United States Ambassador to Albania

Ambassador of the United States to Albania
Ambasadori i Shteteve të Bashkuara në Shqipëri

Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent
Donald Lu
since December 2014
Nominator Barack Obama
Inaugural holder Ulysses Grant-Smith
as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Formation September 22, 1922
Website U.S. Embassy - Tirana

U.S. diplomatic terms

Career FSO
After 1915, The United States Department of State began classifying ambassadors as career Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) for those who have served in the Foreign Service for a specified amount of time.

Political appointee
A person who is not a career foreign service officer, but is appointed by the president (often as a reward to political friends).

Appointed
The date that the ambassador took the oath of office; also known as “commissioning”. It follows confirmation of a presidential appointment by the Senate, or a Congressional-recess appointment by the president. In the case of a recess appointment, the ambassador requires subsequent confirmation by the Senate.

Presented credentials
The date that the ambassador presented his letter of credence to the head of state or appropriate authority of the receiving nation. At this time the ambassador officially becomes the representative of his country. This would normally occur a short time after the ambassador’s arrival on station. The host nation may reject the ambassador by not receiving the ambassador’s letter, but this occurs only rarely.

Terminated mission
Usually the date that the ambassador left the country. In some cases a letter of recall is presented, ending the ambassador’s commission, either as a means of diplomatic protest or because the diplomat is being reassigned elsewhere and replaced by another envoy.

Chargé d'affaires
The person in charge of the business of the embassy when there is no ambassador commissioned to the host country. See chargé d'affaires.

Ad interim
Latin phrase meaning "for the time being", "in the meantime". See ad interim.

This is a list of Ambassadors of the United States to Albania.

Albania had been under the domination of the Ottoman Empire since the 14th century but gained a shaky independence in 1912 after an uprising against the Turks. After suffering invasions and occupations during the First and Second Balkan Wars and the Great War, Albania achieved a relatively stable degree of statehood.

The United States established diplomatic relations with Albania in 1922. President Harding appointed the first U.S. Minister to Albania, Ulysses Grant-Smith, who arrived in Tirana in December 1922. The first envoys to Albania had the rank of Minister.

Albania–United States relations were broken in 1939 upon the Italian invasion of Albania just prior to the start of World War II. Relations were not restored until the downfall of Communism in Europe in 1991.

The United States Embassy in Albania is located in Tirana.

Ambassadors

Notes

  1. ↑ Hart was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on December 17, 1925.
  2. ↑ Hart was reaccredited when Albania became a monarchy. He presented new credentials December 13, 1928
  3. ↑ Wheeler was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on January 15, 1934.
  4. ↑ Obituary, The New York Times. May 21, 2002
  5. ↑ Obituary. Los Angeles Times. May 21, 2002

See also

References

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