List of ambassadors of the United States to São Tomé and Príncipe explained

Post:Ambassador
Body:the United States to São Tomé and Príncipe
Insignia:U.S. Department of State official seal.svg
Insigniasize:120px
Insigniacaption:Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent:Tulinabo S. Mushingi
Incumbentsince:August 10, 2022
Nominator:The President of the United States
Inaugural:Andrew L. Steigman
as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Formation:December 11, 1975
Website:U.S. Embassy - Luanda

The United States ambassador to São Tomé and Príncipe is the official representative of the government of the United States to the government of São Tomé and Príncipe. Until 2022, the ambassador was concurrently the ambassador to Gabon, while resident in Libreville. Beginning in 2022, representation for São Tomé and Príncipe was moved to Luanda, with the ambassador concurrently the ambassador to Angola, due to the countries' "longstanding cultural, linguistic, and economic ties."[1]

Ambassadors

!Name!Title!Appointed!Presented credentials!Terminated mission!Notes
Andrew L. Steigman[2] – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryDecember 11, 1975February 14, 1976August 21, 1977
Arthur T. Tienken – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryFebruary 2, 1978May 26, 1978July 19, 1981
Francis Terry McNamara – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryDecember 11, 1981July 26, 1982August 3, 1984
Larry C. Williamson – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 13, 1984October 29, 1984August 21, 1987
Warren Clark Jr. – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 10, 1987October 19, 1987August 24, 1989
Keith Leveret Wauchope – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 6, 1989February 5, 1990July 13, 1992
Joseph Charles Wilson IV – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJuly 14, 1992September 29, 1992August 4, 1995
Elizabeth Raspolic – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 3, 1995November 10, 1995July 24, 1998
James V. Ledesma – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 22, 1998January 27, 1999June 18, 2001The post was vacant June 2001–June 2002. Thomas F. Daughton served as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim in the interval.
Kenneth Price Moorfield – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJanuary 30, 2002June 20, 2002July 31, 2004
R. Barrie Walkley – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJuly 2, 2004November 11, 2004April 27, 2007
Eunice S. Reddick – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 29, 2007December 6, 2007July 18, 2010
Eric D. Benjaminson – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiarySeptember 15, 2010December 3, 2010May 21, 2013
Cynthia Akuetteh – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 1, 2014April 10, 2015February 26, 2018[3]
Joel Danies – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryFebruary 21, 2018April 20, 2018March 1, 2019
Robert E. Whitehead – Career FSOChargé d’Affaires a.i.March 1, 2019August 17, 2020
Tulinabo S. MushingiAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryDecember 18, 2021August 10, 2022

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: U.S. Diplomatic Representation for Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe Moves to U.S. Embassy Luanda. Office of the Spokesperson, U.S. Department of State. 2022-08-11. 2022-08-13.
  2. Web site: 29 April 1989 . The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Program AMBASSADOR ANDREW STEIGMAN . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240707231033/https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Steigman,%20Andrew.toc.pdf . 7 July 2024 . 5 August 2024 . Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training.
  3. Web site: Cynthia Akuetteh. LinkedIn. August 6, 2019. en.