The following is a list of United States ambassadors to Sudan. The first chief of mission sent by the United States was Arthur E. Beach, who presented his credentials in March 1956. From 1967 to 1972 the embassy was closed, and a U.S. Interest Section was opened in the Netherlands Embassy. In 1973 Ambassador Cleo A. Noel, Jr. was taken hostage and killed by the Black September Organization during the attack on the Saudi embassy in Khartoum. The embassy was again closed in 1996, but reopened in 2002. From 2002 to 2022, the United States posted a sequence of chargés d'affaires ad interim to the country. Ambassador-level representation resumed in 2022 with the appointment of Ambassador John Godfrey, who served until 2024.
| Ambassador of the United States to Sudan | |
|---|---|
| سفارة الولايات المتحدة الأميركية فى جمهورية السودان | |
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Incumbent since May 2024[1]Colleen Crenwelge Chargé d'Affairs ad interim | |
| Inaugural holder | Arthur E. Beach as Chargé d'Affaires |
| Formation | March 1956 |
| Website | U.S. Embassy – Khartoum |
Ambassadors
edit| Name | Title | Appointed | Presented credentials | Terminated mission | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur E. Beach[2] – Career FSO | Chargé d'Affaires | March 17, 1956 | Superseded, May 17, 1956 | The embassy in Khartoum was established Feb 15, 1956, with Beach in charge. | |
| Lowell C. Pinkerton – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 12, 1956 | May 17, 1956 | August 25, 1957 | |
| James S. Moose, Jr. – Career FSO | March 26, 1958 | April 17, 1958 | May 5, 1962 | ||
| William M. Rountree – Career FSO | July 3, 1962 | August 2, 1962 | September 17, 1965 | ||
| William H. Weathersby – Career FSO | October 20, 1965 | December 4, 1965 | Sudan severed diplomatic relations with U.S., June 7, 1967; Weathersby left post June 18, 1967. | The embassy in Khartoum was closed as of June 6, 1967. A U.S. Interest Section was established in the Netherlands Embassy on August 14, 1967. Principal officers were: Cleo A. Noel, Jr. (August 1967 – June 1969), and George Curtis Moore (July 1969 – July 1972). The embassy in Khartoum was re-established July 25, 1972, with Moore as chargé d'affaires ad interim. | |
| Cleo A. Noel, Jr.[3] – Career FSO | Dec 2, 1972 | Dec 23, 1972 | Assassinated at post Mar 2, 1973 | ||
| William D. Brewer – Career FSO | Jul 16, 1973 | Sep 22, 1973 | May 7, 1977 | ||
| Donald C. Bergus – Career FSO | May 19, 1977 | Jul 19, 1977 | Apr 1, 1980 | ||
| C. William Kontos[4] – Political appointee | May 23, 1980 | Jun 24, 1980 | Jul 21, 1983 | ||
| Hume Alexander Horan – Career FSO | Jul 6, 1983 | Jul 30, 1983 | Jul 4, 1986 | ||
| G. Norman Anderson – Career FSO | Jun 16, 1986 | Aug 12, 1986 | Oct 24, 1989 | ||
| James Richard Cheek – Career FSO | Oct 10, 1989 | Nov 16, 1989 | Aug 8, 1992 | ||
| Donald K. Petterson – Career FSO | Jun 15, 1992 | Aug 24, 1992 | Jul 28, 1995 | ||
| Timothy Michael Carney – Career FSO | Jun 27, 1995 | Sep 9, 1995 | November 30, 1997 | Embassy Khartoum closed Feb 7, 1996; Ambassador Carney left Nairobi Nov 30, 1997. | |
| Jeffrey Millington | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | May 23, 2002 | August 2003 | Embassy Khartoum was reopened May 23, 2002 | |
| Gerard M. Gallucci | August 2003 | September 2004 | |||
| David Kaeuper | February 2005 | May 2005 | |||
| John Limbert | July 2005 | September 2005 | |||
| Cameron R. Hume | October 2005 | May 2007 | |||
| Alberto M. Fernandez | June 2007 | May 2009 | |||
| Robert E. Whitehead | May 2009 | July 2011 | |||
| Mary Carlin Yates | September 2011 | February 2012 | |||
| Joseph D. Stafford III | June 2012 | May 13, 2014 | |||
| Jerry P. Lanier | May 13, 2014 | February 26, 2016 | |||
| Steven Koutsis | July 7, 2016 | September 10, 2019 | |||
| Brian W. Shukan | October 2019 | January 2022 | |||
| Lucy Tamlyn | February 3, 2022 | August 24, 2022 | |||
| John Godfrey – Career FSO | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 14, 2022 | September 1, 2022 | February 23, 2024 | |
| Daniel Rubinstein | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | February 23, 2024 | May 2024 | ||
| Colleen Crenwelge | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | May 2024 | Incumbent |
Notes
edit- ^ "Chargé d'Affaires, ad interim Colleen Crenwelge".
- ^ Not commissioned; letter of credence dated Mar 2, 1956.
- ^ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on February 8, 1973.
- ^ "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR C. WILLIAM KONTOS" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 12 February 1992. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 June 2024. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
