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The following is a list of Ambassadors that the United States

United States

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has sent to Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

. The current title given by the United States State Department to this position is Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Ambassador

An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....

Representative	Title	Presentation of credentials	Termination of mission	Appointed by
Heman Allen Heman Allen (of Colchester) Heman Allen was a U.S. Representative from Colchester, Vermont.Born in Poultney, Vermont, Allen attended the common schools. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1795, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Colchester...	Minister Plenipotentiary	April 23, 1824	July 31, 1827	James Monroe James Monroe James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States . Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States, and the last president from the Virginia dynasty and the Republican Generation...
Samuel Larned	Chargé d'Affaires Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were...	November 9, 1828	October 29, 1829	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...
John Hamm John E. Hamm John E. Hamm, M.D. was an American US Army colonel, doctor and politician, diplomat and industrialist.-Early life:...	Chargé d'Affaires	May 24, 1831	October 19, 1833	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...
Richard Pollard	Chargé d'Affaires	March 13, 1835	May 12, 1842
John S. Pendleton John Pendleton John Strother Pendleton , nicknamed "The Lone Star", was a nineteenth century congressman, diplomat, lawyer and farmer from Virginia....	Chargé d'Affaires	May 24, 1842	June 6, 1844	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...
William Crump	Chargé d'Affaires	August 18, 1845	November 1, 1847	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...
Seth Barton Seth Barton (Louisiana) Seth Barton was an attorney and government official who was active in Alabama and Louisiana. He served the federal government as Solicitor of the United States Treasury and Chargé d'affaires in Chile.-Biography:...	Chargé d'Affaires	January 5, 1848	May 22, 1849
Balie Peyton Balie Peyton Balie Peyton was an American lawyer and politician who represented Tennessee's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.-Biography:He was born near Gallatin, Tennessee on November 6, 1803...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 16, 1850	September 26, 1853	Zachary Taylor Zachary Taylor Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States and an American military leader. Initially uninterested in politics, Taylor nonetheless ran as a Whig in the 1848 presidential election, defeating Lewis Cass...
David A. Starkweather David A. Starkweather David Austin Starkweather was a U.S. Representative from Ohio and a U.S. diplomat.Starkweather was born in Preston, Connecticut on January 21, 1802. He attended school, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1825, establishing a practice in Mansfield, Ohio. He later moved to Canton, Ohio.He was a...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 22, 1854	August 26, 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...
John Bigler John Bigler John Bigler was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat. A Democrat, he served as the third Governor of California from 1852 to 1856 and was the first California governor to complete an entire term in office successfully, as well as the first to win re-election...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 5, 1857	October 4, 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....
Thomas H. Nelson Thomas H. Nelson Thomas Henry Nelson was a U.S. diplomat and politician from Indiana.Nelson was born in Mason County, Kentucky on 20 October 1820. In 1860, he unsuccessfully ran for the United States Congress. He was appointed U.S. Envoy to Chile in 1861 by Abraham Lincoln, and to Mexico in 1869 by Ulysses S. Grant...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 4, 1861	March 12, 1866	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...
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick Hugh Judson Kilpatrick Hugh Judson Kilpatrick was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, achieving the rank of brevet major general. He was later the United States Minister to Chile, and a failed political candidate for the U.S...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 12, 1866	August 3, 1870	Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States . As Vice-President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination. Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American...
Joseph P. Root	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 2, 1870	June 27, 1873	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...
Cornelius A. Logan	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 27, 1873	November 10, 1876
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	August 28, 1877	July 25, 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...
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick Hugh Judson Kilpatrick Hugh Judson Kilpatrick was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, achieving the rank of brevet major general. He was later the United States Minister to Chile, and a failed political candidate for the U.S...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 25, 1881	December 2, 1881	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...
Cornelius A. Logan	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 7, 1882	June 16, 1885	Chester A. Arthur Chester A. Arthur Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st President of the United States . Becoming President after the assassination of President James A. Garfield, Arthur struggled to overcome suspicions of his beginnings as a politician from the New York City Republican machine, succeeding at that task by embracing...
William R. Roberts William R. Roberts William Randall Roberts was a diplomat, Fenian Society member, and United States Representative from New York . Born in County Cork, Ireland, he immigrated to the United States in July 1849, received a limited schooling, and was a merchant in New York City until 1869, until he retired.In 1865,...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 4, 1885	August 9, 1889	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...
Patrick Egan Patrick Egan (land reformer and diplomat) Patrick Egan was an Irish and American political leader.Egan was born in Ballymahon, Co. Longford, Ireland. His family later moved to Dublin and at the age of fourteen he entered the office of an extensive grain and milling firm, the North City Milling Company, in Dublin, and before he was twenty...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 9, 1889	July 4, 1893	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...
James D. Porter James D. Porter, Jr. James Davis Porter was governor of the U.S. state of Tennessee from 1875 to 1879.-Biography:A native of Paris, Tennessee, Porter graduated from the former University of Nashville at age 18. He was elected to the Tennessee General Assembly in 1859. When the American Civil War loomed, Porter sided...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 4, 1893	March 14, 1894	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...
Edward H. Strobel	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 6, 1895	August 17, 1897
Henry L. Wilson	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 14, 1897	July 18, 1904	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...
John Hicks	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 5, 1905	May 11, 1909	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...
Thomas C. Dawson	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 20, 1909	November 16, 1909	William H. Taft
