List of ambassadors of the United States to Colombia




























Ambassador of the United States

U.S. Department of State official seal.svg
Seal of the United States Department of State


Ambassador Kevin Whitaker.jpg

Incumbent
Kevin Whitaker

since April 28, 2014
Nominator The President of the United States
Appointer The President
with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural holder
Richard Clough Anderson, Jr.
as Minister Plenipotentiary
Formation December 16, 1823
Website U.S. Embassy - Colombia

The following is a list of Ambassadors of the United States, or other chiefs of mission, to Colombia and its predecessor states. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.




Contents






  • 1 Gran Colombia


  • 2 New Granada


  • 3 United States of Colombia


  • 4 Republic of Colombia


  • 5 See also


  • 6 References


  • 7 External links





Gran Colombia


The following were commissioned either Chargés d'Affaires or Ministers to Gran Colombia.





































Representative
Title
Presentation
of Credentials
Termination
of Mission
Appointed by

Richard Clough Anderson, Jr.

Minister Plenipotentiary
December 16, 1823
July 24, 1826[1]

James Monroe

Beaufort T. Watts

Chargé d'Affaires
March 3, 1827[2]
November 21, 1827

John Quincy Adams

William Henry Harrison

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
February 5, 1829
September 26, 1829

Thomas P. Moore
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
September 26, 1829
April 16, 1833

Andrew Jackson


New Granada


The following were commissioned as either Chargés d'Affaires or Ministers to New Granada.








































































Representative
Title
Presentation
of Credentials
Termination
of Mission
Appointed by

Robert B. McAfee
Chargé d'Affaires
July 1, 1833
June 20, 1837

Andrew Jackson

James Semple
Chargé d'Affaires
April 21, 1838
March 4, 1842

Martin Van Buren

William M. Blackford
Chargé d'Affaires
September 17, 1842
December 24, 1844

John Tyler

Benjamin A. Bidlack
Chargé d'Affaires
December 5, 1845
February 6, 1849[1]

James K. Polk

Thomas M. Foote
Chargé d'Affaires
January 5, 1850
October 15, 1850

Zachary Taylor

Yelverton P. King
Chargé d'Affaires
August 25, 1851
April 5, 1853

Millard Fillmore

James S. Green
Chargé d'Affaires
December 19, 1853
August 13, 1854

Franklin Pierce

James B. Bowlin

Minister Resident
April 10, 1855
May 20, 1857

George W. Jones
Minister Resident
August 29, 1859
November 4, 1861

James Buchanan


United States of Colombia


The following were commissioned as Ministers to the United States of Colombia.





































































Representative
Title
Presentation
of Credentials
Termination
of Mission
Appointed by

Allan W. Burton
Minister Resident[3]
March 9, 1864
December 10, 1866

Abraham Lincoln

Peter J. Sullivan
Minister Resident
July 25, 1867
June 26, 1869

Andrew Johnson

Stephen A. Hurlbut
Minister Resident
November 13, 1869
April 3, 1872

Ulysses S. Grant

William L. Scruggs
Minister Resident
July 24, 1873
October 26, 1876

Ernest J. Dichman
Minister Resident
October 4, 1878
September 21, 1881

Rutherford B. Hayes

George Maney
Minister Resident
September 21, 1881
July 19, 1882

Chester A. Arthur

William L. Scruggs
Minister Resident
July 19, 1882
December 4, 1884
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
December 4, 1884
December 15, 1885

Charles D. Jacob
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
January 26, 1886
May 29, 1886

Grover Cleveland


Republic of Colombia


The following were commissioned as either Ministers or Ambassadors to the Republic of Colombia.














































































































































































































































































































Representative
Title
Presentation
of Credentials
Termination
of Mission
Appointed by

Dabney H. Maury
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
January 20, 1887
June 22, 1889

Grover Cleveland

John T. Abbott
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
June 22, 1889
July 17, 1893

Benjamin Harrison

Luther F. McKinney
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
July 17, 1893
December 6, 1896

