# List of ambassadors of the United States to Tunisia

The following is a list of United States ambassadors to Tunisia.

## History: US Consul in Tunis

* 1795–1796: Joseph Donaldson Jr. (Consul in Algiers)
* 1795–1797: Samuel D. Heap (acting consul)
* 1796–1797: Joseph Étienne Famin (French, Special Diplomatic Agent)
** 1797–1797: William Eaton (Treaty Negotiator)
** 1797–1797: Samuel D. Heap (Treaty Negotiator)
* 1797–1803: William Eaton (Consul)
** 1798–1798: James Leander Cathcart (Treaty Negotiator)
** 1798–1798: Richard O'brien (Special Negotiator)
* 1803–1803: James Leander Cathcart (Consul)
* 1813–1815: Mordecai Manuel Noah
* 1815–1819: Thomas D. Anderson
* 1819–1824: Townsend Stith
* 1824–1825: Charles D. (b) Coxe
* 1825–1841: Samuel D. Heap
* 1842–1845: John Howard Payne
* 1851–1852: John Howard Payne
* 1862 – ?: Amos Perry

## Ambassadors

| Name | Title | Appointed | Presented credentials | Terminated mission | Notes |
| Morris N. Hughes – Career FSO | Chargé d'Affaires | June 6, 1956 | June 6, 1956 | October 4, 1956 | |
| G. Lewis Jones – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 27, 1956 | October 4, 1956 | June 11, 1959 | Presented new credentials on December 9, 1957, when Tunisia became a republic |
| Walter N. Walmsley – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 28, 1959 | October 4, 1959 | July 25, 1962 | |
| Francis H. Russell – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 10, 1962 | October 16, 1962 | July 18, 1969 | |
| John A. Calhoun – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 8, 1969 | July 24, 1969 | May 31, 1972 | |
| Talcott W. Seelye – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 11, 1972 | October 20, 1972 | March 22, 1976 | |
| Edward W. Mulcahy – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 4, 1976 | May 31, 1976 | January 5, 1979 | |
| Stephen Warren Bosworth – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 9, 1979 | March 27, 1979 | June 22, 1981 | |
| Walter Leon Cutler – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 11, 1981 | March 2, 1982 | January 2, 1984 | |
| Peter Sebastian – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 11, 1984 | July 3, 1984 | February 19, 1987 | |
| Robert H. Pelletreau – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 15, 1987 | July 1, 1987 | May 11, 1991 | |
| John T. McCarthy – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 2, 1991 | August 2, 1991 | July 16, 1994 | |
| Mary Ann Casey – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 5, 1994 | September 23, 1994 | July 18, 1997 | |
| Robin Lynn Raphel – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 7, 1997 | December 18, 1997 | August 6, 2000 | |
| Rust Macpherson Deming – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 28, 2000 | November 30, 2001 | May 17, 2003 | |
| William J. Hudson – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 12, 2003 | January 12, 2004 | April 14, 2006 | |
| Robert F. Godec – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 30, 2006 | January 17, 2007 | July 29, 2009 | |
| Gordon Gray – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 20, 2009 | November 19, 2009 | July 5, 2012 | |
| Jacob Walles – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 21, 2012 | July 24, 2012 | September 2, 2015 | |
| Daniel Rubinstein – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 15, 2015 | October 26, 2015 | January 15, 2019 | |
| Donald Blome – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 9, 2019 | February 21, 2019 | April 5, 2022 | |
| Joey R. Hood – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 26, 2022 | February 2, 2023 | Incumbent | |