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Ambassador of the United States to Slovakia
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Incumbent Gautam A. Rana since September 28, 2022
Nominator	The President of the United States
Inaugural holder	Theodore E. Russell as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Formation	November 22, 1993
Website	U.S. Embassy - Bratislava

Until 1992 the Slovak Republic had been united with the Czech Republic as the nation of Czechoslovakia. Following World War II, a U.S. consulate was established in Bratislava, but the consulate was closed on May 27, 1950, on the order of the Czechoslovak government, at the height of the Cold War. In 1990 the consulate was reestablished in Bratislava. The Consulate was upgraded to the status of Consulate General on October 21, 1991. In June 1992, the Slovak parliament voted to declare sovereignty and the Czech-Slovak federation dissolved peacefully on January 1, 1993. The United States recognized the Slovak Republic as an independent state and established diplomatic relations with it on January 1, 1993. The embassy in Bratislava was established January 4, 1993, with Paul Hacker as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim. He was replaced by Eleanor Sutter on July 7, 1993. The first ambassador, Theodore E. Russell was commissioned to Slovakia on November 22, 1993. The United States has maintained diplomatic relations with Slovakia since 1993.

Ambassadors


Name	Title	Appointed	Presented credentials	Terminated mission
Theodore E. Russell – Career FSO	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 22, 1993	December 16, 1993	March 29, 1996
Ralph R. Johnson – Career FSO		January 18, 1996	April 4, 1996	May 21, 1999
Carl Spielvogel – Political appointee^[1]		August 3, 2000	September 7, 2000	April 15, 2001
Ronald Weiser – Political appointee		November 26, 2001	January 5, 2002	December 19, 2004
Rodolphe M. "Skip" Vallee – Political appointee		June 21, 2005	August 23, 2005	December 5, 2007
Vincent Obsitnik – Political appointee		November 9, 2007	December 6, 2007	January 20, 2009
Theodore Sedgwick – Political appointee		July 4, 2010	August 18, 2010	July 2, 2015
Liam Wasley	Chargé d'Affaires	September 20, 2015^[2]	N/A	August 2016
Adam H. Sterling – Career FSO	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 25, 2016	September 6, 2016	August 7, 2019
Bridget Brink – Career FSO	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 29, 2019	August 20, 2019^[3]	May 18, 2022
Nicholas Namba	Chargé d'Affaires	May 19, 2022	N/A	September 14, 2022
Gautam Rana	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 4, 2022	September 28, 2022	Incumbent

Notes

^ Spielvogel was commissioned during a recess of the Senate. A later nomination of September 28, 2000, was not acted upon by the Senate.
^ "I'm glad to return to Slovakia". October 21, 2015.
^ "Ambassador Bridget Brink Presents Credentials to President Zuzana Čaputová". U.S. Embassy Bratislava. August 20, 2019. Retrieved August 21, 2019.

References

United States Department of State: Background notes on Slovakia
This article incorporates public domain material from U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets. United States Department of State.

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