The United States Ambassador to Argentina is the official representative of the President of the United States to the head of state

Head of State

A head of state is the individual that serves as the chief public representative of a monarchy, republic, federation, commonwealth or other kind of state. His or her role generally includes legitimizing the state and exercising the political powers, functions, and duties granted to the head of...

 of Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

.

Argentina had declared its independence from Spain in 1816 and there followed a series of revolutionary wars until 1861 when the nation was united. The United States recognized

Diplomatic recognition

Diplomatic recognition in international law is a unilateral political act with domestic and international legal consequences, whereby a state acknowledges an act or status of another state or government in control of a state...

 the government of Buenos Aires, the predecessor to Argentina, on January 27, 1823. Caesar Augustus Rodney

Caesar A. Rodney

Caesar Augustus Rodney was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as well as a U.S. Representative from Delaware, U.S. Senator from Delaware, U.S. Attorney...

 was appointed as American Minister Plenipotentiary to Buenos Aires. Between 1854 and 1866, U.S. ambassadors were commissioned to the Argentine Confederation

Argentine Confederation

The Argentine Confederation is one of the official names of Argentina, according to the Argentine Constitution, Article 35...

. Since 1867, ambassadors have been commissioned to the Argentine Republic.

Diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Argentina were interrupted but not severed in June 1944 when the U.S. government recalled its ambassador in a dispute with the newly appointed dictator Edelmiro Julián Farrell

Edelmiro Julián Farrell

General Edelmiro Julián Farrell Plaul was an Argentine military officer of Irish descent. He was the de facto president of Argentina between 1944 and 1946....

. The U.S. government believed that Farrell was not committed to the defense of the Western Hemisphere against the Axis powers

Axis Powers

The Axis powers , also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or just the Axis, was an alignment of great powers during the mid-20th century that fought World War II against the Allies. It began in 1936 with treaties of friendship between Germany and Italy and between Germany and...

. Normal relations were resumed with the appointment of a new ambassador in April 1945 when Argentina declared war against Germany.

The official residence of the U.S. Ambassador in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

 is the Bosch Palace

Bosch Palace

The Bosch Palace is an architecturally significant residence in the Palermo section of Buenos Aires, Argentina.-Overview:The French Neoclassical mansion was commissioned by Elisa and Ernesto Bosch in 1910...

, listed on the State Department's Register of Culturally Significant Property

Register of Culturally Significant Property

The Secretary of State's Register of Culturally Significant Property is the United States Department of State's registry of properties that are owned or leased by the Department and have particular cultural or historical significance....

.

Ambassadors and chiefs of mission

• Caesar A. Rodney
  Caesar A. Rodney
  Caesar Augustus Rodney was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as well as a U.S. Representative from Delaware, U.S. Senator from Delaware, U.S. Attorney...
  
  
  • Title: Minister Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: January 27, 1823
  • Presented credentials: December 27, 1823
  • Terminated mission: Died at post, June 10, 1824

• John M. Forbes
  • Title: Chargé d'Affaires
  • Appointed: March 9, 1825
  • Presented credentials: August 20, 1825
  • Terminated mission: Died at post June 14, 1831

• Francis Baylies
  Francis Baylies
  Francis Baylies was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, brother of William Baylies.Born in Taunton, Massachusetts, Baylies studied law....
  
  
  • Title: Chargé d'Affaires
  • Appointed: January 3, 1832
  • Presented credentials: June 15, 1832
  • Terminated mission: Left post September 26, 1832

• William Brent, Jr.
  • Title: Chargé d'Affaires
  • Appointed: June 14, 1844
  • Presented credentials: November 15, 1844
  • Terminated mission: Presented recall July 7, 1846

• William A. Harris
  William A. Harris (Virginia)
  William Alexander Harris was a U.S. Representative from Virginia, father of William A. Harris.- Early life and politics:...
  
