United States Ambassador to Ecuador
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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.
Ambassador Heather M. Hodges
was declared persona non grata
by the government of Ecuador and expelled from Ecuador on April 5, 2011. The expulsion was a result of the government’s displeasure over disclosures in WikiLeaks
that the ambassador had criticized police corruption
in Ecuador. (see United States diplomatic cables leak
.)
Head of Mission
In diplomatic usage, Head of Mission or Chief of Mission from the French "Chef de Mission Diplomatique" is the generic term used to refer to the head of a diplomatic representation, such as an Ambassador, High Commissioner, Nuncio, Chargé d'affaires, Permanent Representative, and sometimes to a...
, to Ecuador
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
Ambassador Heather M. Hodges
Heather M. Hodges
Heather M. Hodges is a career United States foreign service officer and ambassador. She was the United States Ambassador to Ecuador and a previous ambassador to Moldova.- Biography :...
was declared persona non grata
Persona non grata
Persona non grata , literally meaning "an unwelcome person", is a legal term used in diplomacy that indicates a proscription against a person entering the country...
by the government of Ecuador and expelled from Ecuador on April 5, 2011. The expulsion was a result of the government’s displeasure over disclosures in WikiLeaks
Wikileaks
WikiLeaks is an international self-described not-for-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources, news leaks, and whistleblowers. Its website, launched in 2006 under The Sunshine Press organisation, claimed a database of more...
that the ambassador had criticized police corruption
Police corruption
Police corruption is a specific form of police misconduct designed to obtain financial benefits, other personal gain, or career advancement for a police officer or officers in exchange for not pursuing, or selectively pursuing, an investigation or arrest....
in Ecuador. (see United States diplomatic cables leak
United States diplomatic cables leak
The United States diplomatic cables leak, widely known as Cablegate, began in February 2010 when WikiLeaks—a non-profit organization that publishes submissions from anonymous whistleblowers—began releasing classified cables that had been sent to the U.S. State Department by 274 of its consulates,...
.)
Ambassadors and chiefs of mission
| Representative | Title | Presentation of Credentials |
Termination of Mission |
Appointed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert B. McAfee Robert B. McAfee Robert Breckinridge McAfee was a Kentucky politician, and was the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky serving from 1824 to 1828.... |
Chargé d'affaires Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were... to the governments of New Granada Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the... and Ecuador with residence en Bogotá Bogotá Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district... |
1835 | 1836 | Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States . Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend , and the British at the Battle of New Orleans... |
| James Chamberlayne Pickett | Plenipotentiary for signing a Treaty of Peace and Commerce | 1838 | 1839 | Martin Van Buren Martin Van Buren Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States . Before his presidency, he was the eighth Vice President and the tenth Secretary of State, under Andrew Jackson .... |
| Van Brugh Livingston | Chargé d'affaires Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were... |
August 12, 1848 | November 12, 1849 | James K. Polk James K. Polk James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States . Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He later lived in and represented Tennessee. A Democrat, Polk served as the 17th Speaker of the House of Representatives and the 12th Governor of Tennessee... |
| John Trumbull Van Alen | Chargé d'affaires | November 19, 1849 | July 18, 1850 | Zachary Taylor Zachary Taylor Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States and an American military leader. Initially uninterested in politics, Taylor nonetheless ran as a Whig in the 1848 presidential election, defeating Lewis Cass... |
| Courtland Cushing | Chargé d'affaires | June 3, 1851 | October 12, 1853 | Millard Fillmore Millard Fillmore Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president... |
| Philo White | Minister Resident | September 2, 1854 | September 14, 1858 | Franklin Pierce Franklin Pierce Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States and is the only President from New Hampshire. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. Pierce took part in the Mexican-American War and became a brigadier general in the Army... |
| Charles R. Buckalew Charles R. Buckalew Charles Rollin Buckalew was an American lawyer and Democratic party politician from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. He served in the state senate and represented Pennsylvania in both the U.S. House and Senate. He was a graduate of Harford Academy, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, where he studied law... |
Minister Resident | September 20, 1858 | July 10, 1861 | James Buchanan James Buchanan James Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States . He is the only president from Pennsylvania, the only president who remained a lifelong bachelor and the last to be born in the 18th century.... |
| Friedrich Hassaurek Friedrich Hassaurek Friedrich Hassaurek was a United States journalist and ambassador.-Biography:He attended the Piaristen gymnasium. In the German revolutions of 1848, he served in the student legion, and was twice wounded... |
Minister Resident | July 15, 1861 | January 13, 1866 | Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and... |
| William T. Coggeshall | Minister Resident | September 20, 1866 | August 3, 1867 | Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States . As Vice-President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination. Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American... |
| David Alexander Nunn David Alexander Nunn David Alexander Nunn was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee's 8th congressional district.-Biography:... |
Minister Resident | Unknown | November 2, 1869 | Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. Under Grant's command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America... |
| E. Rumsey Wing | Minister Resident | June 23, 1870 | October 5, 1874 | |
| Christian Wullweber | Minister Resident | December 20, 1875 | September 25, 1876 | |
| Rowland B. Mahany Rowland B. Mahany Rowland Blennerhassett Mahany was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Buffalo, New York, Mahany attended the public schools, Hobart College, Geneva, New York, and Union College, Schenectady, New York.... |
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 22, 1892 | June 23, 1893 | Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States . Harrison, a grandson of President William Henry Harrison, was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at age 21, eventually becoming a prominent politician there... |