Grover Cleveland

Charles Burdett Hart
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
July 19, 1897
March 19, 1903

William McKinley

Arthur M. Beaupre
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
April 13, 1903
December 19, 1903

Theodore Roosevelt

William W. Russell
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
December 9, 1904
May 24, 1905

John Barrett
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
November 27, 1905
September 24, 1906

Thomas C. Dawson
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
October 16, 1907
April 25, 1909

Elliott Northcott
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
August 13, 1909
September 16, 1910

William H. Taft

James T. DuBois
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
November 18, 1911
March 1, 1913

Thaddeus Austin Thompson
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
August 30, 1913
June 26, 1916

Woodrow Wilson

Hoffman Philip
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
February 22, 1919
May 29, 1922

Samuel H. Piles
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
May 29, 1922
September 17, 1928

Warren G. Harding

Jefferson Caffery
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
November 28, 1928
May 20, 1933

Calvin Coolidge

Sheldon Whitehouse
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
December 6, 1933
December 8, 1934

Franklin D. Roosevelt

William Dawson
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
May 6, 1935
November 16, 1937

Spruille Braden

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
February 15, 1939
March 12, 1942

Arthur Bliss Lane
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
April 30, 1942
October 18, 1944

John C. Wiley
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
December 16, 1944
May 3, 1947

Willard L. Beaulac
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
September 30, 1947
June 29, 1951

Harry S. Truman

Capus M. Waynick
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
August 23, 1951
September 21, 1953

Rudolf E. Schoenfeld
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
January 28, 1954
January 26, 1955

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Philip W. Bonsal
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
April 1, 1955
April 24, 1957

John M. Cabot
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
July 12, 1957
July 15, 1959

Dempster McIntosh
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
July 30, 1959
January 6, 1961

Fulton Freeman
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
June 15, 1961
March 14, 1964

John F. Kennedy

Covey T. Oliver
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
August 13, 1964
August 29, 1966

Lyndon B. Johnson

Reynold E. Carlson
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
October 6, 1966
June 2, 1969

Jack Hood Vaughn
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
June 9, 1969
June 25, 1970

Richard Nixon

Leonard J. Saccio
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
February 24, 1971
July 12, 1973

Viron P. Vaky
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
April 5, 1974
June 23, 1976

Phillip V. Sanchez
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
September 2, 1976
April 5, 1977

Gerald Ford

Diego C. Asencio
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
December 6, 1977
June 22, 1980

Jimmy Carter

Thomas D. Boyatt
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
December 3, 1980
April 14, 1983

Lewis Arthur Tambs
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
May 2, 1983
February 15, 1985

Ronald Reagan

Charles A. Gillespie, Jr.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
August 28, 1985
September 19, 1988

Thomas Edmund McNamara
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
October 4, 1988
August 14, 1991

Morris D. Busby
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
September 18, 1991
July 5, 1994

George H. W. Bush

Myles Robert Rene Frechette
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
July 25, 1994
November 8, 1997

Bill Clinton

Curtis W. Kamman
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
March 19, 1998
August 15, 2000

Anne W. Patterson
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
August 24, 2000
June 11, 2003

William B. Wood
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
August 13, 2003
March 12, 2007

George W. Bush

William Brownfield
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
September 12, 2007
August 3, 2010

P. Michael McKinley
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
August 3, 2010
September 1, 2013

Barack H. Obama

Kevin Whitaker
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
April 28, 2014
present


See also



  • Colombia – United States relations

  • Foreign relations of Colombia

  • Ambassadors of the United States



References





  1. ^ ab Died at post.


  2. ^ Had served as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim since June 1826.


  3. ^ Burton was commissioned to Granadine Confederation in 1861. Presented credentials to United States of Colombia in 1864.




  • United States Department of State: Background notes on Colombia


  •  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Department of State website https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/index.htm (U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets).



External links



  • United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Colombia

  • United States Department of State: Columbia

  • United States Embassy in Colombia










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