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Ambassador of the United States to Colombia 
Seal of the United States Department of StateIncumbent
Peter Michael McKinley
since August 3, 2010Nominator Barack Obama Inaugural holder Richard C. Anderson
as Minister PlenipotentiaryFormation December 16, 1823 Website U.S. Embassy - Bogota The following is a list of Ambassadors of the United States, or other chiefs of mission, to Colombia and its predecessor states. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
Contents
Gran Colombia
The following were commissioned either Chargés d'Affaires or Ministers to Gran Colombia.
Representative Title Presentation
of CredentialsTermination
of MissionAppointed by Richard Clough Anderson, Jr. Minister Plenipotentiary December 16, 1823 July 24, 1826[1] James Monroe Beaufort T. Watts Chargé d'Affaires March 3, 1827[2] November 21, 1827 John Quincy Adams William Henry Harrison Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary February 5, 1829 September 26, 1829 Thomas P. Moore Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 26, 1829 April 16, 1833 Andrew Jackson New Granada
The following were commissioned as either Chargés d'Affaires or Ministers to New Granada.
Representative Title Presentation
of CredentialsTermination
of MissionAppointed by Robert B. McAfee Chargé d'Affaires July 1, 1833 June 20, 1837 Andrew Jackson James Semple Chargé d'Affaires April 21, 1838 March 4, 1842 Martin Van Buren William M. Blackford Chargé d'Affaires September 17, 1842 December 24, 1844 John Tyler Benjamin A. Bidlack Chargé d'Affaires December 5, 1845 February 6, 1849[1] James K. Polk Thomas M. Foote Chargé d'Affaires January 5, 1850 October 15, 1850 Zachary Taylor Yelverton P. King Chargé d'Affaires August 25, 1851 April 5, 1853 Millard Fillmore James S. Green Chargé d'Affaires December 19, 1853 August 13, 1854 Franklin Pierce James B. Bowlin Minister Resident April 10, 1855 May 20, 1857 George W. Jones Minister Resident August 29, 1859 November 4, 1861 James Buchanan United States of Colombia
The following were commissioned as Ministers to the United States of Colombia.
Representative Title Presentation
of CredentialsTermination
of MissionAppointed by Allan W. Burton Minister Resident[3] March 9, 1864 December 10, 1866 Abraham Lincoln Peter J. Sullivan Minister Resident July 25, 1867 June 26, 1869 Andrew Johnson Stephen A. Hurlbut Minister Resident November 13, 1869 April 3, 1872 Ulysses S. Grant William L. Scruggs Minister Resident July 24, 1873 October 26, 1876 Ernest Dichman Minister Resident October 4, 1878 September 21, 1881 Rutherford B. Hayes George Maney Minister Resident September 21, 1881 July 19, 1882 Chester A. Arthur William L. Scruggs Minister Resident July 19, 1882 December 4, 1884 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary December 4, 1884 December 15, 1885 Charles D. Jacob Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary January 26, 1886 May 29, 1886 Grover Cleveland Republic of Colombia
The following were commissioned as either Ministers or Ambassadors to the Republic of Colombia.
Representative Title Presentation
of CredentialsTermination
of MissionAppointed by Dabney H. Maury Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary January 20, 1887 June 22, 1889 Grover Cleveland John T. Abbott Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary June 22, 1889 July 17, 1893 Benjamin Harrison Luther F. McKinney Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary July 17, 1893 December 6, 1896 Grover Cleveland Charles Burdett Hart Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary July 19, 1897 March 19, 1903 William McKinley Arthur M. Beaupre Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary April 13, 1903 December 19, 1903 Theodore Roosevelt William W. Russell Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary December 9, 1904 May 24, 1905 John Barrett Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 27, 1905 September 24, 1906 Thomas C. Dawson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary October 16, 1907 April 25, 1909 Elliott Northcott Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 13, 1909 September 16, 1910 William H. Taft James T. DuBois Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 18, 1911 March 1, 1913 Thaddeus Austin Thompson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 30, 1913 June 26, 1916 Woodrow Wilson Hoffman Philip Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary February 22, 1919 May 29, 1922 Samuel H. Piles Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 29, 1922 September 17, 1928 Warren G. Harding Jefferson Caffery Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 28, 1928 May 20, 1933 Calvin Coolidge Sheldon Whitehouse Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary December 6, 1933 December 8, 1934 Franklin D. Roosevelt William Dawson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 6, 1935 November 16, 1937 Spruille Braden Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary February 15, 1939 March 12, 1942 Arthur Bliss Lane Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 30, 1942 October 18, 1944 John C. Wiley Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary December 16, 1944 May 3, 1947 Willard L. Beaulac Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 30, 1947 June 29, 1951 Harry S. Truman Capus M. Waynick Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 23, 1951 September 21, 1953 Rudolf E. Schoenfeld Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary January 28, 1954 January 26, 1955 Dwight D. Eisenhower Philip W. Bonsal Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 1, 1955 April 24, 1957 John M. Cabot Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 12, 1957 July 15, 1959 Dempster McIntosh Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 30, 1959 January 6, 1961 Fulton Freeman Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary June 15, 1961 March 14, 1964 John F. Kennedy Covey T. Oliver Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 13, 1964 August 29, 1966 Lyndon B. Johnson Reynold E. Carlson Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 6, 1966 June 2, 1969 Jack Hood Vaughn Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary June 9, 1969 June 25, 1970 Richard Nixon Leonard J. Saccio Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary February 24, 1971 July 12, 1973 Viron P. Vaky Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 5, 1974 June 23, 1976 Phillip V. Sanchez Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 2, 1976 April 5, 1977 Gerald Ford Diego C. Asencio Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary December 6, 1977 June 22, 1980 Jimmy Carter Thomas D. Boyatt Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary December 3, 1980 April 14, 1983 Lewis Arthur Tambs Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 2, 1983 February 15, 1985 Ronald Reagan Charles A. Gillespie, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 28, 1985 September 19, 1988 Thomas Edmund McNamara Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 4, 1988 August 14, 1991 Morris D. Busby Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 18, 1991 July 5, 1994 George H. W. Bush Myles Robert Rene Frechette Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 25, 1994 November 8, 1997 Bill Clinton Curtis W. Kamman Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary March 19, 1998 August 15, 2000 Anne W. Patterson Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 24, 2000 June 11, 2003 William B. Wood Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 13, 2003 March 12, 2007 George W. Bush William Brownfield Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 12, 2007 August 3, 2010 Peter Michael Mckinley Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 3, 2010 Incumbent Barack H. Obama See also
- Colombia – United States relations
- Foreign relations of Colombia
- Ambassadors of the United States
References
- ^ a b Died at post.
- ^ Had served as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim since June 1826.
- ^ Burton was commissioned to Granadine Confederation in 1861. Presented credentials to United States of Colombia in 1864.
- United States Department of State: Background notes on Colombia
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of State (Background Notes).
External links
- United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Colombia
- United States Department of State: Columbia
- United States Embassy in Bogota
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