List of ambassadors of the United States to Chile explained

Post:Ambassador
Body:the United States to Chile
Insignia:US Department of State official seal.svg
Insigniasize:120px
Insigniacaption:Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent:Bernadette Meehan
Incumbentsince:September 30, 2022
Nominator:The President of the United States
Appointer:The President
Appointer Qualified:with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural:Heman Allen
as Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Formation:April 23, 1824
Website:U.S. Embassy - Santiago

The following is a list of ambassadors that the United States has sent to Chile. The current title given by the United States State Department to this position is Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.

RepresentativeTitlePresentation
of credentials
Termination
of mission
Appointed by
Heman AllenMinister PlenipotentiaryApril 23, 1824July 31, 1827James Monroe
Samuel LarnedChargé d'AffairesNovember 9, 1828October 29, 1829John Quincy Adams
John HammChargé d'AffairesMay 24, 1831October 19, 1833Andrew Jackson
Richard PollardChargé d'AffairesMarch 13, 1835May 12, 1842
John S. PendletonChargé d'AffairesMay 24, 1842June 6, 1844John Tyler
George William CrumpChargé d'AffairesAugust 18, 1845November 1, 1847James K. Polk
Seth BartonChargé d'AffairesJanuary 5, 1848May 22, 1849
Balie PeytonEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryFebruary 16, 1850September 26, 1853Zachary Taylor
David A. StarkweatherEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryNovember 22, 1854August 26, 1857Franklin Pierce
John BiglerEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryOctober 5, 1857October 4, 1861James Buchanan
Thomas H. NelsonEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryOctober 4, 1861March 12, 1866Abraham Lincoln
Hugh Judson KilpatrickEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryMarch 12, 1866August 3, 1870Andrew Johnson
Joseph P. RootEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryDecember 2, 1870June 27, 1873Ulysses S. Grant
Cornelius A. LoganEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryJune 27, 1873November 10, 1876
Thomas A. OsbornEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryAugust 28, 1877July 25, 1881Rutherford B. Hayes
Hugh Judson KilpatrickEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryJuly 25, 1881December 2, 1881James Garfield
Cornelius A. LoganEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiarySeptember 7, 1882June 16, 1885Chester A. Arthur
William R. RobertsEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryJuly 4, 1885August 9, 1889Grover Cleveland
Patrick EganEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryAugust 9, 1889July 4, 1893Benjamin Harrison
James D. PorterEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryJuly 4, 1893March 14, 1894Grover Cleveland
Edward H. StrobelEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryFebruary 6, 1895August 17, 1897
Henry L. WilsonEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiarySeptember 14, 1897July 18, 1904William McKinley
John HicksEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryOctober 5, 1905May 11, 1909Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas C. DawsonEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryAugust 20, 1909November 16, 1909William H. Taft
Henry P. FletcherEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiarySeptember 9, 1910November 19, 1914
Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 19, 1914March 9, 1916Woodrow Wilson
Joseph Hooker SheaAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMay 30, 1916May 5, 1921
William Miller CollierAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiarySeptember 29, 1921August 6, 1928Warren G. Harding
William S. CulbertsonAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 16, 1928August 19, 1933Calvin Coolidge
Hal H. SevierAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 25, 1933May 4, 1935Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hoffman PhilipAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 7, 1935October 31, 1937
Norman ArmourAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryApril 21, 1938June 10, 1939
Claude G. BowersAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiarySeptember 7, 1939September 2, 1953
Willard L. BeaulacAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 5, 1953May 28, 1956Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cecil B. LyonAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJune 15, 1956February 25, 1958
Walter HoweAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJune 1, 1958March 15, 1961
Robert F. WoodwardAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMay 5, 1961July 6, 1961John F. Kennedy
Charles W. ColeAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 21, 1961September 27, 1964
Ralph A. DunganAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryDecember 10, 1964August 2, 1967Lyndon B. Johnson
Edward M. KorryAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 16, 1967October 12, 1971
Nathaniel DavisAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 20, 1971November 1, 1973Richard Nixon
David H. PopperAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryFebruary 22, 1974May 22, 1977Gerald Ford
George W. LandauAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 1977January 16, 1982Jimmy Carter
James D. ThebergeAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMarch 8, 1982August 2, 1985Ronald Reagan
Harry George Barnes, Jr.Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 18, 1985November 26, 1988
Charles A. Gillespie, Jr.Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryDecember 20, 1988December 10, 1991
Curtis Warren KammanAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJanuary 14, 1992October 21, 1994George H. W. Bush
Gabriel Guerra-MondragónAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 24, 1994June 13, 1998Bill Clinton
John O'LearyAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAugust 19, 1998June 29, 2001
William R. BrownfieldAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMarch 25, 2002July 19, 2004George W. Bush
Craig A. KellyAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiarySeptember 9, 2004November 9, 2007
Paul E. SimonsAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 9, 2007July 4, 2010
Alejandro Daniel WolffAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJuly 9, 2010August 10, 2013Barack Obama
Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryApril 8, 2014August 2016
Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 13, 2016January 31, 2019
Chargé d’AffairesJanuary 31, 2019August 10, 2020Donald Trump
Richard H. GlennChargé d’AffairesAugust 10, 2020September 13, 2022
Bernadette MeehanAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiarySeptember 30, 2022Present

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