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|inaugural = [[David Humphreys (soldier)|David Humphreys]]<br/>as Minister Resident |
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Revision as of 22:33, 14 April 2022
Ambassador of the United States to Portugal | |
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Incumbent since April 6, 2022Randi Levine | |
Nominator | The President of the United States |
Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
Inaugural holder | David Humphreys as Minister Resident |
Formation | February 21, 1791 |
Website | U.S. Embassy - Lisbon |
Bilateral diplomatic relations between the United States and Portugal date from the earliest years of the United States. Following the Revolutionary War, Portugal was the first neutral country to recognize the United States. On February 21, 1791, President George Washington opened formal diplomatic relations, naming Col. David Humphreys as U.S. Minister Resident. Subsequent envoys were given the title Minister Plenipotentiary.
On March 10, 2022 the U.S. Senate confirmed Randi Charno Levine to serve as the next U.S. Ambassador to Portugal.[1]
Ambassadors
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Career FSO After 1915, The United States Department of State began classifying ambassadors as career Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) for those who have served in the Foreign Service for a specified amount of time. Political appointee A person who is not a career foreign service officer, but is appointed by the president (often as a reward to political friends). Appointed The date that the ambassador took the oath of office; also known as "commissioning". It follows confirmation of a presidential appointment by the Senate, or a Congressional recess appointment by the president. In the case of a recess appointment, the ambassador requires subsequent confirmation by the Senate to remain in office. Presented credentials The date that the ambassador presented his letter of credence to the head of state or appropriate authority of the receiving nation. At this time the ambassador officially becomes the representative of his country. This would normally occur a short time after the ambassador's arrival on station. The host nation may reject the ambassador by not receiving the ambassador's letter, but this occurs only rarely. Terminated mission Usually the date that the ambassador left the country. In some cases a letter of recall is presented, ending the ambassador's commission, either as a means of diplomatic protest or because the diplomat is being reassigned elsewhere and replaced by another envoy. Chargé d'affaires The person in charge of the business of the embassy when there is no ambassador commissioned to the host country. Ad interim Latin phrase meaning "for the time being", "in the meantime". |
Name | Title | Appointed | Presented Credentials | Terminated Mission | Notes |
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David Humphreys | Minister Resident | February 21, 1791 | May 13, 1791 | July 25, 1797 | |
William L. Smith | Minister Plenipotentiary | July 10, 1797 | September 8, 1797 | September 9, 1801 | There was no U.S. minister representing the U.S. from 1801–1807. |
Thomas Sumter Jr.[2] | March 7, 1809 | June 7, 1810 | July 24, 1819 | ||
John Graham[2] | January 6, 1819 | June 24, 1819 | June 13, 1820 | ||
John James Appleton[2][3] | Chargé d'Affaires | Not commissioned | — | July 12, 1821. | |
Henry Dearborn, Sr. | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 7, 1822 | Unknown[4] | June 30, 1824 | |
Thomas L. L. Brent[5] | Chargé d'Affaires | March 9, 1825 | June 24, 1825 | November 28, 1834 | |
Edward Kavanagh | March 3, 1835 | July 25, 1835 | April 19, 1841 | ||
Washington Barrow | August 16, 1841 | December 28, 1841 | February 24, 1844 | ||
Abraham Rencher[6] | September 22, 1843 | February 24, 1844 | November 4, 1847 | ||
George W. Hopkins | March 3, 1847 | November 4, 1847 | October 18, 1849 | ||
James Brown Clay[7] | August 1, 1849 | October 18, 1849 | August 19, 1850 | ||
Charles B. Haddock | December 10, 1850 | June 17, 1851 | June 16, 1854 | ||
John L. O'Sullivan[8] | February 16, 1854 | June 16, 1854 | June 29, 1854 | Promoted to Minister Resident | |
John L. O'Sullivan[8] | Minister Resident | June 29, 1854 | October 19, 1854 | July 15, 1858 | |
George W. Morgan | May 11, 1858 | July 15, 1858 | July 19, 1861 | ||
James E. Harvey | March 28, 1861 | July 19, 1861 | July 15, 1869 | ||