  
  • Title: Chargé d'Affaires
  • Appointed: February 19, 1846
  • Presented credentials: July 7, 1846
  • Terminated mission: Probably presented recall before September 12, 1851

• John S. Pendleton
  John Pendleton
  John Strother Pendleton , nicknamed "The Lone Star", was a nineteenth century congressman, diplomat, lawyer and farmer from Virginia....
  
  
  • Title: Chargé d'Affaires
  • Appointed: February 27, 1851
  • Presented credentials: September 12, 1851 or soon thereafter
  • Terminated mission: Relinquished charge from Montevideo, Uruguay March 31, 1854

• William Henry Bissell
  William Henry Bissell
  William Henry Bissell was the 11th Governor of the U.S. state of Illinois from 1857 until his death. He was one of the first successful Republican Party candidates, winning the election of 1856 just two years after the founding of his party.Bissell was born in Hartwick, Otsego County, New York...
  
  
  • Title: Chargé d'Affaires
  • Appointed: May 24, 1853
  • Presented credentials: —
  • Terminated mission: —

Note: Beginning with Minister Peden, the office was upgraded to Minister Resident

• James A. Peden
  • Title: Minister Resident
  • Appointed: June 29, 1854
  • Presented credentials: December 1, 1854
  • Terminated mission: Presented recall December 1, 1858

Note: Minister Peden resided at Buenos Aires until about May 1, 1857, when he closed the Legation at that city and moved to Paraná

Paraná, Entre Ríos

Paraná is the capital city of the Argentine province of Entre Ríos, located on the eastern shore of the Paraná River, opposite the city of Santa Fe, capital of the neighbouring Santa Fe Province...

, the capital of the Argentine Confederation. The U.S. Legation to the Argentine Confederation remained there until February 25, 1862, when Ambassador Palmer returned it to Buenos Aires, following reunification of the country.

• Mirabeau B. Lamar
  Mirabeau B. Lamar
  Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar was a Texas politician, diplomat and soldier who was a leading Texas political figure during the Texas Republic era. He was the second President of the Republic of Texas, after David G. Burnet and Sam Houston.-Early years:Lamar grew up at Fairfield, his father's...
  
  
  • Title: Minister Resident
  • Appointed: —
  • Presented credentials: —
  • Terminated mission: —

• Benjamin C. Yancey
  Benjamin Cudworth Yancey Jr.
  Benjamin Cudworth Yancey Jr. was an American politician, lawyer, officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and diplomat....
  
  
  • Title: Minister Resident
  • Appointed: June 14, 1858
  • Presented credentials: December 1, 1858
  • Terminated mission: Transmitted recall by note from Montevideo, Uruguay, September 30, 1859

• John F. Cushman
  • Title: Minister Resident
  • Appointed: July 18, 1859
  • Presented credentials: December 22, 1859
  • Terminated mission: Relinquished charge February 17, 1861

Note: Ambassador Palmer moved the U.S. Legation back from Paraná to Buenos Aires in 1862.

• Robert M. Palmer
  • Title: Minister Resident
  • Appointed: March 28, 1861
  • Presented credentials: October 5, 1861
  • Terminated mission: Left post about April 12, 1862

• Robert C. Kirk
  Robert C. Kirk
  Robert C. Kirk was an American politician who served as the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Ohio from 1860 to 1862.-Biography:Robert C. Kirk was born February 26, 1821 in Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio. He attended primary schools in Mount Pleasant and entered Franklin College in New Athens,...
  
  
  • Title: Minister Resident
  • Appointed: March 4, 1862
  • Presented credentials: June 21, 1862
  • Terminated mission: Left post July 26, 1866

• Alexander Asboth
  Alexander Asboth
  Alexander Asboth was a Hungarian military leader best known for his victories as a Union general during the American Civil War. He also served as United States Ambassador to Argentina and as United States Ambassador to Uruguay.-Early life:Asboth was born in Keszthely, Hungary...
  
