Ambassador of the United States to El Salvador | |
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Nominator | The President of the United States |
Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
Inaugural holder | James R. Partridge as Minister Resident |
Formation | June 15, 1863 |
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The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to El Salvador. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
Representative | Title | Presentation of credentials | Termination of mission | Appointed by |
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James R. Partridge | Minister Resident | June 15, 1863 | March 22, 1866 | Abraham Lincoln |
Alpheus Starkey Williams | Minister Resident | January 21, 1867 | October 27, 1869 | Andrew Johnson |
Alfred T. A. Torbert | Minister Resident | October 27, 1869 | May 10, 1871 | Ulysses S. Grant |
Thomas Biddle | Minister Resident | December 5, 1871 | June 30, 1873 | |
George Williamson | Minister Resident | October 18, 1873 | before July 7, 1879 | |
Cornelius A. Logan | Minister Resident | July 7, 1879 | on or soon after April 15, 1882 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
Henry C. Hall | Minister Resident | August 7, 1882 | May 2, 1883 | Chester A. Arthur |
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 2, 1883 | on or shortly before May 16, 1889 | ||
Lansing B. Mizner | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 7–April 12, 1890 | December 31, 1890 | Benjamin Harrison |
Romualdo Pacheco | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 28, 1891 | November 14, 1891 | |
Richard Cutts Shannon | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 14, 1891 | April 30, 1893 | |
Lewis Baker | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 20, 1893 | December 9, 1897 | Grover Cleveland |
William L. Merry | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 3, 1899 | December 31, 1907 | William McKinley |
Henry Percival Dodge | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 1, 1908 | February 6, 1909 | Theodore Roosevelt |
William Heimke | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 18, 1909 | March 16, 1914 | William Howard Taft |
Boaz W. Long | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 14, 1914 | November 7, 1917 | Woodrow Wilson |
Frank D. Arnold | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | July 1918 | February 10, 1921 | |
Peter Augustus Jay | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 10, 1921 | April 28, 1921 | |
Montgomery Schuyler, Jr. | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 12, 1921 [1] | April 22, 1925 [1] | Warren G. Harding |
Jefferson Caffery | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 20, 1926 | July 22, 1928 | Calvin Coolidge |
Warren D. Robbins | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 27, 1929 | April 30, 1931 | Herbert Hoover |
Charles B. Curtis | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 6, 1931 | January 10, 1932 [2] | |
Frank P. Corrigan | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 30, 1934 | August 28, 1937 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Robert Frazer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 6, 1937 | October 31, 1942 | |
Walter C. Thurston | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 14, 1943 | April 16, 1943 | |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 16, 1943 | October 14, 1944 | ||
John F. Simmons | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 21, 1945 | July 1, 1947 | |
Albert F. Nufer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 13, 1947 | July 16, 1949 | Harry S. Truman |
George P. Shaw | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 23, 1949 | April 25, 1952 | |
Angier Biddle Duke | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 5, 1952 | May 21, 1953 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Michael J. McDermott | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 25, 1953 | September 28, 1954 | |
Robert C. Hill | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 4, 1954 | September 21, 1955 | |
Thomas C. Mann | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 24, 1955 | September 24, 1957 | |
Thorsten V. Kalijarvi | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 6, 1957 | December 18, 1960 | |
Murat W. Williams | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 21, 1961 | July 4, 1964 | John F. Kennedy |
Raúl H. Castro | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 11, 1964 | July 17, 1968 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
William G. Bowdler | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 15, 1968 | September 2, 1971 | Richard Nixon |
Henry E. Catto, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 21, 1971 | September 2, 1973 | |
James F. Campbell | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 5, 1974 | July 23, 1976 | |
Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 31, 1976 | June 1, 1977 | Gerald Ford |
Frank J. Devine | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 1, 1977 | February 15, 1980 | Jimmy Carter |
Robert E. White | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 11, 1980 | February 1, 1981 | |
Deane R. Hinton | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 28, 1981 | July 15, 1983 | Ronald Reagan |
Thomas R. Pickering | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 5, 1983 | June 7, 1985 | |
Edwin G. Corr | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 29, 1985 | August 10, 1988 | |
William Graham Walker | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 30, 1988 | February 21, 1992 | |
Peter F. Romero | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | February 21, 1992 | July 1992 | George H. W. Bush |
Gwen C. Clare | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | July 1992 | September 20, 1993 | |
Alan H. Flanigan [3] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 20, 1993 | July 9, 1996 | Bill Clinton |
Anne W. Patterson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 16, 1997 | July 15, 2000 | |
Rose M. Likins | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 23, 2000 | June 16, 2003 | |
Philip C. French | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | June 13, 2003 | December 13, 2003 | George W. Bush |
H. Douglas Barclay | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 13, 2003 | July 23, 2006 | |
Charles L. Glazer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 5, 2006 | January 20, 2009 | |
Robert I. Blau | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | January 20, 2009 | September 22, 2010 | Barack Obama |
Mari Carmen Aponte | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 22, 2010 | January 2, 2011 | |
Sean Murphy | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | January 2, 2011 | August 21, 2012, | |
Mari Carmen Aponte | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 21, 2012 | February 7, 2016 [4] | |
Jean Elizabeth Manes | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 30, 2016 [5] | July 31, 2019 | |
Ronald D. Johnson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 6, 2019 | January 20, 2021 | Donald Trump |
Brendan O'Brien | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | January 20, 2021 | June 1, 2021 | Joe Biden |
Jean Elizabeth Manes | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | June 1, 2021 [6] | November 22, 2021 [7] | |
Brendan O'Brien | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | November 22, 2021 | June 3, 2022 | |
Patrick Ventrell | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | June 3, 2022 | June 27, 2022 | |
Matthew Rees | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | June 27, 2022 | August 11, 2022 | |
Katherine Dueholm | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | August 11, 2022 | February 2, 2023 | |
William H. Duncan | Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 2, 2023 | Incumbent |
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