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Chiefs of Mission for Senegal
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Notice posted on January 12, 2024.
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Chiefs of Mission
- Roswell Dunlop McClelland (1914–1995)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, September 24, 1960–October 31, 1960
- Henry Serrano Villard (1900–1996)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 31, 1960–April 30, 1961
- Philip Mayer Kaiser (1913–2007)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 20, 1961–May 18, 1964
- Mercer Cook (1903–1987)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 29, 1964–July 1, 1966
- William Robert Rivkin (1919–1967)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 16, 1966–March 19, 1967
- Lewis Dean Brown (1920–2001)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 22, 1967–August 15, 1970
- Gilbert Edward Clark (1917–1984)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 18, 1970–October 16, 1973
- Orison Rudolph Aggrey (1926–2016)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, January 7, 1974–July 10, 1977
- Herman Jay Cohen (1932–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 22, 1977–July 21, 1980
- Walter C. Carrington (1930–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 16, 1980–March 3, 1981
- Charles William Bray III (1933–2006)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 18, 1981–May 17, 1985
- Lannon Walker (1936–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 7, 1985–August 18, 1988
- George Edward Moose (1944–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 13, 1988–May 21, 1991
- Katherine Shirley (1942–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 5, 1991–September 1, 1992
- Mark Johnson (1946–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 22, 1993–June 15, 1996
- Dane Farnsworth Smith Jr. (1940–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 16, 1996–July 16, 1999
- Harriet L. Elam-Thomas (1941–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, January 14, 2000–December 6, 2002
- Richard Allen Roth (1948–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, January 3, 2003–August 4, 2005
- Janice Lee Jacobs (1946–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 14, 2006–July 15, 2007
- Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat (1953–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 6, 2008–July 15, 2011
- Lewis A. Lukens (1963–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 19, 2011–June 4, 2014
- James Peter Zumwalt (1956–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 3, 2015–January 28, 2017
- Tulinabo Salama Mushingi (1956–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 4, 2017–
Other Nominees
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