List of ambassadors of the United States to Spain explained

Post:	Ambassador
Body:	the United States of America to Spain
Native Name:	Embajadora de los Estados Unidos de America en España
Insignia:	US Department of State official seal.svg
Insigniasize:	120
Insigniacaption:	Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent:	Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón
Incumbentsince:	February 2, 2022
Nominator:	The President of the United States
Appointer:	The President
Appointer Qualified:	with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural:	John Jay as Minister Plenipotentiary
Formation:	September 29, 1779
Website:	U.S. Embassy - Madrid

The incumbent ambassador is Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón, she was sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris on January 7, 2022, and presented her credentials on February 2, 2022.

This is a list of United States ambassadors to Spain from 1779 to the present day. The ambassador to Spain is also credentialed to Andorra.

Chiefs of Mission

Name	Image	Type of Appointee	Title	Appointment	Presentation of credentials	Termination of mission	President(s)
William Carmichael			Chargé d'Affaires	Apr 20, 1790	No report has been found concerning Carmichael's presentation of credentials as Chargé d'Affaires en titre; he had already been received as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, May 20, 1782.	Presented recall Sep 5, 1794	rowspan=2	George Washington (Unaffiliated)
William Short			Minister Resident	May 28, 1794	Sep 7, 1794	Left post, Nov 1, 1795
David Humphreys			Minister Plenipotentiary	May 20, 1796	Sep 10, 1797	Probably presented recall soon after December 28, 1801		John Adams (Federalist)
							Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
Charles Pinckney			Minister Plenipotentiary	Jun 6, 1801^[1]	January–March 1802	Presented recall, Oct 25, 1804
George W. Erving			Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	Oct 1805		Feb 1810
							James Madison (Democratic-Republican)
			Minister Plenipotentiary	Aug 10, 1814^[2]	Aug 24, 1816	Left post, May 15, 1819
							James Monroe (Democratic-Republican)
John Forsyth			Minister Plenipotentiary	Feb 16, 1819	May 18, 1819	Had farewell audience, Mar 2, 1823
Hugh Nelson			Minister Plenipotentiary	Jan 15, 1823	Dec 4, 1823	Presented recall Jul 10, 1825
							John Quincy Adams (Democratic-Republican)
Alexander Hill Everett			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Mar 9, 1825	Sep 4, 1825	Left post Aug 1, 1829
							Andrew Jackson (Democratic)
Cornelius P. Van Ness			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Jun 1, 1829^[3]	Dec 9, 1829	Presented recall, Dec 21, 1836
John H. Eaton			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Mar 16, 1836	No report has been found of Eaton's presentation of credentials, which probably took place about February 1, 1837	Left post, May 1, 1840
							Martin Van Buren (Democratic)
Aaron Vail			Chargé d'Affaires	May 20, 1840	Nov 5, 1840	Superseded, Aug 1, 1842
								William Henry Harrison (Whig)
							John Tyler (Whig/Unaffiliated)
Washington Irving			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Feb 10, 1842	Aug 1, 1842	Presented recall, Jul 29, 1846
							James K. Polk (Democratic)
Romulus M. Saunders			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Feb 25, 1846	Jul 31, 1846	Presented recall, Sep 24, 1849
							Zachary Taylor (Whig)
Daniel M. Barringer			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Jun 18, 1849^[4]	October 24, 1849	Presented recall Sep 4, 1853
								Millard Fillmore (Whig)
							Franklin Pierce (Democratic)
Pierre Soule			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Apr 7, 1853	Oct 24, 1853	Presented recall, Feb 1, 1855
Angus C. Dodge			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Feb 9, 1855	Jun 17, 1855	Presented recall, Mar 12, 1859
							James Buchanan (Democratic)
William Preston			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Dec 15, 1858	Mar 12, 1859	Presented recall, May 24, 1861
							Abraham Lincoln (Republican)
Carl Schurz			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Mar 28, 1861	Jul 13, 1861	Left post, Dec 18, 1861
Gustavus Koerner			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Jun 14, 1862	Nov 4, 1862	Left post, Jul 20, 1864
John P. Hale			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Mar 10, 1865	Sep 30, 1865	Presented recall, Jul 29, 1869		Andrew Johnson (National Union/Democratic)
							Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)
Daniel E. Sickles			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 15, 1869^[5]	July 29, 1869	Presented new credentials on Feb 2, 1871, after change of government; transmitted recall by note Jan 31, 1874
Caleb Cushing			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Jan 6, 1874	May 30, 1874	Presented new credentials on Mar 10, 1875, after restoration of monarchy; left post, Apr 9, 1877
							Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
James Russell Lowell			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Jun 11, 1877^[6]	Aug 18, 1877	Presented recall, Mar 2, 1880
Lucius Fairchild			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Jan 26, 1880	Mar 31, 1880	Presented recall, Dec 20, 1881
								James A. Garfield (Republican)
							Chester A. Arthur (Republican)
Hannibal Hamlin			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Jun 30, 1881^[7]	Dec 20, 1881	Left post, Oct 17, 1882
John W. Foster			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Feb 27, 1883	Jun 16, 1883	Presented recall, Aug 28, 1885
							Grover Cleveland (Democratic)
Jabez L.M. Curry			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Oct 7, 1885^[8]	Dec 22, 1885	Left post, Jul 5, 1888
Perry Belmont			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Nov 17, 1888^[9]	Feb 13, 1889	Left post, May 1, 1889
							Benjamin Harrison (Republican)
Thomas W. Palmer			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Mar 12, 1889	Jun 17, 1889	Left post, Apr 19, 1890
E. Burd Grubb			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Sep 27, 1890	Dec 23, 1890	Left post, May 26, 1892
A. Loudon Snowden			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Jul 22, 1892	Oct 6, 1892	Presented recall, Jun 3, 1893
