List of ambassadors of the United States to Uruguay

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Ambassador of the United States to Uruguay
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Incumbent
Heide B. Fulton
since March 22, 2023
NominatorThe President of the United States
Inaugural holder Alexander Asboth
as Minister Resident
FormationOctober 2, 1867
Website U.S. Embassy - Montevideo

The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Uruguay. 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
Alexander Asboth [1] Minister Resident October 2, 1867January 21, 1868 [2] Andrew Johnson
Henry G. Worthington [1] Minister ResidentOctober 24, 1868July 10, 1869
Robert C. Kirk [1] Minister ResidentJuly 24, 1869July 6, 1870 Ulysses S. Grant
John L. Stevens [3] Minister ResidentJuly 6, 1870May 19, 1873
John C. Caldwell [3] Minister ResidentSeptember 7, 1874October 6, 1876
Chargé d'Affaires October 6, 1876July 10, 1882
William Williams [3] Chargé d'AffairesJuly 10, 1882July 21, 1885 Chester A. Arthur
John E. Bacon [3] Chargé d'AffairesJuly 21, 1885October 8, 1888 Grover Cleveland
Minister ResidentOctober 8, 1888December 26, 1888
George Maney [3] Minister ResidentNovember 8, 1889November 28, 1890 Benjamin Harrison
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 28, 1890June 30, 1894
Granville Stuart [3] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryJuly 2, 1894January 4, 1898 Grover Cleveland
William R. Finch [3] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryJanuary 4, 1898May 29, 1905 William McKinley
Edward C. O'Brien [3] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryJune 2, 1905October 11, 1909 Theodore Roosevelt
Edwin V. Morgan [3] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryMarch 31, 1910July 8, 1911 William H. Taft
Nicolai A. Grevstad [3] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryOctober 9, 1911February 19, 1915
Robert Emmett Jeffery Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryJune 4, 1915March 9, 1921 Woodrow Wilson
Hoffman Philip Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiarySeptember 19, 1922April 10, 1925 Warren G. Harding
Ulysses Grant-Smith Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryJuly 13, 1925January 11, 1929 Calvin Coolidge
Leland Harrison Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryApril 11, 1930October 9, 1930 Herbert Hoover
J. Butler Wright Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryFebruary 9, 1931July 10, 1934
Julius Gareché Lay Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryMay 20, 1935August 31, 1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt
William Dawson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryFebruary 10, 1938June 6, 1939
Edwin C. Wilson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryOctober 27, 1939March 5, 1941
William Dawson Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 12, 1941August 6, 1946
Joseph F. McGurk Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 28, 1946April 15, 1947 Harry S. Truman
Ellis O. Briggs Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 21, 1947August 6, 1949
Christian M. Ravndal Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiarySeptember 9, 1949October 8, 1951
Edward L. Rodden Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryDecember 27, 1951October 12, 1953
Dempster McIntosh Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 12, 1953April 3, 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jefferson Patterson Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMay 2, 1956March 18, 1958
Robert F. Woodward Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryApril 21, 1958March 29, 1961
Edward J. Sparks Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMay 24, 1961May 15, 1962 John F. Kennedy
Wymberley DeRenne Coerr Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJuly 27, 1962January 22, 1965
Henry A. Hoyt Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJune 14, 1965December 16, 1967 [2] Lyndon B. Johnson
Robert M. Sayre Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 27, 1968October 19, 1969
Charles W. Adair, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 13, 1969September 28, 1972 Richard Nixon
Ernest V. Siracusa Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiarySeptember 25, 1973April 22, 1977
Lawrence Pezzulo Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 10, 1977May 29, 1979 Jimmy Carter
Lyle Franklin Lane Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 17, 1979July 22, 1980
N. Shaw Smith Chargé d'Affaires ad interim July 22, 1980November 5, 1981
Thomas Aranda, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 5, 1981November 14, 1985 Ronald Reagan
Malcolm Richard Wilkey Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 28, 1985May 10, 1990
Richard C. Brown Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 19, 1990August 19, 1993 George H. W. Bush
Thomas J. Dodd, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiarySeptember 23, 1993September 1, 1997 Bill Clinton
Christopher C. Ashby Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 26, 1997March 1, 2001
Martin J. Silverstein Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 17, 2001July 6, 2005 George W. Bush
Frank E. Baxter Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryDecember 13, 2006January 20, 2009
David D. Nelson [4] Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryDecember 24, 2009May 23, 2011 Barack Obama
Thomas H. Lloyd [5] Chargé d'Affaires a.i.May 23, 2011May 10, 2012
Julissa Reynoso [6] Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMay 10, 2012December 10, 2014
Brad Freden [7] Chargé d'Affaires a.i.December 10, 2014June 23, 2016
Kelly Keiderling [8] Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJune 23, 2016June 29, 2019 Barack Obama
Donald Trump
Kenneth S. George Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiarySeptember 2, 2019January 20, 2021 Donald Trump
Jennifer Savage Chargé d'AffairesJanuary 20, 2021July 10, 2022 Joe Biden
Karl RíosChargé d'AffairesJuly 15, 2022March 22, 2023
Heide B. Fulton Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMarch 22, 2023Incumbent

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Also accredited to Argentina; resident at Buenos Aires.
  2. 1 2 Died at post.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Also accredited to Paraguay; resident at Montevideo.
  4. ↑ "Former Ambassadors". United States Department of State, U.S. Embassy Montevideo. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Chargé d'Affaires". United States Department of State, U.S. Embassy Montevideo. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Chargé d'Affaires". United States Department of State, U.S. Embassy Montevideo. Retrieved May 10, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Chargé d'Affaires". United States Department of State, U.S. Embassy Montevideo. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  8. ↑ PN1054 — Kelly Keiderling-Franz — Department of State Congressional record, May 17, 2016
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