Name: Mercer Cook
State of Residency: Illinois
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 18, 1965
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 9, 1965
Termination of Mission: Left Dakar Jul 1, 1966
Note: Also accredited to Senegal; resident at Dakar.
Name: William R. Rivkin
State of Residency: Illinois
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 13, 1966
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 16, 1967
Termination of Mission: Died at Dakar Mar 19, 1967
Note: Also accredited to Senegal; resident at Dakar.
Name: L. Dean Brown
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 18, 1967
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 18, 1968
Termination of Mission: Left Dakar Aug 15, 1970
Note: Also accredited to Senegal; resident at Dakar.
Name: G. Edward Clark
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 12, 1970
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 24, 1970
Termination of Mission: Left Dakar Oct 16, 1973
Note: Also accredited to Senegal; resident at Dakar.
Name: O. Rudolph Aggrey
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 23, 1973
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 17, 1974
Termination of Mission: Left Dakar Jul 10, 1977
Note: Also accredited to Senegal; resident at Dakar.
Name: Herman J. Cohen
State of Residency: New York
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 24, 1977
Presentation of Credentials: Mar 29, 1978
Termination of Mission: Left Dakar Jul 21, 1980
Note: Also accredited to Senegal; resident at Dakar.
Name: Larry Gordon Piper
State of Residency: Texas
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 30, 1980
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 21, 1980
Termination of Mission: Left post Aug 23, 1982
Note: Between Aug 1982 and Jun 1984, the following officers served as Charg? d'Affaires ad interim: Owen W. Roberts, Aug 1982?Jun 1983; P. Wesley Kriebel, Jul?Nov 1983; Alan Logan, Nov 1983?Apr 1984; and Edward Brynn, May?Jun 1984.
Name: Sharon Erdkamp Ahmad
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 30, 1982
Note: Did not serve under this appointment.
Name: Robert Thomas Hennemeyer
State of Residency: Illinois
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 11, 1984
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 20, 1984
Termination of Mission: Left post Jun 27, 1986
Name: Herbert E. Horowitz
State of Residency: Florida
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 12, 1986
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 24, 1986
Termination of Mission: Left post Nov 4, 1989
Name: Ruth V. Washington
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 21, 1989
Presentation of Credentials: [see note below]
Note: Died at Greenburgh, New York, Jan 20, 1990, before going to post.
Note: The following officers served as Charg? d'Affaires ad interim: Jimmie Stone (Nov 1989?Jan 1990) and A. Donald Bramante (Jan?Dec 1990).
Name: Arlene Render
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 22, 1990
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 31, 1990
Termination of Mission: Left post Aug 8, 1993
Name: Andrew J. Winter
State of Residency: New York
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 11, 1993
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 29, 1993
Termination of Mission: Left post May 31,1995
Name: Gerald W. Scott
State of Residency: Oklahoma
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Dec 28, 1995
Presentation of Credentials: Feb 16 1996
Termination of Mission: Left post Jun 27, 1998
Name: George Williford Boyce Haley
State of Residency: Maryland
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 29, 1998
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 15, 1998
Termination of Mission: Left post Jul 14, 2001
Name: Jackson McDonald
State of Residency: Florida
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 1, 2001
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 29, 2001
Termination of Mission: Left post, May 26, 2004
Name: Joseph D. Stafford III
State of Residency: Florida
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 2, 2004
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 15, 2004
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jun 5, 2007
Name: Barry L. Wells
State of Residency: Ohio
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 29, 2007
Presentation of Credentials:
Termination of Mission:
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