Costa Rica
Central America
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Costa Rica
Central America
U.S. diplomatic chiefs of mission toCosta Rica
| SolonBorland (Minister 1853-54)MirabeauB. Lamar (Minister 1858-59)AlexanderDimitry (Minister 1859-61)CharlesN. Riotte (Minister 1861-67)AlbertG. Lawrence (Minister 1867-68)JacobB. Blair (Minister 1868-73)GeorgeWilliamson (Minister 1873-79)CorneliusA. Logan (Minister 1879-82)HenryC. Hall (Minister 1882-89)LansingB. Mizner (Minister 1889-90)RomualdoPacheco (Minister 1890-91)RichardC. Shannon (Minister 1891-93)LewisBaker (Minister 1893-97)WilliamL. Merry (Minister 1897-1911)LewisEinstein (Minister 1911)EdwardJ. Hale (Minister 1913-17)RoyT. Davis (Minister 1922-30)CharlesC. Eberhardt (Minister 1930-33)LeoR. Sack (Minister 1933-37)WilliamH. Hornibrook (Minister 1937-41)ArthurBliss Lane (Minister 1941-42)RobertM. Scotten (Minister 1942-43)FayA. Des Portes (Ambassador 1943-44)HallettC. Johnson (Ambassador 1944-47)WalterJ. Donnelly (Ambassador 1947)NathanielP. Davis (Ambassador 1947-49)JosephFlack (Ambassador 1949-50)PhilipB. Fleming (Ambassador 1951-53)RobertC. Hill (Ambassador 1953-54)RobertF. Woodward (Ambassador 1954-58)WhitingWillauer (Ambassador 1958-61)RaymondTelles (Ambassador 1961-67)ClarenceA. Boonstra (Ambassador 1967-69)WalterC. Ploeser (Ambassador 1970-72)VironP. Vaky (Ambassador 1972-74)TerenceA. Todman (Ambassador 1974-77)MarvinWeissman (Ambassador 1977-80)FrancisJ. McNeil (Ambassador 1980-83)CurtinWinsor, Jr. (Ambassador 1983-85)LewisArthur Tambs (Ambassador 1985-87)DeaneR. Hinton (Ambassador 1987-90)LuisGuinot, Jr. (Ambassador 1991-93)PeterJon de Vos (Ambassador 1994-97)ThomasJ. Dodd (Ambassador 1997-)JohnJ. Danilovich (Ambassador 2001) |
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