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