Global InformationList of ambassadors of the United States to Haiti information
| Ambassador of the United States to Haiti Anbasadè de la Etazini an Ayiti | |
|---|---|
 Seal of the United States Department of State | |
 Dennis B. Hankins since TBD | |
| Nominator | The President of the United States |
| Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
| Inaugural holder | Benjamin F. Whidden as Commissioner/Consul General |
| Formation | July 12, 1862 |
| Website | ht |
This is a list of United States ambassadors to Haiti.
| Name | Background | Title | Appointment | Presentation of credentials | Termination of mission | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin F. Whidden | Commissioner/Consul General | July 12, 1862 | October 1, 1862 | Left post, February 23, 1865 | ||
| Henry E. Peck | Commissioner/Consul General | March 14, 1865 | September 2, 1865 | Promoted to Minister Resident/Consul General | [1] | |
| Henry E. Peck | Minister Resident/Consul General | August 6, 1866 | October 11, 1866 | Died at post, June 9, 1867 | [2] | |
| Gideon H. Hollister | Minister Resident/Consul General | February 5, 1868 | On or shortly before June 6, 1868 | Presented recall, September 7–8, 1869 | ||
| Ebenezer D. Bassett | Minister Resident/Consul General | April 16, 1869 | September 7–8, 1869 | Presented recall, November 27, 1877 | ||
| John M. Langston | Minister Resident/Consul General | September 28, 1877 | November 27, 1877 | Presented recall, June 30, 1885 | [3][4] | |
| George W. Williams | Minister Resident/Consul General | March 2, 1885 | [5] | |||
| John E. W. Thompson | Minister Resident/Consul General | May 7, 1885 | June 30, 1885 | Relinquished charge about October 17, 1889 | [3][6] | |
| Frederick Douglass | Minister Resident/Consul General | June 26, 1889 | November 14, 1889 | Left post, July 30, 1891 | [7][3][8] | |
| John S. Durham | Minister Resident/Consul General | September 3, 1891 | October 3, 1891 | Presented recall, November 7, 1893 | [3][9] | |
| Henry M. Smythe | Minister Resident/Consul General | September 15, 1893 | November 7, 1893 | Left post on or shortly after March 9, 1897 | [3] | |
| William F. Powell | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 17, 1897 | August 20, 1897 | Left post about November 30, 1905 | [3] | |
| Henry W. Furniss | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 23, 1905 | December 30, 1905 | Presented recall, September 17, 1913 | [10] | |
| Madison R. Smith | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 15, 1913 | September 30, 1913 | Left post, July 8, 1914 | ||
| Arthur Bailly-Blanchard | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 22, 1914 | November 15, 1915 | Left post, September 26, 1921 | |
| James Clement Dunn | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | April 1922 | February 1924 | |||
| George R. Merrell, Jr. | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | March 1924 | October 1926 | |||
| Christian Gross | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | October 1926 | November 1927 | |||
| Christian Gross | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | April 1928 | December 1928 | |||
| Stuart E. Grummon | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | December 1928 | November 1930 | |||
| Dana G. Munro | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 28, 1930 | November 16, 1930 | Left post, September 14, 1932 | |
| Norman Armour | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 25, 1932 | November 7, 1932 | Recess appointment expired, March 4, 1933 | [11] |
| Norman Armour | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 17, 1933 | April 11, 1933 | Left post, March 21, 1935 | [11] |
| George A. Gordon | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 5, 1935 | September 6, 1935 | Left post, July 21, 1937 | |
| Ferdinand L. Mayer | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 13, 1937 | November 18, 1937 | Left post, November 29, 1940 | |
| John Campbell White | Foreign Service officer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 29, 1940 | March 14, 1941 | Promoted to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary following a joint announcement on March 23, 1943, with seven other Latin American Republics elevating respective legations to embassies. | [12] |
| John Campbell White | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 27, 1943 | April 14, 1943 | Left post, February 24, 1944 | |
| Orme Wilson | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 21, 1944 | June 2, 1944 | Left post, August 22, 1946 | |
| Harold H. Tittmann, Jr. | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 12, 1946 | September 20, 1946 | Left post, July 17, 1948 | |
| William E. DeCourcy | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 18, 1948 | October 13, 1948 | Relinquished charge, December 9, 1950 | |
| Howard K. Travers | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 3, 1951 | October 30, 1951 | Left post, February 25, 1952 | |
| Roy Tasco Davis | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 6, 1953 | September 23, 1953 | Relinquished charge, March 9, 1957 | |
| Gerald A. Drew | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 17, 1957 | May 15, 1957 | Left post, July 16, 1960 | |
| Robert Newbegin | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 27, 1960 | November 4, 1960 | Left post, December 10, 1961 | |
| Raymond L. Thurston | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 7, 1961 | January 4, 1962 | Normal relations interrupted, May 15, 1963; relations not yet resumed when Thurston left post, May 26, 1963 | [13] |
