List of ambassadors of the United States to the Netherlands

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Ambassador of the United States to the Netherlands
Ambassadeur van de Verenigde Staten in Nederland
Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent
Shefali Razdan Duggal
since October 19, 2022
SeatEmbassy of the United States, The Hague
NominatorThe President of the United States
Inaugural holderJohn Adams
as Minister Plenipotentiary
FormationApril 19, 1782
Websitenl.usembassy.gov

The United States diplomatic mission to the Netherlands consists of the embassy located in The Hague and a consular office located in Amsterdam.

In 1782,

Minister Plenipotentiary to Holland. According to the United States Department of State, the same year came formal recognition by the Netherlands of the United States as a separate and independent nation, along with badly needed financial help that indicated faith in its future. These loans from the United Provinces, which have been called "the Marshall Plan in reverse," were the first the new government received. Adams purchased a home in the Hague at Fluwelen Burgwal 18 (located within Uilebomen, The Hague Center), as the first U.S. embassy.[1]

The current American Embassy building in The Hague opened on January 29, 2018.

L. Paul Bremer
have held the title of Ambassador.

Besides the embassy, a

U.S. consulate-general is located on Curaçao which is responsible for the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean.[3]
This consulate is not part of the U.S. diplomatic mission to the Netherlands.

April 19, the day John Adams presented his credentials in the Hague, was declared by President Ronald Reagan to be memorialized as "Dutch-American Friendship Day".[4]

