Previous Ambassadors and Chiefs of Mission
Chiefs of Mission
(source: Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State)
- John Quincy Adams (1767–1848)
Minister Plenipotentiary, December 5, 1797–May 5, 1801 - Henry Wheaton (1785–1848)
Chargé d’Affaires, June 9, 1835–September 29, 1837 - Henry Wheaton (1785–1848)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, September 29, 1837–July 18, 1846 - Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799–1871)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, July 18, 1846–June 9, 1849 - Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799–1871)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, September 13, 1848–November 2, 1849 - Edward A. Hannegan (1807–1859)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, June 30, 1849–January 13, 1850 - Daniel Dewey Barnard (1797–1861)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, December 10, 1850–September 21, 1853 - Peter Dumont Vroom (1791–1873)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, November 4, 1853–August 10, 1857 - Joseph Albert Wright (1810–1867)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, September 3, 1857–July 1, 1861 - Norman Buel Judd (1815–1878)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, July 1, 1861–September 3, 1865 - Joseph Albert Wright (1810–1867)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, September 3, 1865–May 11, 1867 - George Bancroft (1800–1891)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, August 28, 1867–July 13, 1871 - George Bancroft (1800–1891)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, July 23, 1871–June 30, 1874 - John Chandler Bancroft Davis (1822–1907)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, August 28, 1874–September 26, 1877 - Bayard Taylor (1825–1878)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, May 7, 1878–December 19, 1878 - Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, June 19, 1879–August 15, 188 - Aaron Augustus Sargent (1827–1887)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, May 18, 1882–June 6, 1884 - John Adam Kasson (1822–1910)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, September 10, 1884–June 21, 1885 - George Hunt Pendleton (1825–1889)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, June 21, 1885–April 25, 1889 - William Walter Phelps (1839–1894)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, September 26, 1889–June 4, 1893 - Theodore Runyon (1822–1896)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, June 4, 1893–October 26, 1893 - Theodore Runyon (1822–1896)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 26, 1893–January 27, 1896 - Edwin Fuller Uhl (1841–1901)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 3, 1896–June 8, 1897 - Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 12, 1897–November 27, 1902 - Charlemagne Tower (1848–1923)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 19, 1902–June 8, 1908 - David Jayne Hill (1850–1932)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 14, 1908–September 2, 1911 - John G.A. Leishman (1857–1924)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 24, 1911–October 4, 1913 - James Watson Gerard III (1867–1951)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 29, 1913–February 3, 1917 - Ellis Loring Dresel (1865–1925)
Chargé d’Affaires, December 10, 1921–April 18, 1922 - Alanson Bigelow Houghton (1863–1941)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 22, 1922–February 21, 1925 - Jacob Gould Schurman (1854–1942)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 29, 1925–January 21, 1930 - Frederic Mosley Sackett (1868–1941)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 12, 1930–March 24, 1933 - William Edward Dodd (1869–1940)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 30, 1933–December 29, 1937 - Hugh Robert Wilson (1885–1946)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 3, 1938–November 16, 1938 - Alexander Comstock Kirk (1888–1979)
Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, May 1939–October 1940 - Leland Burnette Morris (1886–1950)
Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, October 1940–December 11, 1941 - James Bryant Conant (1893–1978)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 14, 1955–February 19, 1957 - David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (1898–1977)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 17, 1957–October 29, 1959 - Walter Cecil Dowling (1905–1977)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 3, 1959–April 21, 1963 - George Crews McGhee (1912–2005)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 18, 1963–May 21, 1968 - Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902–1985)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 27, 1968–January 14, 1969 - Kenneth Rush (1910–1994)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 22, 1969–February 20, 1972 - Martin Joseph Anthony Hillenbrand (1915–2005)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 27, 1972–October 18, 1976 - Walter John Stoessel Jr. (1920–1986)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 27, 1976–January 5, 1981 - Arthur Frank Burns (1904–1987)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 30, 1981–May 16, 1985 - Richard R. Burt (1947–)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 16, 1985–February 17, 1989 - Vernon A. Walters (1917–2002)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 24, 1989–August 18, 1991 - Robert Michael Kimmitt (1947–)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 5, 1991–August 28, 1993 - Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (1941–2010)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 19, 1993–September 12, 1994 - Charles Edgar Redman (1943–)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 31, 1994–June 17, 1996 - James D. Bindenagel (1949–)
Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, June 1996–September 1997 - John Christian Kornblum (1943–)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 10, 1997–January 16, 2001 - Daniel Ray Coats (1943–)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 12, 2001–February 28, 2005 - William Robert Timken Jr. (1938–)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 2, 2005–December 5, 2008 - Philip D. Murphy (1957–)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 3, 2009–August 26, 2013 - John Bonnell Emerson (1954–)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 26, 2013–January 20, 2017 - Kent Logsdon
Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, January 2017–May 2018 - Richard A. Grenell
Ambassador 2018-2020 - Robin Quinville
Chargée d’Affaires ad interim, 2020–2021 - Woodward Clark Price
Chargée d’Affaires ad interim, 2021–
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