The United States Ambassador to Norway (formally the Ambassador of the United States to the Kingdom of Norway) is the official representative of the
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and the
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to the
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and
Government of Norway.
Since the United States was recognized as an independent country in 1783, it first established diplomatic relations with
Norway
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in 1818 when
Jonathan Russell was accepted as the Minister Plenipotentiary to
Sweden and Norway. From 1814 to 1905, Sweden and Norway were in a
personal union
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. Although each country was fully sovereign, they had a common foreign policy and diplomatic service. The
United States Ambassador to Sweden
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thus was the US representative to Norway as well as Sweden. In 1905
Sweden and Norway peacefully separated and Norway continued to be an independent
constitutional monarchy
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. On November 14, 1905, the
US State Department
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instructed Ambassador
Charles H. Graves to handle affairs for Sweden and Norway separately and the Ambassador was thus commissioned to Norway equally with Sweden, though he remained in
Stockholm.
On June 22, 1906,
Herbert H. D. Peirce was appointed to be the first ambassador of the US appointed specifically solely for Norway. On August 6, 1906, the embassy in Stockholm ceased all functions related to Norway. Peirce presented his credentials to the foreign minister of Norway on August 13, 1906.
List of Ambassadors
Notes
See also
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Embassy of the United States, Oslo
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Norway – United States relations
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Foreign relations of Norway
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Ambassadors of the United States
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References
United States Department of State: Background notes on Norway*
External links
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United States Ambassador's Residence in Oslo
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Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
United States
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