State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 23, 1960
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 4, 1960
Termination of Mission: Reaccredited when Nigeria became a republic; presented new credentials Dec 12, 1963; Left post Jan 16, 1964
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Feb 6, 1961. The Embassy in Lagos was established Oct 1, 1960, with Ambassador Palmer in charge pending presentation of his letter of credence.
Name: Elbert G. Mathews
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Mar 10, 1964
Presentation of Credentials: Apr 11, 1964
Termination of Mission: Left post Jul 26, 1969
Name: William C. Trueheart
State of Residency: Florida
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 19, 1969
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 6, 1969
Termination of Mission: Left post Sep 1, 1971
Name: John E. Reinhardt
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 30, 1971
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 3, 1971
Termination of Mission: Left post Feb 23, 1975
Name: Donald B. Easum
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Mar 26, 1975
Presentation of Credentials: May 22, 1975
Termination of Mission: Left post Oct 15, 1979
Name: Stephen Low
State of Residency: Ohio
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 20, 1979
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 29, 1979
Termination of Mission: Left post Jul 4, 1981
Name: Thomas R. Pickering
State of Residency: New Jersey
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 26, 1981
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 30, 1981
Termination of Mission: Left post Jul 9, 1983
Name: Thomas W. M. Smith
State of Residency: Maine
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Feb 10, 1984
Presentation of Credentials: Mar 15, 1984
Termination of Mission: Left post May 5, 1986
Name: Princeton Nathan Lyman
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 12, 1986
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 10, 1986
Termination of Mission: Left post Jul 24, 1989
Name: Lannon Walker
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 10, 1989
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 17, 1989
Termination of Mission: Left post July 10, 1992
Name: William Lacy Swing
State of Residency: North Carolina
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 15, 1992
Presentation of Credentials: Sept 24, 1992
Termination of Mission: Left post Sept 22, 1993
Name: Walter C. Carrington
State of Residency: Maryland
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 10, 1993
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 9, 1993
Termination of Mission: Left post Oct 7, 1997
Name: William H. Twaddell
State of Residency: Rhode Island
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 10, 1997
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 19, 1997
Termination of Mission: Left post Aug 3, 2000
Note: The U.S. Embassy was transferred from Lagos to Abuja Sep 15, 2000.
Name: Howard Franklin Jeter
State of Residency: South Carolina
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Dec 28, 2000
Presentation of Credentials: Mar 3, 2001
Termination of Mission: Left post Jul 30, 2003
Name: Donald K. Steinberg
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Note: Nomination not acted upon by the Senate.
Name: John Campbell
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 12, 2004
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 25, 2004
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jul 19, 2007
Name: Robin Renee Sanders
State of Residency: New York
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 29, 2007
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 3, 2007
Termination of Mission:
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