United States Ambassador to Venezuela

The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.

Ambassadors

Representative	Title	Presentation of Credentials	Termination of Mission	Appointed by
John G. A. Williamson	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...	June 30, 1835	August 7, 1840	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...
A. A. Hall	Chargé d'Affaires	September 22, 1841	November 29, 1844	John Tyler John Tyler John Tyler was the tenth President of the United States . A native of Virginia, Tyler served as a state legislator, governor, U.S. representative, and U.S. senator before being elected Vice President . He was the first to succeed to the office of President following the death of a predecessor...
Vespasian Ellis	Chargé d'Affaires	November 29, 1844	August 1, 1845
Benjamin G. Shields Benjamin Glover Shields Benjamin Glover Shields was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama. He was born in Abbeville, South Carolina....	Chargé d'Affaires	August 1, 1845	January 2, 1850	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...
I. Nevitt Steele	Chargé d'Affaires	January 7, 1850	October 18, 1853	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...
Charles Eames	Chargé d'Affaires	May 23, 1854	September 2, 1854	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 Eames	Minister Resident	September 2, 1854	September 14, 1858
Edward A. Turpin	Minister Resident	September 21, 1858	November 16, 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....
Henry T. Blow Henry Taylor Blow Henry Taylor Blow was a two-term U.S. Representative from Missouri and an ambassador to both Venezuela and Brazil....	Minister Resident	June 8, 1861	February 22, 1862	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...
Erastus D. Culver Erastus D. Culver Erastus Dean Culver was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Champlain in Washington County, New York, Culver was graduated from the University of Vermont at Burlington in 1826.He studied law....	Minister Resident	October 7, 1862	May 17, 1866
James Wilson	Minister Resident	October 10, 1866	August 8, 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...
Thomas N. Stilwell Thomas N. Stilwell Thomas Neel Stilwell was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born in Stilwell, Ohio, he attended Oxford and College Hill Colleges, where he studied law....	Minister Resident	December 16, 1867	June 7, 1868
James R. Partridge	Minister Resident	July 8, 1869	May 9, 1870	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...
William A. Pile William A. Pile William Anderson Pile was a nineteenth century politician and minister from Missouri, as well as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was Governor of New Mexico Territory from 1869 to 1871. William was one half Native American , most likely Choctaw...	Minister Resident	October 9, 1871	January 9, 1874
Thomas Russell	Minister Resident	July 4, 1874	January 29, 1877
Jehu Baker Jehu Baker Jehu Baker was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born near Lexington, Kentucky, Baker moved with his father to Lebanon, Illinois, in 1829....	Minister Resident	March 18, 1878	September 5, 1881	Rutherford B. Hayes Rutherford B. Hayes Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States . As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution...
George W. Carter	Minister Resident	September 1881	May 16, 1882	Chester A. Arthur Chester A. Arthur Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st President of the United States . Becoming President after the assassination of President James A. Garfield, Arthur struggled to overcome suspicions of his beginnings as a politician from the New York City Republican machine, succeeding at that task by embracing...
Jehu Baker Jehu Baker Jehu Baker was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born near Lexington, Kentucky, Baker moved with his father to Lebanon, Illinois, in 1829....	Minister Resident	May 16, 1882	July 7, 1884	Rutherford B. Hayes Rutherford B. Hayes Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States . As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution...
	Minister Resident/Consul General	July 7, 1884	June 20, 1885	Chester A. Arthur Chester A. Arthur Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st President of the United States . Becoming President after the assassination of President James A. Garfield, Arthur struggled to overcome suspicions of his beginnings as a politician from the New York City Republican machine, succeeding at that task by embracing...
Charles L. Scott Charles L. Scott Charles Lewis Scott is a former American Democratic politician from California.-Biography:Charles L. Scott was born January 23, 1827 in Richmond, Virginia. His father was Robert G. Scott, well known attorney and politition of Richmond VA who was born in McIntosh Co. GA and died in AL. His mother...	Minister Resident/Consul General	June 24, 1885	September 18, 1888	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...
	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 18, 1888	January 18, 1889
William L. Scruggs	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 30, 1889	December 15, 1892	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...
Frank C. Partridge Frank C. Partridge Frank Charles Partridge was a United States Senator from Vermont.- Biography :Frank Charles Partridge was in East Middlebury, Vermont to Charles Frank Partridge and Sarah Ann Partridge. He graduated from Amherst College in 1882 and from the Columbia University Law School in 1884, earning an LL.B...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 4, 1893	January 9, 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...
Seneca Haselton	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 14, 1894	May 1, 1895
Allen Thomas	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 22, 1895	June 30, 1897
Francis B. Loomis Francis B. Loomis Francis Butler Loomis began his career as a newspaperman in his hometown of Marietta, Ohio, editing the Marietta Leader while a student at Marietta College. A year following his graduation in 1883, Loomis became a reporter for the New York Tribune and later assumed a campaign press relations...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 6, 1897	March 25, 1901	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...
Herbert W. Bowen	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 24, 1901	May 1, 1905
William W. Russell	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 22, 1905	March 8, 1908	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...
Jacob Sleeper	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	March 8, 1908	March 15, 1909
William W. Russell	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 15, 1909	March 24, 1910	William H. Taft
John W. Garrett	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 30, 1911	October 21, 1911
Elliott Northcott Elliott Northcott Elliott Northcott was a United States federal judge.Born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, Northcott attended the University of Michigan Law School, but read law to enter the bar in 1891. He was in private practice in West Virginia from 1891 to the present. He was a City attorney of Huntington, West...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 14, 1912	June 3, 1913
Preston Buford McGoodwin	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 22, 1913	October 5, 1921	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...
Willis C. Cook Willis C. Cook Willis C. Cook was a United States diplomat and a politician in the State of South Dakota.-Biography:Cook was born Willis Clifford Cook on October 5, 1874 to Alfred and Sarah Cook in Gratiot, Wisconsin. In 1899 he married Mary Butler Miller. He died in 1942....	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 1, 1922	May 7, 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...
