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This is a list of Ambassadors of the United States to Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

.

The United States first established diplomatic relations with Egypt in 1848, when President 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...

appointed Daniel Smith McCauley as the first envoy to Egypt with the title Consul General. McCauley and his family were transported to Egypt aboard the USS Constitution

USS Constitution

USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States of America, she is the world's oldest floating commissioned naval vessel...

in 1849.

Relations between Egypt and the United States have been continuous since 1848, except for the period between 1967 and 1974. The then United Arab Republic

United Arab Republic

The United Arab Republic , often abbreviated as the U.A.R., was a sovereign union between Egypt and Syria. The union began in 1958 and existed until 1961, when Syria seceded from the union. Egypt continued to be known officially as the "United Arab Republic" until 1971. The President was Gamal...

severed relations with the U.S. following the 1967 Arab–Israeli War; Egypt restored relations following the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.

The United States Embassy in Egypt is located in Cairo

Cairo

Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

Ambassadors

Daniel Smith McCauley
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: August 14, 1848
- Presented credentials: March 17, 1849
- Terminated mission: Died at post October 24, 1852

Richard B. Jones
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: December 28, 1852
- Presented credentials: May 7, 1853
- Terminated mission: Superseded by his successor, December 14, 1853

Edwin De Leon
Edwin De Leon
Edwin De Leon was a Confederate diplomat, writer, and journalist.-Biography:De Leon was born in Columbia, South Carolina of parents Mordecai Hendricks De Leon and Rebecca Lopez...
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: May 24, 1853
- Presented credentials: December 14, 1853
- Terminated mission: Relinquished charge March 4, 1861

William Sydney Thayer
- Title: Consul General
- Appointed: March 20, 1861
- Presented credentials: Unknown. Assumed charge July 1, 1861
- Terminated mission: Died at post April 10, 1864

Charles Hale
Charles Hale
Charles Hale of Boston was a legislator in the Massachusetts state House and Senate intermittently between 1855 and 1877. He was house speaker in 1859. In the 1860s he lived in Cairo, Egypt, as the American consul-general...
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: May 18, 1864
- Presented credentials: About October 15, 1864
- Terminated mission: Presented recall, May 23, 1870

George H. Butler
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: March 15, 1870
- Presented credentials: June 2, 1870
- Terminated mission: Left Egypt July 16, 1872

Richard Beardsley
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: July 23, 1872
- Presented credentials: September 24, 1872
- Terminated mission: Died at post January 23, 1876

Note: President 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...

appointed Frederick Morley to the post on February 14, 1876 but Morley declined the appointment.

Elbert E. Farman
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: March 27, 1876
- Presented credentials: July 17, 1876
- Terminated mission: Left post May 17, 1881

Simon Wolf
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: June 30, 1881
- Presented credentials: October 22, 1881
- Terminated mission: Left post March 27, 1882

George P. Pomeroy
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: December 16, 1882
- Presented crJuly 1, 1882edentials:
- Terminated mission: Left post July 20, 1884

John Cardwell
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: October 2, 1885
- Presented credentials: April 19, 1886
- Terminated mission: Left Egypt October 7, 1889

Eugene Schuyler
Eugene Schuyler
Eugene Schuyler was a nineteenth-century American scholar, writer, explorer and diplomat. Schuyler was of the first three Americans to earn a Ph.D. from an American university; and the first American translator of Ivan Turgenev and Lev Tolstoi...
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: June 26, 1889
- Presented credentials: November 23, 1889
- Terminated mission: Left post July 2, 1890

John A. Anderson
John Alexander Anderson
John Alexander Anderson was a six-term U.S. Congressman from Kansas , and the second President of Kansas State Agricultural College ....
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: February 27, 1891
- Presented credentials: July 13, 1891
- Terminated mission: Left post April 21, 1892

