The United States embassy in
Mauritania is located in
Nouakchott
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Mauritania β United States relations have been developing since 1960. The incumbent ambassador is
Cynthia Kierscht
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Ambassadors
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Henry S. Villard β Career
FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
**''Resident in, and concurrent US Ambassador to, neighbouring
Senegal
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**Appointed: November 28, 1960
**Terminated mission: Left post, April 30, 1961
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Philip M. Kaiser β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
**''Resident in, and concurrent US Ambassador to, neighbouring Senegal''
**Appointed: August 1, 1961
**Terminated mission: Left post, May 18, 1964
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William L. Eagleton, Jr β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. ''Ad Interim''
**Appointed: 1962
**Terminated mission: 1964
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Geoffrey W. Lewis β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
**Appointed: March 31, 1965
**Terminated mission: Left post, June 9, 1967
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Robert A. Stein β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
**Appointed: March 1970
**Terminated mission: Left post, November 1971
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Richard W. Murphy
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β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
**Appointed: December 17, 1971
**Terminated mission: Left post, June 5, 1974
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Holsey G. Handyside β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
**Appointed: April 15, 1975
**Terminated mission: Left post, December 5, 1977
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E. Gregory Kryza β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
**Appointed: December 16, 1977
**Terminated mission: Left post, June 29, 1980
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Stanley N. Schrager β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. ''Ad Interim''
**Appointed: September 1980
**Terminated mission: Left post, July 1982
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Edward Brynn β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. ''Ad Interim''
**Appointed: July 1982
**Terminated mission: Left post, February 1983
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Edward Lionel Peck β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
**Appointed: February 19, 1983
**Terminated mission: Left post, July 7, 1985
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Robert L. Pugh β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
**Appointed: September 5, 1985
**Terminated mission: Left post, July 5, 1988
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William H. Twaddell β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
**Appointed: October 6, 1988
**Terminated mission: Left post, July 20, 1991
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Gordon S. Brown β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
**Appointed: September 5, 1991
**Terminated mission: Left post, August 18, 1994
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Dorothy Myers Sampas
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β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
**Appointed: November 3, 1994
**Terminated mission: Left post, July 4, 1997
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Timberlake Foster
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β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
**Appointed: November 11, 1997
**Terminated mission: Left post, October 3, 2000
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John W. Limbert
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β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
**Appointed: November 21, 2000
**Terminated mission: Left post, August 8, 2003
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Joseph LeBaron
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β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
**Appointed: September 1, 2003
**Terminated mission: November 22, 2007
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Mark Boulware
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β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
**Appointed: November 22, 2007
**Terminated mission: Left post, October 1, 2010
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Jo Ellen Powell
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β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
**Appointed: October 10, 2010
**Terminated mission: Left post, December 12, 2013
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Larry AndrΓ© Jr. β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
**Nominated: January 6, 2014
**Appointed: September 25, 2014
**Terminated mission: Left post, November 20, 2017
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Michael Dodman
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β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
**Nominated: July 27, 2017
**Appointed: November 20, 2017
**Terminated mission: February 2021
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Cynthia Kierscht
Cynthia Kierscht is an official at the United States Department of State who has served as the List of ambassadors of the United States to Mauritania, United States Ambassador to Mauritania since June 22, 2021. President Biden on January 23, 202 ...
β Career FSO
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
**Nominated: June 18, 2020
**Appointed: January 27, 2021
**Presentation of credentials: June 22, 2021
**Terminated mission: ''Incumbent''
See also
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Mauritania β United States relations
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Foreign relations of Mauritania
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Ambassadors of the United States
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References
United States Department of State: Background notes on Mauritania*
External links
United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for MauritaniaUnited States Department of State: MauritaniaUnited States Embassy in Nouakchott
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Mauritania
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Lists of ambassadors to Mauritania