Chiefs of Mission for Kuwait

Chiefs of Mission

• Dayton S. Mak (1917–)
  • Chargé d’Affaires, October 18, 1961–January 7, 1962
• Parker Thompson Hart (1910–1997)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, January 7, 1962–July 12, 1963
• Howard Rex Cottam (1910–1984)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 24, 1963–July 6, 1969
• John Patrick Walsh (1918–2008)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 5, 1969–December 19, 1971
• William A. Stoltzfus Jr. (1924–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 9, 1972–January 6, 1976
• Frank Eusebio Maestrone (1922–2007)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 13, 1976–July 5, 1979
• Francois Moussiegt Dickman (1924–2015)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 24, 1979–August 8, 1983
• Philip Joseph Griffin (1932–)
  • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, August 1983–September 1984
• Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton (1934–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 19, 1984–August 14, 1987
• W. Nathaniel Howell (1939–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 2, 1987–August 2, 1990
• Embassy Kuwait was reopened on March 1, 1991.
• Edward William Gnehm Jr. (1944–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 2, 1991–April 1, 1994
• Ryan Clark Crocker (1949–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 7, 1994–December 4, 1997
• James A. Larocco (1948–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 16, 1997–May 17, 2001
• Richard Henry Jones (1950–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 1, 2001–July 26, 2004
• Richard B. LeBaron (1951–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 12, 2004–July 11, 2007
• Deborah Kay Jones (1956–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 28, 2008–June 30, 2011
• Matthew Haywood Tueller (1957–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 28, 2011–April 28, 2014
• Douglas Alan Silliman (1960–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 15, 2014–January 20, 2017

Other Nominees

• Laurence Everett Pope II (1945–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary: Nomination of February 22, 2000, not acted upon by the Senate.