List of ambassadors of the United States to Tunisia

Ambassador of the United States to Tunisia
سفارة الولايات المتحدة في تونس
Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent Joey R. Hood since February 2, 2023
Nominator	The President of the United States
Inaugural holder	Morris N. Hughes as Chargé d'Affaires
Formation	June 6, 1956
Website	U.S. Embassy – Tunis

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		July 28, 1959	October 4, 1959	July 25, 1962
Francis H. Russell – Career FSO		September 10, 1962	October 16, 1962	July 18, 1969
John A. Calhoun – Career FSO		July 8, 1969	July 24, 1969	May 31, 1972
Talcott W. Seelye – Career FSO		September 11, 1972	October 20, 1972	March 22, 1976
Edward W. Mulcahy – Career FSO		March 4, 1976	May 31, 1976	January 5, 1979
Stephen Warren Bosworth – Career FSO		February 9, 1979	March 27, 1979	June 22, 1981
Walter Leon Cutler – Career FSO		December 11, 1981	March 2, 1982	January 2, 1984
Peter Sebastian – Career FSO		June 11, 1984	July 3, 1984	February 19, 1987
Robert H. Pelletreau – Career FSO		June 15, 1987	July 1, 1987	May 11, 1991
John T. McCarthy – Career FSO		July 2, 1991	August 2, 1991	July 16, 1994
Mary Ann Casey – Career FSO		July 5, 1994	September 23, 1994	July 18, 1997
Robin Lynn Raphel – Career FSO		November 7, 1997	December 18, 1997	August 6, 2000
Rust Macpherson Deming – Career FSO		December 28, 2000	November 30, 2001	May 17, 2003
William J. Hudson – Career FSO		December 12, 2003	January 12, 2004	April 14, 2006
Robert F. Godec – Career FSO		May 30, 2006	January 17, 2007	July 29, 2009
Gordon Gray – Career FSO		August 20, 2009	November 19, 2009	July 5, 2012
Jacob Walles – Career FSO		June 21, 2012	July 24, 2012	September 2, 2015
Daniel Rubinstein – Career FSO		October 15, 2015	October 26, 2015	January 15, 2019
Donald Blome – Career FSO		January 9, 2019	February 21, 2019	April 5, 2022
Joey R. Hood – Career FSO		December 26, 2022	February 2, 2023	Incumbent

See also

• Tunisia – United States relations
• Foreign relations of Tunisia
• Ambassadors of the United States

References

• United States Department of State: Background notes on Tunisia
•  This article incorporates public domain material from U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets. United States Department of State.

External links

• United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Tunisia
• United States Department of State: Tunisia
• United States Embassy in Tunis