United States Ambassador to Singapore | |
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Department of State | |
Reports to | U.S. Secretary of State |
Seat | Singapore |
Nominator | President of the United States |
Appointer | United States Congress |
Term length | No term limit |
Inaugural holder | Richard H. Donald |
Formation | 1966 |
Website | U.S. Embassy – Singapore |
The United States ambassador to Singapore is the official representative of the United States of America to the Republic of Singapore. The incumbent ambassador is Jonathan E. Kaplan since December 6, 2021, serving as the ambassador of the Embassy of the United States in Singapore.
No. | Name | Took office | Left office | President |
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1 | Richard H. Donald (Chargé d'Affaires, a.i.) | April 4, 1966 | September 1966 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
2 | Francis Joseph Galbraith | December 8, 1966 | July 7, 1969 | |
3 | Charles T. Cross | October 10, 1969 | November 18, 1971 [2] | Richard Nixon |
4 | Edwin M. Cronk | July 31, 1972 | June 7, 1975 [3] | Richard Nixon Gerald Ford |
5 | John H. Holdridge | August 5, 1975 | June 9, 1978 | Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter |
6 | Richard F. Kneip | August 7, 1978 | September 25, 1980 [4] | Jimmy Carter |
7 | Harry E. T. Thayer | December 13, 1980 | June 14, 1984 [5] | Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan |
8 | J. Stapleton Roy | October 26, 1984 | October 4, 1986 | Ronald Reagan |
9 | Daryl Arnold | April 28, 1987 | July 8, 1989 [6] | Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush |
10 | Robert D. Orr | July 14, 1989 | September 12, 1992 [7] | George H. W. Bush |
11 | Jon Huntsman Jr. | September 22, 1992 | June 15, 1993 | George H. W. Bush Bill Clinton |
12 | Ralph L. Boyce (Chargé d'Affaires, a.i.) | June 15, 1993 | August 15, 1994 | Bill Clinton |
13 | Timothy Chorba | August 15, 1994 | January 7, 1998 [8] | |
14 | Steven J. Green | January 13, 1998 | February 27, 2001 | Bill Clinton George W. Bush |
15 | Frank Lavin | September 10, 2001 | October 11, 2005 [9] | George W. Bush |
16 | Patricia L. Herbold | December 29, 2005 | January 20, 2009 | |
17 | Daniel L. Shields (Chargé d'Affaires, a.i.) | January 20, 2009 | April 29, 2010 [10] | Barack Obama |
18 | David I. Adelman | April 29, 2010 | September 1, 2013 | |
19 | Kirk Wagar | September 25, 2013 | January 20, 2017 [11] | |
20 | Stephanie Syptak-Ramnath (Chargé d'Affaires, a.i.) | January 20, 2017 [12] | July 26, 2019 | Donald Trump |
21 | Rafik Mansour (Chargée d'Affaires, a.i.) | July 30, 2019 [1] | December 6, 2021 | |
22 | Jonathan Kaplan | December 6, 2021 [13] | Incumbent | Joe Biden |
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