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Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
 from 1779 to the present day.








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This is a list of United States Ambassadors to Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
 from 1779 to the present day.

Ambassadors

  • John Jay
    John Jay

    John Jay was an United States politician, statesman, Patriot , diplomat, a Founding Fathers of the United States, President of the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1779 and, from 1789 to 1795, the first Chief Justice of the United States....
    • Appointed: September 29, 1779
    • Title: Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials:
    • Terminated mission: ~May 20, 1782
  • William Carmichael
    William Carmichael

    William Carmichael was an United States statesman and diplomat from Maryland during and after the American Revolutionary War. He participated in Benjamin Franklin's mission to Paris in 1776-8, represented Maryland in the Continental Congress in 1778 and 1779 and was the principal diplomat for the United States to Spain from 1782 to 1794....
    • Appointed: April 20, 1790
    • Title: Chargé d’Affaires
    • Presented credentials: February 20, 1783
    • Terminated mission: Presented recall September 5, 1794
  • 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"....
    • Appointed: May 28, 1794
    • Title: Minister Resident
    • Presented credentials: September 7, 1794
    • Terminated mission: Left post November 1, 1795
  • David Humphreys
    David Humphreys (soldier)

    David Humphreys was a Revolutionary War colonel and aide de camp to George Washington, United States Ambassador to Portugal and then to United States Ambassador to Spain, entrepreneur who brought Merino sheep to America and member of the Connecticut state legislature....
    • Appointed: May 20, 1796
    • Title: Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: September 10, 1797
    • Terminated mission: Probably presented recall soon after December 28, 1801
  • Charles Pinckney
    Charles Pinckney (governor)

    Charles Pinckney was an United States politician who was a signer of the United States Constitution, List of Governors of South Carolina of South Carolina, a United States Senate and a member of the United States House of Representatives....
    • Appointed: June 6, 1801
    • Title: Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: January–March 1802
    • Terminated mission: Presented recall October 25, 1804
  • James Bowdoin III
    James Bowdoin III

    James Bowdoin III was an American philanthropist and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts. He has born to James Bowdoin in Boston, and graduated from Harvard University in 1771....
    • Appointed: November 22, 1804
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    • Presented credentials:
    • Terminated mission:
  • George W. Irving
    • Appointed:
    • Title: Chargé d’Affaires
    • Presented credentials:
    • Terminated mission:
  • George W. Irving
    • Appointed: August 10, 1814
    • Title: Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: August 24, 1816
    • Terminated mission: Left post May 15, 1819
  • John Forsyth
    John Forsyth (politician)

    John Forsyth, Sr. was a 19th century United States politician from Georgia .Forsyth was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia. His father Robert Forsyth was the first U.S....
    • Appointed: February 16, 1819
    • Title: Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: May 18, 1819
    • Terminated mission: Had farewell audience, March 2, 1823
  • Hugh Nelson
    Hugh Nelson (congressman)

    Hugh Nelson was a United States House of Representatives from Virginia, son of Thomas Nelson, Jr..Born in Yorktown, Virginia, Nelson completed preparatory studies....
    • Appointed: January 15, 1823
    • Title: Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: December 4, 1823
    • Terminated mission: Presented recall July 10, 1825
Note: In 1825 the ministry was upgraded to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
  • Alexander Hill Everett
    Alexander Hill Everett

    Alexander Hill Everett was a noted American diplomatist, politician, and Boston man of letters. His brother was Edward Everett.Everett was born in Boston, Massachusetts to the Rev....
    • Appointed: March 9, 1825
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: September 4, 1825
    • Terminated mission: Left post August 1, 1829
  • Cornelius P. Van Ness
    Cornelius P. Van Ness

    Cornelius Peter Van Ness was an Politics of the United States from the U.S. state of Vermont. Butler was a United States Democratic-Republican Party....
    • Appointed: June 1, 1829
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: December 9, 1829
    • Terminated mission: Presented recall December 21, 1836
  • William T. Barry
    William T. Barry

