List of ambassadors of the United States to Honduras explained

Post:Ambassador
Body:the United States to Honduras
Insignia:US Department of State official seal.svg
Insigniasize:120px
Insigniacaption:Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent:Laura Farnsworth Dogu
Incumbentsince:April 12, 2022
Nominator:The President of the United States
Appointer:The President
Appointer Qualified:with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural:Solon Borland
as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Formation:1850s
Website:U.S. Embassy - Tegucigalpa

The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Honduras. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

RepresentativeTitlePresentation
of credentials
Termination
of mission
Appointed by
Solon BorlandEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center [1] align=center April 17, 1854Franklin Pierce
Beverly L. ClarkeMinister Residentalign=center August 10, 1858align=center March 17, 1860[2] James Buchanan
James R. PartridgeMinister Residentalign=center April 25, 1862align=center November 14, 1862Abraham Lincoln
Thomas H. ClayMinister Residentalign=center April 5, 1864align=center August 10, 1866
Richard H. RousseauMinister Residentalign=center October 10, 1866align=center August 10, 1869Andrew Johnson
Henry BaxterMinister Residentalign=center August 10, 1869align=center June 30, 1873Ulysses S. Grant
George Williamson[3] Minister Residentalign=center February 19, 1874align=center January 31, 1879
Cornelius A. LoganMinister Residentalign=center October 10, 1879align=center April 15, 1882Rutherford B. Hayes
Henry C. HallMinister Residentalign=center April 21, 1882align=center September 26, 1882Chester A. Arthur
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center September 26, 1882align=center May 16, 1889
Lansing B. MiznerEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center March 30, 1889align=center December 31, 1890Benjamin Harrison
Romualdo Pacheco[4] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center April 17, 1891align=center June 12, 1893
Pierce M. B. YoungEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center November 12, 1893align=center May 23, 1896Grover Cleveland
Macgrane CoxeEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center align=center June 30, 1897
W. Godfrey HunterEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center January 19, 1899align=center February 2, 1903William McKinley
Leslie CombsEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center May 22, 1903align=center February 27, 1907Theodore Roosevelt
Joseph W. J. LeeEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center align=center July 1, 1907
Henry Percival Dodge[5] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center June 17, 1908align=center February 6, 1909
Philip Marshall BrownEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center February 21, 1909align=center February 26, 1910
Fenton R. McCreeryEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center March 10, 1910align=center July 2, 1911William H. Taft
Charles Dunning WhiteEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center September 9, 1911align=center November 4, 1913
John EwingEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center December 26, 1913align=center January 18, 1918Woodrow Wilson
T. Sambola JonesEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center October 2, 1918align=center October 17, 1919[6]
Franklin E. MoralesEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center January 18, 1922align=center March 2, 1925Warren G. Harding
George T. SummerlinEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center November 21, 1925align=center December 17, 1929Calvin Coolidge
Julius Gareché LayEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center May 31, 1930align=center March 17, 1935Herbert Hoover
Leo J. KeenaEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center July 19, 1935align=center May 1, 1937Franklin D. Roosevelt
John Draper ErwinEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center September 8, 1937align=center April 27, 1943
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center April 27, 1943align=center April 16, 1947
Paul C. DanielsAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center June 23, 1947align=center October 30, 1947Harry S. Truman
Herbert S. BursleyAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center May 15, 1948align=center December 12, 1950
John Draper ErwinAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center March 14, 1951align=center February 28, 1954
Whiting WillauerAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center March 5, 1954align=center March 24, 1958Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert NewbeginAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center April 30, 1958align=center August 3, 1960
Charles R. BurrowsAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center November 3, 1960align=center June 28, 1965
Joseph J. JovaAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center July 12, 1965align=center June 21, 1969Lyndon B. Johnson
Hewson A. RyanAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center November 5, 1969align=center May 30, 1973Richard Nixon
Phillip V. SanchezAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center June 15, 1973align=center July 17, 1976
Ralph E. BeckerAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center October 27, 1976align=center August 1, 1977Gerald Ford
Mari-Luci JaramilloAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center October 27, 1977align=center September 19, 1980Jimmy Carter
Jack R. BinnsAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center October 10, 1980align=center October 31, 1981
John D. NegroponteAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center November 11, 1981align=center May 30, 1985Ronald Reagan
John Arthur FerchAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center August 22, 1985align=center July 9, 1986
Everett Ellis BriggsAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center November 4, 1986align=center June 15, 1989
Cresencio S. Arcos, Jr.Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center January 29, 1990align=center July 1, 1993George H. W. Bush
William Thornton PryceAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center July 21, 1993align=center August 15, 1996Bill Clinton
James F. CreaganAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center August 29, 1996align=center July 20, 1999
Frank AlmaguerAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center August 25, 1999align=center September 5, 2002
Larry Leon PalmerAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center October 8, 2002align=center May 7, 2005George W. Bush
Charles A. FordAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center November 8, 2005align=center March 18, 2008
Hugo LlorensAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center September 19, 2008align=center July 3, 2011
Lisa KubiskeAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center July 26, 2011align=center August 2, 2014Barack Obama
James D. NealonAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center August 21, 2014align=center June 11, 2017
Heide B. FultonChargé d'Affaires ad interimalign=center June 11, 2017align=center August 30, 2019Donald Trump
Colleen A. HoeyChargé d'Affaires ad interimalign=center August 30, 2019align=center April 7, 2022
Laura Farnsworth DoguAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center April 12, 2022align=center IncumbentJoe Biden

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Notes and References

  1. Did not present credentials in Honduras.
  2. Died at post.
  3. Commissioned to the “Central American States” but accredited individually to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua; resident at Guatemala.
  4. Commissioned to Guatemala and Honduras; Resident at Guatemala.
  5. Commissioned to Honduras and El Salvador; resident at San Salvador.
  6. Declared persona non grata on January 1, 1920, did not return to post.