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DEANS OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

1893 to PRESENT


The Dean or doyen is the senior diplomatic representative of the diplomatic corps who has served the longest in the United States. Seniority depends on the date of arrival in the capital coupled with the official presentation of credentials. The duties are chiefly ceremonial in nature.


Hersey Kyota, Ambassador of the Republic of Palau

July 23, 2015 – present

Roble Olhaye, Ambassador of the Republic of Djibouti

September 9, 2005 – July 22, 2015

HRH Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, Ambassador of Saudi Arabia

September 4, 1993 – September 8, 2005

Paul Pondi, Ambassador of Cameroon

January 13, 1993 – September 3, 1993

Shaikh Saud Nasir Al-Sabah, Ambassador of Kuwait

January 8, 1992 – January 12, 1993

Abdellah Ould Daddah, Ambassador of Mauritania

February 8, 1991 – January 7, 1992

Jose Luis Fernandes Lopes, Ambassador of Cape Verde

July 11, 1989 – February 7, 1991

Andrew J. Jacovides, Ambassador of Cyprus

June 1, 1989 – July 10, 1989

Count Wilhelm Wachtmeister, Ambassador of Sweden

April 12, 1986 – May 31, 1989

Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Ambassador of the Soviet Union

July 17, 1979 – April 11, 1986

Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, Ambassador of Nicaragua

January 1958 – July 16, 1979

Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne, Ambassador of Norway

September 1947 – December 1957

Carlos Martins, Ambassador of Brazil

November 1945 – August 1947

Dr. Don Francisco Castillo Majera, Ambassador of Mexico

February 1945 – October 1945

Count Robert van der Straten-Ponthaz, Ambassador of Belgium

December 1944 – January 1945

Mehmet Munir Ertegun, Ambassador of Turkey

May 1944 – November 1944

Sr. Don Manuel de Freyre y Santander, Ambassador of Peru

September 1939 – April 1944

Sir Ronald Lindsay, P.C., G.C.M.G., K.C.B., C.V.O., Ambassador of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland

July 1934 – August 1939

Ahmet Muhtar, Ambassador of Turkey

May 1933 – June 1934

Paul Caludel, Ambassador of France

February 1933 – April 1933

Nobile Giacomo de Martino, Ambassador of Italy

November 1931 – January 1933

Sr. Don Manuel C. Tellez, Ambassador of Mexico

August 1930 – October 1931

Dr. Heran Velarde, Ambassador of Peru

March 1930 – July 1930

Sir Esme Howard, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., C.V.O., Ambassador of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland

November 1927 – February 1930

Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, Ambassador of Belgium

September 1926 – October 1927

Sr. Don Juan Riano y Gayanos, Ambassador of Spain

February 1925 – August 1926

J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France

May 1913 – January 1925

Baron Hengelmüller von Hengervár, Ambassador of Austria-Hungary

April 1910 – April 1913

Baron Edmondo Mayor des Planches, Ambassador of Italy

August 1905 – March 2010

Comte Cassini, Master of the Imperial Court, Ambassador of Russia

May 1903 – July 1905

Herr von Holleben, Ambassador of Germany

June 1902 – April 1903

Sir Julian Pauncefote, Ambassador of Great Britain

April 1893 – May 1902

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