United States Ambassador to Nauru
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The United States Ambassador to Nauru is the official representative of the government of the United States to the government of Nauru
. The ambassador is concurrently the ambassador to Fiji
, Kiribati
, Tonga
, and Tuvalu
, while resident in Suva
, Fiji.
Nauru
Nauru , officially the Republic of Nauru and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country in Micronesia in the South Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kiribati, to the east. Nauru is the world's smallest republic, covering just...
. The ambassador is concurrently the ambassador to Fiji
Fiji
Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...
, Kiribati
Kiribati
Kiribati , officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. The permanent population exceeds just over 100,000 , and is composed of 32 atolls and one raised coral island, dispersed over 3.5 million square kilometres, straddling the...
, Tonga
Tonga
Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga , is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over of ocean in the South Pacific...
, and Tuvalu
Tuvalu
Tuvalu , formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia. Its nearest neighbours are Kiribati, Nauru, Samoa and Fiji. It comprises four reef islands and five true atolls...
, while resident in Suva
Suva
Suva features a tropical rainforest climate under the Koppen climate classification. The city sees a copious amount of precipitation during the course of the year. Suva averages 3,000 mm of precipitation annually with its driest month, July averaging 125 mm of rain per year. In fact,...
, Fiji.
Ambassadors
- Marshall GreenMarshall GreenMarshall Green was a United States diplomat whose career focused on East Asia. Green was the senior American diplomat in South Korea at the time of the 1960 April Revolution, and was United States Ambassador to Indonesia at the time of the Transition to the New Order...
– Career FSO- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: February 28, 1974
- Presented credentials: October 26, 1974
- Terminated mission: Left post, July 31, 1975
- James Ward Hargrove – Political appointee
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: February 4, 1976
- Presented credentials: April 20, 1976
- Terminated mission: Left post, March 9, 1977
- Philip Henry Alston – Political appointee
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: May 17, 1979
- Presented credentials: August 13, 1979
- Terminated mission: Left post, January 23, 1981
- Robert Dean Nesen – Political appointee
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: June 17, 1981
- Presented credentials: November 20, 1981
- Terminated mission: Left post, May 2, 1985
- Laurence W. Lane Jr.Laurence W. Lane Jr.Laurence William Lane Jr. often known as Bill Lane was an American magazine publisher and philanthropist.-Life:...
– Political appointee- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: December 6, 1985
- Presented credentials: October 17, 1987
- Terminated mission: Left post, April 29, 1989
- Melvin Floyd Sembler – Political appointee
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: October 10, 1989
- Presented credentials: June 14, 1990
- Terminated mission: Left post, February 28, 1993
- Don Lee Gevirtz – Political appointee
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: December 19, 1995
- Presented credentials: April 24, 1996
- Terminated mission: Left post, September 28, 1997
- M. Osman SiddiqueM. Osman SiddiqueM. Osman Siddique is an American politician and former diplomat. He served as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Fiji and to the Republic of Nauru, to the Kingdom of Tonga and to Tuvalu from 1999-2001. He was the US Ambassador during the 2000 Fijian coup d'état...
– Political appointee- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: August 9, 1999
- Presented credentials: October 19, 1999
- Terminated mission: Left post, June 30, 2001
- David L. Lyon – Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: November 15, 2002
- Presented credentials: August 11, 2004
- Terminated mission: Left post, July 23, 2005
- Larry Miles DingerLarry Miles DingerAmbassador Larry Miles Dinger was the U.S. chargé d'affaires to Burma since his appointment on September 9, 2008. Since there has not been a United States Ambassador to Burma since 1990, the chargé d'affaires is the chief of mission and the most senior official in the embassy.-Early...
– Career FSO- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: June 27, 2005
- Presented credentials: August 31, 2005
- Terminated mission: Left post, July 5, 2008
- C. Steven McGannC. Steven McGannC. Steven McGann is the United States Ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu. He was nominated by President George W. Bush, and assumed his duties at post in October 2008....
– Career FSO- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: October 6, 2008
- Presented credentials: November 24, 2008
- Terminated mission: Incumbent
See also
- Nauru – United States relations
- Foreign relations of NauruForeign relations of NauruNauru, following independence from the United Kingdom, became a sovereign, independent republic on 31 January 1968. Nauru has established diplomatic relations with a number of nations, including most of its Pacific neighbors with which it maintains economic, cultural and administrative ties with...
- Ambassadors of the United States