							Grover Cleveland (Democratic)
Hannis Taylor			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Apr 8, 1893	Jul 1, 1893	Presented recall, Sep 13, 1897
							William McKinley (Republican)
Stewart L. Woodford			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Jun 19, 1897	Sep 13, 1897	Spain severed diplomatic relations with the U.S., Apr 21, 1898^[10]
Bellamy Storer			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Apr 12, 1899^[11]	Jun 16, 1899	Presented recall, Dec 10, 1902
							Theodore Roosevelt (Republican)
Arthur S. Hardy			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Sep 26, 1902^[12]	Mar 2, 1903	Presented recall, May 1, 1905
William Miller Collier			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Mar 8, 1905	May 15, 1905	Superseded, Jun 9, 1909
							William Howard Taft (Republican)
Henry Clay Ide			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Apr 1, 1909	Jun 9, 1909	Left post, Jul 8, 1913
							Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)
Joseph E. Willard		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Sep 10, 1913	Oct 31, 1913	Left post, Jul 7, 1921
							Warren G. Harding (Republican)
Cyrus E. Woods		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Jun 24, 1921	Oct 14, 1921	Left post, Apr 18, 1923
Alexander P. Moore		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Mar 3, 1923	May 16, 1923	Left post, Dec 20, 1925
							Calvin Coolidge (Republican)
Ogden H. Hammond		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Dec 21, 1925	Mar 26, 1926	Left post, Oct 13, 1929
							Herbert Hoover (Republican)
Irwin B. Laughlin		Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Oct 16, 1929	Dec 24, 1929	Left post, Apr 12, 1933
							Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)
Claude G. Bowers		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Apr 6, 1933	Jun 1, 1933	Had final interview, Feb 2, 1939^[13]
H. Freeman Matthews		Career Foreign Service Officer	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	Apr 13, 1939
Alexander W. Weddell		Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 3, 1939	Jun 15, 1939	Left post, Feb 7, 1942
Carlton J. H. Hayes		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 2, 1942	Jun 9, 1942	Left Spain, Jan 18, 1945
Norman Armour		Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Dec 15, 1944	Mar 24, 1945	Left post, Dec 1, 1945
							Harry S. Truman (Democratic)
Philip W. Bonsal		Career Foreign Service Officer	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	Mar 1946		Jun 1947
Paul T. Culbertson		Career Foreign Service Officer	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	Jun 1947		Dec 1950
Stanton Griffis		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Feb 1, 1951	Mar 1, 1951	Relinquished charge, Jan 28, 1952
Lincoln MacVeagh		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Feb 21, 1952	Mar 27, 1952	Left post, Mar 4, 1953
							Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)
James Clement Dunn		Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Feb 27, 1953	Apr 9, 1953	Left post, Feb 9, 1955
John Lodge		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Jan 22, 1955	Mar 24, 1955	Left post, Apr 13, 1961
							John F. Kennedy (Democratic)
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr.		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Mar 29, 1961	May 25, 1961	Left Spain, Oct 12, 1961
Robert F. Woodward		Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Apr 7, 1962	May 10, 1962	Left post, Feb 1, 1965
							Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
Angier Biddle Duke		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Mar 11, 1965	Apr 1, 1965	Left post Mar 30, 1968
Robert F. Wagner		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Jun 24, 1968	Jul 4, 1968	Left post, Mar 7, 1969
							Richard Nixon (Republican)
Robert C. Hill		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 1, 1969	Jun 12, 1969	Left post, Jun 12, 1972
Horacio Rivero Jr.		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Sep 11, 1972	Oct 11, 1972	Left post, Nov 26, 1974
							Gerald Ford (Republican)
Wells Stabler		Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Feb 20, 1975	Mar 13, 1975	Left post, May 4, 1978
							Jimmy Carter (Democratic)
Terence A. Todman		Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 25, 1978	Jul 20, 1978	Left post, Aug 8, 1983
							Ronald Reagan (Republican)
Thomas Ostrom Enders		Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Aug 5, 1983	Sep 15, 1983	Left post Jul 6, 1986
Reginald Bartholomew		Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Aug 18, 1986	Sep 17, 1986	Left post, Mar 12, 1989
							George H. W. Bush (Republican)
Joseph Zappala		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Oct 10, 1989	Oct 16, 1989	Left post, Jun 4, 1992
Richard Goodwin Capen, Jr.		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Jun 15, 1992	Jul 8, 1992	Left post, Feb 17, 1993
							Bill Clinton (Democratic)
Richard N. Gardner		Non-career officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Sep 16, 1993	Nov 4, 1993	Left post, Jul 12, 1997
Edward L. Romero		Non-career officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Apr 2, 1998	Jun 30, 1998	Left post, May 1, 2001
							George W. Bush (Republican)
George L. Argyros		Non-career officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary^[14]	Nov 21, 2001	Dec 13, 2001	Left post, Nov 21, 2004
Eduardo Aguirre		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Jun 21, 2005	Jun 29, 2005	Jan 20, 2009
Alan D. Solomont		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Dec 29, 2009	Jan 27, 2010	Left post Jun 28, 2013	Barack Obama (Democratic)
James Costos		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Aug 19, 2013	Sep 24, 2013	Left post Jan 18, 2017
Richard Duke Buchan III		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Nov 20, 2017	Apr 3, 2018	Left post Jan 20, 2021		Donald Trump (Republican)
Conrad Tribble^[15]		Foreign Service officer	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	Jan 20, 2021		Feb 2, 2022	Joe Biden (Democratic)
Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Jan 7, 2022	Feb 2, 2022	Incumbent

