United States Ambassador to Georgia
Encyclopedia
This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to Georgia
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The United States recognized Georgia's independence on December 25, 1991, and established diplomatic relations March 29, 1993.
The U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi
was established April 23, 1992, with Carey Cavanaugh
as Chargé d'Affaires
ad interim.
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
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The United States recognized Georgia's independence on December 25, 1991, and established diplomatic relations March 29, 1993.
The U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi
Tbilisi
Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form T'pilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...
was established April 23, 1992, with Carey Cavanaugh
Carey Cavanaugh
Carey Cavanaugh is a former U.S. Ambassador who now serves as Director of the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky. For twenty-two years, he served as a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State...
as Chargé d'Affaires
Chargé d'affaires
In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were...
ad interim.
| Representative | From | To | Title | Appointed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kent N. Brown | September 9, 1992 | August 19, 1995 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Bill Clinton Bill Clinton William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation... |
| William H. Courtney | September 22, 1995 | August 3, 1997 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Bill Clinton |
| Kenneth Spencer Yalowitz | July 11, 1998 | June 21, 2001 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Bill Clinton |
| Richard Monroe Miles | May 13, 2002 | August 12, 2005 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | George W. Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000.... |
| John F. Tefft John F. Tefft John F. Tefft is the United States Ambassador to Ukraine. He has been a career Foreign Service Officer for thirty-three years.Tefft is also a former United States Ambassador to Georgia and Lithuania, as well as former Chargé d'Affaires of the U.S... |
August 23, 2005 | 2009 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | George W. Bush |
| John R. Bass John R. Bass John R. Bass is the current Ambassador of the United States of America to Georgia , as of October 16, 2009.Ambassador Bass is from upstate New York, and is a graduate of Syracuse University. He speaks Italian and French.-See also:... |
October 16, 2009 | Incumbent | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Barack Obama Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in... |
See also
- Georgia – United States relations
- Foreign relations of GeorgiaForeign relations of GeorgiaGeorgia's location, nestled between the Black Sea, Russia, and Turkey, gives it strategic importance far beyond its size. It is developing as the gateway from the Black Sea to the Caucasus and the larger Caspian region, but also serves as a buffer between Russia and Turkey...
- Ambassadors of the United States