List of United States Ambassadors in Cape Verde

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The United States Embassy in Cape Verde is located at 6 Rua Abilio Macedo in Praia . Until 1980 the ambassador in Bissau was also regularly accredited in Praia.

Appointed	Accredited	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited at	Leave post
Jan. 28, 1978		Howard L. McGowan	Chargé (born October 21, 1943 in Ohio , † 18 May 2007) son of Eva China King Homer and Ray McGowen, 1965 Bachelor of Methodist University, from April 1968 official in Lisbon, July 1968 USAID Saigon , from April 1973 official in Rio de Janeiro	Jimmy Carter	Rui Duarte de Barros
March 18, 1983	Apr 26, 1983	John Melvin Yates	(* November 25, 1939 in Superior, Montana) January 5, 1999: Ambassador in Yaoundé 2001 attempted murder in his Bastos neighborhood residence	Ronald Reagan	Victor Saúde Maria	May 24, 1986
June 16, 1986	July 15, 1986	Vernon Dubois Penner, Jr.	(Born October 20, 1939 in Brooklyn )	Ronald Reagan	Victor Saúde Maria	Nov 21, 1989
Nov 21, 1989	23 Dec 1989	Francis Terry McNamara	Francis Terry McNamara (born November 2, 1927 in Troy (New York) )	George HW Bush	Victor Saúde Maria	Dec 31, 1992
July 14, 1992	March 24, 1993	Joseph Monroe Segars	(* 1938)	George HW Bush	Carlos Correia	March 17, 1996
June 6, 1996	July 30, 1996	Lawrence Neal Benedict	(* 1942)	Bill Clinton	Manuel Saturnino da Costa	Aug 11, 1999
July 7, 1999	Sep 15 1999	Michael D. Metelits	(* 1942)	Bill Clinton	Francisco Fadul	July 24, 2002
Oct 3, 2002	Nov 21, 2002	Donald C. Johnson	Donald C. Johnson (* 1949), 1994–1997 Ambassador to Ulaanbaatar, since October 16, 2006 Ambassador to Malabo ( Fernando Póo )	George W. Bush	Alamara Nhassé	Apr 4, 2005
June 21, 2005	27 Sep 2005	Roger D. Pierce	Roger Dwayne Pierce (born 1951)	George W. Bush	Carlos Gomes Júnior	June 9, 2010
June 13, 2008		Marianne M. Myles	(* 1954)	George W. Bush	Carlos Correia	Aug 1, 2011
Aug 1, 2010		Dana Brown	Chargé d'affaires	Barack Obama	Carlos Gomes Júnior
Nov 10, 2011		Adrienne S. O'Neal	(* 1954)	Barack Obama	Carlos Gomes Júnior

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Praia ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2007 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. 
2. ↑ Howard L. McGowan ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ John Melvin Yates
4. ↑ Vernon Dubois Penner, Jr.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Francis Terry McNamara
6. ↑ Joseph Monroe Segars
7. ↑ Lawrence Neal Benedict
8. ↑ Michael D. Metelits
9. ^ Donald C. Johnson
10. ↑ Roger Dwayne Pierce
11. ↑ Marianne Myles Matuzek
12. ^ Adrienne S. O'Neal
13. ^ Chiefs of Mission for Cape Verde