List of ambassadors of the United States to Tunisia

The following is a list of United States Ambassadors to Tunisia.

Ambassador of the United States to Tunisia
سفارة الولايات المتحدة في تونس
Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent
Donald Blome
since February 21, 2019[1]
NominatorThe President of the United States
Inaugural holderMorris N. Hughes
as Chargé d'Affaires
FormationJune 6, 1956
WebsiteU.S. Embassy - Tunis

History: US Consul in Tunis

Ambassadors
  • Morris N. Hughes[2] - Career FSO
    • Title: Chargé d'Affaires
    • Appointment: June 6, 1956
    • Presentation of Credentials: June 6, 1956
    • Termination of Mission: Superseded, October 4, 1956
  • G. Lewis Jones - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: July 27, 1956
    • Presentation of Credentials: October 4, 1956
    • Termination of Mission: Presented new credentials on December 9, 1957, when Tunisia became a republic; left post June 11, 1959
  • Walter N. Walmsley - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: July 28, 1959
    • Presentation of Credentials: October 4, 1959
    • Termination of Mission: Left post July 25, 1962
  • Francis H. Russell - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: September 10, 1962
    • Presentation of Credentials: October 16, 1962
    • Termination of Mission: Left post July 18, 1969
  • John A. Calhoun - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: July 8, 1969
    • Presentation of Credentials: July 24, 1969
    • Termination of Mission: Left post May 31, 1972
  • Talcott W. Seelye - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: September 11, 1972
    • Presentation of Credentials: October 20, 1972
    • Termination of Mission: Left post March 22, 1976
  • Edward W. Mulcahy - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: March 4, 1976
    • Presentation of Credentials: May 31, 1976
    • Termination of Mission: Left post January 5, 1979
  • Stephen Warren Bosworth - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: February 9, 1979
    • Presentation of Credentials: March 27, 1979
    • Termination of Mission: Left post June 22, 1981
  • Walter Leon Cutler - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: December 11, 1981
    • Presentation of Credentials: March 2, 1982
    • Termination of Mission: Left post January 2, 1984
  • Peter Sebastian - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: June 11, 1984
    • Presentation of Credentials: July 3, 1984
    • Termination of Mission: Left post February 19, 1987
  • Robert H. Pelletreau - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: June 15, 1987
    • Presentation of Credentials: July 1, 1987
    • Termination of Mission: Left post May 11, 1991
  • John T. McCarthy - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: July 2, 1991
    • Presentation of Credentials: August 2, 1991
    • Termination of Mission: Left post July 16, 1994
  • Mary Ann Casey - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: July 5, 1994
    • Presentation of Credentials: September 23, 1994
    • Termination of Mission: Left post July 18, 1997
  • Robin Lynn Raphel - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: November 7, 1997
    • Presentation of Credentials: December 18, 1997
    • Termination of Mission: Left post August 6, 2000
  • Rust Macpherson Deming - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: December 28, 2000
    • Presentation of Credentials: November 30, 2001
    • Termination of Mission: Left post May 17, 2003
  • Ronald Schlicher[3] - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • William J. Hudson - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: Dec 12, 2003
    • Presentation of Credentials: Jan 12, 2004
    • Termination of Mission: Left post, Apr 14, 2006
  • Robert F. Godec - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: May 30, 2006
    • Presentation of Credentials: Jan 17, 2007
    • Termination of Mission: 2009
  • Gordon Gray - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: August 20, 2009
    • Presentation of Credentials: November 19, 2009
    • Termination of Mission: July 5, 2012
  • Jacob Walles - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: June 21, 2012
    • Presentation of Credentials: July 24, 2012
    • Termination of Mission: September 2, 2015
  • Daniel Rubinstein - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: October 15, 2015
    • Presentation of Credentials: October 26, 2015
    • Termination of Mission: January 15, 2019
  • Donald Blome - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointment: January 9, 2019
    • Presentation of Credentials: February 21, 2019
    • Termination of Mission:

Notes
  1. "Le chef de l'Etat reçoit les lettres de créance de 5 nouveaux ambassadeurs" (in French). Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  2. Neither commissioned nor accredited; designated effective June 5, 1956, on which date the Embassy in Tunis was established. Officially recognized on June 6, 1956.
  3. Nomination not acted on by the Senate.

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