List of ambassadors of the United States to Czechoslovakia explained

Post:Ambassador
Body:the United States to Czechoslovakia
Insignia:US Department of State official seal.svg
Insigniasize:120px
Insigniacaption:Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent:None
Nominator:The President of the United States
Inaugural:Richard Crane
as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Formation:April 23, 1919
Abolished:December 31, 1992
Succession:• United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic
• United States Ambassador to Slovakia

Following the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918 at the end of World War I, the Czechs and Slovaks united to form the new nation of Czechoslovakia. The United States recognized Czechoslovakia and commissioned its first ambassador on April 23, 1919.

Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in March 1939, establishing a German "protectorate", the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. By this time, Slovakia had already declared independence and had become a puppet state of Germany, the Slovak Republic. German forces occupied Prague on March 15, 1939. The U.S. embassy was closed on March 21, 1939 and the ambassador left his post on April 6, 1939.

During World War II the U.S. maintained diplomatic relations with the Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London. Ambassador Anthony J. Biddle, Jr. established an embassy in London on September 17, 1941 and the embassy was maintained until the end of World War II in Europe. Following the war the embassy in Prague was reopened on May 29, 1945.

In June 1992, the Slovak parliament voted to declare sovereignty and the Czech-Slovak federation dissolved peacefully on January 1, 1993. The United States recognized the Czech Republic and Slovakia as independent nations and moved to establish diplomatic relations. The previous ambassador to Czechoslovakia, Adrian A. Basora, continued as the ambassador to the Czech Republic. Paul Hacker, the incumbent U.S. consul general, served as the first chargé d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Slovakia (January 1 to July 7, 1993), followed by Eleanor Sutter. In November 1993, Theodore E. Russell, former deputy chief of mission in Prague, became the first U.S. ambassador to Slovakia.

Ambassadors

June 11, 1919

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Notes

  1. Crane was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on June 26, 1919.
  2. Holthusen was not commissioned; his nomination was not confirmed by the United States Senate.
  3. German forces occupied Prague on March 15, 1939. Ambassador Carr closed the legation in Prague on March 21, 1939, and left post on April 6, 1939.
  4. The title of the commission was changed to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in 1943 and Biddle was commissioned to the new position while remaining in the office of ambassador.
  5. Biddle was also commissioned to the governments-in-exile of Belgium, Greece, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Yugoslavia.
  6. Jacobs was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on March 2, 1949.
  7. Wadsworth was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on May 1, 1953.
  8. Johnson was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on January 26, 1954.
  9. Ravnda was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on August 27, 1960.
  10. Horsey was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on March 12, 1963.
  11. An earlier nomination of September 25, 1980, was not acted upon by the Senate.
  12. Basora remained in Prague as the ambassador to the Czech Republic when Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia

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