    William Taylor Barry was an United States statesman and jurist.Born near Lunenburg, Virginia, he moved to Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1796 with his parents John Barry, an American Revolutionary War veteran, and Susannah Barry....
    • Appointed: April 10, 1835
    • Title:
    • Presented credentials:
    • Terminated mission:
  • John H. Eaton
    • Appointed: March 16, 1836
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials:
    • Terminated mission: Left post May 1, 1840
  • Aaron Vail
    • Appointed: May 20, 1840
    • Title: Chargé d’Affaires
    • Presented credentials: November 5, 1840
    • Terminated mission: Vail was superseded by Ambassador Irving, August 1, 1842.
  • Washington Irving
    Washington Irving

    Washington Irving was an United States author, essays, biography and history of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmi...
    • Appointed: February 10, 1842
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: August 1, 1842
    • Terminated mission: July 29, 1846
  • Romulus M. Saunders
    Romulus Mitchell Saunders

    Romulus Mitchell Saunders was an American politician from North Carolina.Saunders was born near Milton, North Carolina, Caswell County, North Carolina....
    • Appointed: February 25, 1846
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: July 31, 1846
    • Terminated mission: Presented recall September 24, 1849
  • Daniel M. Barringer
    Daniel Moreau Barringer

    Daniel Moreau Barringer was a United States Whig Party United States House of Representatives from North Carolina between 1843 and 1849.Born near Concord, North Carolina, in 1806, Barringer attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....
    • Appointed: June 18, 1849
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: October 24, 1849
    • Terminated mission: Presented recall September 4, 1853
  • Pierre Soulé
    Pierre Soulé

    Pierre Soul? was a United States politician and diplomat during the mid-19th century. He is best known for his role in writing the Ostend Manifesto, which was written in 1854 as part of an attempt to annex Cuba to the United States....
    • Appointed: April 7, 1853
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: October 24, 1853
    • Terminated mission: Presented recall February 1, 1855
  • John C. Breckinridge
    John C. Breckinridge

    John Cabell Breckinridge was a lawyer, United States House of Representatives, United States Senate from Kentucky, the 14th Vice President of the United States, Democratic Party candidate for President of the United States in United States presidential election, 1860, a Confederate States Army General officer in the American Civil War, and...
    • Appointed: January 16, 1855
    • Title:
    • Presented credentials:
    • Terminated mission:
  • Augustus C. Dodge
    • Appointed: February 9, 1855
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: June 17, 1855
    • Terminated mission: Presented recall March 12, 1859
  • William Preston
    William Preston (Kentucky)

    William Preston was an United States lawyer, politician, and ambassador. He also was a Major General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
    • Appointed: December 15, 1858
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: March 12, 1859
    • Terminated mission: Presented recall May 24, 1861
  • Cassius M. Clay
    Cassius Marcellus Clay (abolitionist)

    Cassius Marcellus Clay, nicknamed "The Lion of White Hall" was an Abolitionism from Madison County, Kentucky, Kentucky, United States. He was a cousin of Henry Clay and Alabama governor Clement Comer Clay....
    • Appointed: April 14, 1861
    • Title:
    • Presented credentials:
    • Terminated mission:
  • Carl Schurz
    Carl Schurz

    Carl Schurz was a Germany revolutionary, United States statesman and reformer, and Union Army General officer in the American Civil War. He was also an accomplished journalist, newspaper editor and noted orator, who in 1869 became the first German American elected to the United States Senate....
    • Appointed: March 28, 1861
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: July 13, 1861
    • Terminated mission: Left post December 18, 1861
  • Gustavus Koerner
    • Appointed: June 14, 1862
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: November 4, 1862
    • Terminated mission: Left post July 20, 1864
  • John P. Hale
    John P. Hale

    John Parker Hale was an United States politician and lawyer from New Hampshire. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1843 to 1845 and in the United States Senate from 1847 to 1853 and again from 1855 to 1865....
    • Appointed: March 10, 1865
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: September 30, 1865
    • Terminated mission: Presented recall July 29, 1869
  • Note: President Johnson
    Andrew Johnson

    Andrew Johnson was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , succeeding to the Presidency upon Abraham Lincoln assassination of Abraham Lincoln....
     nominated the following two men for the post, but the Senate declined to consider the nominations
    Advice and consent

