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Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

. The current ambassador is Kenneth H. Merten

Kenneth H. Merten

Kenneth H. Merten is an American diplomat and the current United States Ambassador to Haiti. In addition to his current posting, he has previously had both domestic and overseas diplomatic assignments.-Early life:Merten was born in St...

Name	Background	Title	Appointment	Presentation of Credentials	Termination of Mission
Benjamin F. Whidden		Commissioner/Consul General	July 12, 1862	October 1, 1862	Left post, February 23, 1865
H.E. Peck		Commissioner/Consul General	March 14, 1865	September 2, 1865	Promoted to Minister Resident/Consul General
H.E. Peck		Minister Resident/Consul General	August 6, 1866	October 11, 1866	Died at post, June 9, 1867
Gideon H. Hollister		Minister Resident/Consul General	February 5, 1868	On or shortly before June 6, 1868	Presented recall, September 7-September 8, 1869
Ebenezer D. Bassett		Minister Resident/Consul General	April 16, 1869	September 7-September 8, 1869	Presented recall, November 27, 1877
John M. Langston		Minister Resident/Consul General	September 28, 1877	November 27, 1877	Presented recall, June 30, 1885
George W. Williams George Washington Williams George Washington Williams was an American Civil War veteran, minister, politician and historian. Shortly before his death he travelled to King Leopold II's Congo Free State and his open letter to Leopold about the suffering of the region's inhabitants at the hands of Leopold's agents, helped to...		Minister Resident/Consul General	March 2, 1885
John E. W. Thompson John E. W. Thompson John E. W. Thompson was an African-American non-career diplomat. He served as U.S. Chargé d'Affaires to Santo Domingo from 1885 to 1889 and as U.S. Minister Resident / Consul General from June 30, 1885 to October 17, 1889.-Sources:...		Minister Resident/Consul General	May 7, 1885	June 30, 1885	Relinquished charge about October 17, 1889
Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing...		Minister Resident/Consul General	June 26, 1889	November 14, 1889	Left post, July 1891
John S. Durham		Minister Resident/Consul General	September 3, 1891	October 3, 1891	Presented recall, November 7, 1893
Henry M. Smythe		Minister Resident/Consul General	September 15, 1893	November 7, 1893	Left post on or shortly after March 9, 1897
William F. Powell William F. Powell William Frederick Powell was a political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Carleton in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1854 to 1866 as a Conservative member....		Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 17, 1897	August 20, 1897	Left post about November 30, 1905
Henry W. Furniss		Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 23, 1905	December 30, 1905	Presented recall, September 17, 1913
Madison R. Smith Madison R. Smith Madison Roswell Smith was a United States Representative from Missouri.-Biography:Born on a farm near Glenallen, Missouri, Smith attended public schools and Central College in Fayette, Missouri. He taught school and studied law, being admitted to the bar in 1874...		Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 15, 1913	September 30, 1913	Left post, July 8, 1914
Arthur Bailly-Blanchard Arthur Bailly-Blanchard Arthur Bailly-Blanchard sometimes written Arthur Bailey-Blanchard was an American diplomat. He was the American ambassador to Haiti from 1914 to 1921.-Biography:...	Foreign Service officer	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 22, 1914	November 15, 1915	Left post, September 26, 1921
James C. Dunn		Chargé d'Affaires Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were... ad interim Ad interim The Latin phrase ad interim literally means "in the time between" denotes the meaning of "in the meantime", "for an intervening time" or "temporarily" in the English language...		April 1922	February 1924
George R. Merrell, Jr.		Chargé d'Affaires Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were... ad interim Ad interim The Latin phrase ad interim literally means "in the time between" denotes the meaning of "in the meantime", "for an intervening time" or "temporarily" in the English language...		March 1924	October 1926
Christian Gross		Chargé d'Affaires Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were... ad interim Ad interim The Latin phrase ad interim literally means "in the time between" denotes the meaning of "in the meantime", "for an intervening time" or "temporarily" in the English language...		October 1926	November 1927
Christian Gross		Chargé d'Affaires Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were... ad interim Ad interim The Latin phrase ad interim literally means "in the time between" denotes the meaning of "in the meantime", "for an intervening time" or "temporarily" in the English language...		April 1928	December 1928
Stuart E. Grummon		Chargé d'Affaires Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were... ad interim Ad interim The Latin phrase ad interim literally means "in the time between" denotes the meaning of "in the meantime", "for an intervening time" or "temporarily" in the English language...		December 1928	November 1930
Dana G. Munro	Foreign Service officer	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 28, 1930	November 16, 1930	Left post, September 14, 1932
Norman Armour Norman Armour Norman Armour was a career United States diplomat who The New York Times once called "the perfect diplomat"...	Foreign Service officer	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 25, 1932	November 7, 1932	Recess appointment expired, March 4, 1933
Norman Armour Norman Armour Norman Armour was a career United States diplomat who The New York Times once called "the perfect diplomat"...	Foreign Service officer	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 17, 1933	April 11, 1933	Left post, March 21, 1935
