United States Ambassador to Afghanistan

United States Ambassador to Afghanistan

This is a list of United States ambassadors to Afghanistan. Prior to 1948, Afghanistan was not considered important enough to have a full ambassador, so a Minister Plenipotentiary was sent instead. From 1979 to 1989, Afghanistan did not have an official ambassador and was instead served by a lower-ranking chargé daffaires. From 1981 to 2002, there was no official embassy in Kabul due to internal security problems eventually including the Taliban government.

*William H. Hornibrook (19351936) - Minister Plenipotentiary
*Louis G. Dreyfus, Jr. (19401942) - Minister Plenipotentiary
*Cornelius Van Hemert Engert (19421945) - Minister Plenipotentiary
*Ely E. Palmer (19451948) - Minister Plenipotentiary
*Louis G. Dreyfus, Jr. (19491951) - "First formal ambassador"
*George Robert Merrell (19511952)
*Angus I. Ward (19521956)
*Sheldon T. Mills (19561959)
*Henry A. Byroade (19591962)
*John M. Steeves (19621966)
*Robert G. Neumann (19661973)
*Theodore L. Eliot, Jr. (19731978)
*Adolph Dubs (19781979) - "Killed while in office."

Following the death of Mr. Dubs, there were no formal Ambassadors from the United States until after the War in Afghanistan.

*J. Bruce Amstutz (19791980) - "US Deputy Chief of Mission, then chargé daffaires"
*Hawthorne Q. Mills (19801982) - "chargé daffaires"
*Archer K. Blood - "appointed in 1982, but rejected by Afghanistan government"
*Charles F. Dunbar - (19821983) - "chargé daffaires"
*Edward Hurwitz (19831986) - "chargé daffaires"
*James Maurice Ealum (19861987) - "chargé daffaires"
*Jon D. Glassman (19871989) "chargé daffaires" - embassy closed after Soviet Union troop withdrawal"

The US government also had a chargé daffaires to the Afgan Northern Alliance government, beginning in 1989.

*Peter Tomsen (19891992) - "chargé daffaires to Northern Alliance, new post"

Post-war ambassadors:

*James F. Dobbins (2001) - "Special US Ambassador to oversee reopening of embassy, not official ambassador"
*Ryan C. Crocker (2001-2002) - "chargé daffaires before official ambassador could be chosen"
*Robert Finn (20022003)
*Zalmay Khalilzad (20032005)
*Ronald E. Neumann (20052007)
*William B. Wood (2007-present)

ee also

*United States-Afghanistan relations


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