List of ambassadors of the United States to Haiti
This is a list of United States Ambassadors to Haiti.

List of ambassadors of the United States to Haiti

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Table Section Text: 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

H. E. Peck	Commissioner/Consul General	March 14, 1865	September 2, 1865	Promoted to Minister Resident/Consul General

H. E. Peck	Minister Resident/Consul General	August 6, 1866	October 11, 1866	Died at post, June 9, 1867

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

George W. Williams	Minister Resident/Consul General	March 2, 1885

John E. W. Thompson	Minister Resident/Consul General	May 7, 1885	June 30, 1885	Relinquished charge about October 17, 1889

Frederick Douglass	Minister Resident/Consul General	June 26, 1889	November 14, 1889	Left post, July 1891

John S. Durham	Minister Resident/Consul General	September 3, 1891	October 3, 1891	Presented recall, November 7, 1893

Henry M. Smythe	Minister Resident/Consul General	September 15, 1893	November 7, 1893	Left post on or shortly after March 9, 1897

William F. Powell	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 17, 1897	August 20, 1897	Left post about November 30, 1905

Henry W. Furniss	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 23, 1905	December 30, 1905	Presented recall, September 17, 1913

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 C. 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

Norman Armour	Foreign Service officer	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 17, 1933	April 11, 1933	Left post, March 21, 1935

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.

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

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 1992	July 1993

Vicki Huddleston	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	July 1993	October 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	2009

Kenneth H. Merten	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 4, 2009	August 24, 2009	2012

Pamela White	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	2012	July 18, 2012	October 6, 2015

Peter Mulrean	Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	2015	October 6, 2015	February 27, 2017

Brian W. Shukan	Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy Port-au-Prince	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	2017	February 27, 2017	Retired and left post, 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	2018

Michele J. Sison	United States Deputy Representative to the United Nations	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 2, 2017	February 21, 2018

Sentence(s)

On November 2, 2017, Michele J. Sison was confirmed as the United States Ambassador to Haiti.

final_sentence: On November 2, 2017, Michele J. Sison was confirmed as the United States Ambassador to Haiti.