Ambassadors

The former building of the Embassy of the United States, The Hague
# Name[5] Type[5] Start date[6] End date[6]
1 John Adams
MP
April 19, 1782 March 30, 1788
2 William Livingston
MP
[7]
3 John Rutledge
MP
[7]
4 William Short
MP
June 18, 1792 December 19, 1792
5 John Quincy Adams
MP
November 6, 1794 June 20, 1797
6 William Vans Murray
MP
June 20, 1797 September 2, 1801
7 William Eustis
EE/MP
July 20, 1815 May 5, 1818
8
Alexander H. Everett
Chd'Aff January 4, 1819 April 7, 1824
9 Christopher Hughes Chd'Aff July 10, 1826 January 28, 1830
10 William Pitt Preble
EE/MP
January 28, 1830 May 2, 1831
11 Auguste Davezac Chd'Aff December 30, 1831 July 13, 1839
12 Harmanus Bleecker Chd'Aff July 13, 1839 August 22, 1842
13 Christopher Hughes Chd'Aff August 22, 1842 June 28, 1845
14 Auguste Davezac Chd'Aff June 28, 1845 September 16, 1850
15 George Folsom Chd'Aff September 16, 1850 October 11, 1853
16 August Belmont Chd'Aff October 11, 1853 September 26, 1854
MR
September 26, 1854 September 22, 1857
17
Henry C. Murphy
MR
September 24, 1857 June 8, 1861
18 James S. Pike
MR
June 8, 1861 May 29, 1866
19 Daniel E. Sickles
MR
[7]
20 John A. Dix
MR
[7]
21 Albert Rhodes Chd'Aff October 19, 1866 December 1, 1866
22 Hugh Ewing
MR
December 1, 1866 October 31, 1870
23 Joseph P. Root
MR
[8]
24 Charles T. Gorham
MR
December 15, 1870 July 9, 1875
25 Francis B. Stockbridge
MR
[9]
26 James Birney
MR
March 29, 1876 April 20, 1882
27
William L. Dayton, Jr.
MR
September 26, 1882 June 8, 1885
28
Isaac Bell, Jr.
MR
June 8, 1885 April 29, 1888
29 Robert B. Roosevelt
MR
August 10, 1888 September 26, 1888
EE/MP
September 26, 1888 May 17, 1889
30 Samuel R. Thayer
EE/MP
May 24, 1889 August 7, 1893
31 William E. Quinby
EE/MP
August 11, 1893 July 26, 1897
32 Stanford Newel
EE/MP
August 19, 1897 June 30, 1905
33 David J. Hill
EE/MP
July 15, 1905 June 1, 1908
34 Arthur M. Beaupre
EE/MP
June 15, 1908 September 25, 1911
35 Lloyd Bryce
EE/MP
November 16, 1911 September 10, 1913
36
Henry van Dyke
EE/MP
October 15, 1913 January 11, 1917
37 John W. Garrett
EE/MP
October 11, 1917 June 18, 1919
38 William Phillips
EE/MP
April 23, 1920 April 11, 1922
39 Richard M. Tobin
EE/MP
May 1, 1923 August 29, 1929
40 Gerrit John Diekema
EE/MP
November 20, 1929 December 20, 1930[10]
41 Laurits S. Swenson
EE/MP
April 29, 1931 March 5, 1934
42 Grenville T. Emmet
EE/MP
March 21, 1934 August 21, 1937
43 George A. Gordon
EE/MP
September 10, 1937 July 16, 1940[11]
44
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr.[12]
EE/MP
March 27, 1941 May 8, 1942
AE/P
May 8, 1942 December 1, 1943
45 Stanley K. Hornbeck[12]
AE/P
December 8, 1944 March 7, 1947
46 Herman B. Baruch
AE/P
April 12, 1947 August 26, 1949
47 Selden Chapin
AE/P
October 27, 1949 October 30, 1953
48 H. Freeman Matthews
AE/P
November 25, 1953 June 11, 1957
49 Philip Young
AE/P
June 27, 1957 December 20, 1960
50 John S. Rice
AE/P
May 6, 1961 May 27, 1964
51 William R. Tyler
AE/P
June 23, 1965 June 20, 1969
52 J. William Middendorf II
AE/P
July 9, 1969 June 10, 1973
53
Kingdon Gould, Jr.
AE/P
October 18, 1973 September 30, 1976
54 Robert J. McCloskey
AE/P
October 22, 1976 March 10, 1978
55 Geri M. Joseph
AE/P
September 6, 1978 June 17, 1981
56 William J. Dyess
AE/P
September 2, 1982 July 19, 1983
57
L. Paul Bremer
AE/P
August 31, 1983 August 25, 1986
58
John Shad
AE/P
June 24, 1987 February 23, 1989
59
C. Howard Wilkins, Jr.
AE/P
July 13, 1989 July 11, 1992
60 K. Terry Dornbush
AE/P
March 16, 1994 July 28, 1998
61 Cynthia P. Schneider
AE/P
September 2, 1998 June 17, 2001
62
Clifford Sobel
AE/P
December 6, 2001 August 24, 2005
63
Roland Arnall
AE/P
Mar 8, 2006 March 7, 2008
64
James Culbertson
AE/P
July 10, 2008 January 20, 2009
65 Fay Hartog-Levin
AE/P
August 19, 2009 September 1, 2011
66 Timothy M. Broas
AE/P
March 19, 2014 February 12, 2016
67
Adam Sterling
Chd'Aff February 12, 2016 July 29, 2016
68 Shawn P. Crowley Chd'Aff July 29, 2016[13] January 10, 2018
69 Pete Hoekstra
AE/P
January 10, 2018 January 17, 2021
70 Marja Verloop Chd'Aff January 17, 2021 July 4, 2022
71 Aleisha Woodward Chd'Aff July 4, 2022 October, 18, 2022
72 Shefali Razdan Duggal
AE/P
October 19, 2022 Present

See also

References

  1. ^ "Dutch American Friendship Day / Heritage Day". Archived from the original on December 30, 2006. Retrieved November 21, 2021.
  2. ^ "U.S. Embassy moving to Wassenaar". January 19, 2018.
  3. ^ "welcome". Retrieved November 21, 2010.
  4. ^ Eschner, Kat. "John Adams Was the United States' First Ambassador as Well as Its Second President". Smithsonian. Retrieved July 8, 2018.
  5. ^ a b [1] Archived July 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ a b "Nations - Netherlands". AllGov. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
  7. ^ a b c d He declined his appointment.
  8. ^ His nomination was withdrawn.
  9. ^ He took the oath of office, but he never proceeded to the post.
  10. ^ He died at his post.
  11. ^ He left with a special ambassador train from The Hague on the July 16. This train was specially meant for ambassadors and their families. See for a picture of ambassador Gordon in this train: http://www.haagsebeeldbank.nl/
  12. ^ a b He served in England.
  13. ^ U.S. Chargé d'affaires in The Hague accredited, diplomat magazine.nl, 2016/08/04 (in English).

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