List of ambassadors of the United States to Canada
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Ambassador of the United States to Canada | |
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Ambassadeur des États-Unis au Canada | |
At the pleasure of the President | |
Inaugural holder | William Phillips (as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary) |
Formation | June 1, 1927 |
Website | U.S. Embassy – Ottawa |
This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to Canada.[1] The ambassador is the head of the Embassy of the United States in Ottawa.
Prior to 1943, the head of the U.S.
chief of mission
to hold ambassadorial rank.
List
# | Ambassador | Portrait | Took office | Left office | President(s) |
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1 | William Phillips | June 1, 1927 | December 14, 1929 | Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover | |
2 | Hanford MacNider | August 29, 1930 | August 15, 1932 | Herbert Hoover | |
3 | Warren Delano Robbins | May 16, 1933 | March 28, 1935 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
4 | Norman Armour | August 7, 1935 | January 15, 1939 | ||
5 | Daniel Calhoun Roper
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May 19, 1939 | August 20, 1939 | ||
6 | James H. R. Cromwell | January 24, 1940 | May 16, 1940 | ||
7 | Jay Pierrepont Moffat | June 13, 1940 | January 24, 1943 | ||
8 | Ray Atherton | August 3, 1943 | August 30, 1948 | Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman | |
9 | Laurence Steinhardt | November 1, 1949 | March 28, 1950 | Harry S. Truman | |
10 | Stanley Woodward | June 22, 1950 | January 14, 1953 | ||
11 | R. Douglas Stuart | July 15, 1953 | May 4, 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
12 | Livingston T. Merchant | May 23, 1956 | November 6, 1958 | ||
13 | Richard B. Wigglesworth | December 15, 1958 | October 19, 1960 | ||
14 | Livingston T. Merchant | March 15, 1961 | May 26, 1962 | John F. Kennedy | |
15 | William Walton Butterworth | December 11, 1962 | September 10, 1968 | John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson | |
16 | Harold F. Linder | September 10, 1968 | July 9, 1969 | Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon
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17 | Adolph W. Schmidt | September 11, 1969 | January 29, 1974 | Richard M. Nixon | |
18 | William J. Porter | March 13, 1974 | December 16, 1975 | Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford
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19 | Thomas O. Enders | February 17, 1976 | September 14, 1979 | Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter | |
20 | Kenneth M. Curtis | October 5, 1979 | January 20, 1981 | Jimmy Carter | |
21 | Paul H. Robinson, Jr.
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July 15, 1981 | September 9, 1985 | Ronald Reagan | |
22 | Thomas M. T. Niles | September 10, 1985 | June 28, 1989 | Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush | |
23 | Edward N. Ney | June 30, 1989 | June 20, 1992 | George H. W. Bush | |
24 | Peter Teeley
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July 3, 1992 | February 28, 1993 | George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton | |
25 | James Blanchard
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August 19, 1993 | March 15, 1996 | Bill Clinton | |
26 | Gordon Giffin
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September 17, 1997 | April 10, 2001 | Bill Clinton, George W. Bush | |
27 | Paul Cellucci | April 17, 2001 | March 18, 2005 | George W. Bush | |
28 | David Wilkins | June 29, 2005 | January 20, 2009 | ||
29 | David Jacobson
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October 2, 2009 | July 15, 2013 | Barack Obama | |
30 | Bruce Heyman | March 26, 2014 | January 18, 2017[2] | ||
— | Elizabeth Moore Aubin (acting) | January 18, 2017 | October 23, 2017 | Barack Obama, Donald Trump | |
31 | Kelly Craft | October 23, 2017 | August 23, 2019 | Donald Trump | |
— | Richard M. Mills Jr. (acting) | August 23, 2019 | November 9, 2020 | ||
— | Katherine Brucker (acting) | November 9, 2020 | May 28, 2021 | Donald Trump, Joe Biden | |
— | Arnold A. Chacón (acting)[3] | May 28, 2021[4] | December 7, 2021 | Joe Biden | |
32 | David L. Cohen | December 7, 2021 | Incumbent |
See also
- Ambassadors of the United States
- Canada–United States relations
- Embassy of the United States, Ottawa
- Foreign relations of Canada
- List of ambassadors of Canada to the United States
References
- ^ U.S. Chiefs of Mission to Canada Archived 2007-12-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Elizabeth Moore Aubin Becomes Chargé d’Affaires at U.S. Embassy, U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Canada.
- ^ "Biography of Arnold Chacon, Chargé d'Affaires". U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Canada. Retrieved June 24, 2021.
- ^ "Appointment of Ambassador Arnold Chacon to serve as Chargé d’Affaires to Canada". United States Department of State. Retrieved June 24, 2021.
- United States Department of State: Background notes on Canada
- This article incorporates public domain material from U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets. United States Department of State.