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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