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United States Ambassador to Malawi

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Formation
  
July 6, 1964

United States Ambassador to Malawi

Inaugural holder
  
Edward W. Holmes as Chargé d'affaires ad interim

Website
  
U.S. Embassy - Lilongwe

The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was dissolved on December 31, 1963, and Malawi became a fully independent member of the Commonwealth of Nations on July 6, 1964.

The United States immediately recognized the new nation and moved to establish diplomatic relations. The U.S. embassy in Blantyre (later Zomba) was established July 6, 1964—independence day for Malawi—with Virginia E. Palmer as current ambassador.

Ambassadors

  • Sam P. Gilstrap – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: July 1, 1964
  • Presented credentials: July 8, 1964
  • Terminated mission: Left post, October 6, 1965
  • Marshall P. Jones – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: November 10, 1965
  • Presented credentials: January 13, 1966
  • Terminated mission: July 8, 1966 (reaccredited)
  • Marshall P. Jones – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: July 8, 1966
  • Presented credentials: July 8, 1966
  • Terminated mission: Left post, March 20, 1970
  • William C. Burdett – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: April 8, 1970
  • Presented credentials: May 13, 1970
  • Terminated mission: Left post, May 11, 1974
  • Robert A. Stevenson – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: June 20, 1974
  • Presented credentials: August 15, 1974
  • Terminated mission: Left post, May 21, 1978
  • Note: The Embassy was moved to Lilongwe April 1, 1976, during Stevenson’s tenure.
  • Harold E. Horan – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: August 11, 1978
  • Presented credentials: January 24, 1979
  • Terminated mission: Left post, July 17, 1980
  • Note: The post was vacant July 1980–August 1981. Robert M. Maxim served as chargé d'affaires during that interval.
  • John A. Burroughs, Jr. – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: May 7, 1981
  • Presented credentials: August 17, 1981
  • Terminated mission: Left post, June 9, 1984
  • Weston Adams – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: June 11, 1984
  • Presented credentials: August 17, 1984
  • Terminated mission: Left post, August 8, 1986
  • Note: The post was vacant August 1986–May 1988. Dennis C. Jett served as chargé d'affaires ad interim during that period.
  • George Arthur Trail III – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: April 28, 1988
  • Presented credentials: May 13, 1988
  • Terminated mission: Left post, May 2, 1991
  • Michael T. F. Pistor – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: July 1, 1991
  • Presented crMarch 25, 1991edentials:
  • Terminated mission: Left post, June 20, 1994
  • Peter R. Chaveas – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: May 9, 1994
  • Presented credentials: September 12, 1994
  • Terminated mission: Left post, June 27, 1997
  • Amelia Ellen Shippy – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: November 7, 1997
  • Presented credentials: February 2, 1998
  • Terminated mission: Left post August 5, 2000
  • Roger A. Meece – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: September 15, 2000
  • Presented credentials: November 7, 2000
  • Terminated mission: Left post July 20, 2003
  • Steven A. Browning – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: May 27, 2003
  • Presented credentials: September 19, 2003
  • Terminated mission: May 16, 2004
  • Alan Walter Eastham – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: August 2, 2005
  • Presented credentials: August 25, 2005
  • Terminated mission: 2008
  • Peter Bodde – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: September 3, 2008
  • Presented credentials: October 28, 2008
  • Terminated mission: Unknown
  • Note:Edward W. Holmes served as chargé d'affaires ad interim during this period
  • Jeanine E. Jackson, Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: May 5, 2011
  • Presented credentials: June 30, 2011
  • Terminated mission: 2014
  • Virginia E. Palmer, Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: January 27, 2015
  • Presented credentials:
  • Terminated mission: incumbent

    • References

    United States Ambassador to Malawi Wikipedia
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