Home Discussion Topics Dictionary Almanac

Signup Login

United States Ambassador to Brazil

Discussion

Ask a question about 'United States Ambassador to Brazil'

Start a new discussion about 'United States Ambassador to Brazil'

Answer questions from other users

Full Discussion Forum

Encyclopedia

The following is a list of Ambassadors of the United States, or other chiefs of mission

Head of Mission

In diplomatic usage, Head of Mission or Chief of Mission from the French "Chef de Mission Diplomatique" is the generic term used to refer to the head of a diplomatic representation, such as an Ambassador, High Commissioner, Nuncio, Chargé d'affaires, Permanent Representative, and sometimes to a...

, to Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. 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
Condy Raguet Condy Raguet Condy Raguet was the first chargé d'affaires from the United States to Brazil and a noted politician and free trade advocate from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Of French descent, Raguet was educated at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating he began studying law but had to give up his...	Chargé d'Affaires	October 29, 1825	April 16, 1827	John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States . He served as an American diplomat, Senator, and Congressional representative. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of former...
William Tudor William Tudor (1779-1830) William Tudor was a leading citizen of Boston, sometime literary man, and cofounder of the North American Review and the Boston Athenaeum. It was Tudor who christened Boston The Athens of America in an 1819 letter...	Chargé d'Affaires	June 25, 1828	March 9, 1830
Ethan A. Brown	Chargé d'Affaires	February 18, 1831	April 11, 1834	Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States . Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend , and the British at the Battle of New Orleans...
William Hunter	Chargé d'Affaires	January 7, 1835	January 1, 1842
William Hunter	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	January 1, 1842	December 9, 1843	John Tyler John Tyler John Tyler was the tenth President of the United States . A native of Virginia, Tyler served as a state legislator, governor, U.S. representative, and U.S. senator before being elected Vice President . He was the first to succeed to the office of President following the death of a predecessor...
George H. Proffit George H. Proffit George H. Proffit was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.-Biography:Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Proffit completed preparatory studies.He moved to Petersburg, Indiana, in 1828....	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 11, 1843	August 10, 1844
Henry A. Wise Henry A. Wise Henry Alexander Wise was an American politician and governor of Virginia, as well as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 10, 1844	August 28, 1847
David Tod David Tod David Tod was a politician and industrialist from the U.S. state of Ohio. As the 25th Governor of Ohio, Tod gained recognition for his forceful and energetic leadership during the American Civil War....	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 28, 1847	August 9, 1851	James K. Polk James K. Polk James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States . Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He later lived in and represented Tennessee. A Democrat, Polk served as the 17th Speaker of the House of Representatives and the 12th Governor of Tennessee...
Robert C. Schenck Robert C. Schenck Robert Cumming Schenck was a Union Army general in the American Civil War, and American diplomatic representative to Brazil and the United Kingdom. He was at both battles of Bull Run and took part in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, and the Battle of Cross Keys...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 9, 1851	October 8, 1853	Millard Fillmore Millard Fillmore Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president...
William Trousdale William Trousdale William Trousdale was Governor of Tennessee from 1849 to 1851.Trousdale was a protege of Andrew Jackson, having served under him in the Creek War and acquiring the nickname, "The War Horse of Sumner County" in that conflict. He was a Democrat...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 8, 1853	December 5, 1857	Franklin Pierce Franklin Pierce Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States and is the only President from New Hampshire. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. Pierce took part in the Mexican-American War and became a brigadier general in the Army...
Richard K. Meade	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 5, 1857	July 9, 1861	James Buchanan James Buchanan James Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States . He is the only president from Pennsylvania, the only president who remained a lifelong bachelor and the last to be born in the 18th century....
James Watson Webb James Watson Webb General James Watson Webb was a United States diplomat, newspaper publisher and a New York politician in the Whig and Republican parties.-Biography:...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 21, 1861	May 26, 1869	Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
Henry T. Blow	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 28, 1869	November 6, 1870	Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. Under Grant's command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America...
