List of ambassadors of the United States to Colombia
Republic of Colombia
The following were commissioned as either Ministers or Ambassadors to the Republic of Colombia.

List of ambassadors of the United States to Colombia

Section Title: Republic of Colombia
Table Section Text: The following were commissioned as either Ministers or Ambassadors to the Republic of Colombia.

Representative	Title	Presentation of Credentials	Termination of Mission	Appointed by

Dabney H. Maury	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	January 20, 1887	June 22, 1889	Grover Cleveland

John T. Abbott	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 22, 1889	July 17, 1893	Benjamin Harrison

Luther F. McKinney	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 17, 1893	December 6, 1896	Grover Cleveland

Charles Burdett Hart	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 19, 1897	March 19, 1903	William McKinley

Arthur M. Beaupre	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 13, 1903	December 19, 1903	Theodore Roosevelt

William W. Russell	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 9, 1904	May 24, 1905

John Barrett	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 27, 1905	September 24, 1906

Thomas C. Dawson	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 16, 1907	April 25, 1909

Elliott Northcott	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 13, 1909	September 16, 1910	William H. Taft

James T. DuBois	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 18, 1911	March 1, 1913

Thaddeus Austin Thompson	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 30, 1913	June 26, 1916	Woodrow Wilson

Hoffman Philip	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 22, 1919	May 29, 1922

Samuel H. Piles	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 29, 1922	September 17, 1928	Warren G. Harding

Jefferson Caffery	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 28, 1928	May 20, 1933	Calvin Coolidge

Sheldon Whitehouse	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 6, 1933	December 8, 1934	Franklin D. Roosevelt

William Dawson	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 6, 1935	November 16, 1937

Spruille Braden	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 15, 1939	March 12, 1942

Arthur Bliss Lane	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 30, 1942	October 18, 1944

John C. Wiley	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 16, 1944	May 3, 1947

Willard L. Beaulac	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 30, 1947	June 29, 1951	Harry S. Truman

Capus M. Waynick	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 23, 1951	September 21, 1953

Rudolf E. Schoenfeld	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	January 28, 1954	January 26, 1955	Dwight D. Eisenhower

Philip W. Bonsal	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 1, 1955	April 24, 1957

John M. Cabot	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 12, 1957	July 15, 1959

Dempster McIntosh	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 30, 1959	January 6, 1961

Fulton Freeman	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 15, 1961	March 14, 1964	John F. Kennedy

Covey T. Oliver	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 13, 1964	August 29, 1966	Lyndon B. Johnson

Reynold E. Carlson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 6, 1966	June 2, 1969

Jack Hood Vaughn	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 9, 1969	June 25, 1970	Richard Nixon

Leonard J. Saccio	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 24, 1971	July 12, 1973

Viron P. Vaky	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 5, 1974	June 23, 1976

Phillip V. Sanchez	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 2, 1976	April 5, 1977	Gerald Ford

Diego C. Asencio	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 6, 1977	June 22, 1980	Jimmy Carter

Thomas D. Boyatt	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 3, 1980	April 14, 1983

Lewis Arthur Tambs	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 2, 1983	February 15, 1985	Ronald Reagan

Charles A. Gillespie, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 28, 1985	September 19, 1988

Thomas Edmund McNamara	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 4, 1988	August 14, 1991

Morris D. Busby	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 18, 1991	July 5, 1994	George H. W. Bush

Myles Robert Rene Frechette	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 25, 1994	November 8, 1997	Bill Clinton

Curtis W. Kamman	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 19, 1998	August 15, 2000

Anne W. Patterson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 24, 2000	June 11, 2003

William B. Wood	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 13, 2003	March 12, 2007	George W. Bush

William Brownfield	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 12, 2007	August 3, 2010

P. Michael McKinley	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 3, 2010	September 1, 2013	Barack H. Obama

Kevin Whitaker	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 28, 2014	present

Sentence(s)

John Abbott served as the United States Ambassador to Columbia in 1899.

final_sentence: John Abbott served as the United States Ambassador to Columbia in 1899.