George T. Summerlin George T. Summerlin George Thomas Summerlin was an American army officer and diplomat from Louisiana.A captain in the US Army, he later had a long career in the state department, serving as charges d'affaires in Mexico, as well as Minister to Honduras, Venezuela and Panama. His last post was as Chief of Protocol...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 21, 1930	January 15, 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...
Meredith Nicholson Meredith Nicholson Meredith Nicholson was a best-selling author from Indiana, United States, a politician, and a diplomat.-Biography:...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 22, 1935	April 14, 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...
Antonio C. Gonzalez	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 18, 1938	February 8, 1939
Frank P. Corrigan	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....	August 14, 1939	September 5, 1947
Walter J. Donnelly	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 1, 1947	September 2, 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...
Norman Armour Norman Armour Norman Armour was a career United States diplomat who The New York Times once called "the perfect diplomat"...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 7, 1950	October 2, 1951
Fletcher Warren	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 21, 1951	March 24, 1956
Dempster McIntosh	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 26, 1956	December 27, 1957	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...
Edward J. Sparks	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 19, 1958	April 15, 1961
Teodoro Moscoso Teodoro Moscoso Teodoro Moscoso Mora , was a Puerto Rican politician known as "the architect of "Operation Bootstrap".-Early years:...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 23, 1961	November 21, 1961	John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
C. Allen Stewart	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 14, 1962	November 28, 1964
Maurice M. Bernbaum	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 4, 1965	July 9, 1969	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...
Robert McClintock	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 7, 1970	March 14, 1975	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...
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....	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 9, 1975	May 14, 1976	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...
Viron P. Vaky Viron P. Vaky Viron Peter Vaky is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Costa Rica , Colombia , and Venezuela...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 26, 1976	June 24, 1978
William H. Luers William H. Luers William Henry Luers was a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Venezuela and Czechoslovakia...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 9, 1978	June 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...
George W. Landau George W. Landau George Walter Landau is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Paraguay, Chile, and Venezuela.Landau was born March 4, 1920 in Vienna, Austria and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1943. He attended Pace College and New York University and received his A.A...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 25, 1982	June 4, 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....
Otto J. Reich	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 6, 1986	July 17, 1989
Kenneth N. Skoug, Jr.	Chargés d'Affaires ad interim	July 17, 1989	September 1990	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...
Robert C. Felder	Chargés d'Affaires ad interim	September 1990	November 19, 1990
Michael Martin Skol	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 19, 1990	August 23, 1993
Jeffrey Davidow Jeffrey Davidow Jeffrey Davidow is a career foreign service officer from the U.S. state of Virginia. Davidow has served as a member of the Senior Foreign Service, as well as having been the U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Venezuela, and Mexico....	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 1, 1993	May 16, 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...
John F. Keane John F. Keane John F. Keane is the former US Ambassador to Paraguay from 2003 to 2005. Keane was born in New York. His father is American of Austrian and Czechoslovakian descent, and his mother is Dutch-American. Keane had voted John Kerry for president but again lost to George W. Bush at the end. John married...	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	April 1996	May 1997
John Francis Maisto John Maisto John Francis Maisto is a U.S. former foreign service officer and former ambassador. he was the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States , the U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela 1997–2000 and the Ambassador to Nicaragua 1993–1996.Maisto attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 21, 1997	August 7, 2000
Donna Jean Hrinak Donna Hrinak Donna Jean Hrinak is the current president of Boeing Brazil, since September 2011. Prior to that, in 2008 she joined PepsiCo where she was vice president of global public policy and government affairs. Prior to that she worked for Kraft Foods, where she was corporate affairs director for Latin...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 25, 2000	January 23, 2002
Charles S. Shapiro Charles S. Shapiro Charles Samuel Shapiro is an American diplomat and a former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela. He went on to become Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the State Department from 2007 to 2009, and now heads its free trade agreement task force.Some supporters of president Hugo Chávez accuse Shapiro...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 19, 2002	August 2004	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....
William Brownfield William Brownfield William R. Brownfield is the current Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs as of January 10, 2011. . He has previously served as U.S. Ambassador to Chile, Venezuela, and Colombia....	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 27, 2004	July 2007
Patrick Duddy Patrick Duddy Patrick Duddy is the United States Ambassador to Venezuela. He served from August 6, 2007 to September 11, 2008, during the Bush Administration, was expelled by Venezeulan President Hugo Chavez, and eight months later was returned as Ambassador by the Obama Administration...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 6, 2007	September 2008
John Caulfield	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	September 2008	June 2009
Patrick Duddy Patrick Duddy Patrick Duddy is the United States Ambassador to Venezuela. He served from August 6, 2007 to September 11, 2008, during the Bush Administration, was expelled by Venezeulan President Hugo Chavez, and eight months later was returned as Ambassador by the Obama Administration...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 2009	July 2010	Barack Obama Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
John Caulfield	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	July 2010	Incumbent
Larry Leon Palmer Larry Leon Palmer Larry Leon Palmer is a United States diplomat and a former United States Ambassador to Honduras . He has been the President of the Inter-American Foundation since 2005.-Background:...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Not commissioned	—	Barack Obama Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

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