Name: Kenneth Franzheim II
State of Residency: Texas
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 4, 1972
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 6, 1972
Termination of Mission: Left Tonga, Nov 9, 1972
Note: Also accredited to Fiji, New Zealand, and Western Samoa; had left his principal post (Wellington) before he presented his credentials in Tonga.
Name: Joseph S. Farland
State of Residency: West Virginia
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Note: Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.
Name: Armistead I. Selden, Jr.
State of Residency: Alabama
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Mar 1, 1974
Presentation of Credentials: Apr 10, 1974
Termination of Mission: Left Wellington, Apr 23, 1979
Note: Also accredited to Fiji, New Zealand, and Western Samoa; resident at Wellington.
Name: John P. Condon
State of Residency: Oklahoma
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 20, 1979
Presentation of Credentials: Apr 11, 1979
Termination of Mission: Left Suva Jul 27, 1980
Note: Also accredited to Fiji and Tuvalu; resident at Suva.
Name: William Bodde, Jr.
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 30, 1980
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 18, 1980
Termination of Mission: Left Suva Aug 15, 1981
Note: Also accredited to Fiji, Tuvalu, and Kiribati; appointed Minister to Kiribati, Sep 26, 1980; resident at Suva.
Name: Fred J. Eckert
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Feb 11, 1982
Presentation of Credentials: Apr 15, 1982
Termination of Mission: Left Suva May 7, 1984
Note: Also accredited to Fiji, Tuvalu, and Kiribati; resident at Suva.
Name: Carl Edward Dillery
State of Residency: Washington
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 27, 1984
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 16, 1985
Termination of Mission: Left Suva Jul 15, 1987
Note: Also accredited to Fiji, Tuvalu, and Kiribati; resident at Suva.
Name: Leonard Rochwarger
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 28, 1987
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 28, 1988
Termination of Mission: Left Suva Aug 31, 1989
Note: Also accredited to Fiji, Tuvalu, and Kiribati; resident at Suva.
Name: Evelyn Irene Hoopes Teegan
State of Residency: Minnesota
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 10, 1989
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 23, 1990
Termination of Mission: Left Suva Mar 5, 1993
Note: Also accredited to Fiji, Tuvalu, and Kiribati; resident at Suva.
Note: Michael W. Marine served as Charg? d'Affaires ad interim, Mar 1993?Jun 1995.
Name: Don L. Gevirtz
State of Residency: California
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Dec 19, 1995
Presentation of Credentials: Feb 13, 1996
Termination of Mission: Left Suva Sep 28, 1997
Note: Also accredited to Fiji, Nauru, 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: Sep 22, 1999
Termination of Mission: Left Suva Jun 30, 2001
Note: Also accredited to Fiji, Nauru, 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: Feb 18, 2003
Termination of Mission: Left Suva Jul 23, 2005
Note: Also accredited to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, 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: Sep 14, 2005
Termination of Mission:
Note: Also accredited to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, and Tuvalu; resident at Suva.
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