United States Ambassador to The Gambia

This is a list of United States ambassadors to The Gambia
The Gambia
The Republic of The Gambia, commonly referred to as The Gambia, or Gambia , is a country in West Africa. Gambia is the smallest country on mainland Africa, surrounded by Senegal except for a short coastline on the Atlantic Ocean in the west....

, the first of who was appointed on May 18,1965, exactly three months after it attained independence from the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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Ambassdors

Mercer Cook - Non-career appointee
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointment: May 18, 1965
- Presentation of Credentials: Aug 9, 1965
- Termination of Mission: Left Dakar Jul 1, 1966

William R. Rivkin
William R. Rivkin
William R. Rivkin, 1919–1967, was born in Muscatine, Iowa. He received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1941 and a law degree from Northwestern University in 1948. While at Iowa, he was the national intercollegiate oratorical champion...

- Non-career appointee
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointment: Oct 13, 1966
- Presentation of Credentials: Jan 16, 1967
- Termination of Mission: Died at Dakar Mar 19, 1967

L. Dean Brown - Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointment: Oct 18, 1967
- Presentation of Credentials: Jan 18, 1968
- Termination of Mission: Left Dakar Aug 15, 1970

G. Edward Clark - Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointment: Oct 12, 1970
- Presentation of Credentials: Nov 24, 1970
- Termination of Mission: Left Dakar Oct 16, 1973

O. Rudolph Aggrey - Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointment: Nov 23, 1973
- Presentation of Credentials: Jan 17, 1974
- Termination of Mission: Left Dakar Jul 10, 1977

Herman J. Cohen - Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointment: Jun 24, 1977
- Presentation of Credentials: Mar 29, 1978
- Termination of Mission: Left Dakar Jul 21, 1980

Larry Gordon Piper - Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointment: Jun 30, 1980
- Presentation of Credentials: Aug 21, 1980
- Termination of Mission: Left post Aug 23, 1982

Note: Between Aug 1982 and Jun 1984, the following officers served as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim: Owen W. Roberts. Aug 1982-Jun 1983; P. Wesley Kriebel, Jul-Nov 1983; Alan Logan, Nov 1983-Apr 1984; and Edward Brynn, May-Jun 1984.

Sharon Erdkamp Ahmad - Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointment: Sep 30, 1982

Robert Thomas Hennemeyer - Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointment: May 11, 1984
- Presentation of Credentials: Jun 20, 1984
- Termination of Mission: Left post Jun 27, 1986

Herbert E. Horowitz - Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointment: Sep 12, 1986
- Presentation of Credentials: Oct 24, 1986
- Termination of Mission: Left post Nov 4, 1989

Ruth V. Washington - Political appointee
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointment: Nov 21, 1989

Note: The following officers served as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim: Jimmie Stone (Nov 1989-Jan 1990) and A. Donald Bramante (Jan-Dec 1990).

Arlene Render - Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointment: Oct 22, 1990
- Presentation of Credentials: Dec 31, 1990
- Termination of Mission: Left post Aug 8, 1993

Andrew J. Winter - Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointment: Jul 11, 1993
- Presentation of Credentials: Oct 29, 1993
- Termination of Mission: Left post May 31, 1995

Gerald W. Scott - Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointment: Dec 28, 1995
- Presentation of Credentials: Feb 16 1996
- Termination of Mission: Left post Jun 27, 1998

George Williford Boyce Haley - Political appointee
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointment: Jun 29, 1998
- Presentation of Credentials: Oct 15, 1998
- Termination of Mission: Left post Jul 14, 2001

Jackson McDonald
Jackson McDonald
Jackson McDonald is United States diplomat and a career officer of the U.S. Foreign Service. He served as the Ambassador to Guinea 2004–2007. From 2001 to 2004, he served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of The Gambia....

- Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointment: Oct 1, 2001
- Presentation of Credentials: Nov 29, 2001
- Termination of Mission: Left post, May 26, 2004

Joseph D. Stafford III - Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointment: Jul 2, 2004
- Presentation of Credentials: Sep 15, 2004
- Termination of Mission: Left post, Jun 5, 2007

Barry L. Wells - Political appointee
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointment: Oct 29, 2007
- Presentation of Credentials: Unknown
- Termination of Mission: Prior to November 2010

Pamela White
Pamela White
Pamela L. White is an American diplomat. In November 2010, White was named United States Ambassador to The Gambia by President Barack Obama. She is the second Maine woman to serve as a United States ambassador, with the first being Margaret Joy Tibbetts.-Education and early life:White was born in...

– Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointment: November 17, 2010
- Presentation of Credentials: November 29, 2010
- Termination of Mission: Incumbent

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