James R. Partridge	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 31, 1871	June 11, 1877
Henry W. Hilliard	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 23, 1877	June 15, 1881	Rutherford B. Hayes Rutherford B. Hayes Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States . As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution...
Thomas A. Osborn Thomas A. Osborn Thomas Andrew Osborn was the sixth Governor of Kansas.-Early life:Osborn was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania. As a young man, he was apprenticed as a printer, from which he supported himself through Allegheny College. In 1856 he began to study law under a Meadville judge and was admitted to the...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 17, 1881	July 11, 1885	James Garfield James Garfield James Abram Garfield served as the 20th President of the United States, after completing nine consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Garfield's accomplishments as President included a controversial resurgence of Presidential authority above Senatorial courtesy in executive...
Thomas J. Jarvis	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 11, 1885	November 19, 1888	Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents...
Robert Adams, Jr.	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 20, 1889	March 1, 1890	Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States . Harrison, a grandson of President William Henry Harrison, was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at age 21, eventually becoming a prominent politician there...
Edwin H. Conger Edwin H. Conger Edwin Hurd Conger was an Civil War soldier, lawyer, banker, Iowa congressman, and United States diplomat. As the United States' minister to China during the Boxer Rebellion, Conger, his family, and other western diplomatic legations were under siege in Beijing until rescued by the China Relief...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 19, 1890	September 9, 1893
Thomas L. Thompson Thomas Larkin Thompson Thomas Larkin Thompson was a U.S. Representative from California, son of Robert Augustine Thompson.Born in Charleston, Virginia , Thompson attended the common schools and Buffalo Academy, Virginia .He moved to California in 1855 and settled in Sonoma County.He established the Petaluma Journal the...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 9, 1893	July 17, 1897	Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents...
Edwin H. Conger Edwin H. Conger Edwin Hurd Conger was an Civil War soldier, lawyer, banker, Iowa congressman, and United States diplomat. As the United States' minister to China during the Boxer Rebellion, Conger, his family, and other western diplomatic legations were under siege in Beijing until rescued by the China Relief...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 9, 1897	February 6, 1898	William McKinley William McKinley William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States . He is best known for winning fiercely fought elections, while supporting the gold standard and high tariffs; he succeeded in forging a Republican coalition that for the most part dominated national politics until the 1930s...
Charles Page Bryan Charles Page Bryan Charles Page Bryan was an American lawyer and diplomat.Bryan was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 2, 1856. He received his preparatory education in that city, subsequently becoming a student at the University of Virginia and later taking his degree in law at Columbian University , Washington,...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 11, 1898	December 3, 1902
David E. Thompson David Eugene Thompson David Eugene Thompson was an American diplomat.Thompson was born in 1854 in Nebraska. He was a diplomat, and served as U.S. Minister to Brazil between 1902-1905, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil in 1905, and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico between 1906-1909....	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 1, 1903	March 16, 1905	Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...
	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 16, 1905	November 3, 1905
Lloyd C. Griscom	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 6, 1906	January 2, 1907
Irving B. Dudley	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 1, 1907	September 16, 1911
Edwin V. Morgan	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 4, 1912	August 23, 1933	William H. Taft
Hugh S. Gibson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 8, 1933	December 3, 1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...
Jefferson Caffery Jefferson Caffery Jefferson Caffery served as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador , Colombia , Cuba , Brazil , France , and Egypt .-Career:...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 17, 1937	September 17, 1944
Adolf A. Berle, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	January 30, 1945	February 27, 1946
William D. Pawley William D. Pawley William D. Pawley was a U.S. ambassador, a noted businessman and associated with the Flying Tigers American Volunteer Group during World War II.-Early life:...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 13, 1946	March 26, 1948	Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...
Herschel V. Johnson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 22, 1948	May 27, 1953
