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Saudi Arabia
U.S. diplomatic chiefs of mission to Saudi Arabia
Bert Fish (Minister 1939-41) Alexander C. Kirk (Minister 1941-43) James S. Moose, Jr. (Minister 1943-44) William Alfred Eddy (Minister 1944-46) J. Rives Childs (Minister 1946-49) J. Rives Childs (Ambassador 1949-50) Raymond A. Hare (Ambassador 1950-53) George Wadsworth II (Ambassador 1953-58) Donald R. Heath (Ambassador 1958-61) Parker T. Hart (Ambassador 1961-65) Hermann Eilts (Ambassador 1965-70) Nicholas G. Thacher (Ambassador 1970-73) James Akins (Ambassador 1973-75) William J. Porter (Ambassador 1975-77) John C. West (Ambassador 1977-81) Robert G. Neumann (Ambassador 1981) Richard W. Murphy (Ambassador 1981-83) Walter L. Cutler (Ambassador 1984-87) Hume Horan (Ambassador 1987-88) Walter L. Cutler (Ambassador 1988-89) Charles W. Freeman, Jr. (Ambassador 1989-92) Ray Mabus, Jr. (Ambassador 1994-96) Wyche Fowler, Jr. (Ambassador 1996-2001) Robert W. Jordan (Ambassador 2001-03) James C. Oberwetter (Ambassador 2003-) |
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