List of ambassadors of the United States to Ecuador explained

Post:Ambassador
Body:the United States to Ecuador
Insignia:US Department of State official seal.svg
Insigniasize:120px
Insigniacaption:Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent:Arthur W. Brown
Incumbentsince:June 26, 2024
Nominator:The President of the United States
Appointer:The President
Appointer Qualified:with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural:Van Brugh Livingston
as Chargé d'Affaires
Formation:August 12, 1848
Website:U.S. Embassy - Quito

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

Ambassadors and chiefs of mission

RepresentativeTitlePresentation
of credentials
Termination
of mission
Appointed by
Robert B. McAfeeChargé d'affaires to the governments of New Granada and Ecuador with residence en Bogotá[1] align=center 1835align=center 1836Andrew Jackson
James Chamberlayne Pickett[2] Plenipotentiary for signing a Treaty of Peace and Commercealign=center 1838align=center 1839Martin Van Buren
Van Brugh LivingstonChargé d'affairesalign=center August 12, 1848align=center November 12, 1849James K. Polk
John Trumbull Van AlenChargé d'affairesalign=center November 19, 1849align=center July 18, 1850Zachary Taylor
Courtland CushingChargé d'affairesalign=center June 3, 1851align=center October 12, 1853Millard Fillmore
Philo WhiteMinister Residentalign=center September 2, 1854align=center September 14, 1858Franklin Pierce
Charles R. BuckalewMinister Residentalign=center September 20, 1858align=center July 10, 1861James Buchanan
Friedrich HassaurekMinister Residentalign=center July 15, 1861align=center January 13, 1866Abraham Lincoln
William T. CoggeshallMinister Residentalign=center September 20, 1866align=center August 3, 1867[3] Andrew Johnson
David Alexander NunnMinister Residentalign=center Unknownalign=center November 2, 1869Ulysses S. Grant
E. Rumsey WingMinister Residentalign=center June 23, 1870align=center October 5, 1874
Christian WullweberMinister Residentalign=center December 20, 1875align=center September 25, 1876
Rowland B. MahanyEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center May 22, 1892align=center June 23, 1893Benjamin Harrison
Edward Henry StrobelEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center July 15, 1894align=center December 31, 1894Grover Cleveland
James D. TillmanEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center June 3, 1895align=center December 15, 1897
Archibald J. SampsonEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center December 16, 1897align=center July 15, 1905William McKinley
Joseph W. J. LeeEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center December 30, 1905align=center February 21, 1907Theodore Roosevelt
Williams C. FoxEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center April 18, 1907align=center July 19, 1911
Evan E. YoungEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center August 8, 1911align=center January 29, 1912William Howard Taft
Montgomery Schuyler, Jr.Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center May 24, 1913align=center September 29, 1913Woodrow Wilson
Charles S. HartmanEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center September 30, 1913align=center March 20, 1922
Gerhard Adolph BadingEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center May 15, 1922align=center November 1, 1929Warren G. Harding
William DawsonEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center August 9, 1930align=center February 27, 1935Herbert Hoover
Antonio C. GonzalezEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center March 7, 1935align=center March 30, 1938Franklin D. Roosevelt
Boaz Walton LongEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryalign=center April 29, 1938align=center April 14, 1942
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center April 14, 1942align=center May 1, 1943
Robert M. ScottenAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center May 27, 1943align=center April 17, 1947
John F. SimmonsAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center July 16, 1947align=center July 12, 1950Harry S. Truman
Paul C. DanielsAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center May 25, 1951align=center July 9, 1953
Sheldon T. MillsAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center August 19, 1954align=center April 6, 1956Dwight D. Eisenhower
Christian M. RavndalAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center August 29, 1956align=center August 1, 1960
Maurice M. BernbaumAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center November 16, 1960align=center January 14, 1965
Wymberley DeRenne CoerrAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center March 24, 1965align=center October 7, 1967[4] Lyndon B. Johnson
Edson O. SessionsAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center September 26, 1968align=center February 15, 1970
Findley Burns, Jr.Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center April 9, 1970align=center May 18, 1973Richard Nixon
Robert C. BrewsterAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center October 1, 1973align=center April 8, 1976
Richard J. BloomfieldAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center May 31, 1976align=center January 21, 1978Gerald Ford
Raymond E. GonzalezAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center July 31, 1978align=center January 28, 1982Jimmy Carter
Samuel Friedlander Hart[5] Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center December 22, 1982align=center April 5, 1985Ronald Reagan
Fernando Enrique RondonAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center August 8, 1985align=center July 26, 1988
Richard Newton HolwillAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center July 27, 1988align=center November 25, 1989
Paul C. LambertAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center July 2, 1990align=center February 1, 1992George H. W. Bush
James F. MackChargé d'affaires ad interimalign=center February 1, 1992align=center November 16, 1993
Peter F. RomeroAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center November 16, 1993align=center July 25, 1996Bill Clinton
Leslie M. AlexanderAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center August 5, 1996align=center June 11, 1999
Gwen C. ClareAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center August 24, 1999align=center July 3, 2001
Kristie A. KenneyAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center September 25, 2002align=center July 6, 2005George W. Bush
Linda JewellAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaryalign=center August 29, 2005align=center July 22, 2008[6]
Heather M. HodgesAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 2, 2008April 5, 2011[7] [8]
Andrew BowenChargé d’Affaires a.i.April 15, 2011July 2011Barack Obama
Timothy Zúñiga-BrownChargé d’Affaires a.i.July 2011April 2012
Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJune 22, 2012September 28, 2015
Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryApril 14, 2016June 8, 2019
Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJuly 3, 2019June 15, 2024Donald Trump
Arthur W. BrownAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJune 26, 2024IncumbentJoe Biden

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Notes and References

  1. Pablo Núñez Endara, Relaciones internacionales del Ecuador en la fundación de la República
  2. James Chamberlayne Pickett: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/e/i/Kuzriel-Meir-PT-PLEASANT/FILE/0023page.html, https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/pickett-james-chamberlayne
  3. Died at post.
  4. Recall requested by the government of Ecuador.
  5. Web site: 12 June 1992 . The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR SAMUEL F. HART . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240718173926/https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Hart,%20Samuel%20F.toc.pdf . 18 July 2024 . 18 July 2024 . Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training.
  6. https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/jewell-linda
  7. Web site: Heather M. Hodges. https://web.archive.org/web/20110528121233/http://www.state.gov/outofdate/bios/107732.htm. dead. 2011-05-28. U.S. Department of State. 2011-06-12.
  8. Hodges was declared persona non grata and expelled from Ecuador July 5, 2011.