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# 									Deans of the Diplomatic Corps							

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### DEANS OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS

#### UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

#### 1893 to PRESENT

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The Dean or doyen is the senior diplomatic representative of the diplomatic corps who has served the longest in the United States. Seniority depends on the date of arrival in the capital coupled with the official presentation of credentials. The duties are chiefly ceremonial in nature.

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**Hersey Kyota, Ambassador of the Republic of Palau**

July 23, 2015 – present

**Roble Olhaye, Ambassador of the Republic of Djibouti**

September 9, 2005 – July 22, 2015

**HRH Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, Ambassador of Saudi Arabia**

September 4, 1993 – September 8, 2005

**Paul Pondi, Ambassador of Cameroon**

January 13, 1993 – September 3, 1993

**Shaikh Saud Nasir Al-Sabah, Ambassador of Kuwait**

January 8, 1992 – January 12, 1993

**Abdellah Ould Daddah, Ambassador of Mauritania**

February 8, 1991 – January 7, 1992

**Jose Luis Fernandes Lopes, Ambassador of Cape Verde**

July 11, 1989 – February 7, 1991

**Andrew J. Jacovides, Ambassador of Cyprus**

June 1, 1989 – July 10, 1989

**Count Wilhelm Wachtmeister, Ambassador of Sweden**

April 12, 1986 – May 31, 1989

**Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Ambassador of the Soviet Union**

July 17, 1979 – April 11, 1986

**Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, Ambassador of Nicaragua**

January 1958 – July 16, 1979

**Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne, Ambassador of Norway**

September 1947 – December 1957

**Carlos Martins, Ambassador of Brazil**

November 1945 – August 1947

**Dr. Don Francisco Castillo Majera, Ambassador of Mexico**

February 1945 – October 1945

**Count Robert van der Straten-Ponthaz, Ambassador of Belgium**

December 1944 – January 1945

**Mehmet Munir Ertegun, Ambassador of Turkey**

May 1944 – November 1944

**Sr. Don Manuel de Freyre y Santander, Ambassador of Peru**

September 1939 – April 1944

**Sir Ronald Lindsay, P.C., G.C.M.G., K.C.B., C.V.O., Ambassador of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland**

July 1934 – August 1939

**Ahmet Muhtar, Ambassador of Turkey**

May 1933 – June 1934

**Paul Caludel, Ambassador of France**

February 1933 – April 1933

**Nobile Giacomo de Martino, Ambassador of Italy**

November 1931 – January 1933

**Sr. Don Manuel C. Tellez, Ambassador of Mexico**

August 1930 – October 1931

**Dr. Heran Velarde, Ambassador of Peru**

March 1930 – July 1930

**Sir Esme Howard, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., C.V.O., Ambassador of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland**

November 1927 – February 1930

**Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, Ambassador of Belgium**

September 1926 – October 1927

**Sr. Don Juan Riano y Gayanos, Ambassador of Spain**

February 1925 – August 1926

**J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France**

May 1913 – January 1925

**Baron Hengelmüller von Hengervár, Ambassador of Austria-Hungary**

April 1910 – April 1913

**Baron Edmondo Mayor des Planches, Ambassador of Italy**

August 1905 – March 2010

**Comte Cassini, Master of the Imperial Court, Ambassador of Russia**

May 1903 – July 1905

**Herr von Holleben, Ambassador of Germany**

June 1902 – April 1903

**Sir Julian Pauncefote, Ambassador of Great Britain**

April 1893 – May 1902

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