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United States Ambassador to Tonga

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Formation
  
October 4, 1972

Website
  
U.S. Embassy - Suva

United States Ambassador to Tonga

Nominator
  
The President of the United States

Inaugural holder
  
Kenneth Franzheim II as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

The United States Ambassador to Tonga is the official representative of the government of the United States to the government of Tonga. The ambassador is concurrently the ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, and Tuvalu, while resident in Suva, Fiji.

Ambassadors

  • Kenneth Franzheim II – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: October 4, 1972
  • Presented credentials: November 6, 1972
  • Terminated mission: Left post, November 9, 1972
  • Armistead Inge Selden – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: March 1, 1974
  • Presented credentials: April 10, 1974
  • Terminated mission: Left post, April 23, 1979
  • John Peter Condon – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: September 20, 1979
  • Presented credentials: April 11, 1979
  • Terminated mission: Left post, July 27, 1980
  • William Bodde – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: June 30, 1980
  • Presented credentials: September 18, 1980
  • Terminated mission: Left post, August 15, 1981
  • Fred J. Eckert – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: February 11, 1982
  • Presented credentials: April 15, 1982
  • Terminated mission: Left post, May 7, 1984
  • Carl Edward Dillery – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: September 27, 1984
  • Presented credentials: January 16, 1985
  • Terminated mission: Left post, July 15, 1987
  • Leonard Rochwarger – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: September 28, 1987
  • Presented credentials: June 28, 1988
  • Terminated mission: Left post, August 31, 1989
  • Evelyn Irene Hoopes Teegan – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: October 10, 1989
  • Presented credentials: January 23, 1990
  • Terminated mission: Left post, March 5, 1993
  • Don Lee Gevirtz – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: December 19, 1995
  • Presented credentials: February 13, 1996
  • Terminated mission: Left post, September 28, 1997
  • M. Osman Siddique – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: August 9, 1999
  • Presented credentials: September 22, 1999
  • Terminated mission: Left post, June 30, 2001
  • David L. Lyon – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: November 15, 2002
  • Presented credentials: January 9, 2003
  • Terminated mission: Left post, July 23, 2005
  • Larry Miles Dinger – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: June 27, 2005
  • Presented credentials: September 14, 2005
  • Terminated mission: Left post, July 5, 2008
  • C. Steven McGann – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: October 6, 2008
  • Presented credentials: November 24, 2008
  • Terminated mission: Left post, October 13, 2011
  • Frankie A. Reed – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: October 13, 2011
  • Presented credentials: Unknown
  • Terminated mission: Incumbent

    • References

    United States Ambassador to Tonga Wikipedia
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