Name: Frederick W.B. Coleman
State of Residency: Minnesota
Non-career appointee
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 20, 1922
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 5, 1922
Termination of Mission: Left Riga, Oct 20, 1931
Note: Also accredited to Estonia and Latvia; resident at Riga.
Name: Robert P. Skinner
State of Residency: Ohio
Foreign Service officer
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 23, 1931
Presentation of Credentials: Feb 13, 1932
Termination of Mission: Left Riga, Apr 29, 1933
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Dec 17, 1931. Accredited also to Estonia and Latvia; resident at Riga.
Name: John Van A. MacMurray
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 28, 1933
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 20, 1933
Termination of Mission: Left Kaunas, Feb 13, 1936; departed from Riga Feb 12, 1936
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Jan 15, 1934. Also accredited to Estonia and Latvia; resident at Riga.
Name: Arthur Bliss Lane
State of Residency: New York
Foreign Service officer
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jan 24, 1936
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 24, 1936
Termination of Mission: Left Riga, Sep 16, 1937
Note: Also accredited to Estonia and Latvia; resident at Riga.
Name: Owen J.C. Norem
State of Residency: Montana
Non-career appointee
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 23, 1937
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 26, 1937
Termination of Mission: Soviet forces occupied Kaunas Jun 15, 1940
Note: Norem left post, Jul 30, 1940. Bernard Gufler was serving as Charg? d'Affaires ad interim when Legation Kaunas was closed Sep 5, 1940.
Note: The United States resumed diplomatic relations with Lithuania Sep 2, 1991. Embassy Vilnius was established Oct 2, 1991 with Darryl N. Johnson as Charg? d'Affaires ad interim.
Name: Darryl Norman Johnson
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Mar 23, 1992
Presentation of Credentials: Apr 14, 1992
Termination of Mission: Left post, May 23, 1994
Name: James W. Swihart
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 26, 1994
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 26, 1994
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jul 16, 1997
Name: Keith C. Smith
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 1, 1997
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 9, 1997
Termination of Mission: Left post Jul 29, 2000
Name: John F. Tefft
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 14, 2000
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 30, 2000
Termination of Mission: Left post May 10, 2003
Name: Stephen D. Mull
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Apr 16, 2003
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 26, 2003
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jun 16, 2006
Name: John A. Cloud, Jr.
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 30, 2006
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 17, 2006
Termination of Mission:
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