State of Residency: Pennsylvania
Foreign Service officer
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 22, 1922
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 4, 1922
Termination of Mission: Left post, Feb 8, 1925
Name: Charles C. Hart
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Non-career appointee
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 27, 1925
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 1, 1925
Termination of Mission: Reaccredited when Albania became a monarchy; presented new credentials Dec 13, 1928; left post, Dec 12, 1929
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Dec 17, 1925.
Name: Herman Bernstein
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Feb 17, 1930
Presentation of Credentials: Apr 28, 1930
Termination of Mission: Left post, Sep 24, 1933
Name: Post Wheeler
State of Residency: Washington
Foreign Service officer
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 26, 1933
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 28, 1933
Termination of Mission: Left post, Nov 1, 1934
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Jan 15, 1934.
Name: Hugh Gladney Grant
State of Residency: Alabama
Non-career appointee
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 9, 1935
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 8, 1935
Termination of Mission: Italian forces occupied Tirana, Apr 8, 1939
Note: Legation Tirana was officially closed, Sep 16, 1939; Grant left post, Sep 27, 1939.
Name: William Edwin Ryerson
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Dec 2, 1991
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 21, 1991
Termination of Mission: Left post, Oct 13, 1994
Note: The United States resumed diplomatic relations with Albania, Mar 15, 1991. Embassy Tirana was opened Oct 1, 1991 with Christopher Hill as Charg? d'Affaires ad interim.
Name: Joseph Edward Lake
State of Residency: Texas
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 5, 1994
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 17, 1994
Termination of Mission: Left post, Mar 15, 1996
Name: Marisa R. Lino
State of Residency: Oregon
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 2, 1996
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 4, 1996
Termination of Mission: Left post May 20, 1999
Name: Joseph Limprecht
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 7, 1999
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 8, 1999
Termination of Mission: Died in northern Albania, May 19, 2002
Name: James Franklin Jeffrey
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 3, 2002
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 22, 2002
Termination of Mission: Left post May 2, 2004
Name: Marcie B. Ries
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 18, 2004
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 30, 2004
Termination of Mission: Jun 16, 2007
Name: John L. Withers, 2nd
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 2, 2007
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 29, 2007
Termination of Mission:
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