List of ambassadors of the United States to Chile

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Ambassador of the United States to Chile
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Seal of the United States Department of State
Bernadette M. Meehan, U.S. Ambassador.jpg
Incumbent
Bernadette Meehan
since September 30, 2022
NominatorThe President of the United States
AppointerThe President
with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural holder Heman Allen
as Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
FormationApril 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

RepresentativeTitlePresentation
of credentials		Termination
of mission		Appointed by
Heman Allen Minister Plenipotentiary April 23, 1824July 31, 1827 James Monroe
Samuel Larned Chargé d'Affaires November 9, 1828October 29, 1829 John Quincy Adams
John Hamm Chargé d'AffairesMay 24, 1831October 19, 1833 Andrew Jackson
Richard PollardChargé d'AffairesMarch 13, 1835May 12, 1842
John S. Pendleton Chargé d'AffairesMay 24, 1842June 6, 1844 John Tyler
George William Crump Chargé d'AffairesAugust 18, 1845November 1, 1847 James K. Polk
Seth Barton Chargé d'AffairesJanuary 5, 1848May 22, 1849
Balie Peyton Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary February 16, 1850September 26, 1853 Zachary Taylor
David A. Starkweather Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryNovember 22, 1854August 26, 1857 Franklin Pierce
John Bigler Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryOctober 5, 1857October 4, 1861 James Buchanan
Thomas H. Nelson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryOctober 4, 1861March 12, 1866 Abraham Lincoln
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryMarch 12, 1866August 3, 1870 Andrew Johnson
Joseph P. Root Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryDecember 2, 1870June 27, 1873 Ulysses S. Grant
Cornelius A. Logan Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryJune 27, 1873November 10, 1876
Thomas A. Osborn Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryAugust 28, 1877July 25, 1881 Rutherford B. Hayes
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryJuly 25, 1881December 2, 1881 James Garfield
Cornelius A. Logan Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiarySeptember 7, 1882June 16, 1885 Chester A. Arthur
William R. Roberts Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryJuly 4, 1885August 9, 1889 Grover Cleveland
Patrick Egan Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryAugust 9, 1889July 4, 1893 Benjamin Harrison
James D. Porter Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryJuly 4, 1893March 14, 1894 Grover Cleveland
Edward H. Strobel Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryFebruary 6, 1895August 17, 1897
Henry L. Wilson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiarySeptember 14, 1897July 18, 1904 William McKinley
John Hicks Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryOctober 5, 1905May 11, 1909 Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas C. Dawson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryAugust 20, 1909November 16, 1909 William H. Taft
Henry P. Fletcher Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiarySeptember 9, 1910November 19, 1914
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 19, 1914March 9, 1916 Woodrow Wilson
Joseph Hooker Shea Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMay 30, 1916May 5, 1921
William Miller Collier Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiarySeptember 29, 1921August 6, 1928 Warren G. Harding
William S. Culbertson Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 16, 1928August 19, 1933 Calvin Coolidge
Hal H. Sevier Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 25, 1933May 4, 1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hoffman Philip Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 7, 1935October 31, 1937
Norman Armour Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryApril 21, 1938June 10, 1939
Claude G. Bowers Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiarySeptember 7, 1939September 2, 1953
Willard L. Beaulac Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 5, 1953May 28, 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cecil B. Lyon Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJune 15, 1956February 25, 1958
Walter Howe Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJune 1, 1958March 15, 1961
Robert F. Woodward Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMay 5, 1961July 6, 1961 John F. Kennedy
Charles W. Cole Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 21, 1961September 27, 1964
Ralph A. Dungan Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryDecember 10, 1964August 2, 1967 Lyndon B. Johnson
Edward M. Korry Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 16, 1967October 12, 1971
Nathaniel Davis Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 20, 1971November 1, 1973 Richard Nixon
David H. Popper Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryFebruary 22, 1974May 22, 1977 Gerald Ford
George W. Landau Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 1977January 16, 1982 Jimmy Carter
James D. Theberge Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMarch 8, 1982August 2, 1985 Ronald Reagan
Harry George Barnes, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 18, 1985November 26, 1988
Charles A. Gillespie, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryDecember 20, 1988December 10, 1991
Curtis Warren Kamman Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJanuary 14, 1992October 21, 1994 George H. W. Bush
Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 24, 1994June 13, 1998 Bill Clinton
John O'Leary Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 19, 1998June 29, 2001
William R. Brownfield Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMarch 25, 2002July 19, 2004 George W. Bush
Craig A. Kelly Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiarySeptember 9, 2004November 9, 2007
Paul E. Simons Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 9, 2007July 4, 2010
Alejandro Daniel Wolff Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJuly 9, 2010August 10, 2013 Barack Obama
Michael A. Hammer Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryApril 8, 2014August 2016
Carol Z. Perez Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 13, 2016January 31, 2019
Baxter Hunt Chargé d’AffairesJanuary 31, 2019August 10, 2020 Donald Trump
Richard H. GlennChargé d’AffairesAugust 10, 2020September 13, 2022
Bernadette Meehan Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiarySeptember 30, 2022Present Joe Biden

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