    Advice and consent is an English phrase frequently used in List of enacting formulae of bill s and in other legal or constitutional contexts, describing a situation in which the executive branch of a government enacts something previously approved of by the legislative branch....
    , probably because of the president’s disputes with the Congress over other issues.
    • William S. Rosecrans
    • Henry S. Sandford
  • Daniel E. Sickles
    • Appointed: May 15, 1869
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: July 29, 1869
    • Terminated mission: Transmitted recall by note January 31, 1874
  • Caleb Cushing
    Caleb Cushing

    Caleb Cushing was an United States statesman and diplomat who served as a United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts and Attorney General of the United States under President of the United States Franklin Pierce....
    • Appointed: January 6, 1874
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: May 30, 1874
    • Terminated mission: Left post April 9, 1877
  • James Russell Lowell
    James Russell Lowell

    James Russell Lowell was an United States Romanticism poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets....
    • Appointed: June 11, 1877
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: August 18, 1877
    • Terminated mission: Presented recall March 2, 1880
  • Lucius Fairchild
    Lucius Fairchild

    Lucius Fairchild was an United States politician, army general, and diplomat. He served as the 10th governor of Wisconsin and as United States diplomatic minister to Spain....
    • Appointed: January 26, 1880
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: March 31, 1880
    • Terminated mission: Presented recall December 20, 1881
  • Hannibal Hamlin
    Hannibal Hamlin

    Hannibal Hamlin was the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States, serving under President of the United States Abraham Lincoln from 1861-1865....
    • Appointed: June 30, 1881
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: December 20, 1881
    • Terminated mission: Left post October 17, 1882
  • John W. Foster
    John W. Foster

    John Watson Foster was an United States military man, journalist and diplomat.Born in Petersburg, Indiana, and raised in Evansville, Indiana, he was first a lawyer and then served as general for the Union in the American Civil War....
    • Appointed: February 27, 1883
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: June 16, 1883
    • Terminated mission: Presented recall August 28, 1885
  • Jabez L.M. Curry
    Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry

    Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, was a lawyer, soldier, U.S. Congressman, college professor and administrator, diplomat, and officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
    • Appointed: October 7, 1885
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: December 22, 1885
    • Terminated mission: Left post July 5, 1888
  • Perry Belmont
    Perry Belmont

    Perry Belmont , United States statesman, was born in New York City, the son of August Belmont.He attended Everest Military Academy in Hamden, Connecticut, and graduated from Harvard College in 1872 and the Columbia Law School in 1876....
    • Appointed: November 17, 1888
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: February 13, 1889
    • Terminated mission: Left post May 1, 1889
  • Thomas W. Palmer
    Thomas W. Palmer

    Thomas Witherell Palmer was a U.S. Senator from the U.S. state of Michigan. He is considered to be one of the most significant figures in the history of Detroit, Michigan....
    • Appointed: March 12, 1889
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: June 17, 1889
    • Terminated mission: Left post April 19, 1890
  • E. Burd Grubb
    • Appointed: September 27, 1890
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: December 23, 1890
    • Terminated mission: Left post May 26, 1892
  • A. Loudon Snowden
    • Appointed: July 22, 1892
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: October 6, 1892
    • Terminated mission: Presented recall June 3, 1893
  • Hannis Taylor
    • Appointed: April 8, 1893
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: July 1, 1893
    • Terminated mission: Presented recall September 13, 1897
  • Stewart L. Woodford
    Stewart L. Woodford

    Stewart Lyndon Woodford was an United States politician. He graduated from Columbia College , where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, in 1854; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced practice in New York City....
    • Appointed: June 19, 1897
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: September 13, 1897
    • Terminated mission: Left post April 21, 1898
  • Bellamy Storer
    Bellamy Storer (1847)

    Bellamy Storer was a United States House of Representatives from Ohio, son of Bellamy Storer and uncle of Nicholas Longworth. His wife, Maria Longworth Nichols Storer, was the founder of Rookwood Pottery located in Cincinnati, Ohio....
    • Appointed: April 12, 1899
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: June 16, 1899
    • Terminated mission: Presented recall December 10, 1902
  • Arthur S. Hardy
    Arthur Sherburne Hardy

    Arthur Sherburne Hardy was an American engineer, educator, editing, diplomat, novelist, and poet....
    • Appointed: September 26, 1902
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: March 2, 1903
    • Terminated mission: Presented recall May 1, 1905
  • William Miller Collier
    • Appointed: March 8, 1905
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: May 15, 1905
    • Terminated mission: Superseded by Ambassador Ide on June 9, 1909
  • Henry Clay Ide
    Henry Clay Ide