James S. Kemper	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 18, 1953	January 26, 1955	Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
James Clement Dunn James Clement Dunn James Clement Dunn was an American diplomat and a career employee of the United States Department of State. He served as the Ambassador of the United States to Italy, France, Spain, and Brazil.-References:**...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 11, 1955	July 4, 1956
Ellis O. Briggs	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 24, 1956	May 2, 1959
John M. Cabot	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 22, 1959	August 17, 1961
Lincoln Gordon Lincoln Gordon Abraham Lincoln Gordon was a United States Ambassador to Brazil and the 9th President of the Johns Hopkins University . Gordon had a career both in government and in academia, becoming a Professor of International Economic Relations at Harvard University in the 1950s, before turning his attention...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 19, 1961	February 25, 1966	John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
John W. Tuthill John W. Tuthill John Wills Tuthill Jack Tuthill, A highly regarded career diplomat, was stationed in Latin America, Canada, and Europe...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 30, 1966	January 9, 1969	Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...
Charles Burke Elbrick Charles Burke Elbrick Charles Burke Elbrick, , was a United States diplomat and career foreign service officer. During his career, he served three ambassadorships in various parts of the world, in addition to many other minor postings.Elbrick was the son of Charles Elbrick and his Irish wife, Lillian Burke...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 14, 1969	May 7, 1970	Richard Nixon Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...
William M. Rountree William M. Rountree William Manning Rountree was born in Swainsboro, Georgia. After graduating from high school in 1935 he got a job with the United States Department of the Treasury where he held various clerical and accounting positions...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 16, 1970	May 30, 1973
John Hugh Crimmins John Hugh Crimmins John Hugh Crimmins was a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Dominican Republic and Brazil . He was a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy....	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 13, 1973	February 25, 1978
Robert M. Sayre	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 8, 1978	September 19, 1981	Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
Langhorne A. Motley Langhorne A. Motley Langhorne Anthony Motley is a former United States Ambassador to Brazil and Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs . He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and Council on Foreign Relations. Ambassador Motley has a wife and two children...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 6, 1981	July 6, 1983	Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
Diego C. Asencio Diego C. Asencio Diego Cortes Asencio is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Colombia and United States Ambassador to Brazil...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 20, 1983	February 28, 1986
Harry W. Shlaudeman Harry W. Shlaudeman -Biography:Harry W. Shlaudeman was born in Los Angeles on May 17, 1926. During World War II, he served in the United States Marine Corps from 1944 to 1946. After the war, he attended Stanford University, receiving his B.A. in 1952....	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 5, 1986	May 14, 1989
Richard Huntington Melton	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 12, 1989	December 16, 1993	George H. W. Bush George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...
Melvyn Levitsky Melvyn Levitsky Melvyn Levitsky is a United States diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Bulgaria and Brazil .From 1989 to 1993 he served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 1, 1994	June 17, 1998	Bill Clinton Bill Clinton William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
Anthony Stephen Harrington	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 8, 2000	February 28, 2001
Cristobal R. Orozco	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	February 2001	April 2002	George W. Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
Donna J. Hrinak	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 23, 2002	June 26, 2004
John J. Danilovich	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 2, 2004	November 7, 2005
Philip T. Chicola	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	November 2005	November 2006
Clifford M. Sobel Clifford Sobel Clifford M. Sobel is a U.S. diplomat and former ambassador. Most recently, he served as the United States Ambassador to Brazil. He was nominated for the post by President Bush on May 23, 2006, confirmed by the United States Senate on June 29, 2006, and sworn in by Secretary of State Condoleezza...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 7, 2006	Unclear
Thomas A. Shannon, Jr. Thomas A. Shannon, Jr. Thomas A. Shannon, Jr. is an American diplomat. President Barack Obama nominated him as U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 24, 2009...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 24, 2009	Current	Barack Obama Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

United States Ambassador to Brazil

See also

External links