Other Nominees

Name	Portrait	Type of Appointee	Title	Appointment	Note
John Jay			Minister Plenipotentiary	Sep 29, 1779	Proceeded to post, but was not formally received at court; left post about May 20, 1782
James Bowdoin			Minister Plenipotentiary	Nov 22, 1804	Did not proceed to post
William T. Barry			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Apr 10, 1853	Took oath of office but died en route to post. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate
John C. Breckinridge			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Jan 16, 1855	Declined appointment
Cassius M. Clay			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Apr 14, 1861	Declined appointment
William S. Rosecrans			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary		Not commissioned; nomination tabled by the Senate
Henry S. Sanford			Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary		Not commissioned; nominated tabled by the Senate
Joseph E. Willard		Non-career appointee	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Jul 28, 1913	Took oath of office, but did not proceed to post under this appointment
Ellis O. Briggs		Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary		Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.
Frank E. McKinney		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 11, 1968	Took oath of office, but did not proceed to post under this appointment
Peter M. Flanigan		Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary		Not commissioned; nomination of Sep 17, 1974 was not acted upon the Senate

Notes

1. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 26, 1802.
2. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate. Nominated confirmed by the Senate, Oct 3, 1814; commission following confirmation not of record
3. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Feb 10, 1830
4. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Sep 28, 1850
5. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Mar 16, 1870
6. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after conformation on Oct 30, 1877
7. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Oct 13, 1881
8. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Jan 13, 1886
9. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Dec 13, 1888
10. Woodford left post, Apr 21, 1898. The United States declared war on Spain as of that date by Act of Congress approved April 25, 1898
11. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Dec 14, 1899
12. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Dec 8, 1902
13. Bowers was resident during the last part of his Ambassadorship at St. Jean de Luz in France; he left that post, Jun 14, 1939, his appointment having terminated May 14, 1939. The Embassy had meanwhile been re-established in Spain on Apr 13, 1939, when H. Freeman Matthews had been received at Burgos as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim
14. Also credited to Andorra; resident at Madrid.
15. Web site: 2021-11-07 . Conrad Tribble, Chargé d'Affaires a.i. - U.S. Embassy & Consulate in Spain and Andorra . 2021-11-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211107021638if_/https://es.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/our-ambassador/ . 7 November 2021 . dead.

See also

• Spain – United States relations
• Foreign relations of Spain
• Ambassadors of the United States
• List of ambassadors of Spain to the United States

References

• United States Department of State: Background notes on Spain

External links

• United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Spain
• United States Department of State: Spain
• United States Embassy in Madrid