United States Ambassador To The United Kingdom

MINISTERS PLENIPOTENTIARY TO THE COURT OF ST. JAMES'S, 1785-1811

John Adams (MA) 1785-1788

Thomas Pinckney (SC) 1792-1796

Rufus King (NY) 1796-1803

James Monroe (VA) 1803-1807

William Pinkney (MD) 1808-1811

''from 1811 to the outbreak of the War Of 1812 , ''chargé d'affaires'' Jonathan Russell was the chief American officer in London''

ENVOYS EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTERS PLENIPOTENTIARY TO THE COURT OF ST. JAMES'S, 1815-1893

John Quincy Adams (MA) 1815-1817

Richard Rush (PA) 1818-1825

Rufus King (NY) 1825-1826

Albert Gallatin (PA) 1826-1827

James Barbour (VA) 1828-1829

Louis McLane (DE) 1829-1831

Martin Van Buren (NY) 1831-1832

''from 1832 to 1836 , Aaron Vail , the American ''chargé d'affaires'', acted as the chief American officer in London.''

Andrew Stevenson (VA) 1836-1841

Edward Everett (MA) 1841-1845

Louis McLane (MD) 1845-1849

George Bancroft (NY) 1846-1849

Abbott Lawrence (MA) 1849-1852

Joseph R. Ingersoll (PA) 1852-1853

James Buchanan (PA) 1853-1856

George M. Dallas (PA) 1856-1861

Charles Francis Adams (MA) 1861-1868

Reverdy Johnson (MD) 1868-1869

John Lothrop Motley (MA) 1869-1870

Robert C. Schenck (OH) 1871-1876

Edwards Pierrepont (NY) 1876-1877

John Welsh (PA) 1877-1879

James Russell Lowell (MA) 1880-1885

Edward J. Phelps (VT) 1885-1889

Robert T. Lincoln (IL) 1889-1893

AMBASSADORS EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY TO THE COURT OF ST. JAMES'S, 1893-PRESENT

Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. (DE) 1893-1897

John Hay (DC) 1897-1898

Joseph Choate (NY) 1899-1905

Whitelaw Reid (NY) 1905-1912

Walter Hines Page (NY) 1913-1918

John W. Davis (WV) 1918-1921

George Harvey (NJ) 1921-1923

Frank B. Kellogg (MN) 1924-1925

Alanson B. Houghton (NY) 1925-1929

Charles G. Dawes (IL) 1929-1931

Andrew W. Mellon (PA) 1932-1933

Robert Worth Bingham (KY) 1933-1937

Joseph P. Kennedy (NY) 1938-1940

John G. Winant (NH) 1941-1946

W. Averell Harriman (NY) 1946

Lewis W. Douglas (AZ) 1947-1950

Walter S. Gifford (NY) 1950-1953

Winthrop W. Aldrich (NY) 1953-1957

John Hay Whitney (NY) 1957-1961

David K. E. Bruce (MD) 1961-1969

Walter H. Annenberg (PA) 1969-1974

Elliot L. Richardson (MA) 1975-1976

Anne Legendre Armstrong (TX) 1976-1977

Kingman Brewster, Jr. (CT) 1977-1981

John J. Louis, Jr. (IL) 1981-1983

Charles H. Price II (MO) 1983-1989

Henry E. Catto, Jr. (TX) 1989-1991

Raymond G. H. Seitz (TX) 1991-1994

William J. Crowe, Jr. (VA) 1994-1997

Philip Lader (SC) 1997-2001

William S. Farish (TX) 2001-2004

Robert H. Tuttle (CA) 2005-

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