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Name: Marshall Green
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Feb 28, 1974
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 26, 1974
Termination of Mission: Left Canberra Jul 31, 1975

Name: James W. Hargrove
State of Residency: Texas
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Feb 4, 1976
Presentation of Credentials: Apr 20, 1976
Termination of Mission: Left Canberra Mar 9, 1977
Note: Also accredited to Australia; resident at Canberra. No mission established at Yaren.

Name: Philip H. Alston, Jr.
State of Residency: Georgia
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 17, 1979
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 13, 1979
Termination of Mission: Left Canberra Jan 23, 1981
Note: Also accredited to Australia; resident at Canberra. No mission established at Yaren.

Name: Robert D. Nesen
State of Residency: California
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 17, 1981
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 20, 1981
Termination of Mission: Left Canberra May 2, 1985
Note: Also accredited to Australia; resident at Canberra. No mission established at Yaren.

Name: Laurence William Lane, Jr.
State of Residency: Florida
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Dec 6, 1985
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 17, 1987
Termination of Mission: Left Canberra Apr 29, 1989
Note: Also accredited to Australia; resident at Canberra. No mission established at Yaren.

Name: Melvin F. Sembler
State of Residency: Florida
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 10, 1989
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 14, 1990
Termination of Mission: Left Canberra Feb 28, 1993
Note: Also accredited to Australia; resident at Canberra. No mission established at Yaren.

Name: Don L. Gevirtz
State of Residency: California
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Dec 19, 1995
Presentation of Credentials: Apr 24, 1996
Termination of Mission: Left Suva Sep 28, 1997
Note: Also accredited to Fiji, 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: Oct 19, 1999
Termination of Mission: Left Suva Jun 30, 2001
Note: Also accredited to Fiji, Tonga, and Tuvalu; resident at Suva.

Name: David L. Lyon
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 15, 2002
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 11, 2004
Termination of Mission: Left Suva, Jul 23, 2005
Note: Also accredited to Fiji, Kiribati, Tonga, and Tuvalu; resident at Suva.

Name: Larry Miles Dinger
State of Residency: Iowa
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 27, 2005
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 31, 2005
Termination of Mission:

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