List of ambassadors of the United States to Argentina

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Ambassador of the United States to Argentina
Embajador de los Estados Unidos en Argentina
US Department of State official seal.svg
Seal of the United States Department of State
Official portrait of Ambassador Marc Stanley.jpg
Incumbent
Marc Stanley
since January 24, 2022
Residence Bosch Palace
NominatorThe President of the United States
AppointerThe President
with Senate advice and consent
Term length At the pleasure of the President
No fixed term
Inaugural holder Caesar A. Rodney
as Minister Plenipotentiary
FormationDecember 27, 1823
Website U.S. Embassy in Argentina

The United States ambassador to Argentina is the official representative of the president of the United States to the head of state of Argentina.

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Argentina had declared its independence from Spain in 1816 and there followed a series of revolutionary wars until 1861 when the nation was united. The United States recognized the government of Buenos Aires, the predecessor to Argentina, on January 27, 1823. Caesar Augustus Rodney was appointed as American Minister Plenipotentiary to Buenos Aires. Between 1854 and 1866, U.S. ambassadors were commissioned to the Argentine Confederation. Since 1867, ambassadors have been commissioned to the Argentine Republic. [1]

Diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Argentina were interrupted but not severed in June 1944 when the U.S. government recalled its ambassador in a dispute with the newly appointed dictator Edelmiro Julián Farrell. The U.S. government believed that Farrell was not committed to the defense of the Western Hemisphere against the Axis powers. Normal relations were resumed with the appointment of a new ambassador in April 1945 when Argentina declared war against Germany. [1]

The official residence of the U.S. Ambassador in Buenos Aires is the Bosch Palace, listed on the State Department's Register of Culturally Significant Property. [2]

