List of ambassadors of Sierra Leone to the United States

The Sierra Leonean Ambassador in Washington, D.C. is the official representative of the Government of in Freetown to the Government of the People's Republic of United States.

Ambassador of Sierra Leone to United States Embassy of Sierra Leone in Washington, D.C.
Inaugural holder	William Henry Fitzjohn
Formation	April 27, 1961

List of representatives

Diplomatic agreement/designated	Diplomatic accreditation	Ambassador	Observations	President of Sierra Leone	List of presidents of the United States	Term end
April 27, 1961			EMBASSY OPENED	Maurice Henry Dorman	John F. Kennedy
April 27, 1961		William Henry Fitzjohn	Chargé d'affaires[1]	Maurice Henry Dorman	John F. Kennedy
June 26, 1961	July 18, 1961	Richard Edmund Kelfa-Caulker		Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston	John F. Kennedy
October 16, 1963	November 20, 1963	Gershon Collier	[2]	Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston	Lyndon B. Johnson
February 16, 1967	February 17, 1967	Christopher Okoro Cole	[3]	Andrew Juxon-Smith	Lyndon B. Johnson
January 18, 1968	January 19, 1968	Adesanya Kwamina Hyde		Andrew Juxon-Smith	Lyndon B. Johnson
August 22, 1969	October 2, 1969	John Akar		John Amadu Bangura	Richard Nixon
April 22, 1971		Collins O. Bright	Chargé d'affaires	Siaka Stevens	Richard Nixon
July 21, 1971	July 22, 1971	Jacob Arthur Christian Davies	(* May 24, 1925) He is the son of Christiana Davies and Jacob S. Education: Tropical Agriculture at University of Reading, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, Imperial College,. Career: 1967-1969 Perm. Secretary; Co-Director of a project of the United Nations Program, FAO. And later appointed Chairman of the Public Service Commission. 1972-1974: High Commissioner in the United Kingdom and the Ambassador not resident in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. 1975-1976: Deputy Director of United Nations Operations for Agriculture FAO Division, Rome. 1976-1982: Director of the Personnel Division. 1982: Assistant Director-General, Regional Representative for Africa.	Siaka Stevens	Richard Nixon
September 26, 1972	October 2, 1972	Philip Jonathan Gbagu Palmer		Siaka Stevens	Richard Nixon
June 18, 1978		Olu William Harding	Chargé d'affaires He was ambassador to Moscow, Rev. Harding is an ordained elder and member of the Wyoming Conference of the United Methodist Church.[4]	Siaka Stevens	Jimmy Carter
July 26, 1978	August 2, 1978	Mohamed Morlai Turay		Siaka Stevens	Jimmy Carter
February 28, 1981		Ahmed Seray-Wurie	Chargé d'affaires	Siaka Stevens	Ronald Reagan
December 21, 1981	January 13, 1982	Dauda Kamara		Siaka Stevens	Ronald Reagan
February 20, 1987	May 11, 1987	Sahr Thomas Matturi [de]		Joseph Saidu Momoh	Ronald Reagan
October 25, 1988	November 9, 1988	George Munda Carew	[5]	Joseph Saidu Momoh	Ronald Reagan
March 25, 1993	June 23, 1993	Thomas Kahota Kargbo	(* June 15, 1937 in Kamassassa Freetown) Education: Doctor of Medicine, University of Leeds, England. Royal College of Obstetricians and Surgeons, England. Johns Hopkins University, West Africa, University Surgeons. From 1975-1985 practiced in obstetrics, Sierra Leone. In 1987 Medical Government of Sierra Leone. 1990-1991: Review Committee,. Proposed member of Parliament. 1991-1993: minister of commerce, industry and state enterprises	Valentine Strasser	Bill Clinton
September 19, 1996	October 9, 1996	John Ernest Leigh		Ahmad Tejan Kabbah	Bill Clinton
March 17, 2003	May 8, 2003	Ibrahim M'baba Kamara	former Sierra Leone's Ambassador to Ethiopia and currently United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) consultant, Ibrahim M'baba Kamara	Ahmad Tejan Kabbah	George W. Bush
November 13, 2006	December 8, 2006	Sulaiman Tejan-Jalloh		Ahmad Tejan Kabbah	George W. Bush	May 25, 1997
March 28, 2008	April 9, 2008	Bockarie Stevens		Ernest Bai Koroma	George W. Bush	April 4, 2018

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See also

• Sierra Leone–United States relations

References

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2. Fyle, Magbaily C. (27 March 2006). Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone. Scarecrow Press. p. 38. Retrieved 11 August 2017 – via Internet Archive. Collier, Gershon 1927.
3. "Who's who in Sierra Leone". Lyns Publicity. 11 August 1980. Retrieved 11 August 2017 – via Google Books.
4. "Board Members". Hands for Africa. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
5. Wiredu, Kwasi (15 April 2008). A Companion to African Philosophy. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780470997376. Retrieved 11 August 2017 – via Google Books.
6. "Sierra Leone". 13 September 2016. Archived from the original on 26 May 2019. Retrieved 11 August 2017.