List of ambassadors of the United States to Mozambique

Mozambique was an overseas possession of Portugal until 1975. On June 25, 1975, Portugal granted independence to Mozambique, much later than other European nations had freed their own African possessions.

The United States immediately recognized the new nation and moved to establish diplomatic relations. An embassy in the capital Maputo (then named Lourenço Marques) was opened November 8, 1975, with Johnnie Carson as chargé d’affaires ad interim. On February 4, 1976, Ambassador Willard Ames De Pree was appointed as the first Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Mozambique.

Ambassadors

Notes

1. An earlier nomination of October 7, 1986, was not acted upon by the Senate.
2. https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/chapman-todd-c ^{[bare URL]}
3. "Ambassador Dennis Walter Hearne". U.S. Embassy in Mozambique. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
4. "U.S. Ambassador to Mozambique Dennis Walter Hearne presents credentials to Mozambican President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi". Club of Mozambique. April 3, 2019. Retrieved April 6, 2019.

See also

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

Sources

• United States Department of State: Background notes on Mozambique
•  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 Mozambique
• United States Department of State: Mozambique
• United States Embassy in Maputo