Title: List of ambassadors of the United States to Norway
Content:  handle affairs for Sweden and Norway separately and the Ambassador was thus commissioned to Norway equally with Sweden, though he remained in Stockholm. On June 22, 1906, Herbert H. D. Peirce was appointed to be the first ambassador of the US appointed specifically solely for Norway. On August 6, 1906, the embassy in Stockholm ceased all functions related to Norway. Peirce presented his credentials to the foreign minister of Norway on August 13, 1906. James P. DeHart assumed duties as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim on January 12, 2017 at the Embassy. On October 23, 2017 President Donald Trump nominated Kenneth Braithwaite to be the next ambassador to Norway. He is a business executive, former town councilman and retired rear admiral of the United States Navy Reserve. He left the post as he was sworn in on May 29, 2020 as the 77th United States Secretary of the Navy.
Title: Georg Kristiansen
Content:  NATO and OECD in Paris from 1963 to 1967, and to NATO in Brussels from 1967 to 1970. He was then the director of the Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning from 1970 to 1974, ambassador to the OECD from 1974 to 1977 and the permanent under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1977 to 1980. From 1980 to 1985 he was Norwegian the ambassador to France. He was decorated as a Commander with Star of the Order of St. Olav in 1980. He settled in Lillehammer after his retirement, and chaired Oplandske Dampskibsselskap for a period. He was also a member of the Nygaard Haug Committee, a predecessor of the Lund Commission, from 1993 to 1994. This was not uncontroversial because of his career ties to military intelligence. He died in August 2003.
Title: Sivert Andreas Nielsen (1916–2004)
Content:  After the war he served as a diplomat to the United Nations from 1946 to 1948 and to the United States from 1948 to 1950. Among others, he helped shape and write the North Atlantic Treaty which was ratified in 1949. He then worked in the Ministry of Defence, as assistant secretary from 1950, deputy under-secretary of state from 1952 and State Secretary from 1955 to 1958. In the latter position he was a part of the third cabinet Gerhardsen; however he was not a member of the Norwegian Labour Party. In his time it was speculated that he was offered a government minister position, but this never happened. From 1958 to 1966 he returned as Norwegian ambassador to the United Nations. During this period, Norway was a member of the Security Council in 1963 and 1964. From 1966 to 1976 he worked as a banker. He was also the chair of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation from 1969 to 1974. He was decorated as a Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1964, and died in March 2004 in Oslo.
Title: Lithgow Osborne
Content:  On September 21, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Osborne as Ambassador to Norway, a post he held until May, 1946. On December 20 the same year Osborne presented his credentials as ambassador to King Haakon VII of Norway (in exile during World War II) in London and served until April 20, 1946. After taking care of the relationship with Norwegian exiles in London during World War II, Osborne moved to Oslo after the liberation in May 1945. His main post war tasks were to re-establish the good relations between the United States and the lawful Government of Norway on Norwegian soil, to make the United States Embassy in Oslo work efficiently again as well as to unite the United States' aid to the rebuilding of Norway after the war. For several years after his return from Oslo, Lithgow Osborne was chairman of the board of trustees for the American Scandinavian Foundation. In 1954 he helped draft the original Declaration of Atlantic Unity, which was both a statement of purpose and an agency designed to bolster the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Title: Thomas Ryan Byrne
Content:  From 1973 to 1976 Byrne was the United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway. He presented his credentials as an Ambassador to King Olav V of Norway on October 4, 1973, and served in office in Oslo until April 10, 1976. After the stationing in Norway, he moved to Prague where he was the United States Ambassador to the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from June 1976 until November 1978.
Title: George James Tsunis
Content:  Tsunis was nominated as Ambassador to Norway on September 10, 2013. His nomination was part of a backlog of nominees for ambassador positions across the world. Norway had never been without a US ambassador for as long. Tsunis' nomination hearing generated some controversy, both in Norway and in the USA, due to his confession of never having been to Norway and his apparent ignorance of some Norwegian political issues. According to some sources, the U.S. Embassy apologized for some statements to the Norwegian government and other involved parties in Norway. In statements to the press in December 2014, Tsunis indicated that he was no longer seeking the nomination as ambassador to Norway.
Title: Norway–United States relations
Content: Ambassador – vacant as of March 2021 ; Chargé d'affaires, Deputy Chief of Mission – Richard Riley ; Political and Economical Affairs Counselor – Eric J. Carlson ; Public Affairs Officer – Ann Barrows McConnell ; Consular Chief – William Whitaker ; Defense and Naval Attaché – Capt Gary A. Rogeness, USN ; Army Attaché – Col Reneé Underwood, USA ; Air Attaché – Col Aaron W. Steffens ; Chief of Office of Defense Cooperation – Lt. Col Richard Rosenstein ; Management Officer – Tom Canahuate ; Head of Commercial Section / U.S. Commercial Service – Vidar Keyn ; Regional Security Officer – Kenneth D. Lindberg The United States maintains an embassy in Oslo. The United States Ambassador to Norway is in charge of the embassy of the United States in Oslo. Principal U.S. officials: Norway maintains an embassy in Washington DC, United States, and three consulates; in New York City, Houston (Norwegian Consulate General, Houston) and San Francisco.
Title: R. Douglas Stuart Jr.
Content:  Party member on the Republican National Committee. He was also active in the Boy Scouts of America and the Chicago Urban League. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan named Stuart as United States Ambassador to Norway. Stuart presented his credentials on October 16, 1984, and served as ambassador until July 17, 1989. Stuart was a member of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission in 1991 and 1993. He was appointed to the 1991 commission by President George H. W. Bush and the 1993 commission by President Bill Clinton. He served on the board of the National Commission on the Public Service, which was chaired by Paul Volcker, which produced the Volcker Report in 2003.
Title: Mark Evans Austad
Content:  After his service to the Nixon administration and visibility in the Washington, D.C., community, Austad was appointed Ambassador to Finland in 1975. In this role, he was also a delegate to the Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe which brought about the Helsinki Accords. Austad became the first American diplomat to be knighted by Finland, under the Order of the White Rose and Order of the Lion. In 1981, while living in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire and Scottsdale, Arizona, Austad was appointed Ambassador to Norway by President Ronald Reagan. He served in this position until 1984 and was well received and awarded Norway's highest honor given to foreigners, the Grand Cross of St. Olav's Order, for his work in 
Title: Samuel D. Heins
Content:  Samuel D. Heins (born May 31, 1947) is the former United States Ambassador to Norway, serving from 2016 to 2017. The wait for confirmation of a new ambassador by the United States Senate led to the Embassy being without a Senate-confirmed Ambassador for 29 months. He succeeded Barry B. White, who had resigned the position in 2013.

Question: Verify the following claims with "True" or "False": An astronaut did not serve as Chief of the Astronaut Office in 1976 and had not a title as the United States Ambassador to Norway.
Answer: True