List of Jamaican ambassadors to the United States
The ambassador to Washington, DC is also regularly accredited as permanent representative of the Jamaican government to the Organization of American States .
| appointment | Accreditation | ambassador | comment | List of Prime Ministers of Jamaica | List of Presidents of the United States | Leave post |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 1962 | Vincent Homer McFarlane | Chargé d'affaires , opened the embassy | Alexander Bustamante | John F. Kennedy | ||
| 17 Sep 1962 | Oct 23, 1962 | Neville Ashenheim | ||||
| Aug 30, 1967 | Sep 12 1967 | Egerton Rudolph Richardson | Donald Sangster | Lyndon B. Johnson | ||
| 28 Sep 1972 | Oct 2, 1972 | Douglas Valmore Fletcher | Michael Manley | Richard Nixon | ||
| Sep 9 1975 | Nov 21, 1975 | Alfred Rattray | Gerald Ford | |||
| Nov 10, 1980 | Thomas Alvin Stimpson | Chargé d'affaires (born June 6, 1930) 1993: Ambassador to Mexico City. Thomas A. Stimpson, BS ('49) June 6, 1930 OASGA Delegate b. 63 Wildman St., Kingston JM Civil Service '50 - '55 Robert K. Stimpson YMCA Betty V. Davis Cricket '48 Football '48 Track & Field '48, '49 Ministry External Affairs Ambassador: Mexico '93 Charge d'Affaires: USA '80 Undersecretary '75 Sr. Economist '73 st 1 Secretary: USA '67 Charge d'Affaires: UK '62 NYU '59 London School of Economics '65 (Economist) | Edward Seaga | Jimmy Carter | ||
| Feb. 5, 1981 | Feb. 24, 1981 | Keith Johnson | Ronald Reagan | |||
| May 8, 1991 | June 11, 1991 | Richard Leighton Bernal | Born November 30, 1949 in Kingston, Jamaica, son of Kathleen Cecelia Maxwell and Franklin Abraham Bernal. Franklin Bernal was a civil servant but is perhaps better known for his seminal work, Birds of Jamaica. | Michael Manley | George HW Bush | |
| Nov 6, 2001 | Nov 8, 2001 | Seymour Mullings | Percival J. Patterson | |||
| July 12, 2004 | July 15, 2004 | Gordon Shirley | Bachelor of Engineering, St. Augustine Campus in Trinidad, mid to late 1970s: Mechanical Engineer at Alcan Jamaica Company Limited , PhD in Business Administration and Operations Management from Harvard University , 1987-1991: Assistant Professor at the University of California , Carlton Alexander Professor for Management at the Mona Campus from 1991 as head of the Department for Management Studies and Director of the Institute for Economics in Mona. 1997 to 2001 also Executive Director of the Jamaica Public Service , 2004–2010: Ambassador to Washington, DC, June 19, 2013 - 2016: Head of the Port Authority of Jamaica . | |||
| May 26, 2010 | June 28, 2010 | Audrey Marks | Bruce Golding | Barack Obama | ||
| 20th July 2012 | July 30, 2012 | Stephen Vasciannie | Portia Simpson Miller |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Alvin Stimpson
- ↑ Richard Leighton Bernal ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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.
- ↑ Gordon Shirley
- ↑ Stephen Vasciannie ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2015 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.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 15, 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.
