Chiefs of Mission

(source: Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State)

• Hezekiah Gold Rogers (1811–1882)
  Chargé d’Affaires, September 15, 1840–November 22, 1841
• Ambrose Baber (1792–1846)
  Chargé d’Affaires, December 1, 1841–January 10, 1844
• Robert Wickliffe Jr. (?–1850)
  Chargé d’Affaires, January 10, 1844–1847
• Nathaniel Niles Jr. (1791–1869)
  Chargé d’Affaires, April 28, 1848–August 20, 1850
• William Burnet Kinney (1799–1880)
  Chargé d’Affaires, August 21, 1850–October 8, 1853
• John Moncure Daniel (1825–1865)
  Chargé d’Affaires, October 10, 1853–September 4, 1854
• John Moncure Daniel (1825–1865)
  Minister Resident, September 4, 1854–January 10, 1861
• George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, June 23, 1861–July 23, 1882
• William Waldorf Astor (1848–1919)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, November 21, 1882–March 1, 1885
• John Bernhard Stallo (1823–1900)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, November 27, 1885–June 6, 1889
• Albert Gallatin Porter (1824–1897)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, June 6, 1889–July 9, 1892
• William Potter (1852–1926)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, December 28, 1892–March 8, 1894
• Isaac Wayne MacVeagh (1833–1917)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 11, 1894–March 4, 1897
• William Franklin Draper (1842–1910)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 29, 1897–June 5, 1900
• George von Lengerke Meyer (1858–1918)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 4, 1901–April 1, 1905
• Henry White (1850–1927)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 16, 1905–February 26, 1907
• Lloyd Carpenter Griscom (1872–1959)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 17, 1907–June 14, 1909
• John G.A. Leishman (1857–1924)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 4, 1909–October 7, 1911
• Thomas James O’Brien (1842–1933)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 13, 1911–September 17, 1913
• Thomas Nelson Page (1853–1922)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 12, 1913–June 21, 1919
• Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 22, 1920–May 20, 1921
• Richard Washburn Child (1881–1935)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 28, 1921–January 20, 1924
• Henry Prather Fletcher (1873–1959)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 2, 1924–August 3, 1929
• John Work Garrett (1872–1942)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 20, 1929–May 22, 1933
• Samuel Miller Breckinridge Long (1881–1958)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 31, 1933–April 23, 1936
• William Phillips (1878–1968)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 4, 1936–October 6, 1941
• George Wadsworth II (1893–1958)
  Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, October 1941–December 6, 1941
• Alexander Comstock Kirk (1888–1979)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, January 8, 1945–March 5, 1946
• James Clement Dunn (1890–1979)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 6, 1947–March 17, 1952
• Ellsworth Bunker (1894–1984)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 7, 1952–April 3, 1953
• Ann Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 4, 1953–December 27, 1956
• James David Zellerbach (1892–1963)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 6, 1957–December 10, 1960
• George Frederick Reinhardt (1911–1971)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 17, 1961–March 3, 1968
• Hugh Gardner Ackley (1915–1998)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 3, 1968–August 27, 1969
• Graham Anderson Martin (1912–1990)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 30, 1969–February 10, 1973
• John Anthony Volpe (1908–1994)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 6, 1973–January 24, 1977
• Richard Newton Gardner (1927–)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 21, 1977–February 27, 1981
• Maxwell M. Rabb (1910–2002)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 1, 1981–June 3, 1989
• Peter F. Secchia (1937–)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 3, 1989–January 20, 1993
• Reginald Bartholomew (1936–2012)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 14, 1993–September 28, 1997
• Thomas M. Foglietta (1928–2004)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 11, 1997–March 1, 2001
• Melvin Floyd Sembler (1930–)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 10, 2001–July 24, 2005
• Ronald Spogli (1948–)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 8, 2005–February 6, 2009
• David H. Thorne (1944–)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 4, 2009–July 30, 2013
• John R. Phillips (1942–)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 2, 2013–January 18, 2017
• Lewis M. Eisenberg (1942-)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 1, 2017–January 17, 2021

Other Nominees

• Richard Kidder Meade (1803–1862)
  Chargé d’Affaires: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; declined appointment. Commissioned to Sardinia (capital at Turin).
• John Moncure Daniel (1825–1865)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary: Nomination of February 25, 1856, withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.
• Anthony Michael Keiley (1835–1905)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary: Took oath of office, but did not proceed to post, the Government of Italy having objected to his appointment.
• James J. Van Alen (1846–1923)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary: Declined appointment.
• Roger Wolcott (1847–1900)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary: Commissioned during a recess of Senate; declined appointment.