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Chiefs of Mission for Mauritania
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Chiefs of Mission
- Henry Serrano Villard (1900–1996)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 28, 1960–April 30, 1961
- Philip Mayer Kaiser (1913–2007)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 1, 1961–May 18, 1964
- Geoffrey Whitney Lewis (1910–1992)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 31, 1965–June 7, 1967
- Lewis closed the Embassy on June 8, 1967, and left post on June 9, 1967.
- Robert Andrew Stein (1919–)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, March 4, 1970–
- Richard William Murphy (1929–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 17, 1971–June 5, 1974
- Holsey Gates Handyside (1927–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 15, 1975–December 5, 1977
- Elmer Gregory Kryza (1922–1998)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 16, 1977–June 29, 1980
- Stanley N. Schrager (1941–)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, September 1980–July 1982
- Edward Lionel Peck (1929–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 19, 1983–July 7, 1985
- Robert Lee Pugh (1931–2013)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 5, 1985–July 5, 1988
- William H. Twaddell (1941–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 6, 1988–July 20, 1991
- Gordon S. Brown (1936–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 5, 1991–August 18, 1994
- Dorothy Myers Sampas (1933–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 3, 1994–July 4, 1997
- Timberlake Foster (1946–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 11, 1997–October 3, 2000
- John W. Limbert (1943–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 21, 2000–August 8, 2003
- Joseph Evan LeBaron (1947–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 1, 2003–August 18, 2006
- Mark M. Boulware (1948–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 22, 2007–May 6, 2010
- Jo Ellen Powell (1953–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 22, 2010–December 12, 2013
- Larry Edward Andre Jr. (1961–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 3, 2014–November 17, 2017
- Michael J. Dodman (?–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 13, 2018–
Other Nominees
- Henry Precht (1932–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary: Not commissioned; nomination of July 7, 1980, not acted upon by the Senate.
- Dawn M. Liberi (1954–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary: Nomination of May 1, 2006, not acted upon by the Senate.