List of ambassadors of the United States to El Salvador
| Ambassador of the United States to El Salvador | |
|---|---|
 Seal of the United States Department of State | |
Incumbent Brendan O’Brien Chargé d'Affaires since January 20, 2021 | |
| Nominator | The President of the United States |
| Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
| Inaugural holder | James R. Partridge as Minister Resident |
| Formation | June 15, 1863 |
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The following is a list of United States Ambassadors, or other Chiefs of Mission, to El Salvador. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
Chiefs of Mission[]
| Representative | Title | Presentation of Credentials |
Termination of Mission |
Appointed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James R. Partridge | Minister Resident | June 15, 1863 | March 22, 1866 | Abraham Lincoln |
| Alpheus Starkey Williams | Minister Resident | January 21, 1867 | October 27, 1869 | Andrew Johnson |
| Alfred T. A. Torbert | Minister Resident | October 27, 1869 | May 10, 1871 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Minister Resident | December 5, 1871 | June 30, 1873 | ||
| George Williamson | Minister Resident | October 18, 1873 | before July 7, 1879 | |
| Cornelius A. Logan | Minister Resident | July 7, 1879 | on or soon after April 15, 1882 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Henry C. Hall | Minister Resident | August 7, 1882 | May 2, 1883 | Chester A. Arthur |
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 2, 1883 | on or shortly before May 16, 1889 | ||
| Lansing B. Mizner | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 7–April 12, 1890 | December 31, 1890 | Benjamin Harrison |
| Romualdo Pacheco | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 28, 1891 | November 14, 1891 | |
| Richard Cutts Shannon | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 14, 1891 | April 30, 1893 | |
| Lewis Baker | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 20, 1893 | about December 9, 1897 | Grover Cleveland |
| William L. Merry | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 3, 1899 | December 31, 1907 | William McKinley |
| Henry Percival Dodge | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 1, 1908 | February 6, 1909 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 18, 1909 | March 16, 1914 | William Howard Taft | |
| Boaz W. Long | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 14, 1914 | November 7, 1917 | Woodrow Wilson |
| Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | July 1918 | February 10, 1921 | ||
| Peter Augustus Jay | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 10, 1921 | April 28, 1921 | |
| Montgomery Schuyler, Jr. | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 12, 1921[1] | April 22, 1925[1] | Warren G. Harding |
| Jefferson Caffery | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 20, 1926 | July 22, 1928 | Calvin Coolidge |
| Warren D. Robbins | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 27, 1929 | April 30, 1931 | Herbert Hoover |
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 6, 1931 | January 10, 1932[2] | ||
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 30, 1934 | August 28, 1937 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 6, 1937 | October 31, 1942 | ||
| Walter C. Thurston | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 14, 1943 | April 16, 1943 | |
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 16, 1943 | October 14, 1944 | ||
| John F. Simmons | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 21, 1945 | July 1, 1947 | |
| Albert F. Nufer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 13, 1947 | July 16, 1949 | Harry S. Truman |
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 23, 1949 | April 25, 1952 | ||
| Angier Biddle Duke | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 5, 1952 | May 21, 1953 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Michael J. McDermott | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 25, 1953 | September 28, 1954 | |
| Robert C. Hill | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 4, 1954 | September 21, 1955 | |
| Thomas C. Mann | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 24, 1955 | September 24, 1957 | |
| Thorsten V. Kalijarvi | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 6, 1957 | December 18, 1960 | |
| Murat W. Williams | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 21, 1961 | July 4, 1964 | John F. Kennedy |
| Raúl H. Castro | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 11, 1964 | July 17, 1968 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| William G. Bowdler | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 15, 1968 | September 2, 1971 | Richard Nixon |
| Henry E. Catto, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 21, 1971 | September 2, 1973 | |
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 5, 1974 | July 23, 1976 | ||
| Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 31, 1976 | June 1, 1977 | Gerald Ford |
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 1, 1977 | February 15, 1980 | Jimmy Carter | |
| Robert E. White | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 11, 1980 | February 1, 1981 | |
| Deane R. Hinton | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 28, 1981 | July 15, 1983 | Ronald Reagan |
| Thomas R. Pickering | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 5, 1983 | June 7, 1985 | |
| Edwin G. Corr | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 29, 1985 | August 10, 1988 | |
| William Graham Walker | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 30, 1988 | February 21, 1992 | |
| Peter F. Romero | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | February 21, 1992 | July 1992 | George H. W. Bush |
| Gwen C. Clare | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | July 1992 | September 20, 1993 | |
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 20, 1993 | July 9, 1996 | Bill Clinton | |
| Anne W. Patterson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 16, 1997 | July 15, 2000 | |
| Rose M. Likins | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 23, 2000 | June 16, 2003 | |
| Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | June 13, 2003 | December 13, 2003 | George W. Bush | |
| H. Douglas Barclay | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 13, 2003 | July 23, 2006 | |
| Charles L. Glazer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 5, 2006 | January 20, 2009 | |
| Robert I. Blau | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | January 20, 2009 | September 22, 2010 | Barack Obama |
| Mari Carmen Aponte | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 22, 2010 | December 31, 2011 | |
| Sean Murphy | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | January 2, 2011 | June 14, 2012, | |
| Mari Carmen Aponte | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 14, 2012 | December 9, 2015 | |
| Jean Elizabeth Manes | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 9, 2015 | July 31, 2019 | |
| Ronald D. Johnson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 6, 2019 | January 20, 2021 | Donald Trump |
See also[]
- El Salvador – United States relations
- Foreign relations of El Salvador
- Ambassadors of the United States
References[]
- ^ a b Kenneth J. Blume (February 12, 2010). The A to Z of U.S. Diplomacy from the Civil War to World War I. Scarecrow Press. p. 314. ISBN 978-1-4617-1902-1.
- ^ Normal relations interrupted, December 4, 1931
- "U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to El Salvador". The Political Graveyard. March 10, 2005. Retrieved August 27, 2007.
- United States Department of State: Background notes on El Salvador
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