Name: Kenneth Franzheim II
State of Residency: Texas
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Feb 15, 1972
Presentation of Credentials: May 22, 1972
Termination of Mission: Left Suva Nov 6, 1972
Note: Also accredited to New Zealand, Tonga, and Western Samoa; resident at Wellington.
Name: Joseph S. Farland
State of Residency: West Virginia
Non-career appointee
Note: Also nominated to New Zealand, Tonga, and Western Samoa; Oct 11, 1973. Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.
Name: Armistead I. Selden, Jr.
State of Residency: Alabama
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Mar 1, 1974
Presentation of Credentials: Apr 17, 1974
Termination of Mission: Left Suva Apr 10, 1978
Note: Also accredited to New Zealand, Tonga, and Western Samoa; resident at Wellington.
Name: John P. Condon
State of Residency: Oklahoma
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Mar 2, 1978
Presentation of Credentials: Apr 11, 1978
Termination of Mission: Left post Jul 27, 1980
Note: Also accredited to Tonga and Tuvalu; resident at Suva.
Name: William Bodde, Jr.
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 30, 1980
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 12, 1980
Termination of Mission: Left post Aug 15, 1981
Note: Also accredited to Tonga and Tuvalu; nominated Jun 13, 1980 as Minister to Kiribati; resident at Suva.
Name: Fred J. Eckert
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Feb 11, 1982
Presentation of Credentials: Feb 25, 1982
Termination of Mission: Left post May 7, 1984
Note: Also accredited to Tonga, Tuvalu, and Kiribati; resident at Suva.
Name: Carl Edward Dillery
State of Residency: Washington
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 27, 1984
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 1, 1984
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jul 15, 1987
Name: Leonard Rochwarger
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 28, 1987
Presentation of Credentials: Mar 11, 1988
Termination of Mission: Left post Aug 31, 1989
Name: Evelyn Irene Hoopes Teegan
State of Residency: Minnesota
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 10, 1980
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 21, 1989
Termination of Mission: Left post Mar 5, 1993
Note: The following officers served as Charg? d'Affaires ad interim: Michael W. Marine (Mar 1993?Jun 1995) and Bruce N. Gray (Jun?Dec 1995). Subsequent Ambassadors have also been accredited to Nauru.
Name: Don L. Gevirtz
State of Residency: California
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Dec 19, 1995
Presentation of Credentials: Feb 2, 1996
Termination of Mission: Left post Sep 28, 1997
Note: Also accredited to Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu; resident at Suva.
Name: M. Osman Siddique
State of Residency: Virginia
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 9, 1999
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 13, 1999
Termination of Mission: Left post Jun 30, 2001
Note: Also accredited to Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu; resident at Suva.
Note: The following officers served as Charg? d'Affaires ad interim: Ronald K. McMullen (Jun 2001?Jun 2002) and Hugh Neighbor (Jun 2002? ).
Name: David L. Lyon
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 15, 2002
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 9, 2003
Termination of Mission: Left post, July 23, 2005
Note: Also accredited to Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu; resident at Suva. Hugh neighbor served as Charge d'Affaires ad interm, June 2002?January 2003
Name: Larry Miles Dinger
State of Residency: Iowa
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: June 27, 2005
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 23, 2005
Termination of Mission:
Note: Also accredited to Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu; resident at Suva.
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