List of United States Ambassadors in Albania
The list of US ambassadors to Albania includes all heads of the US mission in Tirana from the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1922 to the present day. The embassy is located at 103 Rruga Elbasanit (Elbasan Street) in Tirana.
Appointed | Accredited | Surname | Remarks | appointed by | accredited at | Leave post |
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22 Sep 1922 | Dec. 4, 1922 | Ulysses Grant-Smith | Warren G. Harding | Regency Council | Feb 8, 1925 | |
May 27, 1925 | Aug 1, 1925 | Charles Calmer Hart | In 1928 the Albanian parliament changed the form of government to monarchy; Charles C. Hart received an accreditation letter for Ahmet Zogu , which he presented on December 13, 1928. | Calvin Coolidge | Ahmet Zogu | Dec 12, 1929 |
Feb. 17, 1930 | Apr 28, 1930 | Herman Bernstein | Herbert Hoover | Ahmet Zogu | Sep 24 1933 | |
Aug 26, 1933 | Nov 28, 1933 | Post wheeler | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Ahmet Zogu | Nov 1, 1934 | |
Aug 9, 1935 | Nov 8, 1935 | Hugh Gladney Grant | After the occupation of Albania by Italian forces on April 8, 1939, the US embassy was closed on September 16, 1939. | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Ahmet Zogu | 27 Sep 1939 |
Oct 1, 1991 | Christopher R. Hill | Charge d'Affaires ad interim; on March 15, 1991 diplomatic relations were established with Albania | George Bush | Ramiz Alia | ||
Dec 2, 1991 | Dec 21, 1991 | William Edwin Ryerson | George Bush | Ramiz Alia | Oct 13, 1994 | |
5th July 1994 | Oct 17, 1994 | Joseph Edward Lake | Bill Clinton | Sali Berisha | March 15, 1996 | |
2nd July 1996 | 4th Sep 1996 | Marisa Lino | Bill Clinton | Sali Berisha | May 20, 1999 | |
July 7, 1999 | 8 Sep 1999 | Joseph Limprecht | († May 19, 2002 in Lura , Albania) | Bill Clinton | Rexhep Meidani | May 19, 2002 |
Oct 3, 2002 | Oct 22, 2002 | James Franklin Jeffrey | George W. Bush | Alfred Moisiu | May 2, 2004 | |
Oct 18, 2004 | Oct 30, 2004 | Marcie Berman Ries | George W. Bush | Alfred Moisiu | June 16, 2007 | |
June 28, 2007 | Aug 29, 2007 | John L. Withers | George W. Bush | Bamir Topi | Nov 10, 2010 | |
July 1, 2010 | Nov 10, 2010 | Alexander Arvizu | Barack Obama | Bamir Topi | Jan. 11, 2015 | |
Dec 16, 2014 | Jan. 13, 2015 | Donald Lu | Barack Obama | Bujar Nishani | ||
Nov 21, 2019 | Jan 27, 2020 | Yuri Kim | First Korean-American and first resident of Guam as American ambassador | Donald Trump | Ilir Meta |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Former Ambassadors. In: Embassy of the United States Tirana, Albania. Retrieved September 4, 2013 .
- ^ US Relations With Albania. In: US Department of State. December 20, 2012, accessed September 4, 2013 .
- ^ Joseph Limprecht, 55; Ambassador to Albania. In: Los Angeles Times . May 21, 2002, accessed September 4, 2013 .
- ↑ Alexander A. Arvizu ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Ambassador of the United States of America presents the Letters of Credentials to the President of the Republic ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Donald Lu US Ambassador to Albania ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Yuri Kim confirmed as Albania ambassador. In: The Guam Daily Post. December 24, 2019, accessed February 1, 2020 .