List of ambassadors of the United States to Togo

This is a list of Ambassadors of the United States to Togo.

Ambassador of the United States to Togo
Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent
Eric W. Stromayer
since April 11, 2019
NominatorBarack Obama
Inaugural holderLeland Barrows
as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
FormationJune 23, 1960
WebsiteU.S. Embassy - Lomé

Until 1955 French Togoland was a United Nations Trust Territory mandated by the U.N. to France. In 1955, French Togoland became the administrative Republic of Togo within the French Community (Communauté française), although it retained its UN trusteeship status. In 1960 Togo severed its constitutional ties with France, shed its UN trusteeship status, and became fully independent as the Togolese Republic.

The United States immediately recognized Togo and moved to establish diplomatic relations. The State Department established an embassy in Yaoundé in nearby Cameroon on January 1, 1960, with Bolard More as Chargé d'affaires ad interim. The Yaoundé embassy was simultaneously accredited to Togo. The embassy in Lomé was established on April 27, 1960, with Jesse M. MacKnight as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim. On June 23, 1960, Leland Barrows was appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Cameroon with separate accreditation to Togo while remaining resident in Yaoundé. In 1961 a separate ambassador was appointed solely for Togo and resident at Lomé. The United States has maintained diplomatic relations with Togo since that date.

The United States Embassy in Togo is located in Lomé. The current Togolese ambassador to the United States is Limbiye Edawe Kadangha Bariki.[1]

Ambassadors
  • Leland Barrows[2][3] – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: June 23, 1960
    • Presented credentials: August 22, 1960
    • Terminated mission: Superseded by ambassador to Togo June 27, 1961
  • Leon B. Poullada – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: April 18, 1961
    • Presented credentials: July 27, 1961
    • Terminated mission: Left post February 24, 1964
  • William Witman II – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: June 8, 1964
    • Presented credentials: July 10, 1964
    • Terminated mission: Left post May 8, 1967
  • Albert W. Sherer, Jr.[4][5][6] – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: September 13, 1967
    • Presented credentials: October 13, 1967
    • Terminated mission: Left post March 5, 1970
  • Dwight Dickinson – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: September 8, 1970
    • Presented credentials: October 8, 1970
    • Terminated mission: Left post April 3, 1974
  • Nancy V. Rawls – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: February 11, 1974
    • Presented credentials: June 7, 1974
    • Terminated mission: Left post August 8, 1976
  • Ronald D. Palmer – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: September 16, 1976
    • Presented credentials: October 28, 1976
    • Terminated mission: Left post July 15, 1978
  • Marilyn P. Johnson – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: September 23, 1978
    • Presented credentials: November 3, 1978
    • Terminated mission: Left post July 29, 1981
  • Howard Kent Walker – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: March 9, 1982
    • Presented credentials: April 19, 1982
    • Terminated mission: Left post June 9, 1984
  • Owen W. Roberts – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: June 28, 1984
    • Presented credentials: July 31, 1984
    • Terminated mission: Left post July 5, 1986
  • David A. Korn – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: October 16, 1986
    • Presented credentials: November 4, 1986
    • Terminated mission: Left post April 4, 1988
  • Rush Walker Taylor, Jr. – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: April 28, 1988
    • Presented credentials: June 20, 1988
    • Terminated mission: Left post September 4, 1990
  • Harmon Elwood Kirby – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: October 22, 1990
    • Presented credentials: December 3, 1990
    • Terminated mission: Left post July 16, 1994
  • Johnny Young – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: May 9, 1994
    • Presented credentials: October 7, 1994
    • Terminated mission: Left post November 21, 1997
  • Brenda Schoonover – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: November 11, 1997
    • Presented credentials: January 7, 1998
    • Terminated mission: Left post July 30, 2000
  • Karl William Hofmann – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: September 15, 2000
    • Presented credentials: October 17, 2000
    • Terminated mission: Left post December 14, 2002
  • Gregory W. Engle – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: April 16, 2003
    • Presented credentials: May 22, 2003
    • Terminated mission: Left post April 1, 2005
  • David B. Dunn – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: November 2, 2005
    • Presented credentials: February 2, 2006
    • Terminated mission: Left post June 6, 2008
  • Patricia McMahon Hawkins[7] - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: June 6, 2008
    • Presented credentials: September 12, 2008
    • Terminated mission: Left post July 29, 2011
  • Robert E. Whitehead[8] - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: April 2, 2012
    • Presented credentials: May 7, 2012
    • Terminated mission: Left post September 26, 2015
  • David R. Gilmour[9] - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: October 16, 2015
    • Presented credentials: November 7, 2015
    • Terminated mission: March 9, 2019
  • Eric W. Stromayer - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: January 7, 2019
    • Presented credentials: April 11, 2019[10]
    • Terminated mission: Incumbent

Notes
  1. http://www.togoembassy.us/index.php/83-content/82-about-the-ambassador
  2. Barrows was accredited to Cameroon and Togo, while resident in Yaoundé.
  3. Barrows’ commission to Togo was superseded by appointment of an ambassador to Togo.
  4. Sherer was commissioned during a recess of the Senate. He was renominated January 31, confirmed February 7, 1969, and recommissioned after confirmation. A nomination of Jan 9, 1969, was withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.
  5. Sherer was also accredited to Equatorial Guinea
  6. During Sherer’s tenure as non-resident Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea, the embassy in Santa Isabel (now Malabo) was opened August 1, 1969, with Albert N. Williams as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim.
  7. Source: U.S. Embassy in Lomé Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  8. http://togo.usembassy.gov/prevamb/robert-e.-whitehead.html
  9. https://tg.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/our-ambassador/
  10. https://tg.usembassy.gov/new-u-s-ambassador-to-togo-presents-his-credentials/

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