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United States Ambassador to Cape Verde

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Formation
  
September 16, 1976

Website
  
U.S. Embassy - Praia

United States Ambassador to Cape Verde

Nominator
  
The President of the United States

Inaugural holder
  
Melissa F. Wells as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Cape Verde had been a Portuguese colony for more than 500 years since 1456. In 1974 Portugal and the Cape Verdeans signed an agreement to form a transitional government, and Cape Verde gained full independence from Portugal on July 5, 1975.

The United States recognized Cape Verde and commissioned its first ambassador Melissa F. Wells in 1976. Ambassador Wells was concurrently accredited to Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde while resident at Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau. In 1980, an embassy was established in the capital Praia with a chargé d’affaires managing the business of the embassy.

Ambassadors

  • Note: Until 1980 one ambassador, resident at Bissau, was concurrently commissioned to Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.
  • Melissa F. Wells – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: September 16, 1976
  • Presented credentials: November 18, 1976
  • Terminated mission: Left post, March 23, 1977
  • Edward Marks – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: September 15, 1977
  • Presented credentials: October 18, 1977
  • Terminated mission: Left post, July 11, 1980
  • Note: Embassy Praia was established January 28, 1978 with Howard McGowan as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim. The ambassador remained in Bissau.
  • Peter Jon de Vos – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: September 5, 1980
  • Presented credentials: September 24, 1980
  • Terminated mission: Left Bissau, March 30, 1983
  • Note: In 1983 the first ambassador was appointed solely accredited to Cape Verde.
  • John Melvin Yates – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: March 18, 1983
  • Presented credentials: April 26, 1983
  • Terminated mission: Left post, May 24, 1986
  • Vernon Dubois Penner, Jr. – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: June 16, 1986
  • Presented credentials: July 15, 1986
  • Terminated mission: Left post, November 21, 1989
  • Francis Terry McNamara – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: November 21, 1989
  • Presented credentials: December 23, 1989
  • Terminated mission: Left post, December 31, 1992
  • Joseph Monroe Segars – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: July 14, 1992
  • Presented credentials: March 24, 1993
  • Terminated mission: Left post, March 17, 1996
  • Lawrence Neal Benedict – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: June 6, 1996
  • Presented credentials: July 30, 1996
  • Terminated mission: Left post August 11, 1999
  • Michael D. Metelits – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: July 7, 1999
  • Presented credentials: September 15, 1999
  • Terminated mission: Left post July 24, 2002
  • Donald C. Johnson – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: October 3, 2002
  • Presented credentials: November 21, 2002
  • Terminated mission: Left post, April 4, 2005
  • Roger D. Pierce – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: June 21, 2005
  • Presented credentials: September 27, 2005
  • Terminated mission: June 9, 2008
  • Marianne M. Myles – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: June 13, 2008
  • Presented credentials: Unknown
  • Terminated mission: August 2010
  • Dana Brown - Career FSO
  • Title: Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
  • Appointed: August 2010
  • Presented credentials: Unknown
  • Terminated mission: Unknown
  • Adrienne S. O'Neal - Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: October 19, 2011
  • Presented credentials: November 10, 2011
  • Terminated mission: Unknown
  • Donald Helfin - Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: December 12, 2014
  • Presented credentials: January 19, 2015
  • Terminated mission: Incumbent

    • References

    United States Ambassador to Cape Verde Wikipedia
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