The Political Graveyard: Congo (Kinshasa)

Congo (Kinshasa)
Central Africa

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Congo (Kinshasa) information:

Population: 53,624,718
Land area 905,567 square miles.
Capital: Kinshasa

Neighboring areas:

North: Central African Republic; Sudan
East: Uganda; Rwanda; Burundi; Tanzania
South: Zambia; Angola
West: Gulf of Guinea; Cabinda; Congo (Brazzaville)

The Political Graveyard:

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Congo (Kinshasa)
U.S. Consuls in Congo (Kinshasa)

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Congo (Kinshasa)

Clare H. Timberlake (Ambassador to the Congo (Leopoldville) 1960-61) Edmund A. Gullion (Ambassador to the Congo (Leopoldville) 1961-64) G. McMurtrie Godley II (Ambassador to the Congo (Leopoldville) 1964-66) Robert H. McBride (Ambassador 1967-69) Sheldon B. Vance (Ambassador 1969-74) Deane R. Hinton (Ambassador to Zaire 1974-75) Walter L. Cutler (Ambassador to Zaire 1975-79) Robert B. Oakley (Ambassador to Zaire 1979-82) Peter Dalton Constable (Ambassador to Zaire 1982-84) Brandon Hambright Grove, Jr. (Ambassador to Zaire 1984-87) William C. Harrop (Ambassador to Zaire 1987-91) Melissa Foelsch Wells (Ambassador to Zaire 1991-92) Daniel H. Simpson (Ambassador to Zaire 1995-98) William L. Swing (Ambassador 1998-2001) Aubrey Hooks (Ambassador 2001-)

U.S. Consuls in Congo (Kinshasa)

(may be incomplete!)

Boma: Clarence R. Slocum (Consul General 1906-07) James A. Smith (Consul General 1907) Charles C. Broy (Vice Consul 1909-11) Harry A. McBride (Vice Consul 1914-16) Henry D. Campbell (Vice Consul 1916)
Elisabethville (Lubumbashi): J. Brock Havron (Consul 1949)
Léopoldville (Kinshasa): Edmund J. Dorsz (Consul 1938) Patrick Mallon (Consul 1943) Leonard J. Cromie (Vice Consul 1943) Edward M. Ingle (Vice Consul 1943) Edwin W. Martin (Vice Consul 1944) Robert L. Buell (Consul General 1945) L. Dean Brown (Vice Consul 1946) William M. Gwynn (Consul General 1947) William H. Beach (Consul General 1949)

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