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List of ambassadors of the United States to Brazil
The following is a list of ambassadors of the United States, or other chiefs of mission, to Brazil. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
| Ambassador of the United States to Brazil | |
|---|---|
| Embaixador dos Estados Unidos da América no Brasil | |
Seal of the United States Department of State | |
| Style | Madam Ambassador |
| Nominator | The President of the United States |
| Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
| Inaugural holder | Condy Raguet as Chargé d'Affaires |
| Formation | October 29, 1825 |
| Website | U.S. Embassy - Brazil |
List Edit
| Representative | Title | Presentation of credentials | Termination of mission | Appointed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Condy Raguet | Chargé d'Affaires | October 29, 1825 | April 16, 1827 | John Quincy Adams |
| William Tudor | June 25, 1828 | March 9, 1830[1] | ||
| Ethan A. Brown | February 18, 1831 | April 11, 1834 | Andrew Jackson | |
| William Hunter | January 7, 1835 | January 1, 1842 | ||
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 1, 1842 | December 9, 1843 | John Tyler | |
| George H. Proffit | December 11, 1843 | August 10, 1844[2] | ||
| Henry A. Wise | August 10, 1844 | August 28, 1847 | ||
| David Tod | August 28, 1847 | August 9, 1851 | James K. Polk | |
| Robert C. Schenck | August 9, 1851 | October 8, 1853 | Millard Fillmore | |
| William Trousdale | October 8, 1853 | December 5, 1857 | Franklin Pierce | |
| Richard K. Meade | December 5, 1857 | July 9, 1861 | James Buchanan | |
| James Watson Webb | October 21, 1861 | May 26, 1869 | Abraham Lincoln | |
| James Monroe[3][4] | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | 1869 | 1869 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Henry T. Blow | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 28, 1869 | November 6, 1870 | |
| James R. Partridge | July 31, 1871 | June 11, 1877 | ||
| Henry W. Hilliard | October 23, 1877 | June 15, 1881 | Rutherford B. Hayes | |
| Thomas A. Osborn | December 17, 1881 | July 11, 1885 | James Garfield | |
| Thomas J. Jarvis | July 11, 1885 | November 19, 1888 | Grover Cleveland | |
| Robert Adams, Jr. | July 20, 1889 | March 1, 1890 | Benjamin Harrison | |
| Edwin H. Conger | December 19, 1890 | September 9, 1893 | ||
| Thomas L. Thompson | September 9, 1893 | July 17, 1897 | Grover Cleveland | |
| Edwin H. Conger | August 9, 1897 | February 6, 1898 | William McKinley | |
| Charles Page Bryan | April 11, 1898 | December 3, 1902 | ||
| David E. Thompson | April 1, 1903 | March 16, 1905 | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 16, 1905 | November 3, 1905 | ||
| Lloyd C. Griscom | June 6, 1906 | January 2, 1907 | ||
| Irving Bedell Dudley | April 1, 1907 | September 16, 1911 | ||
| Edwin V. Morgan | June 4, 1912 | August 23, 1933 | William H. Taft | |
| Hugh S. Gibson | August 23, 1933 | December 3, 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| Jefferson Caffery | August 17, 1937 | September 17, 1944 | ||
| Adolf A. Berle, Jr. | January 30, 1945 | February 27, 1946 | ||
| William D. Pawley | June 13, 1946 | March 26, 1948 | Harry S. Truman | |
| Herschel Vespasian Johnson | July 22, 1948 | May 27, 1953 | ||
| James S. Kemper | August 18, 1953 | January 26, 1955 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
| James Clement Dunn | March 11, 1955 | July 4, 1956 | ||
| Ellis O. Briggs | July 24, 1956 | April 29, 1959 | ||
| John M. Cabot | July 22, 1959 | August 17, 1961 | ||
| Lincoln Gordon | October 19, 1961 | February 25, 1966 | John F. Kennedy | |
| John W. Tuthill | June 30, 1966 | January 9, 1969 | Lyndon B. Johnson | |
| Charles Burke Elbrick | July 14, 1969 | May 7, 1970 | Richard Nixon | |
| William M. Rountree | November 16, 1970 | May 30, 1973 | ||
| John Hugh Crimmins | August 13, 1973 | February 25, 1978 | ||
| Robert M. Sayre | June 8, 1978 | September 19, 1981 | Jimmy Carter | |
| Langhorne A. Motley | October 6, 1981 | July 6, 1983 | Ronald Reagan | |
| Diego C. Asencio | December 20, 1983 | February 28, 1986 | ||
| Harry W. Shlaudeman | August 5, 1986 | May 14, 1989 | ||
| Richard Huntington Melton | December 12, 1989 | December 16, 1993 | George H. W. Bush | |
| Melvyn Levitsky | June 1, 1994 | June 17, 1998 | Bill Clinton | |
| Anthony Stephen Harrington | February 8, 2000 | February 28, 2001 | ||
| Cristobal R. Orozco | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | February 28, 2001 | April 23, 2002 | George W. Bush |
| Donna J. Hrinak | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 23, 2002 | June 26, 2004 | |
| John J. Danilovich | September 2, 2004 | November 7, 2005 | ||
| Philip T. Chicola | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | November 7, 2005 | August 2, 2006 | |
| Clifford M. Sobel | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 7, 2006 | August 7, 2009[5] | |
| Tom Shannon | February 4, 2010 | September 6, 2013 | Barack Obama | |
| Liliana Ayalde | October 31, 2013 | January 3, 2017 | ||
| P. Michael McKinley | January 20, 2017 | November 5, 2018 | Donald Trump | |
| William W. Popp | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | November 5, 2018 | March 30, 2020 | |
| Todd C. Chapman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 30, 2020 | July 23, 2021 | |
| Douglas Koneff | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | July 28, 2021 | February 2, 2023 | Joe Biden |
| Elizabeth Bagley | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 3, 2023 | Incumbent | Joe Biden |
See also Edit
- Embassy of the United States, Brasília
- Brazilian Ambassador to the United States
- Embassy of Brazil, Washington, D.C.
- Brazil – United States relations
- Foreign relations of Brazil
- Ambassadors of the United States
References Edit
- ^ Died at post.
- ^ Proffit was a recess appointment; the Senate declined to confirm him and he was recalled.
- ^ "James Monroe (1821-1898)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved August 20, 2012.
- ^ . Oberlin College Archives. Archived from the original on September 3, 2011. Retrieved August 20, 2012.
- ^ "Clifford M. Sobel - People - Department History - Office of the Historian".
- United States Department of State: Background notes on Brazil
- This article incorporates public domain material from U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets. United States Department of State.
External links Edit
- United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Brazil
- United States Department of State: Brazil
- United States Embassy in Brazil