Samuel Shellabarger | April 21, 1869 | July 15, 1869 | January 1, 1870 | ||
Charles H. Lewis | March 15, 1870 | June 15, 1870 | April 8, 1875 | ||
Benjamin Moran | December 15, 1874 | April 8, 1875 | November 9, 1876[9] | ||
Benjamin Moran[9] | Chargé d'Affaires | August 15, 1876 | November 15, 1876 | September 27, 1882 | |
John M. Francis[10] | Minister Resident/Consul General | July 7, 1882 | October 5, 1882 | August 25, 1884 | |
Lewis Richmond | July 4, 1884 | October 23, 1884 | May 7, 1885 | ||
Edward Parke Custis Lewis | April 2, 1885 | June 18, 1885 | June 14, 1889 | ||
George B. Loring | March 30, 1889 | August 29, 1889 | May 31, 1890 | ||
George S. Batcheller | October 1, 1890 | December 30, 1890 | August 17, 1892 | ||
Gilbert A. Pierce | January 6, 1893 | March 20, 1893 | May 24, 1893 | In 1893 the rank of the U.S. representative in Lisbon was raised to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. | |
George William Caruth[11] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 25, 1893 | June 30, 1893 | July 24, 1897 | |
Lawrence Townsend | June 9, 1897 | August 18, 1897 | May 29, 1899 | ||
John N. Irwin[12] | April 12, 1899 | December 26, 1899 | May 15, 1900 | ||
Francis B. Loomis[13] | June 17, 1901 | August 14, 1901 | September 16, 1902 | ||
Charles Page Bryan | January 7, 1903 | April 25, 1903 | January 16, 1910 | ||
Henry T. Gage | December 21, 1909 | June 11, 1910 | November 19, 1910[14] | ||
Edwin V. Morgan | May 24, 1911 | August 3, 1911 | February 11, 1912 | ||
Cyrus E. Woods | January 25, 1912 | March 20, 1912 | August 19, 1913 | ||
Thomas H. Birch – Political appointee | September 10, 1913 | December 15, 1913 | March 15, 1922 | ||
Fred Morris Dearing – Career FSO | February 10, 1922 | June 6, 1922 | February 28, 1930 | ||
John Glover South – Political appointee | December 16, 1929 | March 26, 1930 | July 28, 1933 | ||
Robert Granville Caldwell – Political appointee | June 13, 1933 | August 21, 1933 | May 28, 1937 | ||
Herbert Claiborne Pell – Political appointee | May 27, 1937 | July 31, 1937 | February 3, 1941 | ||
Bert Fish – Political appointee | February 11, 1941 | March 26, 1941 | Died at post July 21, 1943 | ||
Raymond Henry Norweb – Career FSO | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary[15] | November 15, 1943 | December 3, 1943 | May 4, 1944 | In May 1944 the rank of the envoy to Portugal was raised to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. |
R. Henry Norweb – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 4, 1944 | June 20, 1944[16] | February 15, 1945 | |
Herman B. Baruch – Political appointee | February 9, 1945 | April 12, 1945[17] | March 9, 1947 | ||
John C. Wiley – Career FSO | April 10, 1947 | June 18, 1947 | March 15, 1948 | ||
Lincoln MacVeagh – Political appointee | April 8, 1948 | June 9, 1948 | February 26, 1952 | ||
Cavendish W. Cannon – Career FSO | March 13, 1952 | June 2, 1952 | August 1, 1953 | ||
M. Robert Guggenheim – Political appointee | June 24, 1953 | August 12, 1953 | September 19, 1954 | ||
James C. H. Bonbright – Career FSO | January 24, 1955 | February 18, 1955 | November 27, 1958 | ||
C. Burke Elbrick[18] – Career FSO | October 29, 1958 | January 13, 1959 | August 31, 1963 | ||
George W. Anderson, Jr. – Political appointee | August 1, 1963 | October 22, 1963 | June 1, 1966 | ||
W. Tapley Bennett, Jr. – Career FSO | May 10, 1966 | July 20, 1966 | July 21, 1969 | ||
Ridgway B. Knight – Career FSO | July 8, 1969 | July 30, 1969 | February 24, 1973 | ||
Stuart Nash Scott – Political appointee | December 19, 1973 | January 23, 1974 | January 12, 1975 | ||
Frank C. Carlucci – Career FSO | December 9, 1974 | January 24, 1975 | February 5, 1978 | ||
Richard J. Bloomfield – Career FSO | February 3, 1978 | March 10, 1978 | June 10, 1982 | ||
Henry Allen Holmes – Career FSO | September 23, 1982 | October 15, 1982 | June 26, 1985 | ||
Frank Shakespeare – Political appointee | August 2, 1985 | October 16, 1985 | October 4, 1986 | ||
Alan Flanigan | Chargé d'Affaires | December 1986 | — | August 1987 | |
Wesley W. Egan | August 1987 | — | January 1988 | ||
Edward Morgan Rowell[19] – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 19, 1988 | January 29, 1988 | March 30, 1990 | |
Everett Ellis Briggs – Career FSO | April 1, 1990 | May 25, 1990 | September 3, 1993 | Sharon P. Wilkinson served as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, September 1993–September 1994. | |
Elizabeth Frawley Bagley – Political appointee | July 5, 1994 | September 21, 1994 | October 3, 1997 | ||
