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
  • Melissa F. Wells[5] - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: September 16, 1976
    • Presentation of Credentials: November 29, 1976
    • Termination of Mission: Left post March 29, 1977
  • Edward Marks[5] - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: September 16, 1977
    • Presentation of Credentials: October 31, 1977
    • Termination of Mission: Left post July 11, 1980
  • Peter Jon de Vos[5] - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: August 27, 1980
    • Presentation of Credentials: September 22, 1980
    • Termination of Mission: Left post March 30, 1983
  • Wesley William Egan, Jr. - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: March 18, 1983
    • Presentation of Credentials: May 12, 1983
    • Termination of Mission: Left post January 7, 1985

Note: Barbara C. Maslak served as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Jan 1985-Aug 1986.

  • John Dale Blacken - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: June 16, 1986
    • Presentation of Credentials: August 27, 1986
    • Termination of Mission: Left post September 29, 1989
  • William Ludwig Jacobsen - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: October 10, 1989
    • Presentation of Credentials: November 13, 1989
    • Termination of Mission: Left post August 25, 1992
  • Roger A. McGuire - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: June 15, 1992
    • Presentation of Credentials: October 14, 1992
    • Termination of Mission: Left post August 28, 1995
  • Peggy Blackford - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: October 3, 1995
    • Presentation of Credentials: November 4, 1995
    • Termination of Mission: Embassy suspended operations June 14, 1998
  • Richard Allan Roth[6] - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: November 15, 2002
    • Presentation of Credentials: February 13, 2004
    • Termination of Mission: Left Dakar, August 4, 2005
  • Janice L. Jacobs[6] - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: February 21, 2006
    • Presentation of Credentials: May 9, 2006
    • Termination of Mission: Left Dakar, July 15, 2007.
  • Marcia S. B. Bernicat[6] - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: June 16, 2008
    • Presentation of Credentials: Unknown
    • Termination of Mission: ca. June 2011
  • Robert T. Yamate
    • Chargé d'Affaires a.i. June–August 2011
  • Lewis A. Lukens[6] – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: July 11, 2011
    • Presentation of Credentials: Unknown
    • Termination of Mission: June 4, 2014
  • James P. Zumwalt – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: February 3, 2015
    • Presentation of Credentials: March 10, 2015
    • Termination of Mission: January 19, 2017
  • Tulinabo S. Mushingi – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: May 19, 2017
    • Presentation of Credentials: August 4, 2017
    • Termination of Mission: 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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