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There has been a United States Ambassador to France since the American Revolution
American Revolution

The American Revolution refers to the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen Colonies of North America overthrew the governance of the British Empire and then rejected the British monarchy to become the sovereign United States of America....
. The United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 sent its first envoy
Envoy

Envoy may refer to:*an Envoy *a Diplomatic_rank#Multilateral_diplomacy*a diplomat in general*Envoy , the British Vauxhall cars for Canadian market in 1960-'70...
s to France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 in 1776, towards the end of that country's 400-year rule under the Bourbon dynasty. The U.S. diplomatic relationship with France has continued through that country's five republic regime
Regime

The word regime refers to a set of conditions, most often of a political nature. It may also be used synonymously with "wiktionary:regimen", for example in the phrases "exercise regime" or "medical regime"....
s, two periods of French Empires, the Bourbon Restoration
Bourbon Restoration

Following the ousting of Napoleon I of France in 1814, the Allies restored the House of Bourbon to the France throne. The ensuing period is called the Restoration, following French usage, and is characterized by a sharp conservative reaction and the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic Church as a power in French politics....
 and its July Monarchy. After the Battle of France
Battle of France

In World War II, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the Germany invasion of France and the Low Countries, executed from 10 May 1940, which ended the Phoney War....
, the U.S. maintained diplomatic relations with Vichy France
Vichy France

Vichy France, or the Vichy regime are the common terms used to describe the government of France from July 1940 to August 1944. This government, which succeeded the French Third Republic, officially called itself the French State , in contrast with the previous designation, "French Republic." Marshal of France Philippe P?tain pro...
 until France severed diplomatic relations with the U.S.






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There has been a United States Ambassador to France since the American Revolution
American Revolution

The American Revolution refers to the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen Colonies of North America overthrew the governance of the British Empire and then rejected the British monarchy to become the sovereign United States of America....
. The United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 sent its first envoy
Envoy

Envoy may refer to:*an Envoy *a Diplomatic_rank#Multilateral_diplomacy*a diplomat in general*Envoy , the British Vauxhall cars for Canadian market in 1960-'70...
s to France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 in 1776, towards the end of that country's 400-year rule under the Bourbon dynasty. The U.S. diplomatic relationship with France has continued through that country's five republic regime
Regime

The word regime refers to a set of conditions, most often of a political nature. It may also be used synonymously with "wiktionary:regimen", for example in the phrases "exercise regime" or "medical regime"....
s, two periods of French Empires, the Bourbon Restoration
Bourbon Restoration

Following the ousting of Napoleon I of France in 1814, the Allies restored the House of Bourbon to the France throne. The ensuing period is called the Restoration, following French usage, and is characterized by a sharp conservative reaction and the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic Church as a power in French politics....
 and its July Monarchy. After the Battle of France
Battle of France

In World War II, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the Germany invasion of France and the Low Countries, executed from 10 May 1940, which ended the Phoney War....
, the U.S. maintained diplomatic relations with Vichy France
Vichy France

Vichy France, or the Vichy regime are the common terms used to describe the government of France from July 1940 to August 1944. This government, which succeeded the French Third Republic, officially called itself the French State , in contrast with the previous designation, "French Republic." Marshal of France Philippe P?tain pro...
 until France severed diplomatic relations with the U.S. on the date of Operation Torch
Operation Torch

Operation Torch was the United Kingdom-United States invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign, started 8 November 1942....
.

The following is a complete list of U.S. ambassadors to France.

United States Envoys to France

During the Bourbon dynasty:
  • Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and Printer , Satire, list of political philosophers, politician, scientist, inventor, activism, statesman, and diplomacy....
    , Arthur Lee
    Arthur Lee (diplomat)

    Dr. Arthur Lee , was an United States diplomat during the American Revolutionary War. He was the son of Hon. Thomas Lee and Hannah Harrison Ludwell ....
    , Silas Deane
    Silas Deane

    Silas Deane , was a delegate to the United States Continental Congress and later the United States' first foreign diplomat....
     (substituted by John Adams
    John Adams

    John Adams was an Politics of the United States and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , after being the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States for two terms....
     in 1778) 1776-1779


United States Ministers Plenipotentiary to France

During the Bourbon dynasty:
  • Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and Printer , Satire, list of political philosophers, politician, scientist, inventor, activism, statesman, and diplomacy....
     September 14, 1778 - May 17, 1785
  • Thomas Jefferson
    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence , and one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States....
     March 10, 1785 - September 26, 1789
  • William Short
    William Short (American ambassador)

