List of ambassadors of the United States to Mozambique

Mozambique was an overseas possession of Portugal until 1975. On June 25, 1975, Portugal granted independence to Mozambique, much later than other European nations had freed their own African possessions.

Ambassador of the United States to Mozambique
Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent
Dennis Walter Hearne
since April 3, 2019
NominatorThe President of the United States
AppointerThe President
with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural holderWillard Ames De Pree
as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
FormationFebruary 4, 1976
WebsiteU.S. Embassy - Maputo

The United States immediately recognized the new nation and moved to establish diplomatic relations. An embassy in the capital Maputo (then named Lourenço Marques) was opened November 8, 1975, with Johnnie Carson as chargé d’affaires ad interim. On February 4, 1976, Ambassador Willard Ames De Pree was appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Mozambique.

On March 29, 2012, President Barack Obama, in a White House press release, officially nominated Douglas M. Griffiths to succeed Leslie V. Rowe as the U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Mozambique. Griffiths is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and previously served as the U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.[1]

Ambassadors
  • Willard Ames De Pree – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: February 4, 1976
    • Presented credentials: April 16, 1976
    • Terminated mission: Left post, July 7, 1980
  • David E. Simcox – Career FSO[2]
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed:
    • Presented credentials:
    • Terminated mission:
  • Note: The post was vacant from July 7, 1980 until September 23, 1983. William H. Twaddell served as chargé d’affaires ad interim during that period.
  • Peter Jon de Vos – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: September 23, 1983
    • Presented credentials: November 4, 1983
    • Terminated mission: Left post, February 12, 1987
  • Melissa Foelsch Wells – Career FSO[3]
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: September 11, 1987
    • Presented credentials: September 26, 1987
    • Terminated mission: Left post, October 12, 1990
  • Townsend B. Friedman, Jr. – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: August 6, 1990
    • Presented credentials: November 10, 1990
    • Terminated mission: Left post, September 15, 1993
  • Dennis C. Jett – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: July 16, 1993
    • Presented credentials: November 17, 1993
    • Terminated mission: Left post, July 20, 1996
  • The post was vacant between July 20, 1996 and December 3, 1997. P. Michael McKinley served as chargé d’affaires ad interim during that period.
  • Brian D. Curran – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: October 24, 1997
    • Presented credentials: December 3, 1997
    • Terminated mission: Left post June 21, 2000
  • Sharon P. Wilkinson – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: September 15, 2000
    • Presented credentials: October 25, 2000
    • Terminated mission: Left post July 21, 2003
  • Helen R. Meagher La Lime – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: April 16, 2003
    • Presented credentials: September 3, 2003
    • Terminated mission: Left post June 21, 2006
  • The post was vacant 2006–09. Todd C. Chapman served as Chargé d’Affaires.
  • William R. Steiger was nominated by President Bush on January 10, 2007, but the Senate did not act on the nomination.
  • Leslie V. Rowe - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: December 29, 2009
    • Presented credentials: February 10, 2010
    • Terminated mission: Left post March 1, 2012
  • Douglas M. Griffiths - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: July 5, 2012
    • Presented credentials: August 8, 2012
    • Terminated mission: Left post December 28, 2015
  • H. Dean Pittman - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: November 23, 2015
    • Presented credentials: February 18, 2016
    • Terminated mission: December 21, 2018
  • Dennis Walter Hearne - Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: January 31, 2019[4]
    • Presented credentials: April 3, 2019[5]
    • Terminated mission: Incumbent

Notes
  1. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/29/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts
  2. Simcox was not commissioned. His nomination not acted upon by the Senate.
  3. An earlier nomination of October 7, 1986, was not acted upon by the Senate.
  4. "Ambassador Dennis Walter Hearne". U.S. Embassy in Mozambique. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  5. "U.S. Ambassador to Mozambique Dennis Walter Hearne presents credentials to Mozambican President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi". Club of Mozambique. April 3, 2019. Retrieved 2019-04-06.

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