| Post: | Ambassador |
| Body: | the United States to the Netherlands |
| Native Name: | Dutch; Flemish: Ambassadeur van de Verenigde Staten in Nederland |
| Insignia: | US Department of State official seal.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 120 |
| Insigniacaption: | Seal of the United States Department of State |
| Incumbent: | Shefali Razdan Duggal |
| Incumbentsince: | October 19, 2022 |
| Seat: | Embassy of the United States, The Hague |
| Inaugural: | John Adams as Minister Plenipotentiary |
| Formation: | April 19, 1782 |
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, John Adams was appointed America's first 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.[2] Notable Americans such as former Presidents Adams and John Quincy Adams, General Hugh Ewing and Iraq Envoy 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]
| Name[5] | Type | Start date[6] | End date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 19, 1782 | March 30, 1788 | |||
| 2 | MP | [7] | |||
| 3 | MP | ||||
| 4 | June 18, 1792 | December 19, 1792 | |||
| 5 | November 6, 1794 | June 20, 1797 | |||
| 6 | June 20, 1797 | September 2, 1801 | |||
| 7 | July 20, 1815 | May 5, 1818 | |||
| 8 | January 4, 1819 | April 7, 1824 | |||
| 9 | July 10, 1826 | January 28, 1830 | |||
| 10 | January 28, 1830 | May 2, 1831 | |||
| 11 | December 30, 1831 | July 13, 1839 | |||
| 12 | July 13, 1839 | August 22, 1842 | |||
| 13 | August 22, 1842 | June 28, 1845 | |||
| 14 | June 28, 1845 | September 16, 1850 | |||
| 15 | 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 | September 24, 1857 | June 8, 1861 | |||
| 18 | June 8, 1861 | May 29, 1866 | |||
| 19 | MR | ||||
| 20 | MR | ||||
| 21 | October 19, 1866 | December 1, 1866 | |||
| 22 | December 1, 1866 | October 31, 1870 | |||
| 23 | MR | [8] | |||
| 24 | December 15, 1870 | July 9, 1875 | |||
| 25 | MR | [9] | |||
| 26 | March 29, 1876 | April 20, 1882 | |||
| 27 | September 26, 1882 | June 8, 1885 | |||
| 28 | 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 | May 24, 1889 | August 7, 1893 | |||
| 31 | August 11, 1893 | July 26, 1897 | |||
| 32 | August 19, 1897 | June 30, 1905 | |||
| 33 | July 15, 1905 | June 1, 1908 | |||
| 34 | June 15, 1908 | September 25, 1911 | |||
| 35 | November 16, 1911 | September 10, 1913 | |||
| 36 | October 15, 1913 | January 11, 1917 | |||
| 37 | October 11, 1917 | June 18, 1919 | |||
| 38 | April 23, 1920 | April 11, 1922 | |||
| 39 | May 1, 1923 | August 29, 1929 | |||
| 40 | November 20, 1929 | December 20, 1930[10] | |||
| 41 | April 29, 1931 | March 5, 1934 | |||
| 42 | March 21, 1934 | August 21, 1937 | |||
| 43 | 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 | December 8, 1944 | March 7, 1947 | |||
| 46 | April 12, 1947 | August 26, 1949 | |||
| 47 | October 27, 1949 | October 30, 1953 | |||
| 48 | November 25, 1953 | June 11, 1957 | |||
| 49 | June 27, 1957 | December 20, 1960 | |||
| 50 | May 6, 1961 | May 27, 1964 | |||
| 51 | June 23, 1965 | June 20, 1969 | |||
| 52 | July 9, 1969 | June 10, 1973 | |||
| 53 | October 18, 1973 | September 30, 1976 | |||
| 54 | October 22, 1976 | March 10, 1978 | |||
| 55 | September 6, 1978 | June 17, 1981 | |||
| 56 | September 2, 1982 | July 19, 1983 | |||
| 57 | August 31, 1983 | August 25, 1986 | |||
| 58 | June 24, 1987 | February 23, 1989 | |||
| 59 | July 13, 1989 | July 11, 1992 | |||
| 60 | March 16, 1994 | July 28, 1998 | |||
| 61 | September 2, 1998 | June 17, 2001 | |||
| 62 | December 6, 2001 | August 24, 2005 | |||
| 63 | Mar 8, 2006 | March 7, 2008 | |||
| 64 | July 10, 2008 | January 20, 2009 | |||
| 65 | August 19, 2009 | September 1, 2011 | |||
| 66 | March 19, 2014 | February 12, 2016 | |||
| 67 | February 12, 2016 | July 29, 2016 | |||
| 68 | July 29, 2016[13] | January 10, 2018 | |||
| 69 | January 10, 2018 | January 17, 2021 | |||
| 70 | January 17, 2021 | July 4, 2022 | |||
| 71 | Aleisha Woodward | July 4, 2022 | October, 18, 2022 | ||
| 72 | October 19, 2022 | Present | |||