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Note: Embassy Yaounde was established Jan 1, 1960, with Bolard More as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim.

Name: Leland Barrows
State of Residency: Kansas
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Apr 20, 1960
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 9, 1960
Termination of Mission: Left post, Sep 6, 1966
Note: Accredited also to Togo and resident at Yaounde.

Name: Robert L. Payton
State of Residency: Missouri
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jan 26, 1967
Presentation of Credentials: Mar 4, 1967
Termination of Mission: Left post, May 27, 1969

Name: Lewis Hoffacker
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Dec 2, 1969
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 20, 1969
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jun 6, 1972
Note: Also accredited to Equatorial Guinea and resident at Yaounde.

Name: C. Robert Moore
State of Residency: Washington
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 27, 1972
Presentation of Credentials: Jul 22, 1972
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jul 28, 1975
Note: Also accredited to Equatorial Guinea and resident at Yaounde.

Name: Herbert J. Spiro
State of Residency: Pennsylvania
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 24, 1975
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 1, 1975
Termination of Mission: Left post, May 7, 1977
Note: Accredited also to Equatorial Guinea until Mar 14, 1976; resident at Yaounde.

Name: Mabel M. Smythe
State of Residency: Connecticut
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 11, 1977
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 1, 1977
Termination of Mission: Left post, Feb 24, 1980
Note: Also accredited to Equatorial Guinea, Dec 17, 1979.

Name: Hume A. Horan
State of Residency: New Jersey
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 30, 1980
Presentation of Credentials: Jul 29, 1980
Termination of Mission: Left post, May 17, 1983
Note: Also accredited to Equatorial Guinea until Sep 29, 1981

Name: Myles Robert Rene Frechette
State of Residency: Washington
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 26, 1983
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 8, 1983
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jul 30, 1987

Name: Mark L. Edelman
State of Residency: Missouri
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 31, 1987
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 9, 1987
Termination of Mission: Left post, Mar 19, 1989

Name: Frances D. Cook
State of Residency: Florida
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 21, 1989
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 21, 1989
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jan 1, 1993

Name: Harriet Winsar Isom
State of Residency: Oregon
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 17, 1992
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 19, 1993
Termination of Mission: Left post Jan 17, 1996

Name: Charles H. Twining
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Dec 19, 1995
Presentation of Credentials: Feb 28, 1996
Termination of Mission: Left post Aug 17, 1998
Note: Also Accredited to Equatorial Guinea and resident at Yaounde.

Name: John Melvin Yates
State of Residency: Washington
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 22, 1998
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 5, 1999
Termination of Mission: Left post Nov 4, 2001
Note: Also Accredited to Equatorial Guinea and resident at Yaounde.

Name: George McDade Staples
State of Residency: Kentucky
Foreign Service Officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 5, 2001
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 21, 2001
Termination of Mission: Left post, July 10, 2004
Note: Also accredited to Equatorial Guinea; resident at Yaounde.

Name: R. Niels Marquardt
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service Officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: July 2, 2004
Presentation of Credentials: Oct. 29, 2004
Termination of Mission: April 9, 2007
Note: Also accredited to Equatorial Guinea; resident at Yaounde.

Name: Janet E. Garvy
State of Residency: Massachusetts
Foreign Service Officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 30, 2007
Presentation of Credentials: Nov. 9, 2007
Termination of Mission:
Note: Also accredited to Equatorial Guinea; resident at Yaounde.


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