Note: The Embassy in Leopoldville (now Kinshasha) was established on Jun 30, 1960, with John D. Tomlinson as Charg? d'Affaires ad interim.
Name: Clare H. Timberlake
State of Residency: Michigan
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 5, 1960
Presentation of Credentials: Jul 25, 1960
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jun 15, 1961
Note: Commissioned to the Congo.
Name: Edmund A. Gullion
State of Residency: Kentucky
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 3, 1961
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 11, 1961
Termination of Mission: Left post, Feb 20, 1964
Note: Commissioned to the Republic of the Congo.
Name: G. McMurtrie Godley
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Feb 20, 1964
Presentation of Credentials: Mar 23, 1964
Termination of Mission: Left post, Oct 15, 1966
Note: Commissioned to the Republic of the Congo.
Name: Robert H. McBride
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 10, 1967
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 29, 1967
Termination of Mission: Left post, May 16, 1969
Note: Commissioned to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Name: Sheldon B. Vance
State of Residency: Minnesota
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 27, 1969
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 28, 1969
Termination of Mission: Left post, Mar 26, 1974
Note: Commissioned to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Name: Deane R. Hinton
State of Residency: Illinois
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 20, 1974
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 21, 1974
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jun 21, 1975
Note: Declared persona non grata by the Government of Zaire, Jun 18, 1975.
Name: Walter L. Cutler
State of Residency: Maine
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 20, 1975
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 23, 1975
Termination of Mission: Left post, May 9, 1979
Name: Robert B. Oakley
State of Residency: Louisiana
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 6, 1979
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 28, 1979
Termination of Mission: Left post, Aug 22, 1982
Name: Peter Dalton Constable
State of Residency: New York
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 30, 1982
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 18, 1982
Termination of Mission: Left post, Aug 31, 1984
Name: Brandon Hambright Grove, Jr.
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 13, 1984
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 18, 1984
Termination of Mission: Left post, Sep 18, 1987
Name: William Caldwell Harrop
State of Residency: New Jersey
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Dec 18, 1987
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 28, 1988
Termination of Mission: Left post, May 18, 1991
Name: Melissa Foelsch Wells
State of Residency: Connecticut
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Apr 25, 1991
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 11, 1991
Termination of Mission: Left post, Mar 21, 1992
Note: The following officers then served as Charg?s d'Affaires ad interim: John M. Yates (Mar 1992?Sep 1995), Roger A. Meece (Sep?Nov 1995).
Name: Daniel H. Simpson
State of Residency: Ohio
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 3, 1995
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 23, 1995
Termination of Mission: Left post Jun 11, 1998
Name: William Lacy Swing
State of Residency: North Carolina
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 11, 1998
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 13, 1998
Termination of Mission: Left post Aug 11, 2001
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned Mar 25, 1999.
Name: Aubrey Hooks
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 12, 2001
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 4, 2001
Termination of Mission: Apr 17, 2004
Name: Roger A. Meece
State of Residency: West Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 14, 2004
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 3, 2004
Termination of Mission: Left post, Aug 14, 2007
Name: William J. Garvelink
State of Residency: Michigan
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 2, 2007
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 29, 2007
Termination of Mission:
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