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Jamaica

Note: Embassy Kingston was established Aug 16, 1962, with Irving G. Cheslaw as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim.

Name: William C. Doherty
State of Residency: Maryland
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 23, 1962
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 26, 1962
Termination of Mission: Left post, Apr 25, 1964
Note: An earlier nomination of Sep 29, 1962, was not confirmed by the Senate. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Mar 12, 1963.

Name: Wilson T.M. Beale, Jr.
State of Residency: Connecticut
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 1, 1965
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 13, 1965
Termination of Mission: Left post, Oct 22, 1967

Name: Walter N. Tobriner
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 7, 1967
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 11, 1967
Termination of Mission: Left post, Mar 21, 1969

Name: Vincent de Roulet
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 19, 1969
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 23, 1969
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jul 18, 1973
Note: The Government of Jamaica declared Ambassador de Roulet persona non grata, Jul 20, 1973, and he did not return to his post.

Name: Sumner Gerard
State of Residency: New Jersey
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Mar 22, 1974
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 4, 1974
Termination of Mission: Left post, Apr 15, 1977

Name: Frederick Irving
State of Residency: Rhode Island
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 26, 1977
Presentation of Credentials: Jul 18, 1977
Termination of Mission: Left post, Nov 22, 1978

Name: Loren E. Lawrence
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Mar 23, 1979
Presentation of Credentials: Apr 12, 1979
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jul 9, 1982

Name: William Alexander Hewitt
State of Residency: Illinois
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 30, 1982
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 1, 1982
Termination of Mission: Left post, Oct 14, 1985

Name: Michael Sotirhos
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 28, 1985
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 12, 1985
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jul 7, 1989

Name: Glen A. Holden
State of Residency: California
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 10, 1989
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 21, 1989
Termination of Mission: Left post, Mar 1, 1993

Note: Lacy A. Wright, Jr., served as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Mar 1993-Nov 1994.

Name: Shirley Anita Chisholm
State of Residency: New York
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Note: Nomination withdrawn Oct 13, 1993.

Name: Jerome Gary Cooper
State of Residency: Alabama
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 5, 1994
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 4, 1994
Termination of Mission: Left post, Nov 27, 1997

Name: Stanley Louis McLelland
State of Residency: Texas
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 12, 1997
Presentation of Credentials: Feb 6, 1998
Termination of Mission: Left post Mar 1, 2001

Name: Sue McCourt Cobb
State of Residency: Florida
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 3, 2001
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 12, 2001
Termination of Mission: Left post, Feb 1, 2005

Name: Brenda LaGrange Johnson
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 12, 2005
Presentation of Credentials: November 15, 2005
Termination of Mission:

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