| Edward Henry Strobel Edward Henry Strobel Edward Henry Strobel was a United States diplomat and a scholar in international law.Strobel was born in Charleston, South Carolina on December 7, 1855. He was educated at Harvard College and at Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1883... |
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 15, 1894 | December 31, 1894 | Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents... |
| James D. Tillman | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 3, 1895 | December 15, 1897 | |
| Archibald J. Sampson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 16, 1897 | July 15, 1905 | William McKinley William McKinley William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States . He is best known for winning fiercely fought elections, while supporting the gold standard and high tariffs; he succeeded in forging a Republican coalition that for the most part dominated national politics until the 1930s... |
| Joseph W. J. Lee | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 30, 1905 | February 21, 1907 | Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity... |
| Williams C. Fox | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 18, 1907 | July 19, 1911 | |
| Evan E. Young | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 8, 1911 | January 29, 1912 | William Howard Taft William Howard Taft William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States... |
| Montgomery Schuyler, Jr. | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 24, 1913 | September 29, 1913 | Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913... |
| Charles S. Hartman Charles S. Hartman Charles Sampson Hartman was a U.S. Representative from Montana.Born in Monticello, Indiana, Hartman attended the public schools and Wabash College in Crawfordsville.He moved to Bozeman, Montana, in January 1882.... |
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 30, 1913 | March 20, 1922 | |
| Gerhard Adolph Bading | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 15, 1922 | November 1, 1929 | Warren G. Harding Warren G. Harding Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States . A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential self-made newspaper publisher. He served in the Ohio Senate , as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and as a U.S. Senator... |
| William Dawson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 9, 1930 | February 27, 1935 | Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business... |
| Antonio C. Gonzalez | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 7, 1935 | March 30, 1938 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war... |
| Boaz Walton Long | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 29, 1938 | April 14, 1942 | |
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization.... |
April 14, 1942 | May 1, 1943 | ||
| Robert M. Scotten | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 27, 1943 | April 17, 1947 | |
| John F. Simmons | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 16, 1947 | July 12, 1950 | Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his... |
| Paul C. Daniels | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 25, 1951 | July 9, 1953 | |
| Sheldon T. Mills | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 19, 1954 | April 6, 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army... |
| Christian M. Ravndal | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 29, 1956 | August 1, 1960 | |
| Maurice M. Bernbaum | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 16, 1960 | January 14, 1965 | |
| Wymberley DeRenne Coerr | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 24, 1965 | October 7, 1967 | Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States... |
| Edson O. Sessions | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 26, 1968 | February 15, 1970 | |
| Findley Burns, Jr. Findley Burns, Jr. Findley Burns, Jr. was an American Foreign Service officer, Vice Consul, and Ambassador.... |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 9, 1970 | May 18, 1973 | Richard Nixon Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under... |
| Robert C. Brewster | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 1, 1973 | April 8, 1976 | |
| Richard J. Bloomfield | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 31, 1976 | January 21, 1978 | Gerald Ford Gerald Ford Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974... |
| Raymond E. Gonzalez | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 31, 1978 | January 28, 1982 | Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office... |
| Samuel Friedlander Hart | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 22, 1982 | April 5, 1985 | Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor.... |
| Fernando Enrique Rondon | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 8, 1985 | July 26, 1988 | |
| Richard Newton Holwill | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 27, 1988 | November 25, 1989 | |
| Paul C. Lambert | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 2, 1990 | February 1, 1992 | George H. W. Bush George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to... |
| James F. Mack | Chargé d'affaires ad interim | February 1, 1992 | November 16, 1993 | |
| Peter F. Romero Peter F. Romero Peter F. Romero previously served as the United States Ambassador to Ecuador and as Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate and was appointed by President Bill Clinton in the Fall of 1993.... |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 16, 1993 | July 25, 1996 | Bill Clinton Bill Clinton William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation... |
| Leslie M. Alexander | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 5, 1996 | June 11, 1999 | |
| Gwen C. Clare | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 24, 1999 | July 3, 2001 | |
| Kristie A. Kenney Kristie Kenney Kristie Anne Kenney is an American diplomat and the current United States Ambassador to Thailand. She previously served as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines. She is the first female U.S. Ambassador to both countries... |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 25, 2002 | July 6, 2005 | George W. Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000.... |
| Linda Jewell | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 29, 2005 | Unknown | |
| Heather M. Hodges Heather M. Hodges Heather M. Hodges is a career United States foreign service officer and ambassador. She was the United States Ambassador to Ecuador and a previous ambassador to Moldova.- Biography :... |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 2, 2008 | April 5, 2011 | |
| Andrew Bowen | Chargé d’Affaires a.i. | April 15, 2011 | July 2011 | |
| Timothy Zúñiga-Brown | Chargé d’Affaires a.i. | July 2011 | Incumbent |
See also
- Ecuador – United States relations
- Foreign relations of EcuadorForeign relations of EcuadorThis article deals with the diplomatic affairs, foreign policy and international relations of Ecuador.Ecuador is a founding member of the UN and a member of many of its specialized agencies; it is also a member of the OAS...
- Ambassadors of the United States