| Benson E.L. Timmons III | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 30, 1963 | January 16, 1964 | Left post, May 28, 1967 | |
| Claude G. Ross | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 19, 1967 | June 20, 1967 | Left post, October 17, 1969 | |
| Clinton E. Knox | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 9, 1969 | November 13, 1969 | Left post, April 26, 1973 | |
| Heyward Isham | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 19, 1973 | January 31, 1974 | Left post, July 8, 1977 | |
| William B. Jones | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 3, 1977 | August 12, 1977 | Left post, July 12, 1980 | |
| Henry L. Kimelman | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 27, 1980 | October 16, 1980 | Left post, February 18, 1981 | |
| Ernest H. Preeg | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 20, 1981 | July 28, 1981 | Left post, August 20, 1983 | |
| Clayton E. McManaway, Jr. | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 18, 1983 | January 10, 1984 | Left post, August 18, 1986 | |
| Brunson McKinley | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 12, 1986 | October 9, 1986 | Left post, November 13, 1989 | |
| Alvin P. Adams, Jr. | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 10, 1989 | December 8, 1989 | Recalled, August 1, 1992 | |
| Leslie M. Alexander | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | August 1, 1992 | July 1993 | |||
| Vicki J. Huddleston | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | July 1993 | October 13, 1993 | |||
| William Lacy Swing | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 8, 1993 | October 13, 1993 | Left post, January 5, 1998 | |
| Timothy Michael Carney | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 12, 1997 | January 14, 1998 | Left post, December 11, 1999 | |
| Brian Dean Curran | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 28, 2000 | January 12, 2001 | Left post, May 16, 2003 | |
| James B. Foley | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 27, 2003 | September 18, 2003 | Left post, August 14, 2005 | |
| Janet Ann Sanderson | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 21, 2006 | March 17, 2006 | March 15, 2008[14] | |
| Kenneth H. Merten | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 4, 2009 | August 24, 2009 | July 20, 2012 | [15] |
| Pamela White | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 2, 2012 | August 3, 2012 | October 6, 2015 | |
| Peter Mulrean | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 19, 2015 | October 6, 2015 | February 27, 2017 | [16] |
| Brian W. Shukan | Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy Port-au-Prince | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | February 27, 2017 | August 25, 2017 | ||
| Robin Diallo | Minister Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | August 25, 2017 | February 21, 2018 | ||
| Michele J. Sison | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 2, 2017 | February 21, 2018 | October 9, 2021 | |
| Kenneth H. Merten | Foreign Service officer | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | October 12, 2021 | October 28, 2021 | April 16, 2022 | |
| Gregory T. Kendrick | Foreign Service officer | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | April 20, 2022 | April 21, 2022 | July 1, 2022 | [17] |
| Eric Stromayer | Foreign Service officer | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | July 3, 2022 | March 26, 2024 | ||
| Dennis B. Hankins | Foreign Service officer | March 14, 2024 | TBD |
- ^ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 22, 1866.
- ^ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 11, 1867.
- ^ a b c d e f Also accredited to Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic); resident at Port-au-Prince.
- ^ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on October 23, 1877.
- ^ Took oath of office, but did not proceed to post.
- ^ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 13, 1886.
- ^ Sandefur, Timothy (2008). "Douglas, Frederick (1818–895)". In Hamowy, Ronald (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE; Cato Institute. pp. 126–28. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n80. ISBN 978-1-4129-6580-4. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024.
- ^ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on December 16, 1889.
- ^ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on December 23, 1891.
- ^ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on December 13, 1905.
- ^ a b Commissioned during a recess of the Senate. Armour left post March 4, 1933; he returned March 8, and presented a copy of his letter of credence under his new appointment, March 23, 1933.
- ^ https://history.state.gov/countries/haiti. Archived 2017-05-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 30, 1962. On June 14, 1963 the Government of Haiti requested Thurston's recall, and he did not return to post.
- ^ "Janet Ann Sanderson - People - Department History - Office of the Historian".
- ^ "Embassy of the United States Port Au Prince Haiti - Kenneth H. Merten, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, arrives in Port-au-Prince (August 24, 2009)". Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved January 13, 2010.
- ^ Charles, Jacqueline (February 27, 2017). "Low-key U.S. ambassador to Haiti steps down and is leaving country". Miami Herald. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
- ^ Wilner, Michael (October 12, 2021). "Surprise in Haiti over State Dept. appointment of Kenneth Merten as chargé d'affaires". McClatcy DC Bureau. Retrieved December 21, 2021.