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Cape Verde

Name: Melissa F. Wells
State of Residency: New York
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 16, 1976
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 18, 1976
Termination of Mission: Left post, Mar 23, 1977
Note: Also accredited to Guinea-Bissau; resident at Bissau.

Name: Edward Marks
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 15, 1977
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 18, 1977
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jul 11, 1980
Note: Also accredited to Guinea-Bissau; resident at Bissau.
Note: During Marks' tenure as non-resident Ambassador, Embassy Praia was established Jan 28, 1978 with Howard McGowan as Charge d'affaires ad interim.

Name: Peter J. de Vos
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 5, 1980
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 24, 1980
Termination of Mission: Left Bissau, Mar 30, 1983
Note: Also accredited to Guinea-Bissau; resident at Bissau.

Name: John Melvin Yates
State of Residency: Washington
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Mar 18, 1983
Presentation of Credentials: Apr 26, 1983
Termination of Mission: Left post, May 24, 1986

Name: Vernon Dubois Penner, Jr.
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 16, 1986
Presentation of Credentials: Jul 15, 1986
Termination of Mission: Left post, Nov 21, 1989

Name: Francis Terry McNamara
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 21, 1989
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 23, 1989
Termination of Mission: Left post, Dec 31, 1992

Name: Joseph Monroe Segars
State of Residency: Pennsylvania
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 14, 1992
Presentation of Credentials: Mar 24, 1993
Termination of Mission: Left post, Mar 17, 1996

Name: Lawrence Neal Benedict
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 6, 1996
Presentation of Credentials: Jul 30, 1996
Termination of Mission: Left post Aug 11, 1999

Name: Michael D. Metelits
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 7, 1999
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 15, 1999
Termination of Mission: Left post Jul 24, 2002

Name: Donald C. Johnson
State of Residency: Texas
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 3, 2002
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 21, 2002
Termination of Mission: Left post, July 27, 2005

Name: Roger Dwayne Pierce
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 21, 2005
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 27, 2005
Termination of Mission:

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