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Note: Embassy Nassau was established Jul 10, 1973 with Moncrieff J. Spear as Charg? d'Affaires ad interim

Name: Ronald I. Spiers
State of Residency: Vermont
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 24, 1973
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 7, 1973
Termination of Mission: Left post, Sep 2, 1974

Name: Seymour Weiss
State of Residency: Maryland
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 20, 1974
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 11, 1974
Termination of Mission: Left post, Dec 15, 1976

Name: Jack B. Olson
State of Residency: Wisconsin
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 17, 1976
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 22, 1976
Termination of Mission: Left post, Apr 30, 1977
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate.

Name: William B. Schwartz
State of Residency: Georgia
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 15, 1977
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 11, 1977
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jan 31, 1981

Name: Lev E. Dobriansky
State of Residency: Virginia
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Dec 10, 1982
Presentation of Credentials: Mar 15, 1983
Termination of Mission: Left post, Aug 30, 1986

Name: Carol Boyd Hallett
State of Residency: California
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 12, 1986
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 17, 1986
Termination of Mission: Left post, May 10, 1989

Name: Chic Hecht
State of Residency: Nevada
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 19, 1989
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 23, 1989
Termination of Mission: Left post, Mar 1, 1993
Note: The following officers served as Charg? d'Affaires ad interim: Lino Gutierrez (Mar?Jul 1993) and John S. Ford (Jul 1993?Mar 1994).

Name: Sidney Williams
State of Residency: California
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Feb 9, 1994
Presentation of Credentials: Mar 27, 1994
Termination of Mission: Left post Jan 11, 1998

Name: Arthur Lewis Schechter
State of Residency: Texas
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 4, 1998
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 29, 1998
Termination of Mission: Left post Mar 1, 2001

Name: J. Richard Blankenship
State of Residency: Florida
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 25, 2001
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 3, 2001
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jul 18, 2003
Note: Robert M. Witajewski served as Charg? d'Affairs ad interim, Jul 2003?Sep 2004

Name: John D. Rood
State of Residency: Florida
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 2, 2004
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 1, 2004
Termination of Mission: Apr 10, 2007
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate

Name: Ned L. Siegel
State of Residency: Florida
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 14, 2007
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 14, 2007
Termination of Mission:

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