| Ambassador of the United States to Chile | |
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 Seal of the United States Department of State | |
 Flag of a United States ambassador | |
 Incumbent since January 20, 2025Richard T. Yoneoka Chargé d'affaires | |
| Nominator | The president of the United States |
| Appointer | The president with Senate advice and consent |
| Inaugural holder | Heman Allen as Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary |
| Formation | April 23, 1824 |
| Website | U.S. Embassy - Santiago |
The following is a list of ambassadors that the United States has sent to Chile. The current title given by the United States State Department to this position is Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
Contents
| Representative | Title | Presentation of credentials | Termination of mission | Appointed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heman Allen | Minister Plenipotentiary | April 23, 1824 | July 31, 1827 | James Monroe |
| Samuel Larned | Chargé d'Affaires | November 9, 1828 | October 29, 1829 | John Quincy Adams |
| John Hamm | Chargé d'Affaires | May 24, 1831 | October 19, 1833 | Andrew Jackson |
| Richard Pollard | Chargé d'Affaires | March 13, 1835 | May 12, 1842 | |
| John S. Pendleton | Chargé d'Affaires | May 24, 1842 | June 6, 1844 | John Tyler |
| George William Crump | Chargé d'Affaires | August 18, 1845 | November 1, 1847 | James K. Polk |
| Seth Barton | Chargé d'Affaires | January 5, 1848 | May 22, 1849 | |
| Balie Peyton | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 16, 1850 | September 26, 1853 | Zachary Taylor |
| David A. Starkweather | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 22, 1854 | August 26, 1857 | Franklin Pierce |
| John Bigler | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 5, 1857 | October 4, 1861 | James Buchanan |
| Thomas H. Nelson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 4, 1861 | March 12, 1866 | Abraham Lincoln |
| Hugh Judson Kilpatrick | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 12, 1866 | August 3, 1870 | Andrew Johnson |
| Joseph P. Root | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 2, 1870 | June 27, 1873 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Cornelius A. Logan | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 27, 1873 | November 10, 1876 | |
| Thomas A. Osborn | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 28, 1877 | July 25, 1881 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Hugh Judson Kilpatrick | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 25, 1881 | December 2, 1881 | James Garfield |
| Cornelius A. Logan | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 7, 1882 | June 16, 1885 | Chester A. Arthur |
| William R. Roberts | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 4, 1885 | August 9, 1889 | Grover Cleveland |
| Patrick Egan | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 9, 1889 | July 4, 1893 | Benjamin Harrison |
| James D. Porter | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 4, 1893 | March 14, 1894 | Grover Cleveland |
| Edward H. Strobel | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 6, 1895 | August 17, 1897 | |
| Henry L. Wilson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 14, 1897 | July 18, 1904 | William McKinley |
| John Hicks | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 5, 1905 | May 11, 1909 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Thomas C. Dawson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 20, 1909 | November 16, 1909 | William H. Taft |
| Henry P. Fletcher | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 9, 1910 | November 19, 1914 | |
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 19, 1914 | March 9, 1916 | Woodrow Wilson | |
| Joseph Hooker Shea | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 30, 1916 | May 5, 1921 | |
| William Miller Collier | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 29, 1921 | August 6, 1928 | Warren G. Harding |
| William S. Culbertson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 16, 1928 | August 19, 1933 | Calvin Coolidge |
| Hal H. Sevier | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 25, 1933 | May 4, 1935 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Hoffman Philip | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 7, 1935 | October 31, 1937 | |
| Norman Armour | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 21, 1938 | June 10, 1939 | |
| Claude G. Bowers | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 7, 1939 | September 2, 1953 | |
| Willard L. Beaulac | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 5, 1953 | May 28, 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Cecil B. Lyon | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 15, 1956 | February 25, 1958 | |
| Walter Howe | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 1, 1958 | March 15, 1961 | |
| Robert F. Woodward | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 5, 1961 | July 6, 1961 | John F. Kennedy |
| Charles W. Cole | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 21, 1961 | September 27, 1964 | |
| Ralph A. Dungan | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 10, 1964 | August 2, 1967 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Edward M. Korry | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 16, 1967 | October 12, 1971 | |
| Nathaniel Davis | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 20, 1971 | November 1, 1973 | Richard Nixon |
| David H. Popper | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 22, 1974 | May 22, 1977 | Gerald Ford |
| George W. Landau | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 1977 | January 16, 1982 | Jimmy Carter |
| James D. Theberge | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 8, 1982 | August 2, 1985 | Ronald Reagan |
| Harry George Barnes, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 18, 1985 | November 26, 1988 | |
| Charles A. Gillespie, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 20, 1988 | December 10, 1991 | |
| Curtis Warren Kamman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 14, 1992 | October 21, 1994 | George H. W. Bush |
| Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 24, 1994 | June 13, 1998 | Bill Clinton |
| John O'Leary | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 19, 1998 | June 29, 2001 | |
| William R. Brownfield | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 25, 2002 | July 19, 2004 | George W. Bush |
| Craig A. Kelly | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 9, 2004 | November 9, 2007 | |
| Paul E. Simons | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 9, 2007 | July 4, 2010 | |
| Alejandro Daniel Wolff | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 9, 2010 | August 10, 2013 | Barack Obama |
| Michael A. Hammer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 8, 2014 | August 2016 | |
| Carol Z. Perez | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 13, 2016 | January 31, 2019 | |
| Baxter Hunt | Chargé d’Affaires | January 31, 2019 | August 10, 2020 | Donald Trump |
| Richard H. Glenn | Chargé d’Affaires | August 10, 2020 | September 13, 2022 | |
| Bernadette Meehan | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 30, 2022 | Janunary 20, 2025 | Joe Biden |
| Richard T. Yoneoka | Chargé d’Affaires | Janunary 20, 2025 | Incumbent | Donald Trump |
