List of ambassadors of Mauritania to the United States

Ambassador of Mauritania to the United States Embassy of Mauritania in Washington, D.C.
Incumbent Mohamedoun Daddah since June 27, 2016
Inaugural holder	Souleymane Ould Cheikh Sidya
Formation	May 16, 1961

The Mauritanian ambassador in Washington, D. C. is the official representative of the Government in Nouakchott to the Government of the United States.

List of representatives

Diplomatic agrément	Diplomatic accreditation	Ambassador	Observations	List of prime ministers of Mauritania	List of presidents of the United States	Term end
April 21, 1961	May 16, 1961	Souleymane Ould Cheikh Sidya	Mauritanian diplomatist and politician b. c. 24	Moktar Ould Daddah	John F. Kennedy
May 16, 1961			EMBASSY OPENED	Moktar Ould Daddah	John F. Kennedy
April 6, 1964	May 6, 1964	Ahmed Baba Miské		Moktar Ould Daddah	Lyndon B. Johnson
July 28, 1966	August 9, 1966	Abdallahi Ould Daddati		Moktar Ould Daddah	Lyndon B. Johnson
June 7, 1967			SEVERED RELATIONS	Moktar Ould Daddah	Lyndon B. Johnson
December 22, 1969			RESUMED RELATIONS – Chancery opened at 2129 Leroy Place, N.W.	Moktar Ould Daddah	Richard Nixon
December 22, 1969		Abdou Hacheme	Chargé d'affaires,Né le 28 janvier 1941 à Boutilimit - Faculté de droit de Paris - 2ème secrétaire à la mission permanente de la RIM auprès de l ONU depuis septembre 1968	Moktar Ould Daddah	Richard Nixon
June 8, 1970		Maaouya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya	Sidi Ahmed Ould Taya Credentials ceremony scheduled but appointment never kept Taya returned to NY and his UN post. On March 25, 2008 Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, who had served in Taya s cabinet, took 53% of the vote in the second round, defeating opposition leader Ahmed Ould Daddah.	Moktar Ould Daddah	Richard Nixon
April 14, 1971		Mohamed El Moctar Bal	Chargé d'affaires 1979 he was Chargé d'affaires in Vienna	Moktar Ould Daddah	Richard Nixon
August 23, 1971		M'Bareck Ould Bouna Moktar	Chargé daffaires. In 2004 he was ambassador in Kinshasa.	Moktar Ould Daddah	Richard Nixon
December 17, 1971	February 6, 1971	Moulaye el Hassan Ould Moktar		Moktar Ould Daddah	Richard Nixon
February 22, 1973	March 2, 1973	Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah		Moktar Ould Daddah	Richard Nixon
May 18, 1976		Mohamed Saïd Hamody	Chargé daffaires( Maroc dans la soirée du August 20, 2015)	Moktar Ould Daddah	Gerald Ford
June 16, 1976	July 9, 1976	Mohamed Nassim Kochman		Moktar Ould Daddah	Gerald Ford
August 19, 1978		Moktar Ould Haye	Chargé d'affaires	Moktar Ould Daddah	Jimmy Carter
January 8, 1979	February 26, 1979	Sidi Bouna Ould Sidi		Mustafa Ould Salek	Jimmy Carter
October 20, 1980	November 24, 1980	Abdallah Ould Daddah		Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla	Jimmy Carter
March 13, 1992	April 2, 1992	Mohamed Fall Ainina		Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya	George H. W. Bush
September 20, 1994	November 21, 1994	Ismail Ould Iyahi		Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya	Bill Clinton
June 11, 1996	July 29, 1996	Bilal Ould Werzeg		Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya	Bill Clinton
June 11, 1997	September 8, 1997	Ahmed Ould Sid Ahmed		Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya	Bill Clinton
June 6, 1999	August 10, 1999	Ahmed Ould Khalifa Ould Jiddou		Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya	Bill Clinton
September 25, 2000	October 19, 2000	Mohamed Said Oould Hamody		Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya	Bill Clinton
November 26, 2001	December 12, 2001	Mohamedou Ould Michel		Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya	George W. Bush
June 18, 2004	July 15, 2004	Tijani Oulk Kerim		Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya	George W. Bush
September 12, 2007	September 18, 2007	Ibrahima Dia		Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi	George W. Bush
July 28, 2010	August 10, 2010	Mohamed Lemine El Haycen	(* 1954 in Nouadhibou	Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz	Barack Obama
	June 27, 2016	Mohamedoun Daddah	Apr 29, 2015 he was accredited in Brussels	Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz	Barack Obama
	2019	Ba Samba		Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and Mohamed Ould Ghazouani	Donald J. Trump