United States Ambassador to Costa Rica

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s, or other Chiefs of Mission, to Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

. 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
Solon Borland Solon Borland Solon Borland was a newspaperman, soldier, diplomat, Democratic United States Senator from the State of Arkansas and a Confederate officer during the American Civil War.-Early life:...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary		April 17, 1854	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...
Mirabeau B. Lamar Mirabeau B. Lamar Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar was a Texas politician, diplomat and soldier who was a leading Texas political figure during the Texas Republic era. He was the second President of the Republic of Texas, after David G. Burnet and Sam Houston.-Early years:Lamar grew up at Fairfield, his father's...	Minister Resident	September 14, 1858	May 20, 1859	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....
Alexander Dimitry	Minister Resident	September 29, 1859	April 27, 1861
Charles N. Riotte	Minister Resident	August 29, 1861	January 18, 1867	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...
Albert G. Lawrence	Minister Resident	January 18, 1867	June 24, 1868	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...
Jacob B. Blair Jacob B. Blair Jacob Beeson Blair was a U.S. Representative from Virginia and from West Virginia.Born in Parkersburg, West Virginia , Blair studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1844...	Minister Resident	October 6, 1868	June 30, 1873
George Williamson	Minister Resident	August 13, 1873	January 31, 1879	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	Minister Resident	December 25, 1879	April 17, 1882	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...
Henry C. Hall	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 22, 1882	May 16, 1889	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...
Lansing B. Mizner	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 30, 1889	December 31, 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...
Romualdo Pacheco Romualdo Pacheco José Antonio Romualdo Pacheco Jr. was an American politician and diplomat. Involved in California state and federal politics, Pacheco was elected and appointed to various posts and offices throughout his more than thirty-year career, including the California State Senate, the 12th Governor of...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 7, 1891	October 31, 1891
Richard Cutts Shannon	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 31, 1891	April 30, 1893
Lewis Baker	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 20, 1893	December 9, 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...
William L. Merry	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	January 15, 1898	March 4, 1911	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...
Lewis Einstein Lewis Einstein Lewis David Einstein was an American diplomat and historian.-Biography:...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 3, 1911	December 29, 1911	William H. Taft
Edward J. Hale	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 29, 1913	April 19, 1917	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...
Stewart Johnson	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... ad interim	April 19, 1917	December 5, 1918
John F. Martin, Jr.	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	October 15, 1920	January 1921
Walter C. Thurston	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	January 1921	March 1922	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...
Roy T. Davis	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 14, 1922	January 4, 1930
Charles C. Eberhardt	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 14, 1930	September 24, 1933	Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...
Leo R. Sack	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 16, 1933	January 10, 1937	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...
William H. Hornibrook	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 2, 1937	September 1, 1941
Arthur Bliss Lane Arthur Bliss Lane Arthur Bliss Lane was the United States Ambassador to Poland .- Biography :Lane was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. He was appointed U.S. Minister to Nicaragua ; Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania ; Kingdom of Yugoslavia, ; and Costa Rica . He was then appointed U.S...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 27, 1941	March 17, 1942
Robert M. Scotten	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 31, 1942	April 20, 1943
Fay A. DesPortes	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....	May 20, 1943	September 11, 1944
Hallett Johnson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 14, 1945	May 16, 1947
Walter J. Donnelly	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 27, 1947	October 15, 1947	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...
Nathaniel P. Davis	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	January 31, 1948	June 8, 1949
Joseph Flack	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 13, 1949	September 21, 1950
Philip B. Fleming	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 20, 1951	August 7, 1953
Robert C. Hill Robert C. Hill Robert Charles Hill was a United States diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to several Latin American countries and Spain throughout his career...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 4, 1953	September 10, 1954	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...
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	December 3, 1954	March 15, 1958
Whiting Willauer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 5, 1958	April 17, 1961
Raymond Telles Raymond Telles Raymond L. Telles, Jr. was the first Mexican-American Mayor of a major American city, El Paso, Texas.Born in El Paso and educated as an accountant, Telles worked at the United States Department of Justice for eight years. He was drafted into the Army in 1941. Telles then served in the U.S...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 22, 1961	February 19, 1967	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....
Clarence A. Boonstra	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 8, 1967	August 11, 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...
Walter C. Ploeser Walter C. Ploeser Walter Christian Ploeser was a U.S. Representative from Missouri and United States Ambassador to Paraguay and Costa Rica....	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 27, 1970	April 13, 1972	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...
Viron P. Vaky Viron P. Vaky Viron Peter Vaky is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Costa Rica , Colombia , and Venezuela...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 17, 1972	February 9, 1974
Terence A. Todman	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 17, 1975	January 24, 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...
Marvin Weissman	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 28, 1977	March 22, 1980	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...
Francis J. McNeil	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 8, 1980	June 27, 1983
Curtin Winsor, Jr. Curtin Winsor, Jr. Curtin Winsor, Jr. is a former Ambassador of the United States to Costa Rica and a philanthropist.-Biography:Winsor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 28, 1939, and graduated from Brown University in 1961 with a degree in English literature. Following his undergraduate studies, he...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 14, 1983	February 18, 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....
Lewis Arthur Tambs	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 1, 1985	January 1, 1987
Deane Roesch Hinton	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 17, 1987	January 4, 1990
Luis Guinot, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 27, 1991	March 1, 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...
Robert O. Homme	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	March 1993	July 1993	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...
Donald Harrington	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	July 1993	August 1993
Joseph Beceila	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	August 1993	October 1994
Peter Jon de Vos	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 21, 1994	October 14, 1997
Thomas J. Dodd, Jr. Thomas J. Dodd, Jr. Thomas J. Dodd, Jr. is the former United States Ambassador to Uruguay and to Costa Rica . He is a Professor of Latin American History and Diplomacy at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 26, 1997	March 1, 2001
John J. Danilovich	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 10, 2001	June 1, 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....
Mark Langdale	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 8, 2005	July 31, 2007
Peter M. Brennan	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	August 2007	May 2008
Peter Cianchette Peter Cianchette Peter Cianchette is a Maine businessman, politician and former United States Ambassador to Costa Rica.-Early life and education:Cianchette was born and raised in Pittsfield...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 5, 2008	June 19, 2009
Anne S. Andrew	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 29, 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...

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