United States Ambassador to Turkey

The United States of America has maintained many high level contacts with Turkey since the seventeenth century.

Ottoman Empire

Chargé d'Affaires

*George W. Erving (pre 1831)
*David Porter (1831-1839)

Minister Resident

*David Porter (1839-1843)
*Dabney S. Carr (1843-1849)
*George Perkins Marsh (1849-1853)
*Carroll Spence (1953-1857)
*James Williams (1858-1861)
*Edward Joy Morris (1861-1870)
*Joseph J. Stewart (1870)
*Wayne MacVeagh (1870-1871)
*George H. Boker (1871-1875)
*Horace Maynard (1875-1880)
*James Longstreet (1880-1881)

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

*Lewis Wallace (1881-1885)
*Samuel S. Cox (1885-1886)
*Oscar S. Straus (1887-1889)
*Solomon Hirsch (1889-1892)
*David P. Thompson (1892-1893)
*Alexander W. Terrell (1893-1897)
*James Burrill Angell (1897-1898)
*Oscar S. Straus (1898-1899)
*John G. A. Leishman (1899-1901)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

*John G. A. Leishman (1901-1909)
*Oscar S. Straus (1909-1910)
*William Woodville Rockhill (1909-1913)
*Henry Morgenthau, Sr. (1913-1916)
*Abram I. Elkus (1916-1917)

=Turkish Republic=

*Joseph Grew (1927-1932)
*Charles H. Sherrill (1932-1933)
*Robert P. Skinner (1933-1936)
*John Van A. MacMurray (1936-1941)
*Laurence A. Steinhardt (1941-1945)
*Edwin C. Wilson (1945-1948)
*George Wadsworth (1948-1952)
*George C. McGhee (1952-1953)
*Avra M. Warren (1953-1956)
*Fletcher Warren (1956-1960)
*Raymond A. Hare (1960-1965)
*Parker T. Hart (1965-1968)
*Robert Komer (1968-1969)
*William J. Handley (1969-1973)
*William B. Macomber, Jr. (1973-1977)
*Ronald I. Spiers (1977-1980)
*James W. Spain (1980-1981)
*Robert Strausz-Hupe (1981-1989)
*Morton I. Abramowitz (1989-1991)
*Richard Clark Barkley (1991-1994)
*Marc Grossman (1994-1997)
*Mark Robert Parris (1997-2000)
*W. Robert Pearson (2000-2003)
*Eric S. Edelman (2003-2005)
*Ross Wilson (2005-present)

Gallery

External links

* [http://ankara.usembassy.gov/chief_of_mission.html Former Chiefs of Mission 1778-2005]