United States Ambassador to Serbia
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This is a list of Ambassadors of the United States to Serbia
.
Serbia had been under the domination of the Ottoman Empire
, Austria-Hungary
, communist Yugoslavia
and lastly Serbia-Montenegro Federation proclaiming independence on June 5, 2006.
The United States established diplomatic relations with Serbia on November 10, 1882 when Eugene Schuyler
was appointed resident U.S. Ambassador to Serbia, Romania
and Greece
, in Athens
.
Since July 17, 1919 U.S. diplomatic missions
were based in Yugoslavia
and since May 1992 after the breakup of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
, Serbia – United States relations cooled off, significantly severing after 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
. The U.S. Embassy formally reopened in Belgrade in May 2001.
The United States Embassy in Serbia is located in Belgrade
.
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
.
Serbia had been under the domination of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
, Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...
, communist Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
and lastly Serbia-Montenegro Federation proclaiming independence on June 5, 2006.
The United States established diplomatic relations with Serbia on November 10, 1882 when Eugene Schuyler
Eugene Schuyler
Eugene Schuyler was a nineteenth-century American scholar, writer, explorer and diplomat. Schuyler was of the first three Americans to earn a Ph.D. from an American university; and the first American translator of Ivan Turgenev and Lev Tolstoi...
was appointed resident U.S. Ambassador to Serbia, Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
and Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
, in Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
.
Since July 17, 1919 U.S. diplomatic missions
United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia
The nation of Yugoslavia was formed on December 1, 1918 as a result of the realignment of nations and national boundaries in Europe in the aftermath of The Great War. The nation was first named the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and was renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929...
were based in Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
and since May 1992 after the breakup of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...
, Serbia – United States relations cooled off, significantly severing after 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was NATO's military operation against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War. The strikes lasted from March 24, 1999 to June 10, 1999...
. The U.S. Embassy formally reopened in Belgrade in May 2001.
The United States Embassy in Serbia is located in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
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Ambassadors
- Eugene SchuylerEugene SchuylerEugene Schuyler was a nineteenth-century American scholar, writer, explorer and diplomat. Schuyler was of the first three Americans to earn a Ph.D. from an American university; and the first American translator of Ivan Turgenev and Lev Tolstoi...
– Career FSOForeign Service OfficerA Foreign Service Officer is a commissioned member of the United States Foreign Service. As diplomats, Foreign Service Officers formulate and implement the foreign policy of the United States. FSOs spend most of their careers overseas as members of U.S. embassies, consulates, and other diplomatic...
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: November 10, 1882
- Presented credentials: Resident in Athens
- Terminated mission: Left post, September 19, 1884
- Walker Fearn – Career FSO
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: September 19, 1884
- Presented credentials: September 28, 1885. Resident in Athens
- Terminated mission: Left post, October 24, 1889
- A. Loudon Snowden – Career FSO
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: October 24, 1889
- Presented credentials: November 28, 1889. Resident in Athens
- Terminated mission: Left post, August 25, 1892
- Eben AlexanderEben AlexanderEben Alexander was an American scholar, educator, dean and ambassador.Alexander attended the University of Tennessee for two years, entered Yale in 1869, and graduated from Yale in 1873 with an A.B. He was initiated into Yale's Skull and Bones in 1873...
– Career FSO- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: August 25, 1892
- Presented credentials: June 29, 1894. Resident in Athens
- Terminated mission: Left post, August 10, 1897
- William Woodville RockhillWilliam Woodville RockhillWilliam Woodville Rockhill was a United States diplomat, best known as the author of the U.S.'s Open Door Policy for China and as the first American to learn to speak Tibetan and therefore as the father of modern U.S...
– Career FSO- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: August 10, 1897
- Presented credentials: May 7, 1898. Resident in Athens
- Terminated mission: Left post, April 27, 1899
- Arthur S. HardyArthur Sherburne HardyArthur Sherburne Hardy was an American engineer, educator, editor, diplomat, novelist, and poet.-Early life and education:...
