Ambassadors of The United States - Selected Past Ambassadors

Selected Past Ambassadors

Well-known past ambassadors from the United States

Ambassador Host country or organization
John Adams United Kingdom, Netherlands
John Quincy Adams United Kingdom, Russia, Netherlands, Germany
Madeleine K. Albright United Nations
Shirley Temple Black Czechoslovakia, Ghana
James Buchanan Russia, United Kingdom
George H. W. Bush United Nations
Frederick Douglass Haiti
Lawrence Eagleburger Yugoslavia
Benjamin Franklin France, Sweden
John Kenneth Galbraith India
W. Averell Harriman Soviet Union, United Kingdom
Pamela Harriman France
Patricia Roberts Harris Luxembourg
William Henry Harrison Colombia
Ambassador Host country or organization
John Jay Spain
Thomas Jefferson France
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. United Kingdom
Jeane Kirkpatrick United Nations
Robert Todd Lincoln United Kingdom
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. United Nations, Germany
Clare Boothe Luce Italy
George S. McGovern United Nations agencies in Rome
Walter F. Mondale Japan
James Monroe France, United Kingdom
Daniel Patrick Moynihan India, United Nations
Donald Rumsfeld NATO
Martin Van Buren United Kingdom
Paul Wolfowitz Indonesia
Charles W. Yost Laos, Syria, Morocco, United Nations

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