List of ambassadors of the United States to Honduras

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Ambassador of the United States to Honduras
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Incumbent
Colleen A. Hoey
Chargé d'affaires ad interim
since June 23, 2025 [1]
NominatorThe president of the United States
AppointerThe president
with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural holder Solon Borland
as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Formation1850s
Website U.S. Embassy - Tegucigalpa

The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Honduras. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Contents

Ambassadors

RepresentativeTitlePresentation
of credentials		Termination
of mission		Appointed by
Solon Borland Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary [2] April 17, 1854 Franklin Pierce
Beverly L. Clarke Minister Resident August 10, 1858March 17, 1860 [3] James Buchanan
James R. Partridge Minister ResidentApril 25, 1862November 14, 1862 Abraham Lincoln
Thomas H. Clay Minister ResidentApril 5, 1864August 10, 1866
Richard H. Rousseau Minister ResidentOctober 10, 1866August 10, 1869 Andrew Johnson
Henry Baxter Minister ResidentAugust 10, 1869June 30, 1873 Ulysses S. Grant
George Williamson [4] Minister ResidentFebruary 19, 1874January 31, 1879
Cornelius A. Logan [4] Minister ResidentOctober 10, 1879April 15, 1882 Rutherford B. Hayes
Henry C. Hall [4] Minister ResidentApril 21, 1882September 26, 1882 Chester A. Arthur
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiarySeptember 26, 1882May 16, 1889
Lansing B. Mizner [4] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryMarch 30, 1889December 31, 1890 Benjamin Harrison
Romualdo Pacheco [4] [5] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryApril 17, 1891June 12, 1893
Pierce M. B. Young [5] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryNovember 12, 1893May 23, 1896 Grover Cleveland
Macgrane Coxe [5] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary [2] June 30, 1897
W. Godfrey Hunter [5] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryJanuary 19, 1899February 2, 1903 William McKinley
Leslie Combs [5] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryMay 22, 1903February 27, 1907 Theodore Roosevelt
Joseph W. J. Lee [5] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary [2] July 1, 1907
Henry Percival Dodge [6] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryJune 17, 1908February 6, 1909
Philip Marshall Brown Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryFebruary 21, 1909February 26, 1910
Fenton R. McCreery Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryMarch 10, 1910July 2, 1911 William H. Taft
Charles Dunning White Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiarySeptember 9, 1911November 4, 1913
John Ewing Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryDecember 26, 1913January 18, 1918 Woodrow Wilson
T. Sambola Jones Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryOctober 2, 1918October 17, 1919 [7]
Franklin E. Morales Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryJanuary 18, 1922March 2, 1925 Warren G. Harding
George T. Summerlin Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryNovember 21, 1925December 17, 1929 Calvin Coolidge
Julius Gareché Lay Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryMay 31, 1930March 17, 1935 Herbert Hoover
Leo J. Keena Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryJuly 19, 1935May 1, 1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt
John Draper Erwin Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiarySeptember 8, 1937April 27, 1943
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 27, 1943April 16, 1947
Paul C. Daniels Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJune 23, 1947October 30, 1947 Harry S. Truman
Herbert S. Bursley Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMay 15, 1948December 12, 1950
John Draper Erwin Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMarch 14, 1951February 28, 1954
Whiting Willauer Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMarch 5, 1954March 24, 1958 Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert Newbegin Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryApril 30, 1958August 3, 1960
Charles R. Burrows Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 3, 1960June 28, 1965
Joseph J. Jova Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJuly 12, 1965June 21, 1969 Lyndon B. Johnson
Hewson A. Ryan Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 5, 1969May 30, 1973 Richard Nixon
Phillip V. Sanchez Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJune 15, 1973July 17, 1976
Ralph E. Becker Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 27, 1976August 1, 1977 Gerald Ford
Mari-Luci Jaramillo Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 27, 1977September 19, 1980 Jimmy Carter
Jack R. Binns Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 10, 1980October 31, 1981
John D. Negroponte Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 11, 1981May 30, 1985 Ronald Reagan
John Arthur Ferch Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 22, 1985July 9, 1986
Everett Ellis Briggs Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 4, 1986June 15, 1989
Cresencio S. Arcos, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJanuary 29, 1990July 1, 1993 George H. W. Bush
William Thornton Pryce Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJuly 21, 1993August 15, 1996 Bill Clinton
James F. Creagan Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 29, 1996July 20, 1999
Frank Almaguer Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 25, 1999September 5, 2002
Larry Leon Palmer Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 8, 2002May 7, 2005 George W. Bush
Charles A. Ford Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 8, 2005March 18, 2008
Hugo Llorens Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiarySeptember 19, 2008July 3, 2011
Lisa Kubiske Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJuly 26, 2011August 2, 2014 Barack Obama
James D. Nealon Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 21, 2014June 11, 2017
Heide B. Fulton Chargé d'Affaires ad interimJune 11, 2017August 30, 2019 Donald Trump
Colleen A. Hoey Chargé d'Affaires ad interimAugust 30, 2019April 7, 2022
Laura Farnsworth Dogu Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryApril 12, 2022April 18, 2025 Joe Biden
Roy PerrinChargé d'Affaires ad interimApril 18, 2025June 6, 2025 Donald Trump
Lyra CarrChargé d'Affaires ad interimJune 6, 2025June 23, 2025
Colleen A. Hoey Chargé d'Affaires ad interimJune 23, 2025Present

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Technical Difficulties". hn.usembassy.gov. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 Did not present credentials in Honduras.
  3. ↑ Died at post.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Commissioned to the “Central American States” but accredited individually to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua; resident at Guatemala.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Commissioned to Guatemala and Honduras; Resident at Guatemala.
  6. ↑ Commissioned to Honduras and El Salvador; resident at San Salvador.
  7. ↑ Declared persona non grata on January 1, 1920, did not return to post.
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