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Senegal

Note: The Embassy in Dakar in the Republic of Senegal was established on Sep 24, 1960, with Roswell D. McClelland as Charg? d'Affaires ad interim. See Mali for representation at Dakar when that city was capital of the Federation of Mali.

Name: Henry S. Villard
State of Residency: New York
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 8, 1960
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 31, 1960
Termination of Mission: Left post Apr 30, 1961
Note: Also accredited to Mauritania; resident at Dakar. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Feb 6, 1961.

Name: Philip M. Kaiser
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 22, 1961
Presentation of Credentials: Jul 20, 1961
Termination of Mission: Left post May 18, 1964
Note: Also accredited to Mauritania; resident at Dakar.

Name: Mercer Cook
State of Residency: Illinois
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 9, 1964
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 29, 1964
Termination of Mission: Left post Jul 1, 1966
Note: Also accredited to The Gambia; 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: Dec 16, 1966
Termination of Mission: Died at post Mar 19, 1967
Note: Also accredited to The Gambia; 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: Dec 22, 1967
Termination of Mission: Left post Aug 15, 1970
Note: Also accredited to The Gambia; 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 18, 1970
Termination of Mission: Left post Oct 16, 1973
Note: Also accredited to The Gambia; 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 7, 1974
Termination of Mission: Left post Jul 10, 1977
Note: Also accredited to The Gambia; 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: Jul 22, 1977
Termination of Mission: Left post Jul 21, 1980
Note: Also accredited to The Gambia; resident at Dakar.

Name: Walter C. Carrington
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 27, 1980
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 16, 1980
Termination of Mission: Left post Mar 3, 1981

Name: Charles W. Bray, III
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 30, 1981
Presentation of Credentials: Jul 18, 1981
Termination of Mission: Left post May 17, 1985

Name: Lannon Walker
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 12, 1985
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 7, 1985
Termination of Mission: Left post Aug 18, 1988

Name: George Edward Moose
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Apr 28, 1988
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 13, 1988
Termination of Mission: Left post May 21, 1991

Name: Katherine Shirley
State of Residency: Illinois
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Mar 25, 1991
Presentation of Credentials: June 5, 1991
Termination of Mission: Left post Sept 1, 1992

Name: Mark Johnson
State of Residency: Montana
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 25, 1993
Presentation of Credentials: June 22, 1993
Termination of Mission: Left post Jun 15, 1996

Name: Dane Farnsworth Smith, Jr.
State of Residency: New Mexico
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 11, 1996
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 16, 1996
Termination of Mission: Left post Jul 16, 1999

Name: Harriet L. Elam-Thomas
State of Residency: Massachusetts
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 16, 1999
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 14, 2000
Termination of Mission: Left post Dec 6, 2002

Name: Richard Allan Roth
State of Residency: Michigan
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 15, 2002
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 3, 2003
Termination of Mission: Left post Aug 4, 2005
Note: Also accredited to Guinea-Bissau; resident at Dakar.

Name: Janice L. Jacobs
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Feb 21, 2006
Presentation of Credentials: Apr 14, 2006
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jul 15, 2007
Note: Also accredited to Guinea-Bissau; resident at Dakar.

Name: Marcia S. B. Bernicat
State of Residency: New Jersey
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment:
Presentation of Credentials:
Termination of Mission:
Note: Nominated Dec 12, 2007.
Note: Also accredited to Guinea-Bissau; resident at Dakar.

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