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The President of the United States Frederick A. Sterling
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The United States Ambassador to Ireland is a position in existence since the 1920s, and is considered a highly prestigious position within the United States Foreign Service.
There have been a total of 31 United States Ambassadors to Dublin. All except one, Frederick A. Sterling, have been non-career appointees.
The ambassador and embassy staff at large work at the Ballsbridge Chancery of the Embassy of the United States of America in Dublin. Deerfield Residence is the official residence of the U.S. Ambassador, located in the Phoenix Park, Dublin.
Kevin O'Malley is the incumbent US Ambassador to Ireland, an Irish American St. Louis attorney who President Barack Obama nominated on June 5, 2014. Mr. O'Malley was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 18, 2014, sworn-in by Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry on September 30, 2014, and presented his credentials to Irish President Michael D. Higgins on October 8, 2014. The post had been vacant for almost two years, following the resignation of Dan Rooney on December 14, 2012. Stuart Dwyer had been the Chargé d'affaires since September 5, 2013, and became Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) following the appointment of O'Malley.
Frederick A. Sterling
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: February 19, 1927
Presentation of Credentials: February 27, 1927
Termination of Mission: Left post March 7, 1934
Note: Commissioned to the Irish Free State.
W.W. McDowell
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: September 13, 1933
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; did not serve under this appointment.
W.W. McDowell
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: January 15, 1934
Presentation of Credentials: March 27, 1934
Termination of Mission: Died at post April 9, 1934
Note: Commissioned to the Irish Free State.
Alvin Mansfield Owsley
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 15, 1935
Presentation of Credentials: June 27, 1935
Termination of Mission: Left post July 7, 1937
John Cudahy
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 28, 1937
Presentation of Credentials: August 23, 1937
Termination of Mission: Left post January 15, 1940
David Gray
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: February 16, 1940
Presentation of Credentials: April 15, 1940
Termination of Mission: Left post June 28, 1947
Notes: Uncle (by marriage) of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
George A. Garrett
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: April 10, 1947
Presentation of Credentials: July 28, 1947
Termination of Mission: Promoted to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
George A. Garrett
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: March 17, 1950
Presentation of Credentials: April 18, 1950
Termination of Mission: Left post May 27, 1951
Francis P. Matthews
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: July 6, 1951
Presentation of Credentials: October 22, 1951
Termination of Mission: Left post September 7, 1952
William Howard Taft III
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: April 2, 1953
Presentation of Credentials: May 13, 1953
Termination of Mission: Left post June 25, 1957
R. W. Scott McLeod
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 9, 1957
Presentation of Credentials: July 17, 1957
Termination of Mission: Left Ireland, March 15, 1961
Edward G. Stockdale
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: March 29, 1961
Presentation of Credentials: May 17, 1961
Termination of Mission: Left post July 7, 1962
Matthew H. McCloskey
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: July 12, 1962
Presentation of Credentials: July 19, 1962
Termination of Mission: Left post June 7, 1964
Raymond R. Guest
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: March 11, 1965
Presentation of Credentials: April 28, 1965
Termination of Mission: Left post June 7, 1968
Leo J. Sheridan
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: September 26, 1968
Presentation of Credentials: November 1, 1968
Termination of Mission: Left post June 1, 1969
John D.J. Moore
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: April 19, 1969
Presentation of Credentials: June 23, 1969
Termination of Mission: Left post June 30, 1975
Walter J.P. Curley Jr.
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: July 23, 1975
Presentation of Credentials: September 18, 1975
Termination of Mission: Left post May 2, 1977
William V. Shannon
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: June 22, 1977
Presentation of Credentials: July 20, 1977
Termination of Mission: Left post June 7, 1981
William E. McCann
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Note: Not commissioned; nomination of March 17, 1981 not acted upon by the Senate.
Peter H. Dailey
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: March 15, 1982
Presentation of Credentials: April 30, 1982
Termination of Mission: Left post January 15, 1984
Robert F. Kane
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: February 28, 1984
Presentation of Credentials: March 6, 1984
Termination of Mission: May 29, 1985
Margaret M. O'Shaughnessy Heckler
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: December 17, 1985
Presentation of Credentials: January 30, 1986
Termination of Mission: Left post August 20, 1989
Richard Anthony Moore
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: August 7, 1989
Presentation of Credentials: September 19, 1989
Termination of Mission: Left post June 15, 1992
William Henry Gerald FitzGerald
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: June 15, 1992
Presentation of Credentials: June 26, 1992
Termination of Mission: Left post June 5, 1993
Jean Kennedy Smith
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: June 17, 1993
Presentation of Credentials: June 24, 1993
Termination of Mission: Left post September 17, 1998
Michael J. Sullivan
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: October 22, 1998
Presentation of Credentials: January 21, 1999
Termination of Mission: Left post June 20, 2001
Richard J. Egan
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: August 29, 2001
Presentation of Credentials: September 10, 2001
Termination of Mission: January 31, 2003
James C. Kenny
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Presentation of Credentials: October 31, 2003
Termination of Mission: October 18, 2006
Thomas C. Foley
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Presentation of Credentials: October 18, 2006
Termination of Mission: January 2009
Daniel M. Rooney
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: July 1, 2009
Presentation of Credentials: July 3, 2009
Termination of Mission: December 14, 2012
Kevin F. O'Malley
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: September 18, 2014
Presentation of Credentials: October 8, 2014
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