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Chiefs of Mission for Central African Republic
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Chiefs of Mission
- Alan Wood Lukens (1924–2019)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, August 13, 1960–
- Wilton Wendell Blancke (1908–1971)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, January 6, 1961–November 29, 1961
- John Howard Burns (1913–2017)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 29, 1961–May 6, 1963
- Claude George Anthony Ross (1917–2006)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 16, 1963–April 22, 1967
- Geoffrey Whitney Lewis (1910–1992)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 23, 1967–August 2, 1970
- Melvin Lawrence Manfull (1919–2000)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 4, 1971–December 13, 1972
- William Norris Dale (1919–2014)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 18, 1973–July 17, 1975
- Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton (1934–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 20, 1976–June 9, 1978
- Goodwin Cooke (1931–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 4, 1978–July 13, 1980
- Albert E. Fairchild (1941–)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, July 1980–July 1981
- Arthur H. Woodruff (1928–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 10, 1981–August 2, 1983
- Edmund T. DeJarnette (1938–2015)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 17, 1983–May 26, 1986
- David C. Fields (1937–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 4, 1986–October 3, 1989
- Daniel Howard Simpson (1939–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 6, 1990–December 15, 1992
- Robert E. Gribbin III (1946–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, January 16, 1993–September 16, 1995
- Mosina H. Jordan (1943–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 29, 1995–March 31, 1997
- Embassy Bangui closed on March 31, 1997. Perry arrived at post on January 26, 1999, and assumed charge. He presented credentials on February 1, 1999, and the Embassy reopened on June 1, 1999.
- Robert Cephas Perry (1946–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 1, 1999–July 1, 2001
- Mattie R. Sharpless (1943–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 14, 2001–November 2, 2002
- A. James Panos (1942–)
- Chargé d’Affaires, January 2005–July 2007
- Frederick Bishop Cook (1950–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 29, 2007–August 17, 2010
- Lawrence D. Wohlers (1955–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 30, 2010–August 1, 2013
- David Edward Brown (1951–)
- Chargé d’Affaires, August 2013–October 2015
- Jeffrey J. Hawkins Jr. (1966–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 30, 2015–August 25, 2017
- David Brownstein (?–)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, September 12, 2017–February 5, 2019
- Lucy Tamlyn (1955–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 7, 2019–
Other Nominees
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