    William Short had been Thomas Jefferson's Private Secretary when he was United States Ambassador to France in Paris, 1786?1789. Jefferson, later the third President of the United States, referred to Short as his "adoptive son"....
     April 20, 1790 - May 15, 1792


During the French First Republic
French First Republic

The French First Republic was founded on 22 September, 1792, by the newly established National Convention. The First Republic lasted until the declaration of the First French Empire in 1804 under Napoleon....
:
  • Gouverneur Morris
    Gouverneur Morris

    Gouverneur Morris was an United States statesman who represented Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia Convention and was an author of large sections of the Constitution of the United States....
     1792-1794
  • James Monroe
    James Monroe

    James Monroe was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States . His administration was marked by the acquisition of Florida ; the Missouri Compromise , in which Missouri was declared a slave state; the admission of Maine in 1820 as a free state; and the profession of the Monroe Doctrine , declaring U.S....
     1794-1796
  • Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
    Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

    Charles Cotesworth Pinckney , was an early American statesman of South Carolina, Revolutionary War veteran, and delegate to the Constitutional Convention....
     1796-1797
  • Robert R. Livingston
    Robert Livingston (1746-1813)

    Robert R Livingston , was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat from New York....
     1801-1804
During the First French Empire
First French Empire

The Empire of the French , also known as the Greater French Empire or First French Empire, but more commonly known as the Napoleonic Empire, was the empire of Napoleon I of France in France....
:
  • John Armstrong 1804-1810
  • Joel Barlow
    Joel Barlow

    Joel Barlow , American poet and politician...
     1811-1812


United States Ministers to France

During the First French Empire and Bourbon Restoration
Bourbon Restoration

Following the ousting of Napoleon I of France in 1814, the Allies restored the House of Bourbon to the France throne. The ensuing period is called the Restoration, following French usage, and is characterized by a sharp conservative reaction and the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic Church as a power in French politics....
:
  • William H. Crawford
    William H. Crawford

    William Harris Crawford was an United States politician and judge during the early 19th century. He served as United States Secretary of War from 1815 to 1816 and United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1816 to 1825, and was a United States presidential election, 1824....
     1813-1815
  • Albert Gallatin
    Albert Gallatin

    Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin was a Swiss-American ethnologist, linguistics, Politics of the United States, diplomat, United States Representative, and the longest-serving United States Secretary of the Treasury....
     1816-1823 (United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to France)
  • James Brown
    James Brown (Senator)

    James Brown was a lawyer, United States Senator from Louisiana and United States Ambassador to France. He was the brother of John Brown , the cousin of John Breckinridge , James Breckinridge and Francis Preston, the brother-in-law of Henry Clay, the uncle of James Brown Clay, Henry Clay, Jr., John Morrison Clay, the great uncle of B....
     1824-1829
During the Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy:
  • William Cabell Rives
    William Cabell Rives

    William Cabell Rives was an United States lawyer, politician and diplomat from Albemarle County, Virginia. He represented Virginia as a Democratic-Republican Party in both the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate and also served as the U.S....
     1829-1832
  • Edward Livingston
    Edward Livingston

    Edward Livingston was a prominent United States jurist and statesman. He was an influential figure in the drafting of the Louisiana Civil Code of 1825, a civil code based largely on the Napoleonic Code....
     1833-1835
  • Lewis Cass
    Lewis Cass

    Lewis Cass was an United States military officer and politician. During his long political career, Cass served as a governor of the Michigan Territory, an American ambassador, and a United States Senate representing Michigan....
     1836-1842
  • William R. King
    William R. King

    William Rufus deVane King was a United States House of Representatives from North Carolina, a United States Senate from Alabama, and the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States....
     1844-1846
During the July Monarchy and French Second Republic
French Second Republic

The French Second Republic was the republican government of France between the Revolutions of 1848 in France and the coup by Napoleon III of France which initiated the Second French Empire....
:
  • Richard Rush
    Richard Rush

    Richard Rush was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the second son of Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and Julia Rush....
     1847-1849
During the French Second Republic and the Second French Empire
Second French Empire

The Second French Empire or Second Empire was the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the French Second Republic and the French Third Republic, in France....
:
  • William Cabell Rives
    William Cabell Rives

    William Cabell Rives was an United States lawyer, politician and diplomat from Albemarle County, Virginia. He represented Virginia as a Democratic-Republican Party in both the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate and also served as the U.S....
     1849-1853
  • John Young Mason 1853-1859
  • Charles J. Faulkner
    Charles J. Faulkner

