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The President of the United States Charles D. Withers
as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary |
The United States Ambassador to Rwanda is the official representative of the President of the United States to the head of state of Rwanda.
Until 1962 Rwanda had been a part of the United Nations Trust Territory of Ruanda-Urundi under the trusteeship of Belgium. In June 1962 the UN General Assembly terminated the Belgian trusteeship and granted full independence to Rwanda and Burundi. The United States immediately recognized the Rwandan government on its independence day, July 1, 1962, and moved to establish diplomatic relations. The U.S. Embassy in the capital Kigali was established on July 1, 1962, with David J.S. Manbey as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim. Charles D. Withers was appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Rwanda on March 9, 1963.
Ambassadors and chiefs of mission
Charles D. Withers – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: March 9, 1963
Presented credentials: April 19, 1963
Terminated mission: Left post September 15, 1966
Leo G. Cyr – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: September 19, 1966
Presented credentials: November 4, 1966
Terminated mission: Left post September 29, 1971
Robert Foster Corrigan – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: December 9, 1971
Presented credentials: March 24, 1972
Terminated mission: Left post August 3, 1973
Robert E. Fritts – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: February 28, 1974
Presented credentials: April 18, 1974
Terminated mission: Left post June 18, 1976
T. Frank Crigler – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: September 16, 1976
Presented credentials: October 29, 1976
Terminated mission: Left post May 12, 1979
Harry R. Melone, Jr. – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: November 6, 1979
Presented credentials: December 28, 1979
Terminated mission: Left post August 17, 1982
John Blane – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: September 30, 1982
Presented credentials: November 9, 1982
Terminated mission: Left post July 16, 1985
John Edwin Upston – Political appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: December 17, 1985
Presented credentials: February 13, 1986
Terminated mission: Left post July 14, 1987
Leonard H. O. Spearman – Political appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: February 5, 1988
Presented credentials: April 27, 1988
Terminated mission: Left post November 10, 1990
Robert A. Flaten – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: October 30, 1990
Presented credentials: December 17, 1990
Terminated mission: Left post November 23, 1993
David P. Rawson – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: November 22, 1993
Presented credentials: January 8, 1994
Terminated mission: Left post January 6, 1996
Robert E. Gribbin III – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: December 19, 1995
Presented credentials: January 10, 1996
Terminated mission: Left post January 5, 1999
George McDade Staples – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: October 26, 1998
Presented credentials: January 27, 1999
Terminated mission: Left post September 22, 2001
Margaret K. McMillion – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: November 5, 2001
Presented credentials: December 13, 2001
Terminated mission: Left post July 10, 2004
Michael R. Arietti – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: November 2, 2005
Presented credentials: December 5, 2005
Terminated mission: c. November 2008
W. Stuart Symington – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: November 2, 2008
Presented credentials: Unknown
Terminated mission: c. July 2011
Donald W. Koran – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: August 2011
Presented credentials: Unknown
Terminated mission: Incumbent
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