List of ambassadors of Liberia to the United States
Ambassador of Liberia to the United States Embassy of Liberia in Washington, D.C. | |
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Inaugural holder | Charles D. B. King |
Formation | July 25, 1947 |
The Liberian ambassador in Washington, D. C. is the official representative of the Government in Monrovia to the Government of the United States and accredited in Ottawa.
List of representatives[]
Ambassador | Portrait | Diplomatic agrément | Diplomatic accreditation | Term end | President of Liberia | US President | Notes |
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Charles D. B. King | July 24, 1947 | July 25, 1947 | 1952[1] | William Tubman | Harry S. Truman | [2] | |
May 12, 1949 | William Tubman | Harry S. Truman | LEGATION RAISED TO EMBASSY | ||||
Charles D. B. King | May 10, 1949 | May 12, 1949 | William Tubman | Harry S. Truman | |||
Clarence Lorenzo Simpson | April 25, 1952 | May 5, 1952 | 1956[1] | William Tubman | Harry S. Truman | ||
George Arthur Padmore | April 2, 1956 | April 7, 1956 | William Tubman | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |||
Samuel Edward Peal | October 13, 1961 | October 19, 1961 | 1976[1] | William Tubman | John F. Kennedy | ||
June 22, 1976 | William R. Tolbert Jr. | Gerald Ford | Chargé d'affaires | ||||
Francis A. Dennis, Sr. | July 15, 1976 | July 19, 1976 | 1979[1] | William R. Tolbert Jr. | Gerald Ford | Concurrent assignments: USA and Canada | |
November 18, 1979 | William R. Tolbert Jr. | Jimmy Carter | Chargé d'affaires, Permanent Representative of Liberia to the United Nations[3] | ||||
December 12, 1979 | January 31, 1980 | 1980[1] | William R. Tolbert Jr. | Jimmy Carter | |||
October 27, 1980 | Jimmy Carter | Chargé d'affaires | |||||
April 14, 1981 | June 4, 1981 | 1983[1] | Samuel Doe | Ronald Reagan | |||
September 30, 1983 | Samuel Doe | Ronald Reagan | Chargé d'affaires | ||||
George Toe Washington | December 12, 1983 | January 9, 1984 | 1985[1] | Samuel Doe | Ronald Reagan | General | |
Eugenia A. Wordsworth-Stevenson | October 20, 1986 | November 24, 1986 | 1990[1] | Samuel Doe | Ronald Reagan | ||
Rachel Gbenyon Diggs | January 7, 1998 | March 16, 1998 | Charles Taylor | Bill Clinton | |||
May 19, 2000 | June 14, 2000 | Charles Taylor | Bill Clinton | ||||
Charles A. Minor | May 21, 2004 | July 15, 2004 | Gyude Bryant | George W. Bush | |||
Nathaniel Barnes | September 9, 2008 | October 17, 2008 | 2010 | Gyude Bryant | George W. Bush | [4] | |
Jeremiah Sulunteh | April 25, 2012 | May 2, 2012 | January 20, 2017 | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | Barack Obama | ||
Lois Cheche Brutus | November 3, 2017 | November 29, 2017 | 2018 | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | Donald Trump | ||
George S. W. Patten, Sr. | December 29, 2018 | January 11, 2019 | George Weah | Donald Trump |
Coordinates: 38°57′12″N 77°02′08″W / 38.953214°N 77.035442°W
See also[]
- Embassy of Liberia, Washington, D.C.
- List of diplomatic missions of Liberia
- Foreign relations of Liberia
- President of Liberia
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f g h Dunn, Elwood D.; Beyan, Amos J.; Burrowes, Carl Patrick (2000-12-20). Historical Dictionary of Liberia. Scarecrow Press. p. 345. ISBN 978-1-4616-5931-0. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
- ^ Charles Dunbar Burgess King
- ^ William V. S. Bull
- ^ Nathaniel Barnes
External links[]
- Diplomatic Representation for Republic of Liberia (1947-2004), Foreign Embassies in the U.S. and Their Ambassadors, U.S. Department of State Archive, 2007.
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