List of ambassadors of the United States to Guinea-Bissau

The United States Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau is the official representative of the President of the United States to the head of state of Guinea-Bissau. The U.S. Ambassador to Senegal is concurrently commissioned to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.

Ambassador of the United States to Guinea-Bissau
Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent
Tulinabo S. Mushingi
since August 4, 2017[1]
NominatorThe President of the United States
AppointerThe President
with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural holderDean Curran
as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
FormationJune 30, 1976
WebsiteU.S. Embassy - Dakar

Until 1974, Guinea-Bissau had been a colony of the Portuguese Empire as Portuguese Guinea. After a period of revolutionary warfare, Guinea-Bissau unilaterally declared its independence on September 24, 1973. Following the April 1974 Carnation Revolution in Portugal, it granted independence to Guinea-Bissau on September 10, 1974. The United States recognized the Republic of Guinea-Bissau on the same day. The U.S. Embassy Bissau was established on June 30, 1976, with Dean Curran as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim.[2]

The first three ambassadors to Guinea-Bissau were concurrently commissioned to Cape Verde while resident in Bissau. From 1983 until 1998, U.S. ambassadors were solely commissioned to Guinea-Bissau.[3] In 1998 the U.S. embassy in Bissau was closed,[4] and there has been no U.S. embassy in Bissau since then. Since 2002, the U.S. ambassador to Senegal has also been commissioned as the ambassador to Guinea-Bissau, while resident in Dakar.

Ambassadors and chiefs of mission
Name Title Appointed Presented Credentials Terminated Mission Notes
Melissa F. Wells[5] - Career FSO Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 16, 1976 November 29, 1976 March 29, 1977
Edward Marks[5] - Career FSO September 16, 1977 October 31, 1977 July 11, 1980
Peter Jon de Vos[5] - Career FSO August 27, 1980 September 22, 1980 March 30, 1983
Wesley William Egan, Jr. - Career FSO March 18, 1983 May 12, 1983 January 7, 1985
Barbara C. Maslak Chargé d'Affaires ad interim January 1985 Unknown August 1986
John Dale Blacken - Career FSO Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary June 16, 1986 August 27, 1986 September 29, 1989
William Ludwig Jacobsen - Career FSO October 10, 1989 November 13, 1989 August 25, 1992
Roger A. McGuire - Career FSO June 15, 1992 October 14, 1992 August 28, 1995
Peggy Blackford - Career FSO October 3, 1995 November 4, 1995 June 14, 1998
Embassy suspended operations from 1998 to 2002.
Richard Allan Roth[6] - Career FSO Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 15, 2002 February 13, 2004 Left Dakar, August 4, 2005
Janice L. Jacobs[6] - Career FSO February 21, 2006 May 9, 2006 Left Dakar, July 15, 2007.
Marcia S. B. Bernicat[6] - Career FSO June 16, 2008 Unknown ca. June 2011
Robert T. Yamate Chargé d'Affaires ad interim June 2011 Unknown August 2011
Lewis A. Lukens[6] – Career FSO Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 11, 2011 Unknown June 4, 2014
James P. Zumwalt – Career FSO February 3, 2015 March 10, 2015 January 19, 2017
Tulinabo S. Mushingi – Career FSO May 19, 2017 August 4, 2017 Incumbent


Notes
  1. "L'Ambassadeur Mushingi présente ses lettres de créances au Président Macky Sall". Africa Newsroom. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  2. "Guinea-Bissau". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
  3. "Chiefs of Mission for Guinea-Bissau". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
  4. "Peggy Blackford". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
  5. Also accredited to Cape Verde; resident at Bissau.
  6. Also accredited to Senegal; resident at Dakar.

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