santo Domingo, also accredited to Haiti; resident at Port-au-Prince. | |
John S. Durham | Chargé d'Affaires | 14 January 1892 | Presented recall, November 18, 1893 | Accredited to Santo Domingo, also accredited to Haiti; resident at Port-au-Prince. | |
Henry M. Smythe | Chargé d'Affaires | 18 November 1893 | Left Santo Domingo, March 20, 1897 | Accredited to Santo Domingo, also accredited to Haiti; resident at Port-au-Prince. Credentials presented on November 18, 1893, by his predecessor; Smythe was officially received in person at Santo Domingo, October 28, 1895. | |
William F. Powell | Chargé d'Affaires | 18 February 1898 | Superseded, July 23, 1904 | Accredited to Santo Domingo, also accredited to Haiti; resident at Port-au-Prince. Officially received on February 18, 1898; had transmitted credentials by mail in November 1897. | |
Thomas C. Dawson | Minister Resident/Consul General | 23 July 1904 | Left post, May 5, 1907 | Accredited to Santo Domingo. | |
Fenton R. McCreery | Minister Resident/Consul General | 18 May 1907 | Left post, October 7, 1909 | Accredited to Santo Domingo. | |
Horace G. Knowles | Minister Resident/Consul General | 7 March 1910 | Presented recall, August 2, 1910 | ||
William W. Russell | Foreign Service officer | Minister Resident/Consul General | 3 November 1910 | Promoted to Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | |
William W. Russell | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 5 September 1911 | Left post, March 2, 1913 | |
James M. Sullivan | Non-career appointee | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 23 September 1913 | Left post, June 20, 1915 | |
William W. Russell | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 7 October 1915 | Left post, September 12, 1925 | |
Evan E. Young | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 28 October 1925 | Left post, December 31, 1929 | |
Charles B. Curtis | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 28 January 1930 | Left post, August 11, 1931 | |
H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 9 October 1931 | Left post, April 27, 1937 | |
R. Henry Norweb | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 7 October 1937 | Presented recall, February 13-February 19, 1940 | |
Robert M. Scotten | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 21 June 1940 | Left post, March 14, 1942 | |
Avra M. Warren | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 4 July 1942 | Promoted to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | |
Avra M. Warren | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 17 April 1943 | Left post, April 22, 1944 | |
Ellis O. Briggs | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 3 June 1944 | Left post, January 14, 1945 | |
Joseph F. McGurk | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 17 April 1945 | Left post, November 16, 1945 | |
George H. Butler | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 19 September 1946 | Left post, February 5, 1948 | |
Ralph H. Ackerman | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 27 August 1948 | Left post, June 11, 1952 | |
Phelps Phelps | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 29 July 1952 | Left post, May 30, 1953 | |
William T. Pheiffer | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 29 June 1953 | Left post, June 2, 1957 | |
Joseph S. Farland | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 7 August 1957 | Left post, May 28, 1960 | |
Henry Dearborn | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | Diplomatic ties severed, August 26, 1960 | U.S. severed diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic on August 26, 1960. | ||
John Calvin Hill | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | 6 January 1962 | U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo was reestablished January 6, 1962 | ||
Vinton Chapin | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Appointed on June 23, 1960 and took oath of office, but did not proceed to post. | ||
John Bartlow Martin | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 9 March 1962 | Left post, September 28, 1963 | Normal relations interrupted, September 25, 1963; new Government of the Dominican Republic still unrecognized by the U.S. when Martin left post. |
W. Tapley Bennett, Jr. | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 23 March 1964 | Left post, April 13, 1966 | |
John Hugh Crimmins | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 29 June 1966 | Left post, April 16, 1969 | |
Francis E. Meloy, Jr. | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 16 July 1969 | Left post, August 6, 1973 | |
Robert A. Hurwitch | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 5 September 1973 | Left post, April 5, 1978 | |
Robert L. Yost | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 15 May 1978 | Left post, June 7, 1982 | |
Robert Anderson | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 22 June 1982 | Left post, August 3, 1985 | |
Lowell C. Kilday | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 11 September 1985 | Left post, August 8, 1988 | |
Paul D. Taylor | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 18 August 1988 | Left post, January 9, 1992 | |
Robert Stephen Pastorino | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 6 February 1992 | Left post, June 28, 1994 | |
Donna Jean Hrinak | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 22 July 1994 | Left post, December 8, 1997 | |
Mari Carmen Aponte | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Nomination of April 28 withdrawn on October 5, 1998 | ||
Charles Taylor Manatt | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 17 December 1999 | Left post, March 1, 2001 | |
Hans H. Hertell | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 29 November 2001 | ||
P. Robert Fannin | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Appointed on November 15, 2007.[1] |
[edit] References
- ^ Fannin, P. Robert. U.S. Department of State (November 30, 2007). Retrieved on 2008-05-06.
- Chiefs of Mission: Dominican Republic. U.S. Department of State. Retrieved on 2008-05-06.