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Tanzania


Note: The Embassy in Dar es Salaam was established on Dec 9, 1961, with William R. Duggan as Charg? d'Affaires ad interim.

Name: William Leonhart
State of Residency: West Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 22, 1962
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 3, 1962
Termination of Mission: Reaccredited when Tanganyika became a republic; presented new credentials Dec 17, 1962; continued to serve, without further reaccreditation, after the formation of the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar; left post Dec 22, 1965
Note: Commissioned to Tanganyika.

Name: John H. Burns
State of Residency: Oklahoma
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 24, 1965
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 3, 1966
Termination of Mission: Left post Jun 22, 1969

Name: Claude G. Ross
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 9, 1969
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 27, 1969
Termination of Mission: Left post Jun 25, 1972

Name: W. Beverly Carter, Jr.
State of Residency: Pennsylvania
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 27, 1972
Presentation of Credentials: Jul 24, 1972
Termination of Mission: Left post Oct 14, 1975

Name: James W. Spain
State of Residency: Florida
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 20, 1975
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 8, 1976
Termination of Mission: Left post Aug 21, 1979

Name: Richard Noyes Viets
State of Residency: Vermont
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 28, 1979
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 18, 1979
Termination of Mission: Left post May 16, 1981

Name: David Charles Miller, Jr.
State of Residency: Maryland
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 26, 1981
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 4, 1981
Termination of Mission: Left post Feb 28, 1984

Name: John William Shirley
State of Residency: Illinois
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 28, 1984
Presentation of Credentials: Jul 28, 1984
Termination of Mission: Left post Jul 18, 1986

Name: Donald K. Petterson
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 16, 1986
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 8, 1986
Termination of Mission: Left post Dec 26, 1989

Name: Edmund DeJarnette, Jr.
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 21, 1989
Presentation of Credentials: Feb 26, 1990
Termination of Mission: Left post Sep 12, 1992

Name: Peter Jon de Vos
State of Residency: Florida
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 15, 1992
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 8, 1993
Termination of Mission: Left post Jun 3, 1994

Name: Brady Anderson
State of Residency: Arkansas
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 26, 1994
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 13, 1994
Termination of Mission: Left post Oct 7, 1997

Name: Charles Richard Stith
State of Residency: Massachusetts
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 29, 1998
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 17, 1998
Termination of Mission: Left post Jan 20, 2001

Name: Robert V. Royall
State of Residency: South Carolina
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 5, 2001
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 19, 2001
Termination of Mission: Nov 21, 2003
Note: Michael S. Owen is serving as Charge d'Affaires ad interim.

Name: Michael Retzer
State of Residency: Mississippi
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 2, 2005
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 1, 2005
Termination of Mission: Left post, Aug 31, 2007

Name: Mark Green
State of Residency: Wisconsin
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 7, 2007
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 12, 2007
Termination of Mission:

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