  
  • Title: Minister Resident
  • Appointed: March 12, 1866
  • Presented credentials: October 20, 1866
  • Terminated mission: Died at post January 21, 1868

• Henry G. Worthington
  Henry G. Worthington
  Henry Gaither Worthington was the first United States Representative from the State of Nevada, serving in Congress during the end of the American Civil War after the Lincoln Administration pushed through legislation to grant statehood to the former Territory of Nevada.Worthington served as U.S...
  
  
  • Title: Minister Resident
  • Appointed: June 5, 1868
  • Presented credentials: September 11, 1868
  • Terminated mission: Presented recall July 8, 1869

• Robert C. Kirk
  Robert C. Kirk
  Robert C. Kirk was an American politician who served as the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Ohio from 1860 to 1862.-Biography:Robert C. Kirk was born February 26, 1821 in Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio. He attended primary schools in Mount Pleasant and entered Franklin College in New Athens,...
  
  
  • Title: Minister Resident
  • Appointed: April 16, 1869
  • Presented credentials: July 8, 1869
  • Terminated mission: Presented recall November 4, 1871

• Julius White
  Julius White
  Julius White was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, as well as a postbellum diplomat.-Civil War:...
  
  
  • Title: Minister Resident
  • Appointed: December 12, 1872
  • Presented credentials: May 6, 1873
  • Terminated mission: Left post November 14, 1873

• Thomas O. Osborn
  Thomas O. Osborn
  Thomas Ogden Osborn was an American lawyer, soldier, and diplomat who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was also the U.S. Minister to Argentina from 1874–85.-Early life and career:...
  
  
  • Title: Minister Resident
  • Appointed: February 10, 1874
  • Presented credentials: May 21, 1874
  • Terminated mission: Recommissioned as Minister Resident/Consul General July 7, 1884

• Thomas O. Osborn
  Thomas O. Osborn
  Thomas Ogden Osborn was an American lawyer, soldier, and diplomat who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was also the U.S. Minister to Argentina from 1874–85.-Early life and career:...
  
  
  • Title: Minister Resident/Consul General
  • Appointed: July 7, 1884
  • Presented credentials: (previously presented May 21, 1874
  • Terminated mission: Probably presented recall on or before October 15, 1885

• Bayless W. Hanna – Career FSO
  • Title: Minister Resident/Consul General
  • Appointed: June 17, 1885
  • Presented credentials: October 15, 1885
  • Terminated mission: Promoted to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary July 1, 1887

Note: In 1887, during Hanna’s term, the office was upgraded to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, which required a new appointment for Hanna.

• Bayless W. Hanna
  • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: July 1, 1887
  • Presented credentials: February 15, 1888
  • Terminated mission: Left post July 8, 1889

• John R. G. Pitkin
  • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: July 26, 1889
  • Presented credentials: October 31, 1889
  • Terminated mission: Left post August 15, 1893

• William I. Buchanan
  • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: January 26, 1894
  • Presented credentials: May 19, 1894
  • Terminated mission: Left post July 11, 1899

• William Paine Lord
  William Paine Lord
  William Paine Lord , was a Republican politician who served as the ninth Governor of Oregon from 1895 to 1899. The Delaware native previously served as the 27th associate justice on the Oregon Supreme Court, including three times as the Chief Justice of that court...
  
  
  • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: October 16, 1899
  • Presented credentials: February 14, 1900
  • Terminated mission: Left post March 27, 1903

• John Barrett
  John Barrett (diplomat)
  John Barrett was a United States diplomat and one of the most influential early directors general of the Pan American Union. On his death, the New York Times commented that he had "done more than any other person of his generation to promote closer relations among the American...
  
  
  • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: July 2, 1903
  • Presented credentials:
  • Terminated mission:

• Arthur M. Beaupre
  • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: March 17, 1904
  • Presented credentials: June 17, 1904
  • Terminated mission: Left post May 2, 1908

• Spencer F. Eddy
  • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: April 2, 1908
  • Presented credentials: August 27, 1908
  • Terminated mission: Left post January 2, 1909

• Charles Hitchcock Sherrill
  Charles H. Sherrill (ambassador)
  Gen. Charles Hitchcock Sherrill was American politician, diplomat and sport officer.Son of Charles H. Sherrill, he studied Yale University and became a New York City based lawyer....
  
