List of ambassadors of Bulgaria to the United States explained

Post:	Ambassador
Body:	Bulgaria to the United States Embassy of Bulgaria in Washington, D.C.
Incumbent:	Tihomir Stoytchev^[1]
Inaugural:	Stefan Panaretov

The Bulgarian Ambassador to the United States is the official representative of the Government of Bulgaria to the Government of the United States in Washington, D.C. Diplomatic relations between the two countries were established in 1903.^[2]

List of representatives

Diplomatic Agreement	Diplomatic Accreditation	Ambassador	Observations	Prime Minister of Bulgaria	List of presidents of the United States	Term end
			Legation opened	Vasil Radoslavov	Woodrow Wilson
		Stefan Panaretov		Vasil Radoslavov	Woodrow Wilson
		Paul Lessinoff	Chargé d'affaires	Aleksandar Stamboliyski	Woodrow Wilson
		Stefan Panaretov		Aleksandar Stamboliyski	Warren G. Harding
		Paul Lessinoff^[3]	Chargé d'affaires	Aleksandar Stamboliyski	Warren G. Harding
		Stephen P. Bisseroff	Chargé d'affaires	Aleksandar Stamboliyski	Calvin Coolidge
		Simeon Radev		Aleksandar Stamboliyski	Calvin Coolidge
		Stoyan Petroff Tchomakoff	Chargé d'affaires	Nikola Mushanov	Franklin D. Roosevelt
		Dimitri Naoumoff	^[4]	Andrey Toshev	Franklin D. Roosevelt
			Announcement of State of War	Georgi Kyoseivanov	Franklin D. Roosevelt
			Legation re-opened as People's Republic of Bulgaria	Georgi Dimitrov	Harry S. Truman
		Boyan Athanassov	Chargé d'affaires^[5]	Georgi Dimitrov	Harry S. Truman
		Nissim Judasy Mevorah		Georgi Dimitrov	Harry S. Truman
		Peter Voutov	Chargé d'affaires. On December 12, 1949, Voutov was informed that the United States took a serious view of the persecution of Bulgarian employees of the Legation.^[6]	Georgi Dimitrov	Harry S. Truman
			Severed relations	Valko Chervenkov	Harry S. Truman
		Peter G. Voutov		Anton Yugov	Dwight D. Eisenhower
		Lubomir Dimitrov Popov		Todor Zhivkov	Lyndon B. Johnson
		Luben Guerassimov		Todor Zhivkov	Lyndon B. Johnson
			Legation raised to embassy	Todor Zhivkov	Lyndon B. Johnson
		Luben Guerassimov		Todor Zhivkov	Lyndon B. Johnson
		Khristo Delchev Zdravchev		Stanko Todorov	Richard Nixon
		Vladimir Velchev	Chargé d'affaires	Stanko Todorov	Richard Nixon
		Lubomir Dimitrov Popov		Stanko Todorov	Gerald Ford
		Krassin Himmirsky	Chargé d'affaires	Stanko Todorov	Jimmy Carter
		Konstantin Nicolov Grigorov	^[7]	Stanko Todorov	Jimmy Carter
		Stoyan Iliev Zhulev	Head of Chemical Fibers and served on Committee of Light Industry (1965-1968)^[8]	Stanko Todorov	Jimmy Carter
		Velichko Filipov Velichkov		Georgi Atanasov	Ronald Reagan
		Ognian Pishev		Andrey Lukanov	George H. W. Bush
		Snezhana Botusharova	J.D./Ph.D., Deputy Chairperson and Acting Chairperson of the National Parliament	Reneta Indzhova	Bill Clinton
		Philip Dimitrov		Ivan Kostov	Bill Clinton
		Elena Poptodorova		Simeon Sakskoburggotski	George W. Bush
		Latchezar Petkov		Sergei Stanishev	George W. Bush
		Elena Poptodorova		Boyko Borisov	Barack Obama
		Tihomir Stoytchev		Ognyan Gerdzhikov	Barack Obama

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Notes and References

1. Web site: BG Embassy. www.bulgaria-embassy.org. 31 May 2017. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150801004838/http://www.bulgaria-embassy.org/. 1 August 2015.
2. Web site: Relations. www.bulgaria-embassy.org. 31 May 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20061009074439/http://www.bulgaria-embassy.org/relations.htm. 9 October 2006.
3. News: Constant shifts being made in diplomatic corps. New York Tribune. 6 August 1922. 30 May 2017.
4. Book: Dunn. Landon Alfriend. Ryan. Timothy J.. Axis Diplomats in American Custody: The Housing of Enemy Representatives and Their Exchange for American Counterparts, 1941–1945. 10 August 2016. McFarland. 978-1-4766-2539-3. 95.
5. Book: Robbins, Louise. The Librarian Spies: Philip and Mary Jane Keeney and Cold War Espionage: Philip and Mary Jane Keeney and Cold War Espionage. 20 March 2009. ABC-CLIO. 978-1-56720-707-1. 106.
6. Book: Inter-parliamentary Bulletin: Official Publication of the Bureau of the Inter-parliamentary Union. 1990. The Bureau. 289.
7. Book: Paxton, J.. The Statesman's Year-Book 1982-83. 15 December 2016. Springer. 978-0-230-27111-1. 251.
8. https://books.google.com/books?id=6EwQAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Zhulev,+Stoyan+Iliev%22 Stoyan Iliev Zhulev