– Career FSO- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: April 27, 1899
- Presented credentials: June 24, 1900. Resident in Athens
- Terminated mission: Left post, March 2, 1901
- Charles S. Francis – Career FSO
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: March 2, 1901
- Presented credentials: May 13, 1901. Resident in Athens
- Terminated mission: Left post, December 24, 1902
- John B. Jackson – Career FSO
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: December 24, 1902
- Presented credentials: October 13, 1902. Resident in Athens until 1904, BucharestBucharestBucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
thereafter - Terminated mission: Left post, July 13, 1905
- John W. RiddleJohn W. RiddleJohn Wallace Riddle was an American diplomat. His first diplomatic assignment was as agent/consul general in Egypt . He was then sent to Romania and Serbia in 1905 to serve as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary , followed by postings as U.S. ambassador to Russia and ambassador to...
– Career FSO- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: July 13, 1905
- Presented credentials: May 7, 1906. Resident in Bucharest
- Terminated mission: Left post, January 23, 1907
- Horace G. KnowlesHorace G. KnowlesHorace Greeley Knowles was an American attorney and diplomat, who served as an ambassador under three U.S. presidents between 1907 and 1913.-Early life:...
– Career FSO- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: January 23, 1907
- Presented credentials: January 16, 1907. Resident in Bucharest
- Terminated mission: Left post, February 4, 1909
- John R. Carter – Career FSO
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: February 4, 1909
- Presented credentials: May 3, 1910. Resident in Bucharest
- Terminated mission: Left post, October 27, 1911
- John B. Jackson – Career FSO
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: October 27, 1911
- Presented credentials: January 16, 1912. Resident in Bucharest
- Terminated mission: Left post, October 15, 1913
- Charles J. Vopicka – Career FSO
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: October 15, 1913
- Presented credentials: December 15, 1913. Resident in Bucharest
- Terminated mission: Left post, December 17, 1918
- For U.S. Ambassadors between 1918 and 1992, please see United States Ambassador to YugoslaviaUnited States Ambassador to YugoslaviaThe nation of Yugoslavia was formed on December 1, 1918 as a result of the realignment of nations and national boundaries in Europe in the aftermath of The Great War. The nation was first named the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and was renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929...
- Robert Rackmales – Career FSO
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (U.S. announced on May 21, 1992 that it did not recognize Federal Republic of Yugoslavia comprising Serbia and MontenegroMontenegroMontenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...
) - Appointed: Interim
- Presented credentials: May 1992
- Terminated mission: July 1993
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (U.S. announced on May 21, 1992 that it did not recognize Federal Republic of Yugoslavia comprising Serbia and Montenegro
- Rudolf V. Perina – Career FSO
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: Interim
- Presented credentials: July 1993
- Terminated mission: 1995
- Lawrence E. Butler – Career FSO
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: Interim
- Presented credentials: 1995
- Terminated mission: August 2, 1996
- Richard M. Miles – Career FSO
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: Interim
- Presented credentials: August 2, 1996
- Terminated mission: March 23, 1999 (NATO invasion of Yugoslavia, break up of diplomatic relations)
- William Dale Montgomery – Career FSO
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: Interim
- Presented credentials: 2000
- Terminated mission: 2002
- William Dale Montgomery – Career FSO
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: January 4, 2002. (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia becomes Serbia-Montenegro in 2003)
- Presented credentials: January 4, 2002
- Terminated mission: February 29, 2004
- Michael C. PoltMichael C. PoltAmbassador Polt was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Estonia on November 30, 2009. He presented his credentials to Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves on December 10, 2009....
– Career FSO- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: February 29, 2004
- Presented credentials: May 21, 2004
- Terminated mission: July 2007
- Cameron MunterCameron MunterCameron Phelps Munter is a United States diplomat and career foreign service officer. He is the Ambassador to Pakistan. Earlier, he was an advisor for political and military issues to Christopher R...
– Career FSO- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: July 26, 2007
- Presented credentials: July 26, 2007
- Terminated mission: January 19, 2010
- Mary Burce WarlickMary Burce WarlickMary Burce Warlick is a United States diplomat. She currently serves as the United States Ambassador to Serbia.-Early life:Warlick was born in 1956 to a Lutheran missionary family of Willard and Elinor in Papua New Guinea. She spent her high school years in Adelaide, South Australia...
– Career FSO- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: December 24, 2009
- Presented credentials: January 19, 2010
- Terminated mission: Incumbent
See also
- Serbia – United States relations
- Foreign relations of SerbiaForeign relations of SerbiaForeign relations of Serbia are accomplished by efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Serbia has inherited the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, along with all of its holdings, after the dissolution of the previous state union with Montenegro...
- Ambassadors of the United States