List of ambassadors of the United States to the Netherlands

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Ambassador of the United States to the Netherlands
Ambassadeur van de Verenigde Staten in Nederland
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Seal of the United States Department of State
Shefali Razdan Duggal, U.S. Ambassador.jpg
Incumbent
Shefali Razdan Duggal
since October 19, 2022
Seat Embassy of the United States, The Hague
NominatorThe President of the United States
Inaugural holder John Adams
as Minister Plenipotentiary
FormationApril 19, 1782
Website nl.usembassy.gov

The United States diplomatic mission to the Netherlands consists of the embassy located in The Hague and a consular office located in Amsterdam.

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In 1782, John Adams was appointed America's first Minister Plenipotentiary to Holland. According to the United States Department of State, the same year came formal recognition by the Netherlands of the United States as a separate and independent nation, along with badly needed financial help that indicated faith in its future. These loans from the United Provinces, which have been called "the Marshall Plan in reverse," were the first the new government received. Adams purchased a home in the Hague at Fluwelen Burgwal 18 (located within Uilebomen, The Hague Center), as the first U.S. embassy. [1]

The current American Embassy building in The Hague opened on January 29, 2018. [2] Notable Americans such as former Presidents Adams and John Quincy Adams, General Hugh Ewing and Iraq Envoy L. Paul Bremer have held the title of Ambassador.

Besides the embassy, a U.S. consulate-general is located on Curaçao which is responsible for the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean. [3] This consulate is not part of the U.S. diplomatic mission to the Netherlands.

April 19, the day John Adams presented his credentials in the Hague, was declared by President Ronald Reagan to be memorialized as "Dutch-American Friendship Day". [4]

