List of ambassadors of the United States to Iran

Prior to 1944,

After the

• Chargé d'Affaires
  but withdrawn before approval
• Minister Resident
  almost immediately
• Bayless W. Hanna (1885) - Minister Resident - took oath of office but did not go to Persia
• Frederick H. Winston
  (1885–1886) - Minister Resident
• E. Spencer Pratt (1886–1891) - Minister Resident
• Truxtun Beale (1891–1892) - Minister Resident
• Watson R. Sperry (1892–1893) - Minister Resident
• Minister Plenipotentiary
  , later Minister Resident
• Arthur S. Hardy (1897–1899) - Minister Resident
• William P. Lord
  (1899) - would have been Minister Resident, but declined appointment
• Herbert W. Bowen
  (1899–1901) - Minister Resident
• Lloyd C. Griscom (1901–1902) - Minister Plenipotentiary
• Richmond Pearson (1902–1907) - Minister Plenipotentiary
• John Brinkerhoff Jackson (1907–1909) - Minister Plenipotentiary
• Charles Wells Russell Jr. (1909–1914) - Minister Plenipotentiary
• John L. Caldwell
  (1914–1921) - Minister Plenipotentiary
• Joseph Saul Kornfeld (1921–1924) - Minister Plenipotentiary
• Hoffman Philip (1925–1928) - Minister Plenipotentiary
• Charles C. Hart (1929–1933) - Minister Plenipotentiary, last envoy accredited to "Persia"
• William H. Hornibrook (1934–1936) - Minister Plenipotentiary
• Gordon P. Merriam (1936–1937) - Chargé d'Affaires
• Cornelius Van H. Engert (1937–1940) - Chargé d'Affaires
• Louis G. Dreyfus Jr.
  (1940–1943) - Minister Plenipotentiary
• Leland B. Morris (1944–1945) - First ambassador
• Wallace Murray
  (1945–1946)
• George V. Allen (1946–1948)
• John C. Wiley
  (1948–1950)
• Henry F. Grady (1950–1951)
• Loy W. Henderson (1951–1954)
• Julius C. Holmes - nominated, but nomination withdrawn before approved
• Selden Chapin (1955–1958)
• Edward T. Wailes (1958–1961)
• Julius C. Holmes (1961–1965)
• Armin H. Meyer (1965–1969)
• Douglas MacArthur II (1969–1972)
• Joseph S. Farland (1972–1973)
• Richard Helms (1973–1977)
• William H. Sullivan (1977–1979)
• Walter L. Cutler - nominated, but rejected by Iran
• Bruce Laingen (1979–1980) - Chargé d'Affaires, seized with the embassy on November 4, 1979. He was later released.

• Embassy of the United States, Tehran
• Iran–United States relations
• Foreign relations of Iran
• Ambassadors of the United States
• American School in Tehran

• United States Department of State: Background notes on Iran
•  This article incorporates public domain material from U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets. United States Department of State.

• United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Iran
• United States Department of State: Iran