Chiefs of Mission for Senegal

Chiefs of Mission

• Roswell Dunlop McClelland (1914–1995)
  • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, September 24, 1960–October 31, 1960
• Henry Serrano Villard (1900–1996)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 31, 1960–April 30, 1961
• Philip Mayer Kaiser (1913–2007)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 20, 1961–May 18, 1964
• Mercer Cook (1903–1987)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 29, 1964–July 1, 1966
• William Robert Rivkin (1919–1967)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 16, 1966–March 19, 1967
• Lewis Dean Brown (1920–2001)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 22, 1967–August 15, 1970
• Gilbert Edward Clark (1917–1984)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 18, 1970–October 16, 1973
• Orison Rudolph Aggrey (1926–2016)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, January 7, 1974–July 10, 1977
• Herman Jay Cohen (1932–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 22, 1977–July 21, 1980
• Walter C. Carrington (1930–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 16, 1980–March 3, 1981
• Charles William Bray III (1933–2006)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 18, 1981–May 17, 1985
• Lannon Walker (1936–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 7, 1985–August 18, 1988
• George Edward Moose (1944–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 13, 1988–May 21, 1991
• Katherine Shirley (1942–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 5, 1991–September 1, 1992
• Mark Johnson (1946–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 22, 1993–June 15, 1996
• Dane Farnsworth Smith Jr. (1940–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 16, 1996–July 16, 1999
• Harriet L. Elam-Thomas (1941–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, January 14, 2000–December 6, 2002
• Richard Allen Roth (1948–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, January 3, 2003–August 4, 2005
• Janice Lee Jacobs (1946–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 14, 2006–July 15, 2007
• Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat (1953–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 6, 2008–July 15, 2011
• Lewis A. Lukens (1963–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 19, 2011–June 4, 2014
• James Peter Zumwalt (1956–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 3, 2015–

Other Nominees

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