George A. Gordon	Foreign Service officer	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 5, 1935	September 6, 1935	Left post, July 21, 1937
Ferdinand L. Mayer	Foreign Service officer	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 13, 1937	November 18, 1937	Left post, November 29, 1940
John Campbell White	Foreign Service officer	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 29, 1940	March 14, 1941	Promoted to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary following a joint announcement on March 23, 1943 with seven other Latin American Republics elevating respective legations to embassies.
John Campbell White	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 27, 1943	April 14, 1943	Left post, February 24, 1944
Orme Wilson	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 21, 1944	June 2, 1944	Left post, August 22, 1946
Harold H. Tittmann, Jr.	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 12, 1946	September 20, 1946	Left post, July 17, 1948
William E. DeCourcy	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 18, 1948	October 13, 1948	Relinquished charge, December 9, 1950
Howard K. Travers	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 3, 1951	October 30, 1951	Left post, February 25, 1952
Roy Tasco Davis	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 6, 1953	September 23, 1953	Relinquished charge, March 9, 1957
Gerald A. Drew Gerald A. Drew Gerald Augustin Drew was a career Foreign Service Officer.-Biography:Born in San Francisco, California, Drew was a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley where he was a member of Phi Kappa Tau. He served as U.S. Vice Consul in Pará, 1929; Envoy to Jordan, 1950–52; Ambassador to...	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 17, 1957	May 15, 1957	Left post, July 16, 1960
Robert Newbegin	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 27, 1960	November 4, 1960	Left post, December 10, 1961
Raymond L. Thurston	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 7, 1961	January 4, 1962	Normal relations interrupted, May 15, 1963; relations not yet resumed when Thurston left post, May 26, 1963
Benson E.L. Timmons III	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 30, 1963	January 16, 1964	Left post, May 28, 1967
Claude G. Ross	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 19, 1967	June 20, 1967	Left post, October 17, 1969
Clinton E. Knox	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 9, 1969	November 13, 1969	Left post, April 26, 1973
Heyward Isham Heyward Isham Heyward Isham , was a negotiator who played an important role in the talks with North Vietnam that led to the Peace accord of 1973. He was born in New York 1926, studied International Relations at Yale, graduating in 1947 before being posted to the American Embassy in Berlin during the Cold War...	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 19, 1973	January 31, 1974	Left post, July 8, 1977
William B. Jones	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 3, 1977	August 12, 1977	Left post, July 12, 1980
Henry L. Kimelman Henry L. Kimelman Henry L. Kimelman was the United States Ambassador to Haiti from 1980-1981.He was President of the Virgin Isle Hotel, the largest resort in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, from 1950-1960. He was also Chairman of the Board and CEO of Island Block Corp. from 1955-1980, and Chairman and CEO of the...	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 27, 1980	October 16, 1980	Left post, February 18, 1981
Ernest H. Preeg	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 20, 1981	July 28, 1981	Left post, August 20, 1983
Clayton E. McManaway, Jr.	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 18, 1983	January 10, 1984	Left post, August 18, 1986
Brunson McKinley	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 12, 1986	October 9, 1986	Left post, November 13, 1989
Alvin P. Adams, Jr.	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 10, 1989	December 8, 1989	Recalled, August 1, 1992
Leslie M. Alexander		Chargé d'Affaires Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were... ad interim Ad interim The Latin phrase ad interim literally means "in the time between" denotes the meaning of "in the meantime", "for an intervening time" or "temporarily" in the English language...		August 1992	July 1993
Vicki Huddleston Vicki Huddleston Vicki J. Huddleston is a U.S. diplomat.Since June 2009, Ambassador Huddleston has been the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She is a former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa; U.S. Ambassador to Madagascar...		Chargé d'Affaires Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were... ad interim Ad interim The Latin phrase ad interim literally means "in the time between" denotes the meaning of "in the meantime", "for an intervening time" or "temporarily" in the English language...		July 1993	October 1993
William Lacy Swing	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 8, 1993	October 13, 1993	Left post, January 5, 1998
Timothy Michael Carney	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 12, 1997	January 14, 1998	Left post, December 11, 1999
Brian Dean Curran	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 28, 2000	January 12, 2001	Left post, May 16, 2003
James B. Foley	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 27, 2003	September 18, 2003	Left post, August 14, 2005
Janet Ann Sanderson	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 21, 2006	March 17, 2006
Kenneth H. Merten Kenneth H. Merten Kenneth H. Merten is an American diplomat and the current United States Ambassador to Haiti. In addition to his current posting, he has previously had both domestic and overseas diplomatic assignments.-Early life:Merten was born in St...	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 4, 2009	August 24, 2009

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