Edward C. Little
Edward C. Little
Edward Campbell Little was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.Born in Newark, Ohio, Little moved to Kansas in 1866 with his parents, who settled in Olathe....
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: November 15, 1892
- Presented credentials: April 22, 1893
- Terminated mission: Relinquished charge to his successor, August 22, 1893

Frederic Courtland Penfield
Frederic Courtland Penfield
-Biography:He was born in Connecticut, on April 23, 1855 to Daniel Penfield and Sophia Young. He was the United States vice consul in London in 1885.He married Katharine Albert McMurdo Welles in 1892...
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: May 13, 1893
- Presented credentials: December 11, 1893
- Terminated mission: Relinquished charge to his successor, June 17, 1897

Thomas Harrison
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: April 22, 1897
- Presented credentials: December 23, 1897
- Terminated mission: Left Egypt March 22, 1899

John G. Long
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: October 30, 1899
- Presented credentials: April 2, 1900
- Terminated mission: Left post July 15, 1903

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...
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: September 8, 1903
- Presented credentials: March 28, 1904
- Terminated mission: Left post June 9, 1905

Lewis M. Iddings
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: March 23, 1905
- Presented credentials: December 23, 1905
- Terminated mission: Left post April 14, 1910

Peter Augus Jay
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: December 21, 1909
- Presented credentials: November 28, 1910
- Terminated mission: Left post October 8, 1913

Olney Arnold – Political appointee
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: September 2, 1913
- Presented credentials: March 23, 1914
- Terminated mission: Relinquished charge, January 8, 1916

Hampson Gary – Political appointee
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: October 2, 1917
- Presented credentials: February 7, 1918
- Terminated mission: Left post December 7, 1919

Carroll Sprigg – Political appointee
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: May 11, 1920
- Presented credentials: August 2, 1920
- Terminated mission: Relinquished charge, October 31, 1921

J. Morton Howell – Political appointee
- Title: Agent/Consul General
- Appointed: October 7, 1921
- Presented credentials: Unknown
- Terminated mission: Promoted to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary June 21, 1922

J. Morton Howell – Political appointee
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: June 21, 1922
- Presented credentials: August 28, 1922
- Terminated mission: Left Egypt, July 6, 1927

Franklin Mott Gunther – Career FSO
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: April 5, 1928
- Presented credentials: July 19, 1928
- Terminated mission: Left Egypt, July 30, 1930

William M. Jardine – Political appointee
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: July 21, 1930
- Presented credentials: October 13, 1930
- Terminated mission: Left Egypt, September 5, 1933

Bert Fish
Bert Fish
Bert Fish was an American judge, real-estate operator, finance director, philanthropist, and ambassador.-Early life:Fish originally hailed from Bedford, Indiana, but moved to Volusia County, Florida in 1881...

– Political appointee
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: September 6, 1933
- Presented credentials: December 2, 1933
- Terminated mission: Left post February 28, 1941

Alexander C. Kirk
Alexander Comstock Kirk
Alexander Comstock Kirk was a United States diplomat.-Early years:Alexander Comstock Kirk was born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 26, 1888, the son of James Alexander Kirk and Clara Comstock . His family lived in Hartland, Wisconsin...

– Career FSO
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: February 11, 1941
- Presented credentials: March 29, 1941
- Terminated mission: Left post April 29, 1944

S. Pinkney Tuck – Career FSO
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: May 4, 1944
- Presented credentials: June 14, 1944
- Terminated mission: Promoted to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 19, 1946.

S. Pinkney Tuck – Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: September 19, 1946
- Presented credentials: October 10, 1946
- Terminated mission: Left post May 30, 1948

Stanton Griffis – Political appointee
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: July 7, 1948
- Presented credentials: September 2, 1948
- Terminated mission: Left post March 18, 1949

Jefferson Caffery
Jefferson Caffery
Jefferson Caffery served as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador , Colombia , Cuba , Brazil , France , and Egypt .-Career:...

– Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: July 9, 1949
- Presented credentials: September 29, 1949
- Terminated mission: Left Egypt January 11, 1955

Henry A. Byroade
Henry A. Byroade
Brigadier General Henry Alfred Byroade, United States Army of Indiana was a career diplomat who served as Ambassador to Egypt in 1955 and 1956 and later to five other countries, including United States Ambassador to Burma from September 1963 to June 1968, and served as Assistant Secretary of State...

– Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: January 24, 1955
- Presented credentials: March 7, 1955
- Terminated mission: Left post September 10, 1956

Raymond A. Hare
Raymond A. Hare
Raymond Arthur Hare was a United States diplomat, who was Director General of the United States Foreign Service from 1954 to 1956 and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from 1965 to 1966.-Early years, 1901—1939:...

– Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: August 14, 1956
- Presented credentials: September 25, 1956
- Terminated mission: Recommissioned and reaccredited to the United Arab Republic on March 10, 1958, after formation of the UAR.

Note: Egypt and Syria incorporated themselves into United Arab Republic
United Arab Republic
The United Arab Republic , often abbreviated as the U.A.R., was a sovereign union between Egypt and Syria. The union began in 1958 and existed until 1961, when Syria seceded from the union. Egypt continued to be known officially as the "United Arab Republic" until 1971. The President was Gamal...

on February 22, 1958. Subsequent ambassadors were commissioned to the UAR until 1967. Syria seceded from the UAR in September 1961 but Egypt continued to use the UAR name until 1971.

Raymond A. Hare
Raymond A. Hare
Raymond Arthur Hare was a United States diplomat, who was Director General of the United States Foreign Service from 1954 to 1956 and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from 1965 to 1966.-Early years, 1901—1939:...

– Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: March 10, 1958
- Presented credentials: March 19, 1958
- Terminated mission: Left post December 18, 1959

G. Frederick Reinhardt
G. Frederick Reinhardt
George Frederick "Fred" Reinhardt was an American diplomat during the middle third of the 20th century.He was born in Berkeley, California, and matriculated at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, graduating in 1933. Reinhardt was the U.S...

– Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: January 27, 1960
- Presented credentials: March 22, 1960
- Terminated mission: Left post May 6, 1961

John S. Badeau – Political appointee
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: May 29, 1961
- Presented credentials: July 19, 1961
- Terminated mission: Left post June 9, 1964

Lucius D. Battle
Lucius D. Battle
Lucius Durham Battle , known as Luke Battle, was a career Foreign Service officer who served with distinction in Washington, Europe and the Middle East.-Early life:...

– Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: July 31, 1964
- Presented credentials: September 22, 1964
- Terminated mission: Left post March 5, 1967

Note: The United Arab Republic (Egypt) severed diplomatic relations with the United States on June 6, 1967 during the Six-Day War
Six-Day War
The Six-Day War , also known as the June War, 1967 Arab-Israeli War, or Third Arab-Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967, by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt , Jordan, and Syria...

with Israel.

Richard H. Nolte
Richard Nolte
Richard H. Nolte was an American Middle East expert and diplomat. Nolte was the second director of the Institute of Current World Affairs...

– Political appointee
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: April 5, 1967
- Presented credentials: Did not present credentials
- Terminated mission: Left post June 10, 1967

Note: David G. Nes was serving as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim when the break in relations occurred. A U.S. Interests Section was established in the Spanish Embassy on June 7, 1967. Principal Officers were: Donald C. Bergus, September 1967–February 1972; Joseph N. Greene, Jr., February 1972–July 1973; Richard W. Smith, August 1973-October 1973 and Hermann F. Eilts, November 1973–February 1974.

Note: Diplomatic relations between the United States and Egypt were resumed in 1974. The U.S. embassy was reestablished on February 28, 1974, with Ambassador-designate Eilts in charge pending his nomination, commissioning, and presentation of his letter of credence.

Note: In 1971 the United Arab Republic dropped the UAR name and resumed the name Egypt. Subsequent ambassadors were commissioned to Egypt.

