Ambassador of the United States to Costa Rica | |
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Nominator | The President of the United States |
Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
Inaugural holder | Solon Borland as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary |
Website | U.S. Embassy - San Jose |
The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Costa Rica. On February 16, 2022, Cynthia Telles was sworn in as the 60th ambassador to the Republic of Costa Rica.
Representative | Title | Presentation of credentials | Termination of mission | Appointed by |
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Solon Borland [1] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | [2] | April 17, 1854 | Franklin Pierce |
Mirabeau B. Lamar [1] | Minister Resident | September 14, 1858 | May 20, 1859 | James Buchanan |
Alexander Dimitry [1] | September 29, 1859 | April 27, 1861 | ||
Charles N. Riotte | August 29, 1861 | January 18, 1867 | Abraham Lincoln | |
Albert G. Lawrence | January 18, 1867 | June 24, 1868 | Andrew Johnson | |
Jacob B. Blair | October 6, 1868 | June 30, 1873 | ||
George Williamson [3] | August 13, 1873 | January 31, 1879 | Ulysses S. Grant | |
Cornelius A. Logan [3] | December 25, 1879 | April 17, 1882 | Rutherford B. Hayes | |
Henry Cook Hall [3] [4] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 22, 1882 | May 16, 1889 | Chester A. Arthur |
Lansing B. Mizner [3] | August 30, 1889 | December 31, 1890 | Benjamin Harrison | |
Romualdo Pacheco [3] | May 7, 1891 | October 31, 1891 | ||
Richard Cutts Shannon [5] | October 31, 1891 | April 30, 1893 | ||
Lewis Baker [5] | May 20, 1893 | December 9, 1897 | Grover Cleveland | |
William L. Merry [6] | January 15, 1898 | March 4, 1911 | William McKinley | |
Lewis Einstein | November 3, 1911 | December 29, 1911 | William H. Taft | |
Edward J. Hale | August 29, 1913 | April 19, 1917 [7] | Woodrow Wilson | |
Stewart Johnson | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | April 19, 1917 | December 5, 1918 | |
John F. Martin, Jr. | October 15, 1920 | January 1921 | ||
Walter C. Thurston | January 1921 | March 1922 | Warren G. Harding | |
Roy T. Davis | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 14, 1922 | January 4, 1930 | |
Charles C. Eberhardt | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 14, 1930 | September 24, 1933 | Herbert Hoover |
Leo R. Sack | October 16, 1933 | January 10, 1937 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
William H. Hornibrook | September 2, 1937 | September 1, 1941 | ||
Arthur Bliss Lane | October 27, 1941 | March 17, 1942 | ||
Robert M. Scotten | March 31, 1942 | April 20, 1943 | ||
Fay Allen Des Portes | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 20, 1943 | September 11, 1944 | |
Hallett Johnson | February 14, 1945 | May 16, 1947 | ||
Walter J. Donnelly | June 27, 1947 | October 15, 1947 | Harry S. Truman | |
Nathaniel Penistone Davis | January 31, 1948 | June 8, 1949 | ||
Joseph Flack | August 13, 1949 | September 21, 1950 | ||
Philip Bracken Fleming | November 20, 1951 | August 7, 1953 | ||
Robert C. Hill | November 4, 1953 | September 10, 1954 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
Robert F. Woodward | December 3, 1954 | March 15, 1958 | ||
Whiting Willauer | May 5, 1958 | April 17, 1961 | ||
Raymond Telles | May 22, 1961 | February 19, 1967 | John F. Kennedy | |
Clarence A. Boonstra | March 8, 1967 | August 11, 1969 | Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Walter C. Ploeser | April 27, 1970 | April 13, 1972 | Richard Nixon | |
Viron P. Vaky | October 17, 1972 | February 9, 1974 | ||
Terence A. Todman | March 17, 1975 | January 24, 1977 | Gerald Ford | |
Marvin Weissman | June 28, 1977 | March 22, 1980 | Jimmy Carter | |
Francis J. McNeil | July 8, 1980 | June 27, 1983 | ||
Curtin Winsor, Jr. | July 14, 1983 | February 18, 1985 | Ronald Reagan | |
Lewis Arthur Tambs | August 1, 1985 | January 1, 1987 | ||
Deane Roesch Hinton | November 17, 1987 | January 4, 1990 | ||
Luis Guinot, Jr. | August 27, 1991 | March 1, 1993 | George H. W. Bush | |
Robert O. Homme | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | March 1, 1993 | July 1993 | Bill Clinton |
Donald Harrington | July 1993 | August 1993 | ||
Joseph Becelia | August 1993 | October 21, 1994 | ||
Peter Jon de Vos | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 21, 1994 | October 14, 1997 | |
Thomas J. Dodd, Jr. | November 26, 1997 | March 1, 2001 | ||
John J. Danilovich | October 10, 2001 | June 1, 2004 | George W. Bush | |
Mark Langdale | November 8, 2005 | July 31, 2007 | ||
Peter M. Brennan | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | August 1, 2007 | May 5, 2008 | |
Peter Cianchette | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 5, 2008 | June 19, 2009 | |
Anne S. Andrew | January 12, 2010 | June 12, 2013 | Barack Obama | |
S. Fitzgerald Haney | July 8, 2015 | July 15, 2017 | ||
Sharon Day | September 25, 2017 | January 20, 2021 | Donald Trump | |
Cynthia Telles | March 11, 2022 | Present | Joe Biden |
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