List of ambassadors of the United States to Iceland
List of ambassadors

List of ambassadors of the United States to Iceland

Section Title: List of ambassadors
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#	Name	Title	Appointment	Presentation of credentials	Termination of mission	Nature of appointment	Nature of termination

1	Lincoln MacVeagh	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	8 August 1941	30 September 1941	27 June 1942	Political appointee	Left post

2	Leland Burnette Morris	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	13 August 1942	7 October 1942	10 May 1944	Career FSO	Relinquished charge

3	Louis Goethe Dreyfus, Jr.	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	21 March 1944	14 June 1944	21 October 1946	Career FSO	Left post

4	Richard P. Butrick	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	26 February 1948	29 April 1948	10 August 1949	Career FSO	Left post

5	Edward B. Lawson	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	22 July 1949	22 September 1949	29 May 1954	Career FSO	Left post

6	John Joseph Muccio	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	23 August 1954	12 October 1954	19 October 1955	Career FSO	Mission title changed

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	19 October 1955	3 November 1955	16 December 1959	Left post

7	Tyler Thompson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	27 January 1960	19 February 1960	16 April 1961	Career FSO	Left post

8	James K. Penfield	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	27 April 1961	24 May 1961	16 March 1967	Career FSO	Left post

9	Karl Fritjof Rolvaag	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	5 April 1967	9 May 1967	27 March 1969	Political appointee	Left post

10	Luther I. Replogle	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	8 July 1969	12 September 1969	15 June 1972	Political appointee	Left post

11	Frederick Irving	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	11 September 1972	11 October 1972	21 April 1976	Career FSO	Left post

12	James J. Blake	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1 July 1976	8 September 1976	29 September 1978	Career FSO	Left post

13	Richard A. Ericson, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	12 October 1978	21 November 1978	15 August 1981	Career FSO	Left post

14	Marshall Brement	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	27 July 1981	16 September 1981	1 August 1985	Career FSO	Left post

15	L. Nicholas Ruwe	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	12 July 1985	21 August 1985	7 October 1989	Political appointee	Left post

16	Charles Elvan Cobb, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	10 October 1989	8 November 1989	10 January 1992	Political appointee	Left post

17	Sigmund Rogich	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	11 May 1992	4 June 1992	14 October 1993	Political appointee	Left post

18	Parker W. Borg	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	8 October 1993	24 November 1993	13 July 1996	Career FSO	Left post

19	Day O. Mount	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	11 June 1996	3 September 1996	12 August 1999	Career FSO	Left post

20	Barbara J. Griffiths	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	9 August 1999	29 September 1999	29 July 2002	Career FSO	Left post

21	James Irvin Gadsden	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	3 October 2002	9 December 2002	14 July 2005	Career FSO	Left post

22	Carol van Voorst	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	3 January 2006	26 January 2006	30 April 2009	Career FSO	Left post

23	Luis E. Arreaga	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	10 September 2010	20 September 2010	23 November 2013	Career FSO	Left post

24	Robert C. Barber	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	2 January 2015	28 January 2015	20 January 2017	Political appointee

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