Henry P. Fletcher Henry P. Fletcher Henry Prather Fletcher was an American diplomat.Fletcher was born in Greencastle, Pennsylvania in 1873. He was the fourth cousin once removed of William McKinley.He served in the U.S...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 9, 1910	November 19, 1914	William H. Taft
	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....	November 19, 1914	March 9, 1916	Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...
Joseph H. Shea	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 30, 1916	May 5, 1921
William Miller Collier William Miller Collier William Miller Collier was United States Ambassador to Spain from 1905 to 1909 and the president of George Washington University from 1918 to 1921 and United States Ambassador to Chile from 1921 to 1928.-Biography:...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 29, 1921	August 6, 1928	Warren G. Harding Warren G. Harding Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States . A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential self-made newspaper publisher. He served in the Ohio Senate , as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and as a U.S. Senator...
William S. Culbertson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 16, 1928	August 19, 1933	Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...
Hal H. Sevier	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 25, 1933	May 4, 1935	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...
Hoffman Philip	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 7, 1935	October 31, 1937
Norman Armour Norman Armour Norman Armour was a career United States diplomat who The New York Times once called "the perfect diplomat"...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 21, 1938	June 10, 1939
Claude G. Bowers	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 7, 1939	September 2, 1953
Willard L. Beaulac Willard L. Beaulac Willard Leon Beaulac was a United States Diplomat. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, Colombia, Cuba, Chile and Argentina.-Biography:Ambassador Beaulac was born Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and was a graduate of Georgetown University ....	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 5, 1953	May 28, 1956	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...
Cecil B. Lyon	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 15, 1956	February 25, 1958
Walter Howe	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 1, 1958	March 15, 1961
Robert F. Woodward Robert F. Woodward Robert Forbes Woodward was a United States diplomat who focused on U.S. relations with Latin America.-Biography:Robert F. Woodward was born in Minneapolis on October 1, 1908. He was educated at the University of Minnesota, receiving a B.A. in 1930.Woodward joined the United States Foreign Service...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 5, 1961	July 6, 1961	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....
Charles W. Cole Charles W. Cole Charles W. Cole was president of Amherst College from 1946 to 1960. Cole was also involved with the Committee on the National Security Organization, American Cancer Society, U.S. Air Force, Merrill Foundation for the Advancement of Financial Knowledge, Educational Testing Service, and Teachers...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 21, 1961	September 27, 1964
Ralph A. Dungan	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 10, 1964	August 2, 1967	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...
Edward M. Korry Edward M. Korry Edward Malcolm Korry was an American diplomat during the administrations of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon.Korry, a native of New York, was U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia and to Chile . Upon hearing the news that Salvador Allende had been elected president of Chile, he proclaimed that "not a...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 16, 1967	October 12, 1971
Nathaniel Davis Nathaniel Davis Nathaniel Davis A well known career diplomat who served in the United States Foreign Service and the Peace Corps for 36 years. His final years were spent teaching.-Early years:...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 20, 1971	November 1, 1973	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...
David H. Popper David H. Popper David Henry Popper was a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Cyprus and Chile . He was a member and former President of the American Academy of Diplomacy.-Early Life:...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 22, 1974	May 22, 1977	Gerald Ford Gerald Ford Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...
George W. Landau George W. Landau George Walter Landau is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Paraguay, Chile, and Venezuela.Landau was born March 4, 1920 in Vienna, Austria and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1943. He attended Pace College and New York University and received his A.A...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 1977	January 16, 1982	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...
James D. Theberge James D. Theberge James Daniel Theberge was a United States ambassador to Nicaragua and Chile .-Biography:He was born in Oceanside, New York, and received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1952, an M.A. from Oxford University in 1960, and an M.P.A. from Harvard University in 1965...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 8, 1982	August 2, 1985	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....
Harry George Barnes, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 18, 1985	November 26, 1988
Charles A. Gillespie, Jr. Charles A. Gillespie, Jr. Charles Anthony “Tony” Gillespie, Jr. was a former United States career diplomat who helped to open the first United States Embassy in Grenada...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 20, 1988	December 10, 1991
Curtis Warren Kamman Curtis Warren Kamman Curtis Warren Kamman is a former career diplomat.Kamman graduated from Tucson High School and Yale University and entered the Foreigh Service in 1960. He served as United States Ambassador to Bolivia, Chile, and Colombia...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	January 14, 1992	October 21, 1994	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...
Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón was the United States Ambassador to Chile from 1994-1998. Nominated by President Bill Clinton in July 1994, and was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 4 of that year...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 24, 1994	June 13, 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...
John O'Leary John O'Leary (ambassador) John O'Leary served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton.-Personal life:...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 19, 1998	June 29, 2001
William R. Brownfield	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 25, 2002	July 19, 2004	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....
Craig A. Kelly Craig A. Kelly Craig A. Kelly is a United States diplomat. He was US Ambassador to Chile from 2004-2007.-Education:Ambassador Kelly attended Servite High School and UCLA. He holds a Ph.D in Romance Languages and European History.-Languages:...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 9, 2004	9 November 2007
Paul E. Simons Paul E. Simons Paul E. Simons is the former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Chile.-External links:*...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	9 November 2007	Unknown
Alejandro Daniel Wolff Alejandro Daniel Wolff Alejandro Daniel Wolff , an American diplomat, is the US Ambassador to Chile. He was the acting U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	9 July 2010	Incumbent	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...

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