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Formation
  
June 15, 1992

Website
  
U.S. Embassy - Prague

United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic

Nominator
  
The President of the United States

Inaugural holder
  
Adrian A. Basora as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

The diplomatic post of United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic was created after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia and the United States recognizing the new nation of Czech Republic on January 1, 1993.

In June 1992, the Slovak parliament voted to declare sovereignty and the Czech-Slovak federation dissolved peacefully on January 1, 1993. The United States recognized the Czech Republic and Slovakia as independent nations and moved to establish diplomatic relations. The previous ambassador to Czechoslovakia, Adrian A. Basora, continued as the ambassador to the Czech Republic and Theodore Russell, who served as deputy chief of mission under Ambassador Shirley Temple Black, became the first U.S. ambassador to Slovakia later that year.

Ambassadors

  • Adrian A. Basora – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: June 15, 1992
  • Presented credentials: July 20, 1992
  • Terminated mission: Left post, July 15, 1995
  • Jenonne R. Walker – Non-career appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: June 27, 1995
  • Presented credentials: August 31, 1995
  • Terminated mission: Left post August 31, 1998
  • John Shattuck – Non-career appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: October 22, 1998
  • Presented credentials: December 10, 1998
  • Terminated mission: Left post December 16, 2000
  • Craig Roberts Stapleton – Non-career appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: August 7, 2001
  • Presented credentials: August 28, 2001
  • Terminated mission: Left post December 16, 2003
  • William J. Cabaniss – Non-career appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: October 6, 2003
  • Presented credentials: January 13, 2004
  • Terminated mission: 2006
  • Richard Graber – Non-career appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: September 14, 2006
  • Presented credentials: October 12, 2006
  • Terminated mission: January 20, 2009
  • Mary Thompson-Jones
  • Title: Chargés d’affaires ad interim
  • Appointed: January 20, 2009
  • Presented credentials: Unknown
  • Terminated mission: May 2010
  • John Ordway
  • Title: Chargés d’affaires ad interim
  • Appointed: May 2010
  • Presented credentials: Unknown
  • Terminated mission: August 2010
  • Joseph Pennington
  • Title: Chargés d’affaires ad interim
  • Appointed: August 2010
  • Presented credentials: Unknown
  • Terminated mission: December 30, 2010
  • Norman L. Eisen – Non-career appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: December 30, 2010
  • Presented credentials: January 28, 2011
  • Terminated mission: September 30, 2014
  • Andrew H. Schapiro – Non-career appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: July 23, 2014
  • Presented credentials: September 30, 2014
  • Terminated mission: January 20, 2017

    • References

    United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic Wikipedia
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