  
  • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: April 1, 1909
  • Presented credentials: June 30, 1909
  • Terminated mission: Left post September 16, 1910

• Huntington Wilson
  Huntington Wilson
  Francis Mairs Huntington Wilson was a United States diplomat and author who served as United States Assistant Secretary of State from 1909 to 1913.-Biography:...
  
  
  • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: January 11, 1909
  • Presented credentials: —
  • Terminated mission: —

• Charles Hitchcock Sherrill
  Charles H. Sherrill (ambassador)
  Gen. Charles Hitchcock Sherrill was American politician, diplomat and sport officer.Son of Charles H. Sherrill, he studied Yale University and became a New York City based lawyer....
  
  
  • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: April 1, 1909
  • Presented credentials: June 30, 1909
  • Terminated mission: Left post September 16, 1910

• John Ridgely Carter – Career FSO
  • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: August 12, 1911
  • Presented credentials: —
  • Terminated mission: —

• John W. Garrett – Career FSO
  • Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: December 14, 1911
  • Presented credentials: February 29, 1912
  • Terminated mission: Left post November 22, 1913

Note: In 1914 the office of Envoy was upgraded to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

• Frederic Jesup Stimson
  Frederic Jesup Stimson
  Frederic Jesup Stimson was the United States Ambassador to Argentina 1915–1921. He was the first U.S. envoy to Argentina to hold the title Ambassador, the previous envoys having held the title Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary...
  
   – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: October 1, 1914
  • Presented credentials: January 8, 1915
  • Terminated mission: Left post April 21, 1921

• John W. Riddle
  John W. Riddle
  John Wallace Riddle was an American diplomat. His first diplomatic assignment was as agent/consul general in Egypt . He was then sent to Romania and Serbia in 1905 to serve as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary , followed by postings as U.S. ambassador to Russia and ambassador to...
  
   – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: November 18, 1921
  • Presented credentials: March 8, 1922
  • Terminated mission: Left post May 28, 1925

• Peter Augustus Jay
  Peter Augustus Jay
  Peter Augustus Jay was the eldest son of New York's only native Founding Father, John Jay. Peter was one of 6 children born to John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay, and one of 2 boys with 4 sisters: Susan ; Maria , Ann and Sarah Louisa Peter Augustus Jay (January 24, 1776 - February 22, 1843) was...
  
   – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: March 18, 1925
  • Presented credentials: September 24, 1925
  • Terminated mission: Left post December 30, 1926

• Robert Woods Bliss – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: February 17, 1927
  • Presented credentials: September 9, 1927
  • Terminated mission: Left post April 29, 1933

• Alexander W. Weddell
  Alexander W. Weddell
  Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was an American diplomat. He served as United States ambassador to Argentina from 1933 to 1939 and to Spain from 1939 to 1942....
  
   – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: June 3, 1933
  • Presented credentials: September 18, 1933
  • Terminated mission: Left post October 29, 1938

• Norman Armour
  Norman Armour
  Norman Armour was a career United States diplomat who The New York Times once called "the perfect diplomat"...
  
   – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: May 18, 1939
  • Presented credentials: June 19, 1939
  • Terminated mission: Recalled June 27, 1944; left post June 29, 1944

Note: Normal relations between the U.S. and Argentina were interrupted Feb 24, 1944; the U.S. did not recognize the new government of Argentina and recalled Ambassador Armour on June 27, 1944. Relations were restored when the U.S. recognized the Farrell government on April 19, 1945.

Note: The name of the chargé d'affaires a.i. or other chief of mission who served in the interim between Ambassadors Armour and Braden is not recorded.

• Spruille Braden
  Spruille Braden
  Spruille Braden was an American diplomat, businessman, lobbyist, and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as the ambassador of various Latin American countries, and as Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs...
  
   – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: May 8, 1945
  • Presented credentials: May 21, 1945
  • Terminated mission: Left post September 23, 1945

• George S. Messersmith
  George S. Messersmith
  George Strausser Messersmith was a United States ambassador to Austria, Cuba, Mexico and Argentina. Messersmith also served as the head of the U.S. Consulate in Nazi Germany during the rise of the Nazi party....
  
   – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: April 12, 1946
  • Presented credentials: May 23, 1946
  • Terminated mission: Left post June 12, 1947

• James Bruce – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: July 12, 1947
  • Presented credentials: August 21, 1947
  • Terminated mission: Left post August 20, 1949

• Stanton Griffis – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: September 22, 1949
  • Presented credentials: November 17, 1949
  • Terminated mission: Left post September 23, 1950

• Ellsworth Bunker
  Ellsworth Bunker
  Ellsworth F. Bunker was an American businessman and diplomat...
  
   – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: March 13, 1951
  • Presented credentials: May 8, 1951
  • Terminated mission: Left post March 12, 1952

• Albert F. Nufer – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: May 29, 1952
  • Presented credentials: August 14, 1952
  • Terminated mission: Left post May 12, 1956

• Willard L. Beaulac
  Willard L. Beaulac
  Willard Leon Beaulac was a United States Diplomat. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, Colombia, Cuba, Chile and Argentina.-Biography:Ambassador Beaulac was born Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and was a graduate of Georgetown University ....
  
   – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: May 10, 1956
  • Presented credentials: June 1, 1956
  • Terminated mission: Left post August 2, 1960

• Roy R. Rubottom, Jr.
  Roy R. Rubottom, Jr.
  Roy Richard "Dick" Rubottom, Jr. was a United States diplomat most notable for being Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1957 to 1960, a post in which he played a major role in engineering the United States' response to the Cuban Revolution.-Early years, 1912—1947:Rubottom...
  
   – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: August 27, 1960
  • Presented credentials: October 20, 1960
  • Terminated mission: Left post October 19, 1961

• Robert M. McClintock – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: February 6, 1962
  • Presented credentials: February 14, 1962
  • Terminated mission: Left post May 10, 1964

• Edwin M. Martin
  Edwin M. Martin
  Edwin McCammon Martin was an official in the United States Department of State and a United States diplomat.-Biography:Edwin M. Martin was born in Dayton, Ohio, on May 21, 1908. He was educated at Northwestern University, receiving a B.A. in 1929...
  
   – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: January 29, 1964
  • Presented credentials: June 11, 1964
  • Terminated mission: Left post January 5, 1968

• Carter L. Burgess – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: July 24, 1968
  • Presented credentials: August 21, 1968
  • Terminated mission: Left post March 14, 1969

• John Davis Lodge
  John Davis Lodge
  John Davis Lodge , was an American politician, and 79th Governor of Connecticut from 1951 to 1955. He was also an actor and U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Argentina and Switzerland.-Early life:Lodge was born in Washington, D.C....
  
   – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: May 27, 1969
  • Presented credentials: July 23, 1969
  • Terminated mission: Left post November 10, 1973

• Robert C. Hill
  Robert C. Hill
  Robert Charles Hill was a United States diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to several Latin American countries and Spain throughout his career...
  
   – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: December 19, 1973
  • Presented credentials: February 15, 1974
  • Terminated mission: Left post May 10, 1977

• Raul Hector Castro
  Raúl Héctor Castro
  Raul Hector Castro is a Mexican-born American politician. He has served in both elected and non-elected public offices, including United States Ambassador and the 14th Governor of Arizona. He was the first Mexican American to be elected governor of Arizona...
  
   – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: September 15, 1977
  • Presented credentials: November 16, 1977
  • Terminated mission: Left post July 30, 1980

• Harry W. Shlaudeman
  Harry W. Shlaudeman
  -Biography:Harry W. Shlaudeman was born in Los Angeles on May 17, 1926. During World War II, he served in the United States Marine Corps from 1944 to 1946. After the war, he attended Stanford University, receiving his B.A. in 1952....
  
   – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: October 2, 1980
  • Presented credentials: November 4, 1980
  • Terminated mission: Left post August 26, 1983

• Frank V. Ortiz, Jr.
  Frank V. Ortiz, Jr.
  Frank Vincent Ortiz, Jr. , was an American diplomat. He was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, and Grenada as well as Special Representative to Dominica, Saint Lucia, Antigua, St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, and St...
  
   – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: November 18, 1983
  • Presented credentials: November 29, 1983
  • Terminated mission: Left post August 29, 1986

• Theodore E. Gildred – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: October 16, 1986
  • Presented credentials: November 6, 1986
  • Terminated mission: Left post May 31, 1989

• Terence A. Todman – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: April 20, 1989
  • Presented credentials: June 13, 1989
  • Terminated mission: Left post June 28, 1993

• James Richard Cheek
  James Richard Cheek
  James Richard Cheek was an United States diplomat.Born in Decatur, Georgia, Cheek served as United States Ambassador to Sudan in 1989 and later was the United States Ambassador to Argentina from 1993-1996. He lived in Little Rock, Arkansas.-Notes:...
  
   – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: May 28, 1993
  • Presented credentials: July 19, 1993
  • Terminated mission: Left post December 18, 1996

• Ronald D. Godard – Career FSO
  • Chargé d'Affaires a.i. December 1996–October 1997

• Manuel Rocha
  Manuel Rocha
  -Background:Rocha graduated from Taft School in 1969 and graduated from Yale University cum laude in 1973. He received a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University in 1976 and a Master of Arts in international relations from Georgetown University in 1978.Rocha began his...
  
   – Career FSO
  • Chargé d'Affaires a.i. October 1997–July 2000

• Hassan Nemazee
  Hassan Nemazee
  Hassan Nemazee styled himself as a multimillionaire Iranian-American investment banker. Nemazee was born in Washington, D.C. on January 27, 1950 and attended Landon School, graduating in 1968. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors from Harvard University in 1972. Nemazee has not...
  
   – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: —
  • Presented credentials: —
  • Terminated mission: —

• James Donald Walsh – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: June 14, 2000
  • Presented credentials: July 3, 2000
  • Terminated mission: Left post May 21, 2003

• Lino Gutierrez
  Lino Gutierrez
  Lino Gutierrez is an American diplomat. He served as Ambassador to Argentina from September 2003 through July 2006. He was succeeded by Earl Anthony Wayne...
  
   – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: April 16, 2003
  • Presented credentials: October 15, 2003
  • Terminated mission: Left post April 8, 2006

• Earl Anthony Wayne
  Earl Anthony Wayne
  Earl Anthony Wayne is a United States international policy maker and diplomat. In June, 2011, Wayne was nominated by President Barack Obama to be ambassador to Mexico.-Life and education:...
  
   – Career FSO
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: August 1, 2006
  • Presented credentials: January 19, 2007
  • Terminated mission: April 6, 2009

• Vilma Socorro Martínez
  Vilma Socorro Martínez
  Vilma Socorro Martínez is an American lawyer, civil rights activist and diplomat currently serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Argentina. She is the first woman to hold this position.-Life and career:...
  
   – Political appointee
  • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  • Appointed: July 24, 2009
  • Presented credentials: September 18, 2009
  • Terminated mission: Incumbent

See also

• Argentina – United States relations
• Foreign relations of Argentina
  Foreign relations of Argentina
  This article deals with the diplomatic affairs, foreign policy and international relations of Argentina.At the political level, these matters are officially handled by the Ministry of Foreign Relations, also known as the Cancillería, which answers to the President...
  
  
• Ambassadors of the United States

External links

• United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Argentina
• United States Department of State: Argentina
• United States Embassy in Buenos Aires