List of ambassadors of the United States to El Salvador
Chiefs of Mission

List of ambassadors of the United States to El Salvador

Section Title: Chiefs of Mission
Table Section Text: None

Representative	Title	Presentation of Credentials	Termination of Mission	Appointed by

James R. Partridge	Minister Resident	June 15, 1863	March 22, 1866	Abraham Lincoln

Alpheus Starkey Williams	Minister Resident	January 21, 1867	October 27, 1869	Andrew Johnson

Alfred T. A. Torbert	Minister Resident	October 27, 1869	May 10, 1871	Ulysses S. Grant

Thomas Biddle	Minister Resident	December 5, 1871	June 30, 1873

George Williamson	Minister Resident	October 18, 1873	before July 7, 1879

Cornelius A. Logan	Minister Resident	July 7, 1879	on or soon after April 15, 1882	Rutherford B. Hayes

Henry C. Hall	Minister Resident	August 7, 1882	May 2, 1883	Chester A. Arthur

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 2, 1883	on or shortly before May 16, 1889

Lansing B. Mizner	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 7–April 12, 1890	December 31, 1890	Benjamin Harrison

Romualdo Pacheco	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 28, 1891	November 14, 1891

Richard Cutts Shannon	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 14, 1891	April 30, 1893

Lewis Baker	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 20, 1893	about December 9, 1897	Grover Cleveland

William L. Merry	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 3, 1899	December 31, 1907	William McKinley

Henry Percival Dodge	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 1, 1908	February 6, 1909	Theodore Roosevelt

William Heimke	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 18, 1909	March 16, 1914	William Howard Taft

Boaz W. Long	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 14, 1914	November 7, 1917	Woodrow Wilson

Frank D. Arnold	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	July 1918	February 10, 1921

Peter Augustus Jay	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 10, 1921	April 28, 1921

Montgomery Schuyler, Jr.	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 12, 1921	April 22, 1925	Warren G. Harding

Jefferson Caffery	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 20, 1926	July 22, 1928	Calvin Coolidge

Warren D. Robbins	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 27, 1929	April 30, 1931	Herbert Hoover

Charles B. Curtis	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 6, 1931	January 10, 1932

Frank P. Corrigan	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 30, 1934	August 28, 1937	Franklin D. Roosevelt

Robert Frazer	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 6, 1937	October 31, 1942

Walter C. Thurston	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	January 14, 1943	April 16, 1943

Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 16, 1943	October 14, 1944

John F. Simmons	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 21, 1945	July 1, 1947

Albert F. Nufer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 13, 1947	July 16, 1949	Harry S. Truman

George P. Shaw	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 23, 1949	April 25, 1952

Angier Biddle Duke	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 5, 1952	May 21, 1953	Dwight D. Eisenhower

Michael J. McDermott	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 25, 1953	September 28, 1954

Robert C. Hill	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 4, 1954	September 21, 1955

Thomas C. Mann	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 24, 1955	September 24, 1957

Thorsten V. Kalijarvi	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 6, 1957	December 18, 1960

Murat W. Williams	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 21, 1961	July 4, 1964	John F. Kennedy

Raúl H. Castro	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 11, 1964	July 17, 1968	Lyndon B. Johnson

William G. Bowdler	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 15, 1968	September 2, 1971	Richard Nixon

Henry E. Catto, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 21, 1971	September 2, 1973

James F. Campbell	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 5, 1974	July 23, 1976

Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 31, 1976	June 1, 1977	Gerald Ford

Frank J. Devine	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 1, 1977	February 15, 1980	Jimmy Carter

Robert E. White	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 11, 1980	February 1, 1981

Deane R. Hinton	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 28, 1981	July 15, 1983	Ronald Reagan

Thomas R. Pickering	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 5, 1983	June 7, 1985

Edwin G. Corr	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 29, 1985	August 10, 1988

William Graham Walker	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 30, 1988	February 21, 1992

Peter F. Romero	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	February 21, 1992	July 1992	George H. W. Bush

Gwen C. Clare	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	July 1992	September 20, 1993

Alan H. Flanigan	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 20, 1993	July 9, 1996	Bill Clinton

Anne W. Patterson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 16, 1997	July 15, 2000

Rose M. Likins	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 23, 2000	June 16, 2003

Philip C. French	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	June 13, 2003	December 13, 2003	George W. Bush

H. Douglas Barclay	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 13, 2003	July 23, 2006

Charles L. Glazer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 5, 2006	January 20, 2009

Robert I. Blau	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	January 20, 2009	2010	Barack Obama

Mari Carmen Aponte	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 22, 2010	December 31, 2011

Sean Murphy	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	January 2, 2011	June 14, 2012,

Mari Carmen Aponte	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 14, 2012	December 9, 2015

Jean Elizabeth Manes	Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 9, 2015	incumbent

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