List of ambassadors of the United States to Denmark explained

Post:	Ambassador of the United States
Body:	America to the Kingdom of Denmark
Flag:	Flag of a United States ambassador.svg
Flagcaption:	United States ambassador flag
Insignia:	US Department of State official seal.svg
Incumbent:	Alan Leventhal
Incumbentsince:	July 1, 2022
Department:	U.S. Department of StateEmbassy of the United States, Copenhagen
Style:	The Honorable (formal)Mr. Ambassador (informal)
Residence:	Rydhave
Seat:	Copenhagen, Denmark
Reports To:	U.S. Secretary of State
Nominator:	The President
Appointer:	The President
Termlength:	At the pleasure of the President
Inaugural:	Henry Wheaton

The first representative from the United States to Denmark was appointed in 1827 as a chargé d'affaires. There followed a series of chargés and ministers until 1890 when the first full ambassador (envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary) was appointed. The title was changed to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in 1946. The ambassador's offices are housed within the Embassy of the United States, Copenhagen.

List of ambassadors

Chargé d'Affaires (1827–1854)

Name	Portrait	Appointed	Presented credentials	class = date	Terminated mission
Henry Wheaton				Presented recall on or shortly before
Jonathan F. Woodside				Paid farewell calls on
Isaac Rand Jackson		^[1]		†
William W. Irwin				Presented recall on
Robert P. Flenniken				Presented recall on
Walter Forward		^[2]		Recalled on ^[3]
Andrew J. Ogle		^[4]
Miller Grieve				Left post on or after
Henry Bedinger		^[5]		Promoted to Minister Resident on

Minister Resident (1854–1876)

Name	Portrait	Appointed	Presented credentials	class = date	Terminated mission
Henry Bedinger		^[6]		Presented recall on
James M.Buchanan				Presented recall on
Bradford R. Wood				Presented recall on
Samuel J. Kirkwood		^[7]
George H. Yeaman		^[8]		Presented recall on
Christopher Columbus Andrews		^[9]
Michael J. Cramer		^[10]		Presented recall on

Chargé d'Affaires (1876–1882)

Name	Portrait	Appointed	Presented credentials	class = date	Terminated mission
Michael J. Cramer				Presented recall on
Adam Badeau		N/A^[11]
Charles Payson		^[12]		Left post on
J. P. Wickersham				Promoted to Minister Resident/Consul General

Minister Resident/Consul General (1882–1890)

Name	Portrait	Appointed	Presented credentials	class = date	Terminated mission
J. P. Wickersham				Notified the Government of Denmark from in Paris
Wickham Hoffman				Presented recall on
Rasmus B. Anderson				Presented recall on
John A. Enander		^[13]
Clark E. Carr		^[14]		Promoted to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary on

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (1890–1947)

Name	Portrait	Appointed	Presented credentials	class = date	Terminated mission
Clark E. Carr				Presented recall on
John E. Risley				Presented recall on
Laurits S. Swenson		^[15]		Presented recall on
Thomas J. O'Brien				Left post on
Maurice Francis Egan Political appointee		^[16]		Left post on
Norman Hapgood Political appointee		^[17]		Left post on
Joseph C. Grew Career FSO				Left post on
John Dyneley Prince Political appointee				Presented recall on
Henry Percival Dodge Career FSO				Left post on
Ralph H. Booth Political appointee				Relinquished charge on
Frederick W. B. Coleman Political appointee		^[18]		Appointment terminated on
Ruth Bryan Owen Political appointee		^[19]		Left post on
Alvin Mansfield Owsley Political appointee				Left post on
Ray Atherton Career FSO				Left post on ^[20] ^[21]
Monnett B. Davis Career FSO			^[22]	Left post on
Josiah Marvel Jr. Political appointee				Promoted to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (1947–)

Name	Portrait	Appointed	Presented credentials	class = date	Terminated mission
Josiah Marvel Jr. Political appointee				Left post on
Eugenie Anderson Political appointee				Left post on
Robert D. Coe Career FSO				Relinquished charge on
Val Peterson Political appointee				Left post on
William McCormick Blair, Jr. Political appointee				Left post on
Katharine Elkus White Political appointee				Left post on
Angier Biddle Duke Political appointee				Left post on
Guilford Dudley Jr. Political appointee				Left post on
Fred J. Russell Political appointee				Left post on
Philip K. Crowe Political appointee				Left post on
John Gunther Dean Career FSO				Left post on
Warren Demian Manshel Political appointee				Left post on
John Langeloth Loeb, Jr. Political appointee				Left post on
Terence A. Todman Career FSO				Left post on
Keith Lapham Brown Political appointee		^[23]		Left post on
Richard B. Stone Political appointee				Left post on
Edward Elliot Elson Political appointee				Left post on
Richard Swett Political appointee				Left post on
Stuart A. Bernstein Political appointee				Left post on
James Cain Political appointee				Left post on
Laurie S. Fulton Political appointee				Left post on
Rufus Gifford Political appointee				Left post on
Carla Sands Political appointee				Left post on
Alan Leventhal Political appointee				Incumbent

See also

• Denmark–United States relations
• Foreign relations of Denmark
• Ambassadors of the United States

References

• United States Department of State: Background notes on Denmark

External links

• United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Denmark
• United States Department of State: Denmark
• United States Embassy in Copenhagen

Notes and References

1. Jackson was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on June 29, 1841.
2. Forward was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on February 19, 1850.
3. No record has been found of presentation of letter of recall or departure from post.
4. Ogle did not proceed to his post. (Presumably due to illness. He died later in the year.)
5. Bedinger was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on February 8, 1854.
6. Bedinger was nominated on February 25, 1856, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary but the nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.
7. Kirkwood declined the appointment.
8. Yeaman was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on January 22, 1866.
9. Andrews took the oath of office, but did not proceed to his post.
10. Camer was commissioned during a recess of the Senateand recommissioned after confirmation on February 4, 1871.
11. Badeau's nomination was withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.
12. Payson was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after Senate confirmation on October 29, 1881.
13. Enander took the oath of office but did not proceed to his post.
14. Carr was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on January 9, 1890.
15. Swenson was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation by the Senate on December 18, 1897.
16. Egan was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on December 12, 1907.
17. Hapgood was commissioned during a recess of the Senate.
18. Coleman was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on December 17, 1931.
19. A commission of the same date as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark and Iceland was canceled.
20. German forces occupied Copenhagen, April 9, 1940
21. Atherton was still holding office as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark when he was recommissioned as such on July 8, 1943, in connection with additional appointments as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Canada and Luxembourg, resident at Ottawa. R. Borden Reams was serving as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim when the legation in Copenhagen was closed, December 20, 1941.
22. The mission at Copenhagen was reopened as a legation June 16, 1945, with Minister Davis in charge pending presentation of his letter of credence.
23. Brown was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on August 3, 1989.