US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

US Ambassador to Egypt. Briefly united with Syria as the United Arab Republic; see also US Ambassador to Syria.

17-Mar-1849	24-Oct-1852	Daniel Smith McCauley	Died at post
07-May-1853	14-Dec-1853	Richard B. Jones
14-Dec-1853	04-Mar-1861	Edwin De Leon
01-Jul-1861	10-Apr-1864	William Sydney Thayer	Consul General; Died at post
15-Oct-1864	23-May-1870	Charles Hale
02-Jun-1870	16-Jul-1872	George H. Butler
24-Sep-1872	23-Jan-1876	Richard Beardsley	Died at post
17-Jul-1876	17-May-1881	Elbert E. Farman
22-Oct-1881	27-Mar-1882	Simon Wolf
16-Dec-1882	20-Jul-1884	George P. Pomeroy
19-Apr-1886	07-Oct-1889	John Cardwell
23-Nov-1889	02-Jul-1890	Eugene Schuyler
13-Jul-1891	21-Apr-1892	John A. Anderson
22-Apr-1893	22-Aug-1893	Edward C. Little
11-Dec-1893	17-Jun-1897	Frederic C. Penfield
23-Dec-1897	22-Mar-1899	Thomas S. Harrison
02-Apr-1900	15-Jul-1903	John G. Long
28-Mar-1904	09-Jun-1905	John W. Riddle
23-Dec-1905	14-Apr-1910	Lewis M. Iddings
28-Nov-1910	08-Oct-1913	Peter Augus Jay
23-Mar-1914	08-Jan-1916	Olney Arnold
07-Feb-1918	07-Dec-1919	Hampson Gary
02-Aug-1920	31-Oct-1921	Carroll Sprigg
31-Oct-1921	06-Jul-1927	J. Morton Howell
19-Jul-1928	30-Jul-1930	Franklin Mott Gunther
13-Oct-1930	05-Sep-1933	William M. Jardine
02-Dec-1933	28-Feb-1941	Bert Fish
29-Mar-1941	29-Apr-1944	Alexander C. Kirk
14-Jun-1944	30-May-1948	S. Pinkney Tuck
02-Sep-1948	18-Mar-1949	Stanton Griffis
29-Sep-1949	11-Jan-1955	Jefferson Caffery
07-Mar-1955	10-Sep-1956	Henry A. Byroade
25-Sep-1956	18-Dec-1959	Raymond A. Hare	United Arab Republic
22-Mar-1960	06-May-1961	G. Frederick Reinhardt	United Arab Republic
19-Jul-1961	09-Jun-1964	John S. Badeau
22-Sep-1964	05-Mar-1967	Lucius Battle
05-Apr-1967	10-Jun-1967	Richard H. Nolte	Egypt severs diplomatic relations 6-Jun-1967
20-Apr-1974	20-May-1979	Hermann Eilts	Cairo embassy reestablished 28-Feb-1974
02-Jul-1979	12-Nov-1983	Alfred L. Atherton
24-Nov-1983	01-Apr-1986	Nicholas Veliotes
Apr-1986	Aug-1986	William Clark, Jr.	Interim
28-Aug-1986	06-Jun-1991	Frank G. Wisner
12-Sep-1991	11-Dec-1993	Robert Pelletreau
20-Jul-1994	07-Dec-1997	Edward S. Walker
13-Jan-1998	22-Jun-2001	Daniel Kurtzer
22-Sep-2001	15-Mar-2005	C. David Welch
13-Nov-2005	2008	Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr.
16-Jun-2008	--	Margaret Scobey

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