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Leland Barrows
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This is a list of Ambassadors of the United States to Togo.
Until 1955 French Togoland was a United Nations Trust Territory mandated by the U.N. to France. In 1955, French Togoland became the administrative Republic of Togo within the French Community (Communauté française), although it retained its UN trusteeship status. In 1960 Togo severed its constitutional ties with France, shed its UN trusteeship status, and became fully independent as the Togolese Republic.
The United States immediately recognized Togo and moved to establish diplomatic relations. The State Department established an embassy in Yaoundé in nearby Cameroon on January 1, 1960, with Bolard More as Chargé d'affaires ad interim. The Yaoundé embassy was simultaneously accredited to Togo. The embassy in Lomé was established on April 27, 1960, with Jesse M. MacKnight as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim. On June 23, 1960, Leland Barrows was appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Cameroon with separate accreditation to Togo while remaining resident in Yaoundé. In 1961 a separate ambassador was appointed solely for Togo and resident at Lomé. The United States has maintained diplomatic relations with Togo since that date.
The United States Embassy in Togo is located in Lomé. The current Togolese ambassador to the United States is Limbiye Edawe Kadangha Bariki.
Leland Barrows – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: June 23, 1960
Presented credentials: August 22, 1960
Terminated mission: Superseded by ambassador to Togo June 27, 1961
Leon B. Poullada – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: April 18, 1961
Presented credentials: July 27, 1961
Terminated mission: Left post February 24, 1964
William Witman II – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: June 8, 1964
Presented credentials: July 10, 1964
Terminated mission: Left post May 8, 1967
Albert W. Sherer, Jr. – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: September 13, 1967
Presented credentials: October 13, 1967
Terminated mission: Left post March 5, 1970
Dwight Dickinson – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: September 8, 1970
Presented credentials: October 8, 1970
Terminated mission: Left post April 3, 1974
Nancy V. Rawls – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: February 11, 1974
Presented credentials: June 7, 1974
Terminated mission: Left post August 8, 1976
Ronald D. Palmer – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: September 16, 1976
Presented credentials: October 28, 1976
Terminated mission: Left post July 15, 1978
Marilyn P. Johnson – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: September 23, 1978
Presented credentials: November 3, 1978
Terminated mission: Left post July 29, 1981
Howard Kent Walker – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: March 9, 1982
Presented credentials: April 19, 1982
Terminated mission: Left post June 9, 1984
Owen W. Roberts – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: June 28, 1984
Presented credentials: July 31, 1984
Terminated mission: Left post July 5, 1986
David A. Korn – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: October 16, 1986
Presented credentials: November 4, 1986
Terminated mission: Left post April 4, 1988
Rush Walker Taylor, Jr. – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: April 28, 1988
Presented credentials: June 20, 1988
Terminated mission: Left post September 4, 1990
Harmon Elwood Kirby – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: October 22, 1990
Presented credentials: December 3, 1990
Terminated mission: Left post July 16, 1994
Johnny Young – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: May 9, 1994
Presented credentials: October 7, 1994
Terminated mission: Left post November 21, 1997
Brenda Schoonover – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: November 11, 1997
Presented credentials: January 7, 1998
Terminated mission: Left post July 30, 2000
Karl William Hofmann – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: September 15, 2000
Presented credentials: October 17, 2000
Terminated mission: Left post December 14, 2002
Gregory W. Engle – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: April 16, 2003
Presented credentials: May 22, 2003
Terminated mission: Left post April 1, 2005
David B. Dunn – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: November 2, 2005
Presented credentials: February 2, 2006
Terminated mission: September 2008
Patricia McMahon Hawkins - Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: August 22, 2008
Presented credentials: September 12, 2008
Terminated mission: 2011
Robert E. Whitehead - Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: May 3, 2012
Presented credentials: Unknown
Terminated mission:
David R. Gilmour - Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: December 2015
Presented credentials: Unknown
Terminated mission:
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