    Charles James Faulkner was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Virginia and West Virginia. He was the father of Charles James Faulkner....
     1860-1861
  • William Lewis Dayton 1861-1864
  • John Bigelow
    John Bigelow

    John Bigelow was an American lawyer and statesman....
     1865-1866
  • John Adams Dix
    John Adams Dix

    John Adams Dix was an United States politician from New York. He served as Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Senator, and Governor of New York. He was also a distinguished American Civil War General....
     1866-1869
During the Second French Empire and French Third Republic
French Third Republic

The French Third Republic was the political regime of France between the Second French Empire and the Vichy France. It was a republican parliamentary democracy that was created on 4 September 1870 following the collapse of the Empire of Napoleon III of France in the Franco-Prussian War....
:
  • Elihu B. Washburne
    Elihu B. Washburne

    Elihu Benjamin Washburne was one of seven brothers that played a prominent role in the early formation of the Republican Party . He later served as United States Secretary of State in 1869....
     1869-1877
During the French Third Republic:
  • Edward Follansbee Noyes 1877-1881
  • Levi Parsons Morton 1881-1885
  • Robert Milligan McLane
    Robert Milligan McLane

    Robert Milligan McLane was an United States politician, military officer, and diplomat. He served as Ambassador to Mexico, France, and China, as a member of the United States House of Representatives from the Maryland's 4th congressional district of Maryland, as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and as the 39th Gov...
     1885-1889
  • Whitelaw Reid
    Whitelaw Reid

    Whitelaw Reid was a United States politician and newspaper editor, as well as the author of a popular history of Ohio in the Civil War.Born on a farm near Xenia, Ohio, Reid attended Xenia Academy and went on to graduate from Miami University with honors in 1856....
     1889-1892
  • Thomas Jefferson Coolidge 1892-1893


United States Ambassadors to France

During the French Third Republic
French Third Republic

The French Third Republic was the political regime of France between the Second French Empire and the Vichy France. It was a republican parliamentary democracy that was created on 4 September 1870 following the collapse of the Empire of Napoleon III of France in the Franco-Prussian War....
:
  • James Biddle Eustis 1893-1897
  • Horace Porter
    Horace Porter

    Horace Porter, was an American soldier and diplomat who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Porter was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, the son of David R....
     1897-1905
  • Robert Sanderson McCormick
    Robert Sanderson McCormick

    Robert Sanderson McCormick was a United States diplomat, born in Rockmount, Virginia. He was the father of Robert R. McCormick and Joseph Medill McCormick....
     1905-1907
  • Henry White
    Henry White (diplomat)

    Henry White was a prominent United States diplomat during the 1890s and 1900s, and one of the signers of the Treaty of Versailles.Theodore Roosevelt, who was president during the peak of White's career, described White as "the most useful man in the entire diplomatic service, during my Presidency and for many years before." Edward M....
     1907-1909
  • Robert Bacon
    Robert Bacon

    Robert Bacon was an United States statesman and diplomat. He served as United States Secretary of State from January to March 1909.Born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, to William Benjamin Bacon and Emily Crosby Low, he was graduate of Harvard University, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon....
     1909-1912
  • Myron T. Herrick
    Myron T. Herrick

    Myron Timothy Herrick was a Republican Party politician from Ohio. He served as the 42nd List of Governors of Ohio. He was born in Huntington, Lorain County, Ohio, the son of Timothy Robinson Herrick a local farmer....
     1912-1914
  • William Graves Sharp
    William Graves Sharp

    William Graves Sharp was an United States lawyer, manufacturer, three-term congressman, and diplomat.Sharp was born in Mount Gilead, Ohio, Ohio....
     1914-1919
  • Hugh Campbell Wallace 1919-1921
  • Myron T. Herrick
    Myron T. Herrick

    Myron Timothy Herrick was a Republican Party politician from Ohio. He served as the 42nd List of Governors of Ohio. He was born in Huntington, Lorain County, Ohio, the son of Timothy Robinson Herrick a local farmer....
     1921-1929
  • Walter E. Edge 1929-1933
  • Jesse I. Strauss 1933-1936
  • William C. Bullitt 1936-1940
During Vichy France
Vichy France

Vichy France, or the Vichy regime are the common terms used to describe the government of France from July 1940 to August 1944. This government, which succeeded the French Third Republic, officially called itself the French State , in contrast with the previous designation, "French Republic." Marshal of France Philippe P?tain pro...
:
  • William D. Leahy
    William D. Leahy

    Fleet Admiral William Daniel Leahy was an United States naval officer, Governor of Puerto Rico and Ambassador to France.Leahy served as Chief of Staff to Presidents Franklin D....
     1941-1942
After Leahy left, S. Pinkney Tuck served as interim Chargé d'affaires
Chargé d'affaires

In diplomacy, charg? d?affaires , often shortened to simply charg?, is the title of two classes of diplomacy agents who head a diplomatic mission on a temporary basis....
 until France severed diplomatic relations with the U.S. on November 8, 1942, the date of Operation Torch
Operation Torch

Operation Torch was the United Kingdom-United States invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign, started 8 November 1942....