Gerald S. McGowan – Political appointee | November 10, 1997 | March 10, 1998 | July 3, 2001 | ||
John N. Palmer – Political appointee | November 5, 2001 | November 28, 2001 | September 25, 2004 | ||
Alfred Hoffman, Jr. – Political appointee | October 12, 2005 | November 30, 2005 | September 15, 2007 | ||
Thomas F. Stephenson – Political appointee | October 29, 2007 | February 8, 2008 | June 2009 | ||
Allan J. Katz – Political appointee | March 26, 2010 | April 28, 2010 | July 2013 | ||
Robert A. Sherman – Political appointee | March 5, 2014 | April 5, 2014 | January 20, 2017 | ||
Herro Mustafa – Career FSO | Chargé d'Affaires | January 20, 2017[20] | — | August 25, 2017[21] | |
George Edward Glass – Political appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 9, 2017 | August 30, 2017 | January 20, 2021 |
Notes
- ^ "PN1363 — Randi Charno Levine". Congress.gov. 2022-03-10. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
- ^ a b c During a succession of wars and invasions, the Portuguese royal family was in exile in Brazil in 1807–1821. Ambassadors Sumter and Graham, and Chargé Appleton represented the U.S. at the court of Portugal in Rio de Janeiro.
- ^ Appleton’s nomination as Chargé d’Affaires was rejected by the Senate. He did, however, serve as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim from June 1820 until the legation to Portugal at Rio de Janeiro was closed in 1821.
- ^ Dearborn arrived at Lisbon before August 16, 1822. He did not report the date of presentation of credentials.
- ^ Brent was reaccredited on after change of government of Portugal. He presented new credentials January 18, 1830.
- ^ Rencher was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on January 11, 1844.
- ^ Clay was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on March 18, 1850.
- ^ a b President Franklin Pierce nominated O’Sullivan February 25, 1856, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary but the nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.
- ^ a b Moran was reassigned as Chargé d’Affaires at the Lisbon legation on August 15, 1876. He served in that position until 1882.
- ^ Francis took the oath of office as Chargé d’Affaires but did not proceed to the post under that appointment. He was recommissioned as Minister Resident/Consul General on July 7, 1882.
- ^ Caruth was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on August 22, 1893.
- ^ Irwin was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on December 14, 1899.
- ^ Loomis was commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on December 10, 1901.
- ^ Normal relations between Portugal and the United States were interrupted October 5, 1910 as a result of the 1910 revolution. The new government of Portugal still unrecognized by the United States when Gage left post on November 19, 1910.
- ^ Norweb held the personal rank of Ambassador.
- ^ Norweb’s promotion required the presentation of new credentials.
- ^ Baruch was officially recognized as of April 12, 1945.
- ^ Elbrick was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on January 29, 1959.
- ^ Rowell was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on May 12, 1988.
- ^ Cabrita-Mendes, André (January 6, 2017). "Embaixador dos EUA que apoiou a selecção parte com Portugal 'no coração'" [USA ambassador who supported the national team leaves with Portugal 'on [his] heart']. Jornal de Negócios (in Portuguese). Lisbon. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
A embaixada norte-americana diz que a representação diplomática em Portugal vai ser feita pela ministra conselheira Herro Mustafa até que um novo Embaixador seja nomeado e chegue a Lisboa.
- ^ "Ambassador George E. Glass". U. S. Embassy and Consulate in Portugal. U. S. Department of State. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
George E. Glass of Oregon arrived in Lisbon on August 24, 2017 to serve as United States Ambassador to the Portuguese Republic. He presented his credentials to the President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, on August 25th, 2017.
See also
- Portuguese Embassy, Washington, D.C.
- Portugal – United States relations
- Foreign relations of Portugal
- Ambassadors of the United States
References
- United States Department of State: Background notes on Portugal
This article incorporates public domain material from U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets. United States Department of State.