List of ambassadors of the United States to Tunisia

The following is a list of United States ambassadors to Tunisia.

Ambassador of the United States to Tunisia
سفارة الولايات المتحدة في تونس
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Incumbent Joey R. Hood since February 2, 2023[1]
Nominator	The president of the United States
Inaugural holder	Morris N. Hughes as Chargé d'Affaires
Formation	June 6, 1956
Website	U.S. Embassy – Tunis

History: US Consul in Tunis

• 1795–1796: Joseph Donaldson Jr. (Consul in Algiers)
• 1795–1797: Samuel D. Heap (acting consul)
• 1796–1797: Joseph Étienne Famin (French, Special Diplomatic Agent)
  • 1797–1797: William Eaton (Treaty Negotiator)
  • 1797–1797: Samuel D. Heap (Treaty Negotiator)
• 1797–1803: William Eaton (Consul)
  • 1798–1798: James Leander Cathcart (Treaty Negotiator)
  • 1798–1798: Richard O'brien (Special Negotiator)
• 1803–1803: James Leander Cathcart (Consul)
• 1813–1815: Mordecai Manuel Noah
• 1815–1819: Thomas D. Anderson
• 1819–1824: Townsend Stith
• 1824–1825: Charles D. (b) Coxe
• 1825–1841: Samuel D. Heap
• 1842–1845: John Howard Payne
• 1851–1852: John Howard Payne
• 1862 – ?: Amos Perry

Ambassadors

Name	Title	Appointed	Presented credentials	Terminated mission	Notes
Morris N. Hughes[2] – Career FSO	Chargé d'Affaires	June 6, 1956	June 6, 1956	October 4, 1956
G. Lewis Jones – Career FSO	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 27, 1956	October 4, 1956	June 11, 1959	Presented new credentials on December 9, 1957, when Tunisia became a republic
Walter N. Walmsley – Career FSO		July 28, 1959	October 4, 1959	July 25, 1962
Francis H. Russell – Career FSO		September 10, 1962	October 16, 1962	July 18, 1969
John A. Calhoun – Career FSO		July 8, 1969	July 24, 1969	May 31, 1972
Talcott W. Seelye – Career FSO		September 11, 1972	October 20, 1972	March 22, 1976
Edward W. Mulcahy – Career FSO		March 4, 1976	May 31, 1976	January 5, 1979
Stephen Warren Bosworth – Career FSO		February 9, 1979	March 27, 1979	June 22, 1981
Walter Leon Cutler – Career FSO		December 11, 1981	March 2, 1982	January 2, 1984
Peter Sebastian – Career FSO		June 11, 1984	July 3, 1984	February 19, 1987
Robert H. Pelletreau – Career FSO		June 15, 1987	July 1, 1987	May 11, 1991
John T. McCarthy – Career FSO		July 2, 1991	August 2, 1991	July 16, 1994
Mary Ann Casey – Career FSO		July 5, 1994	September 23, 1994	July 18, 1997
Robin Lynn Raphel – Career FSO		November 7, 1997	December 18, 1997	August 6, 2000
Rust Macpherson Deming – Career FSO		December 28, 2000	November 30, 2001	May 17, 2003
William J. Hudson – Career FSO		December 12, 2003	January 12, 2004	April 14, 2006
Robert F. Godec – Career FSO		May 30, 2006	January 17, 2007	July 29, 2009
Gordon Gray – Career FSO		August 20, 2009	November 19, 2009	July 5, 2012
Jacob Walles – Career FSO		June 21, 2012	July 24, 2012	September 2, 2015
Daniel Rubinstein – Career FSO		October 15, 2015	October 26, 2015	January 15, 2019
Donald Blome – Career FSO		January 9, 2019	February 21, 2019	April 5, 2022
Joey R. Hood – Career FSO		December 26, 2022	February 2, 2023	Incumbent