List of ambassadors of the United States to Venezuela
Ambassadors

List of ambassadors of the United States to Venezuela

Section Title: Ambassadors
Table Section Text: None

Representative	Title	Presentation of Credentials	Termination of Mission	Appointed by

B.Irvine	Chargé d'Affaires, Encargado de Negocios, Agente de los Estados Unidos del Norte cerca de Venezuela	February 14, 1819	June 29, 1835	Martin Van Buren

John G. A. Williamson	Chargé d'Affaires	June 30, 1835	August 7, 1840	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	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	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

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

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	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	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	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	July 2007

Patrick Duddy	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 6, 2007	September 2008

John Caulfield	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	September 2008	June 2009

Patrick Duddy	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 2009	July 2010	Barack Obama

Phil Laidlaw	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	July 2010	July 2014

Lee McClenny	Chargé d'Affaires en pied	July 2014	Incumbent

Larry Leon Palmer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Not commissioned	—	Barack Obama

Todd D. Robinson	Chargé d'Affaires	Dec 18, 2017	May 22, 2018	Donald Trump

James B. Story	Chargé d'Affaires	July 2018	Incumbent

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