Ambassadors and chiefs of mission

Bosch Palace, the residence of the U.S. Ambassador Embajada de EEUU, Palacio Bosch.jpg
Bosch Palace, the residence of the U.S. Ambassador
NameAppointed Presented credentials Terminated missionNotes
Caesar A. Rodney [3] January 27, 1823December 27, 1823Died at post, June 10, 1824
John Murray Forbes [3] March 9, 1825August 20, 1825Died at post June 14, 1831Chargé d'affaires
Francis Baylies [3] January 3, 1832June 15, 1832September 26, 1832Chargé d'affaires
William Brent, Jr. [3] June 14, 1844November 15, 1844Presented recall July 7, 1846Chargé d'affaires
William A. Harris [4] February 19, 1846July 7, 1846Probably presented recall before September 12, 1851Chargé d'affaires
John S. Pendleton [4] February 27, 1851September 12, 1851 or soon thereafterRelinquished charge from Montevideo, Uruguay March 31, 1854Chargé d'affaires
James A. Peden [4] June 29, 1854December 1, 1854Presented recall December 1, 1858Office upgraded to Minister Resident. U.S. Legation moved to Paraná.
Benjamin C. Yancey [4] June 14, 1858December 1, 1858Transmitted recall by note from Montevideo, Uruguay, September 30, 1859
John F. Cushman [4] July 18, 1859December 22, 1859Relinquished charge February 17, 1861U.S. Legation moved back from Paraná to Buenos Aires in 1862.
Robert M. Palmer [4] March 28, 1861October 5, 1861about April 12, 1862
Robert C. Kirk [4] March 4, 1862June 21, 1862July 26, 1866
Alexander Asboth [5] [6] March 12, 1866October 20, 1866Died at post January 21, 1868
Henry G. Worthington [6] June 5, 1868September 11, 1868Presented recall July 8, 1869
Robert C. Kirk [6] April 16, 1869July 8, 1869Presented recall November 4, 1871
Julius White [7] December 12, 1872May 6, 1873November 14, 1873
Thomas O. Osborn [8] February 10, 1874May 21, 1874Probably presented recall on or before October 15, 1885Title/office upgraded to Minister Resident/Consul General
Bayless W. Hanna [9] June 17, 1885October 15, 1885July 8, 1889Title/office upgraded to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in 1887.
John R. G. Pitkin [10] July 26, 1889October 31, 1889August 15, 1893
William I. Buchanan January 26, 1894May 19, 1894July 11, 1899
William Paine Lord [11] October 16, 1899February 14, 1900March 27, 1903
John Barrett [12] July 2, 1903December 21, 1903April 27, 1904
Arthur M. Beaupre March 17, 1904June 17, 1904May 2, 1908
Spencer F. Eddy April 2, 1908August 27, 1908January 2, 1909
Charles Hitchcock Sherrill April 1, 1909June 30, 1909September 16, 1910
John W. Garrett – Career FSODecember 14, 1911February 29, 1912November 22, 1913
Frederic Jesup Stimson – Political appointeeOctober 1, 1914January 8, 1915April 21, 1921In 1914 the office of Envoy was upgraded to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
John W. Riddle – Career FSONovember 18, 1921March 8, 1922May 28, 1925
Peter Augustus Jay – Career FSOMarch 18, 1925September 24, 1925December 30, 1926
Robert Woods Bliss – Career FSOFebruary 17, 1927September 9, 1927April 29, 1933
Alexander W. Weddell – Career FSOJune 3, 1933September 18, 1933October 29, 1938
Norman Armour – Career FSOMay 18, 1939June 19, 1939Recalled June 27, 1944; left post June 29, 1944Normal diplomatic relations interrupted from February 1944 to April 1945
Spruille Braden – Political appointeeMay 8, 1945May 21, 1945September 23, 1945
George S. Messersmith – Career FSOApril 12, 1946May 23, 1946June 12, 1947
James Cabell Bruce – Political appointeeJuly 12, 1947August 21, 1947August 20, 1949
Stanton Griffis – Political appointeeSeptember 22, 1949November 17, 1949September 23, 1950
Ellsworth Bunker – Political appointeeMarch 13, 1951May 8, 1951March 12, 1952
Albert F. Nufer – Career FSOMay 29, 1952August 14, 1952May 12, 1956
Willard L. Beaulac – Career FSO [13] May 10, 1956June 1, 1956August 2, 1960
Roy R. Rubottom, Jr. – Career FSO [14] August 27, 1960October 20, 1960October 19, 1961
Robert M. McClintock – Career FSOFebruary 6, 1962February 14, 1962May 10, 1964
Edwin M. Martin – Career FSOJanuary 29, 1964June 11, 1964January 5, 1968
Carter L. Burgess – Political appointeeJuly 24, 1968August 21, 1968March 14, 1969
John Davis Lodge – Political appointeeMay 27, 1969July 23, 1969November 10, 1973
Robert C. Hill – Political appointeeDecember 19, 1973February 15, 1974May 10, 1977
Raul Hector Castro – Political appointeeSeptember 15, 1977November 16, 1977July 30, 1980
Harry W. Shlaudeman – Career FSOOctober 2, 1980November 4, 1980August 26, 1983
Frank V. Ortiz, Jr. – Career FSONovember 18, 1983November 29, 1983August 29, 1986
Theodore E. Gildred – Political appointeeOctober 16, 1986November 6, 1986May 31, 1989
Terence A. Todman – Career FSOApril 20, 1989June 13, 1989June 28, 1993
James Richard Cheek – Career FSOMay 28, 1993July 19, 1993December 18, 1996
Ronald D. Godard – Career FSO—December 18, 1996October 1997Chargé d'affaires
Manuel Rocha – Career FSO—October 1997July 3, 2000Chargé d'affaires
James Donald Walsh – Career FSOJune 14, 2000July 3, 2000May 21, 2003
Lino Gutierrez – Career FSOApril 16, 2003October 15, 2003April 8, 2006
Earl Anthony Wayne – Career FSOAugust 1, 2006January 19, 2007April 6, 2009
Vilma Socorro Martínez – Political appointeeJuly 24, 2009September 18, 2009July 6, 2013
Noah Mamet – political appointeeDecember 2, 2014January 21, 2015January 20, 2017
Edward C. Prado – political appointeeMarch 22, 2018May 15, 2018 [15] January 20, 2021
MaryKay Carlson – Career FSO [16] January 20, 2021January 24, 2022Chargé d'affaires
Marc Stanley – political appointeeDecember 18, 2021January 24, 2022

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Argentina". United States Department of State. Retrieved July 16, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Register of Culturally Significant Property" (PDF). United States Department of State. Retrieved July 16, 2011.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Commissioned to the Republic of Buenos Aires.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Commissioned to the Argentine Confederation.
  5. ↑ Beginning with Ambassador Asboth in 1866, all U.S. ambassadors were commissioned to the Argentine Republic.
  6. 1 2 3 Between 1867 and 1870, the U.S. Ambassador to Argentina was concurrently commissioned to Uruguay, while resident in Buenos Aires.
  7. ↑ White was commissioned during a recess of the Senate but declined reappointment during the next Congress.
  8. ↑ Osborn was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on July 7, 1884.
  9. ↑ Hanna was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on December 15, 1881.
  10. ↑ Pitkin was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on January 9, 1890.
  11. ↑ Lord was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on December 14, 1899.
  12. ↑ Barrett was commissioned during a recess of the Senateand recommissioned after confirmation November 16, 1903.
  13. ↑ President Eisenhower nominated Beaulac July 17, 1953 to be Ambassador to Argentina, but the nomination was withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it. Beaulac was instead given a recess appointment as Ambassador to Chile. He was again nominated for the ambassadorship to Argentina in 1956.
  14. ↑ Rubottom was commissioned during a recess of the Senate on July 29, 1960 but he declined the appointment.
  15. ↑ "Ambassador Prado submits credentials to President Macri - U.S. Embassy in Argentina". May 17, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  16. ↑ "Chargé d'affaires MaryKay Carlson - U.S. Embassy in Argentina". November 7, 2021. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021. Retrieved November 7, 2021.

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