During the French Fourth Republic
French Fourth Republic

The Fourth Republic was the republicanism government of France between 1946 and 1958, governed by the fourth republican Constitution of France. It was in many ways a revival of the French Third Republic, which was in place before World War II, and suffered many of the same problems....
:
  • Jefferson Caffery
    Jefferson Caffery

    Jefferson Caffery served as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador , Colombia , Cuba , Brazil , France , and Egypt ....
     1944-1949
  • David K. E. Bruce
    David K. E. Bruce

    David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce was the United States Ambassador to France from 1949 to 1952, United States Ambassador to Germany from 1957 to 1959, and United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1961 to 1969....
     1949-1952
  • James C. Dunn 1952-1953
  • C. Douglas Dillon
    C. Douglas Dillon

    Clarence Douglas Dillon son of Clarence Dillon and Anne McEldin Douglass Dillon, was U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to France and 57th Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury ....
     1953-1957
During the French Fourth Republic and the French Fifth Republic
French Fifth Republic

The Fifth Republic is the fifth and current Republicanism Constitution of France of France, which was introduced on October 5, 1958. The Fifth Republic emerged from the collapse of the French Fourth Republic, replacing a parliamentary government with a semi-presidential system....
:
  • Amory Houghton
    Amory Houghton

    Amory Houghton served as United States Ambassador to France and National President of the Boy Scouts of America....
     1957-1961
During the French Fifth Republic:
  • James M. Gavin
    James M. Gavin

    James Maurice "Jumpin' Jim" Gavin rose to the rank of Lieutenant General in the United States Army. He was also referred to as "The Jumping General", because of his practice of taking part in combat drops with the paratroopers he commanded....
     1961-1962
  • Charles E. Bohlen
    Charles E. Bohlen

    Charles Eustis ?Chip? Bohlen was a United States Foreign Service from 1929 to 1969 and Soviet Union expert, serving in Moscow before and during World War II, succeeding George F....
     1962-1968
  • Robert S. Shriver, Jr.
    Sargent Shriver

    Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. is an United States of America Democratic Party politician and activist. Known as "Sargent," Shriver is best-known as part of the Kennedy political family, the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and the Democratic Party's United States presidential election, 1972 vice President of the United St...
     1968-1970
  • Arthur K. Watson
    Arthur K. Watson

    Arthur K. Watson served as president of IBM World Trade Corporation and United States Ambassador to France....
     1970-1972
  • John N. Irwin, II 1973-1974
  • Kenneth Rush 1974-1977
  • Arthur A. Hartman
    Arthur A. Hartman

    Arthur Adair Hartman is a retired United States career diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to France under Jimmy Carter and United States Ambassador to Russia under Ronald Reagan....
     1977-1981
  • Evan Griffith Galbraith 1981-1985
  • Joe M. Rodgers
    Joe M. Rodgers

    Joe M. Rodgers was an United States construction company executive and political operative who served as the United States Ambassador to France....
     1985-1989
  • Walter Curley
    Walter Curley

    Walter Joseph Patrick Curley II was the 57th United States Ambassador to France from 1989 to 1993 and the United States Ambassador to Ireland from 1975 to 1977....
     1989-1993
  • Pamela Harriman
    Pamela Harriman

    Pamela Churchill Harriman was an English-born socialite who was married and linked to important and powerful men. In later life, she became a political activist for the United States Democratic Party and a diplomat....
     1993-1997
  • Felix Rohatyn
    Felix Rohatyn

    Felix George Rohatyn is an United States investment banker known for his role in preventing the bankruptcy of New York City in the 1970s, who also served as United States Ambassador to France....
     1997-2000
  • Howard H. Leach
    Howard H. Leach

    Howard H. Leach was United States Ambassador to France from 2001 to 2005. Born in Salinas, California, on June 19, 1930, he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Yale University in 1952....
     2001-2005
  • Craig Roberts Stapleton
    Craig Roberts Stapleton

    Craig Roberts Stapleton is the current Ambassadors from the United States to France. This is Stapleton's second ambassadorship, as he had been ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2001 to 2004....
     2005-2009