Hermann F. Eilts
Hermann Eilts
Hermann Frederick Eilts was a United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat. He served as an American ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, assisted Henry Kissinger's Mideast shuttle diplomacy effort, worked with Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat throughout the Camp David Accords, and dodged...

– Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: March 19, 1974
- Presented credentials: April 20, 1974
- Terminated mission: Left post May 20, 1979

Alfred L. Atherton, Jr.
Alfred Atherton
Alfred Leroy "Roy" Atherton Jr. was a United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat. He served as United States Ambassador to Egypt in 1979–1983.-Early life:...

– Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: May 17, 1979
- Presented credentials: July 2, 1979
- Terminated mission: Left post November 12, 1983

Nicholas A. Veliotes
Nicholas A. Veliotes
Nicholas Alexander Veliotes is a former United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat. He served as United States Ambassador to Jordan and Egypt...

– Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: October 7, 1983
- Presented credentials: November 24, 1983
- Terminated mission: Left post April 1, 1986

Frank G. Wisner
Frank G. Wisner
Frank George Wisner II is an American businessman and former diplomat. He is the son of Frank Wisner . On 31 January 2011, he was sent to Egypt by President Barack Obama to negotiate a resolution to the popular protests against the regime that have swept the country...

– Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: August 18, 1986
- Presented credentials: August 28, 1986
- Terminated mission: Left post June 6, 1991

Robert H. Pelletreau
Robert Pelletreau
Robert Halsey Pelletreau is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Bahrain , Tunisia , and Egypt , as well as the former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. He currently sits on the U.S. Advisory Council of Israel Policy Forum...

– Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: July 2, 1992
- Presented credentials: September 12, 1991
- Terminated mission: Left post December 11, 1993

Edward S. Walker, Jr.
Edward S. Walker, Jr.
Edward S. Walker was born in Abington, Pennsylvania. He is a former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Egypt, and the UAE and is a Middle East specialist....

– Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: May 9, 1994
- Presented credentials: July 20, 1994
- Terminated mission: Left post December 7, 1997

Daniel Charles Kurtzer
Daniel C. Kurtzer
Daniel Charles Kurtzer served as the United States ambassador to Israel from 2001 to 2005. He had been serving as U.S. ambassador to Egypt, to which post he had been appointed by Bill Clinton, when he was tapped for the Israel posting by George W. Bush.-Biography:Kurtzer's parents are Nathan and...

– Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: November 10, 1997
- Presented credentials: January 13, 1998
- Terminated mission: Left post June 22, 2001

C. David Welch – Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: July 12, 2001
- Presented credentials: September 22, 2001
- Terminated mission: Left post March 15, 2005

Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr.
Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr.
Francis J. Ricciardone is the United States ambassador to Turkey. Previously he was Deputy Ambassador at the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. He was also on leave from the U.S. Department of State as a guest scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He has served as U.S...

– Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: August 2, 2005
- Presented credentials: November 13, 2005
- Terminated mission: c. March 2008

Margaret Scobey
Margaret Scobey
Margaret Scobey is an American diplomat, and the United States Ambassador to Egypt. -Biography:She graduated from Immaculate Conception High School in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1967. She earned her B.A. and M.A. of History from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville...

– Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: March 14, 2008
- Presented credentials: June 16, 2008
- Terminated mission: June 30, 2011

Matthew H. Tueller – Career FSO
- Chargé d’Affaires a.i. June 30, 2011 – August 1, 2011

Anne W. Patterson
Anne W. Patterson
Anne Woods Patterson is an American diplomat and career Foreign Service Officer. She currently serves as the United States Ambassador to Egypt. She previously served as acting United States Ambassador to the United Nations in 2005 and as United States Ambassador to Pakistan from July 2007 to...

– Career FSO
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Appointed: July 2011
- Presented credentials: Unknown
- Terminated mission: Incumbent (since August 1, 2011)

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