    Henry Clay Ide was a United States of America ambassador and Administrator of the Government. He was born in Barnet, Vermont.Ide served as United States of America Governor-General of the Philippines in 1906 and United States Ambassador to Spain 1909?1913....
    • Appointed: April 1, 1909
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: June 9, 1909
    • Terminated mission: Left post July 8, 1913
  • Joseph Edward Willard
    Joseph Edward Willard

    Joseph Edward Willard was a United States political figure from the Commonwealth of Virginia. He served for eight years in the Virginia House of Delegates, prior to his election as the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia....
    • Appointed: July 28, 1913
    • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials:
    • Terminated mission:
Note: In August 1913, the title of the office was changed to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. This required a new commission.
  • Joseph Edward Willard
    Joseph Edward Willard

    Joseph Edward Willard was a United States political figure from the Commonwealth of Virginia. He served for eight years in the Virginia House of Delegates, prior to his election as the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia....
    • Appointed: September 10, 1913
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: October 31, 1913
    • Terminated mission: Left post July 7, 1921
  • Cyrus E. Woods
    • Appointed: June 24, 1921
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: October 14, 1921
    • Terminated mission: Left post April 18, 1923
  • Alexander P. Moore
    Alexander Pollock Moore

    File:Alexander Pollock Moore 1912.jpgAlexander Pollock Moore was an United States of America diplomat and editor. He was the publisher of the Pittsburgh Leader when he married the stage actress Lillian Russell, becoming her fourth husband....
    • Appointed: March 3, 1923
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: May 16, 1923
    • Terminated mission: Left post December 20, 1925
  • Ogden H. Hammond
    • Appointed: December 21, 1925
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: March 26, 1926
    • Terminated mission: Left post October 13, 1929
  • Irwin B. Laughlin
    • Appointed: October 16, 1929
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: December 24, 1929
    • Terminated mission: Left post April 12, 1933
  • Claude G. Bowers
    Claude Bowers

    Claude Gernade Bowers was an American writer, Democratic politician, and ambassador to Spain and Chile....
    • Appointed: April 6, 1933
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: June 1, 1933
    • Terminated mission: Had final interview, February 2, 1939
  • Alexander W. Weddell
    Alexander W. Weddell

    Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was an American diplomat. He served as United States ambassador to Argentina from 1933 to 1939 and to Spain from 1939 to 1942....
    • Appointed: May 3, 1939
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: June 15, 1939
    • Terminated mission: Left post February 7, 1942
  • Carlton J. H. Hayes
    • Appointed: May 2, 1942
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: June 9, 1942
    • Terminated mission: Left Spain, January 18, 1945
  • Norman Armour
    Norman Armour

    Norman Armour was a career United States diplomat who The New York Times once called "the perfect diplomat". In his long career spanning both World Wars, he served as Chief of Mission in eight countries, as Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs, and married into Russian nobility....
    • Appointed: December 15, 1944
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: March 24, 1945
    • Terminated mission: Left post December 1, 1945
  • Philip W. Bonsal
    • Appointed:
    • Title: Chargé d’Affaires
    • Presented credentials:
    • Terminated mission:
  • Paul T. Culbertson
    • Appointed:
    • Title: Chargé d’Affaires
    • Presented credentials:
    • Terminated mission:
  • Stanton Griffis
    • Appointed: February 1, 1951
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: March 1, 1951
    • Terminated mission: Relinquished charge January 28, 1952
  • Lincoln MacVeagh
    Lincoln MacVeagh

    Lincoln MacVeagh was a distinguished United States soldier, diplomat, businessman, and Archaeology. He served a long career as the United States ambassador to several countries during difficult times....
    • Appointed: February 21, 1952
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: March 27, 1952
    • Terminated mission: Left post March 4, 1953
  • James Clement Dunn
    James Clement Dunn

    File:James Clement Dunn 1921.jpgJames 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....
    • Appointed: February 27, 1953
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: April 9, 1953
    • Terminated mission: Left post February 9, 1955
  • John Davis Lodge
    John Davis Lodge

    John Davis Lodge , United States Republican politician, was governor of Connecticut from 1951 to 1955. He was also an actor and U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Argentina and Switzerland....
    • Appointed: January 22, 1955
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: March 24, 1955
    • Terminated mission: Left post April 13, 1961
  • Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr.
    Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr.

    Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr., also known as A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. , was an American diplomat....
    • Appointed: March 29, 1961
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: May 25, 1961
    • Terminated mission: Left Spain, October 12, 1961
  • Ellis O. Briggs
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  • Robert F. Woodward
    • Appointed: April 7, 1962
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: May 10, 1962
    • Terminated mission: Left post February 1, 1965
  • Angier Biddle Duke
    Angier Biddle Duke

    Angier Biddle Duke had a career which included being a diplomat in the United States foreign service.After a misspent youth, which included dropping out of Yale University in 1937, from 1940 to 1945, Angier Biddle Duke served in the U.S....
    • Appointed: March 11, 1965
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: April 1, 1965
    • Terminated mission: Left post March 30, 1968
  • Frank E. McKinney
    • Appointed: May 11, 1968
    • Title:
    • Presented credentials:
    • Terminated mission:
  • Robert F. Wagner, Jr.
    Robert F. Wagner, Jr.

    Robert Ferdinand Wagner, Jr., usually known as Robert F. Wagner, Jr. served three terms as the mayor of New York City, from 1954 through 1965....
    • Appointed: June 24, 1968
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: July 4, 1968
    • Terminated mission: Left post March 7, 1969
  • 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 throughout his career. His last posting was in Argentina in the late 1970s, a period of great unrest in that country....
    • Appointed: May 1, 1969
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: June 12, 1969
    • Terminated mission: Left post January 12, 1972
  • Horacio Rivero
    • Appointed: September 11, 1972
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: October 11, 1972
    • Terminated mission: Left post November 26, 1974
  • Peter M. Flanigan
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  • Wells Stabler
    • Appointed: February 20, 1975
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: March 13, 1975
    • Terminated mission: Left post May 4, 1978
  • Terence A. Todman
    Terence Todman

    Terrance Alphonso Todman , is an United States diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Chad, Guinea, Costa Rica, Spain, Denmark and Argentina....
    • Appointed: May 25, 1978
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: July 20, 1978
    • Terminated mission: Left post August 8, 1983
  • Thomas Ostrom Enders
    • Appointed: August 5, 1983
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: September 15, 1983
    • Terminated mission: Left post July 6, 1986
  • Reginald Bartholomew
    Reginald Bartholomew

    Reginald Bartholomew is a diplomat and former Ambassadors of the United States to Lebanon , Spain , and Italy . He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and Council on Foreign Relations....
    • Appointed: August 18, 1986
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: September 17, 1986
    • Terminated mission: Left post March 12, 1989
  • Joseph Zappala
    • Appointed: October 10, 1989
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: October 16, 1989
    • Terminated mission: Left post June 4, 1992
  • Richard Goodwin Capen, Jr.
    • Appointed: June 15, 1992
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: July 8, 1992
    • Terminated mission: Left post February 17, 1993
  • Richard N. Gardner
    Richard N. Gardner

    Richard N. Gardner served as the United States Ambassador to Spain and the United States Ambassador to Italy. He is currently a professor of law at Columbia Law School....
    • Appointed: September 16, 1993
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: November 4, 1993
    • Terminated mission: Left post July 12, 1997
Note: Beginning in 1998, The ambassador to Spain was also accredited to Andorra.
  • Edward L. Romero
    • Appointed: June 29, 1998
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: June 30, 1998
    • Terminated mission: Left post June 1, 2001
  • George L. Argyros, Sr.
    George Argyros

    George Leon Argyros is the former United States Ambassador to Spain. He is also a successful real estate investor, and was the owner of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners from 1980 to 1989....
    • Appointed: November 20, 2001
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: December 13, 2001
    • Terminated mission: Left post November 21, 2004
  • Eduardo Aguirre
    Eduardo Aguirre

    Eduardo Aguirre, Jr. is a principal in Atlantic Partners, an international consulting firm, based in Houston.Until January 20, 2009, he was the United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra, appointed by President George W....
    • Appointed: June 21, 2005
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: June 29, 2005
    • Terminated mission: —


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