List of ambassadors of the United States to Denmark
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (1947-)

List of ambassadors of the United States to Denmark

Section Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (1947-)
Table Section Text: None

Name	Portrait	Appointed	Presented Credentials	Terminated Mission

Josiah Marvel, Jr. Political appointee	February 27, 1947	March 18, 1947	Left post on March 4, 1949

Eugenie Anderson Political appointee	-	October 20, 1949	December 22, 1949	Left post on January 19, 1953

Robert D. Coe Career FSO	July 29, 1953	September 25, 1953	Relinquished charge on June 1, 1957

Val Peterson Political appointee	-	June 26, 1957	August 22, 1957	Left post on February 21, 1961

William McCormick Blair, Jr. Political appointee	March 29, 1961	May 9, 1961	Left post on May 17, 1964

Katharine Elkus White Political appointee	April 8, 1964	June 2, 1964	Left post on September 9, 1968

Angier Biddle Duke Political appointee	September 26, 1968	October 3, 1968	Left post on May 1, 1969

Guilford Dudley Jr. Political appointee	May 13, 1969	June 18, 1969	Left post on November 2, 1971

Fred J. Russell Political appointee	November 5, 1971	December 9, 1971	Left post on November 4, 1972

Philip K. Crowe Political appointee	-	July 16, 1973	September 13, 1973	Left post on September 27, 1975

John Gunther Dean Career FSO	October 23, 1975	November 6, 1975	Left post on July 18, 1978

Warren Demian Manshel Political appointee	June 22, 1978	July 31, 1978	Left post on March 6, 1981

John Langeloth Loeb, Jr. Political appointee	July 30, 1981	October 13, 1981	Left post on September 13, 1983

Terence A. Todman Career FSO	October 3, 1983	November 17, 1983	Left post on January 8, 1989

Keith Lapham Brown Political appointee	November 2, 1988	January 8, 1989	Left post on January 16, 1992

Richard B. Stone Political appointee	-	November 21, 1991	February 10, 1992	Left post on October 14, 1993

Edward Elliott Elson Political appointee	November 22, 1993	January 18, 1994	Left post on June 25, 1998

Richard Swett Political appointee	-	June 29, 1998	September 8, 1998	Left post on July 6, 2001

Stuart A. Bernstein Political appointee	August 3, 2001	September 3, 2001	Left post on January 16, 2005

James Cain Political appointee	-	August 2, 2005	September 9, 2005	Left post on January 23, 2009

Laurie S. Fulton Political appointee	-	July 15, 2009	August 3, 2009	Left post on February 15, 2013

Rufus Gifford Political appointee	-	July 15, 2013	August 13, 2013	Left post on January 20, 2017

Carla Sands Political appointee	-	November 2, 2017	December 15, 2017	Currently in office

Sentence(s)

James Cain was the United States Ambassador to Denmark until he left his post on January 23, 2009.

final_sentence: James Cain was the United States Ambassador to Denmark until he left his post on January 23, 2009.