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    Stevens was the first sitting U.S. ambassador to be killed in office since 1979. According to the State Department Office of the Historian, a total of seven U.S. ambassadors have been killed in the line of duty โ€” five of which have been killed by terrorist attacks, while two perished in plane crashes.
    This is a list of assassinated serving ambassadors. List[edit] Ambassador Post Place Country Date of death Killed by Envoys of Xerxes I Persian envoys to Sparta Sparta Sparta 481 B.C. Leonidas I Gaius Fulcinius Roman envoys to Fidenae Fidenae Roman Republic 438 B.C. On orders of Lars Tolumnius Lucius Roscius Spurius Antius
    The first U.S. ambassador assassinated while in office was John Gordon Mein, the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala. According to a telegram from the embassy in Guatemala City, a young man dressed in fatigues and carrying a sub-machine gun on August 28, 1968, ordered Meinโ€™s vehicle to stop and for the ambassador to get out.
    killed in an embassy bombing by the Islamic Dawa Party Shlomo Argov Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom London  United Kingdom February 24, 2003 (shot on June 3, 1982) Abu Nidal Organization Galip Balkar Turkish Ambassador to Yugoslavia Belgrade  Yugoslavia March 9, 1983 Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide Lee Gye-cheol
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  4. WebThe United States ambassador to China is the chief United States diplomat to the People's Republic of China.The United States has sent diplomatic representatives to China since 1844, when Caleb Cushing, as โ€ฆ

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