Ambassadors

The former building of the Embassy of the United States, The Hague AmerEmbassNeth.JPG
The former building of the Embassy of the United States, The Hague
#Name [5] Type [5] Start date [6] End date [6]
1 John Adams MP April 19, 1782March 30, 1788
2 William Livingston MP [7]
3 John Rutledge MP [7]
4 William Short MP June 18, 1792December 19, 1792
5 John Quincy Adams MP November 6, 1794June 20, 1797
6 William Vans Murray MP June 20, 1797September 2, 1801
7 William Eustis EE/MP July 20, 1815May 5, 1818
8 Alexander H. Everett Chd'Aff January 4, 1819April 7, 1824
9 Christopher Hughes Chd'Aff July 10, 1826January 28, 1830
10 William Pitt Preble EE/MP January 28, 1830May 2, 1831
11 Auguste Davezac Chd'Aff December 30, 1831July 13, 1839
12 Harmanus Bleecker Chd'Aff July 13, 1839August 22, 1842
13 Christopher Hughes Chd'Aff August 22, 1842June 28, 1845
14 Auguste Davezac Chd'Aff June 28, 1845September 16, 1850
15 George Folsom Chd'Aff September 16, 1850October 11, 1853
16 August Belmont Chd'Aff October 11, 1853September 26, 1854
MR September 26, 1854September 22, 1857
17 Henry C. Murphy MR September 24, 1857June 8, 1861
18 James S. Pike MR June 8, 1861May 29, 1866
19 Daniel E. Sickles MR [7]
20 John A. Dix MR [7]
21 Albert Rhodes Chd'Aff October 19, 1866December 1, 1866
22 Hugh Ewing MR December 1, 1866October 31, 1870
23 Joseph P. Root MR [8]
24 Charles T. Gorham MR December 15, 1870July 9, 1875
25 Francis B. Stockbridge MR [9]
26 James Birney MR March 29, 1876April 20, 1882
27 William L. Dayton, Jr. MR September 26, 1882June 8, 1885
28 Isaac Bell, Jr. MR June 8, 1885April 29, 1888
29 Robert B. Roosevelt MR August 10, 1888September 26, 1888
EE/MP September 26, 1888May 17, 1889
30 Samuel R. Thayer EE/MP May 24, 1889August 7, 1893
31 William E. Quinby EE/MP August 11, 1893July 26, 1897
32 Stanford Newel EE/MP August 19, 1897June 30, 1905
33 David J. Hill EE/MP July 15, 1905June 1, 1908
34 Arthur M. Beaupre EE/MP June 15, 1908September 25, 1911
35 Lloyd Bryce EE/MP November 16, 1911September 10, 1913
36 Henry van Dyke EE/MP October 15, 1913January 11, 1917
37 John W. Garrett EE/MP October 11, 1917June 18, 1919
38 William Phillips EE/MP April 23, 1920April 11, 1922
39 Richard M. Tobin EE/MP May 1, 1923August 29, 1929
40 Gerrit John Diekema EE/MP November 20, 1929December 20, 1930 [10]
41 Laurits S. Swenson EE/MP April 29, 1931March 5, 1934
42 Grenville T. Emmet EE/MP March 21, 1934August 21, 1937
43 George A. Gordon EE/MP September 10, 1937July 16, 1940 [11]
44 Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. [12] EE/MP March 27, 1941May 8, 1942
AE/P May 8, 1942December 1, 1943
45 Stanley K. Hornbeck [12] AE/P December 8, 1944March 7, 1947
46 Herman B. Baruch AE/P April 12, 1947August 26, 1949
47 Selden Chapin AE/P October 27, 1949October 30, 1953
48 H. Freeman Matthews AE/P November 25, 1953June 11, 1957
49 Philip Young AE/P June 27, 1957December 20, 1960
50 John S. Rice AE/P May 6, 1961May 27, 1964
51 William R. Tyler AE/P June 23, 1965June 20, 1969
52 J. William Middendorf II AE/P July 9, 1969June 10, 1973
53 Kingdon Gould, Jr. AE/P October 18, 1973September 30, 1976
54 Robert J. McCloskey AE/P October 22, 1976March 10, 1978
55 Geri M. Joseph AE/P September 6, 1978June 17, 1981
56 William J. Dyess AE/P September 2, 1982July 19, 1983
57 L. Paul Bremer AE/P August 31, 1983August 25, 1986
58 John Shad AE/P June 24, 1987February 23, 1989
59 C. Howard Wilkins, Jr. AE/P July 13, 1989July 11, 1992
60 K. Terry Dornbush AE/P March 16, 1994July 28, 1998
61 Cynthia P. Schneider AE/P September 2, 1998June 17, 2001
62 Clifford Sobel AE/P December 6, 2001August 24, 2005
63 Roland Arnall AE/P Mar 8, 2006March 7, 2008
64 James Culbertson AE/P July 10, 2008January 20, 2009
65 Fay Hartog-Levin AE/P August 19, 2009September 1, 2011
66 Timothy M. Broas AE/P March 19, 2014February 12, 2016
67 Adam Sterling Chd'Aff February 12, 2016July 29, 2016
68 Shawn P. Crowley Chd'Aff July 29, 2016 [13] January 10, 2018
69 Pete Hoekstra AE/P January 10, 2018January 17, 2021
70 Marja Verloop Chd'Aff January 17, 2021July 4, 2022
71Aleisha Woodward Chd'Aff July 4, 2022October, 18, 2022
72 Shefali Razdan Duggal AE/P October 19, 2022Present

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  2. "U.S. Embassy moving to Wassenaar". January 19, 2018.
  3. "welcome" . Retrieved November 21, 2010.
  4. Eschner, Kat. "John Adams Was the United States' First Ambassador as Well as Its Second President". Smithsonian. Retrieved July 8, 2018.
  5. 1 2 Archived July 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  6. 1 2 "Nations - Netherlands". AllGov. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
  7. 1 2 3 4 He declined his appointment.
  8. His nomination was withdrawn.
  9. He took the oath of office, but he never proceeded to the post.
  10. He died at his post.
  11. He left with a special ambassador train from The Hague on the July 16. This train was specially meant for ambassadors and their families. See for a picture of ambassador Gordon in this train: http://www.haagsebeeldbank.nl/
  12. 1 2 He served in England.
  13. U.S. Chargé d'affaires in The Hague accredited, diplomat magazine.nl, 2016/08/04 (in English).