United States Ambassador to Tonga
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The United States Ambassador to Tonga is the official representative of the government of the United States to the government of Tonga
. The ambassador is concurrently the ambassador to Fiji
, Kiribati
, Nauru
, and Tuvalu
, while resident in Suva
, Fiji.
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...
. 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...
, Nauru
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...
, 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
- Kenneth Franzheim IIKenneth Franzheim IIKenneth Franzheim II was a Houston oilman, philanthropist, and envoy. He served under U.S. President Richard Nixon as the United States Ambassador to New Zealand, Western Samoa, Tonga and Fiji from 1969 to 1972....
– Political appointee- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: October 4, 1972
- Presented credentials: November 6, 1972
- Terminated mission: Left post, November 9, 1972
- Armistead Inge Selden – Political appointee
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: March 1, 1974
- Presented credentials: April 10, 1974
- Terminated mission: Left post, April 23, 1979
- John Peter Condon – Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: September 20, 1979
- Presented credentials: April 11, 1979
- Terminated mission: Left post, July 27, 1980
- William Bodde – Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: June 30, 1980
- Presented credentials: September 18, 1980
- Terminated mission: Left post, August 15, 1981
- Fred J. EckertFred J. EckertFred J. Eckert is a former one-term United States Representative from New York. He was born in Rochester, New York on May 6, 1941, graduated from North Texas State University in 1964 and took postgraduate courses at New York University and at the New School for Social Research from 1965 to 1966...
– Political appointee- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: February 11, 1982
- Presented credentials: April 15, 1982
- Terminated mission: Left post, May 7, 1984
- Carl Edward Dillery – Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: September 27, 1984
- Presented credentials: January 16, 1985
- Terminated mission: Left post, July 15, 1987
- Leonard Rochwarger – Political appointee
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: September 28, 1987
- Presented credentials: June 28, 1988
- Terminated mission: Left post, August 31, 1989
- Evelyn Irene Hoopes Teegan – Political appointee
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: October 10, 1989
- Presented credentials: January 23, 1990
- Terminated mission: Left post, March 5, 1993
- Don Lee Gevirtz – Political appointee
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: December 19, 1995
- Presented credentials: February 13, 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: September 22, 1999
- Terminated mission: Left post, June 30, 2001
- David L. Lyon – Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: November 15, 2002
- Presented credentials: January 9, 2003
- 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: September 14, 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
- Tonga – United States relations
- Foreign relations of TongaForeign relations of TongaTonga, by a modification of its treaty of friendship with the United Kingdom in July 1970, is responsible for its own external affairs. It maintains cordial relations with most countries and has close relations with its Pacific neighbors and the United Kingdom...
- Ambassadors of the United States