List of ambassadors of the United States to Venezuela
























Ambassador of the United States to Venezuela

U.S. Department of State official seal.svg
Seal of the United States Department of State


Todd D. Robinson.jpg

Incumbent
Todd D. Robinson
as Chargé d’Affaires

since December 2017
Nominator The President of the United States
Inaugural holder
John G. A. Williamson
as Chargé d'Affaires
Formation June 30, 1835
Website U.S. Embassy - Caracas

The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Venezuela. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. The ambassadors are posted at the Embassy of the United States, Caracas.




Contents






  • 1 Ambassadors


  • 2 See also


  • 3 References


  • 4 External links





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Representative
Title
Presentation
of Credentials
Termination
of Mission
Appointed by

John G. A. Williamson

Chargé d'Affaires
June 30, 1835
August 7, 1840[1]

Andrew Jackson

A. A. Hall
Chargé d'Affaires
September 22, 1841
November 29, 1844

John Tyler

Vespasian Ellis
Chargé d'Affaires
November 29, 1844
August 1, 1845

Benjamin G. Shields
Chargé d'Affaires
August 1, 1845
January 2, 1850

James K. Polk

I. Nevitt Steele
Chargé d'Affaires
January 7, 1850
October 18, 1853

Zachary Taylor

Charles Eames
Chargé d'Affaires
May 23, 1854
September 2, 1854

Franklin Pierce

Minister Resident
September 2, 1854
September 14, 1858

Edward A. Turpin
Minister Resident
September 21, 1858
November 16, 1861

James Buchanan

Henry T. Blow
Minister Resident
June 8, 1861[2]
February 22, 1862

Abraham Lincoln

Erastus D. Culver
Minister Resident
October 7, 1862
May 17, 1866

James Wilson
Minister Resident
October 10, 1866
August 8, 1867[1]

Andrew Johnson

Thomas N. Stilwell
Minister Resident
December 16, 1867
June 7, 1868

James R. Partridge
Minister Resident
July 8, 1869
May 9, 1870

Ulysses S. Grant

William A. Pile
Minister Resident
October 9, 1871
January 9, 1874

Thomas Russell
Minister Resident
July 4, 1874
January 29, 1877[3]

Jehu Baker
Minister Resident
March 18, 1878
September 5, 1881

Rutherford B. Hayes

George W. Carter
Minister Resident
September 1881
May 16, 1882

Chester A. Arthur

Jehu Baker
Minister Resident
May 16, 1882
July 7, 1884

Rutherford B. Hayes[4]
Minister Resident/Consul General
July 7, 1884
June 20, 1885

Chester A. Arthur

Charles L. Scott
Minister Resident/Consul General
June 24, 1885
September 18, 1888

Grover Cleveland

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

Frank C. Partridge
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
March 4, 1893
January 9, 1894

Grover Cleveland

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
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
October 6, 1897
March 25, 1901[5]

William McKinley

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

Jacob Sleeper
Chargé d'Affaires ad interim[6]
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
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

Willis C. Cook
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
February 1, 1922
May 7, 1929

Warren G. Harding

George T. Summerlin
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
February 21, 1930
January 15, 1935

Herbert Hoover

Meredith Nicholson
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
April 22, 1935
April 14, 1938

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Antonio C. Gonzalez
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
May 18, 1938
February 8, 1939

Frank P. Corrigan

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
August 14, 1939
September 5, 1947

Walter J. Donnelly
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
December 1, 1947
September 2, 1950

Harry S. Truman

Norman Armour
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

Edward J. Sparks
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
March 19, 1958
April 15, 1961

Teodoro Moscoso
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
May 23, 1961
November 21, 1961

John F. Kennedy

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

Robert McClintock
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
July 7, 1970
March 14, 1975

Richard Nixon

Harry W. Shlaudeman
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
May 9, 1975
May 14, 1976

Gerald Ford

Viron P. Vaky
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
July 26, 1976
June 24, 1978

William H. Luers
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
October 9, 1978
June 28, 1982

Jimmy Carter

George W. Landau
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
August 25, 1982
June 4, 1985

Ronald Reagan

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

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
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
October 1, 1993
May 16, 1996

Bill Clinton

John F. Keane[7]
Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
April 1996
May 1997

John Francis Maisto
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
March 21, 1997
August 7, 2000

Donna Jean Hrinak
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
August 25, 2000
January 23, 2002

Charles S. Shapiro
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
March 19, 2002
August 2004

George W. Bush

William Brownfield
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
August 27, 2004[8]
July 2007

Patrick Duddy[9]
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
August 6, 2007[10]
September 2008[11]

John Caulfield
Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
September 2008[12]
June 2009 [13]

Patrick Duddy[9]
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
June 2009 [13]
July 2010

Barack Obama
Phil Laidlaw
Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
July 2010 [14]
July 2014
 
Lee McClenny
Chargé d'Affaires en pied
July 2014 [15]

Incumbent
 

Larry Leon Palmer[16]
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Not commissioned


Barack Obama

Todd D. Robinson
Chargé d'Affaires
Dec 18, 2017

Incumbent

Donald Trump


See also



  • United States – Venezuela relations

  • Foreign relations of Venezuela

  • Ambassadors of the United States



References


Specific




  1. ^ ab Died at post


  2. ^ Never presented credentials


  3. ^ Venezuelan government refused to have further dealings with him.


  4. ^ Because Baker had not presented a letter of recall in 1881, he resumed his functions as Minister Resident on May 16, 1882 without reaccreditation under his original appointment.


  5. ^ Recall requested by Venezuelan government


  6. ^ The U.S. severed relations with Venezuela on June 20, 1908


  7. ^ "US Ambassador to Venezuela". NNDB. 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-27..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  8. ^ Date of Brownfield’s appointment, rather than of Presentation of Credentials.


  9. ^ ab Ambassador Duddy was declared persona non grata and expelled by the Venezuelan government in September 2008. He was returned to his post by mutual agreement of the U.S. and Venezuelan governments in 2009. Duddy completed his tour in July 2010. "Background Note: Venezuela". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2011-07-04.


  10. ^ Date of Duddy’s swearing in, rather than of Presentation of Credentials.


  11. ^ "Estados Unidos expulsam embaixador venezuelano". Público. 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-12.


  12. ^ http://venezuela.usembassy.gov/?b=14&lang=en


  13. ^ ab "Patrick Duddy". United States Department of State. Archived from the original on May 28, 2010. Retrieved April 28, 2010.


  14. ^ http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110101/D9KFO2BG0.html


  15. ^ "U.S. Re-Establishing Direct Diplomatic Relations With Venezuela - More 'Productive' That Way". Fox News Latino. 2014-07-10. Retrieved 2016-11-23.


  16. ^ On June 28, 2010, President Obama had nominated Ambassador Palmer for the post and the government of Venezuela had agreed, but December 20, 2010 the Venezuelan government revoked agreement for Ambassador-designate Palmer, which had been issued in May. "Background Note: Venezuela". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2011-07-04.



General


  • United States Department of State: Background notes on Venezuela


  •  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Department of State website https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/index.htm (U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets).



External links



  • United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Venezuela

  • United States Department of State: Venezuela

  • United States Embassy in Caracus









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