List of ambassadors of the United States to Brazil
The following is a list of Ambassadors of the United States, or other chiefs of mission, to Brazil. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.

List of ambassadors of the United States to Brazil

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Table Section Text: The following is a list of Ambassadors of the United States, or other chiefs of mission, to Brazil. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.

Representative	Title	Presentation of Credentials	Termination of Mission	Appointed by

Condy Raguet	Chargé d'Affaires	October 29, 1825	April 16, 1827	John Quincy Adams

William Tudor	Chargé d'Affaires	June 25, 1828	March 9, 1830

Ethan A. Brown	Chargé d'Affaires	February 18, 1831	April 11, 1834	Andrew Jackson

William Hunter	Chargé d'Affaires	January 7, 1835	January 1, 1842

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	January 1, 1842	December 9, 1843	John Tyler

George H. Proffit	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 11, 1843	August 10, 1844

Henry A. Wise	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 10, 1844	August 28, 1847

David Tod	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 28, 1847	August 9, 1851	James K. Polk

Robert C. Schenck	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 9, 1851	October 8, 1853	Millard Fillmore

William Trousdale	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 8, 1853	December 5, 1857	Franklin Pierce

Richard K. Meade	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 5, 1857	July 9, 1861	James Buchanan

James Watson Webb	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 21, 1861	May 26, 1869	Abraham Lincoln

James Monroe	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	1869	1869	Ulysses S. Grant

Henry T. Blow	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 28, 1869	November 6, 1870

James R. Partridge	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 31, 1871	June 11, 1877

Henry W. Hilliard	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 23, 1877	June 15, 1881	Rutherford B. Hayes

Thomas A. Osborn	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 17, 1881	July 11, 1885	James Garfield

Thomas J. Jarvis	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 11, 1885	November 19, 1888	Grover Cleveland

Robert Adams, Jr.	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 20, 1889	March 1, 1890	Benjamin Harrison

Edwin H. Conger	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 19, 1890	September 9, 1893

Thomas L. Thompson	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 9, 1893	July 17, 1897	Grover Cleveland

Edwin H. Conger	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 9, 1897	February 6, 1898	William McKinley

Charles Page Bryan	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 11, 1898	December 3, 1902

David E. Thompson	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 1, 1903	March 16, 1905	Theodore Roosevelt

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 16, 1905	November 3, 1905

Lloyd C. Griscom	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 6, 1906	January 2, 1907

Irving Bedell Dudley	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 1, 1907	September 16, 1911

Edwin V. Morgan	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 4, 1912	August 23, 1933	William H. Taft

Hugh S. Gibson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 23, 1933	December 3, 1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt

Jefferson Caffery	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 17, 1937	September 17, 1944

Adolf A. Berle, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	January 30, 1945	February 27, 1946

William D. Pawley	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 13, 1946	March 26, 1948	Harry S. Truman

Herschel Vespasian Johnson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 22, 1948	May 27, 1953

James S. Kemper	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 18, 1953	January 26, 1955	Dwight D. Eisenhower

James Clement Dunn	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 11, 1955	July 4, 1956

Ellis O. Briggs	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 24, 1956	April 29, 1959

Clare Boothe Luce	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 29, 1959	May 1, 1959

John M. Cabot	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 22, 1959	August 17, 1961

Lincoln Gordon	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 19, 1961	February 25, 1966	John F. Kennedy

John W. Tuthill	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 30, 1966	January 9, 1969	Lyndon B. Johnson

Charles Burke Elbrick	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 14, 1969	May 7, 1970	Richard Nixon

William M. Rountree	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 16, 1970	May 30, 1973

John Hugh Crimmins	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 13, 1973	February 25, 1978

Robert M. Sayre	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 8, 1978	September 19, 1981	Jimmy Carter

Langhorne A. Motley	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 6, 1981	July 6, 1983	Ronald Reagan

Diego C. Asencio	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 20, 1983	February 28, 1986

Harry W. Shlaudeman	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 5, 1986	May 14, 1989

Richard Huntington Melton	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 12, 1989	December 16, 1993	George H. W. Bush

Melvyn Levitsky	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 1, 1994	June 17, 1998	Bill Clinton

Anthony Stephen Harrington	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 8, 2000	February 28, 2001

Cristobal R. Orozco	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	February 2001	April 2002	George W. Bush

Donna J. Hrinak	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 23, 2002	June 26, 2004

John J. Danilovich	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 2, 2004	November 7, 2005

Philip T. Chicola	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	November 2005	November 2006

Clifford M. Sobel	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 7, 2006	August 2009

Tom Shannon	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 24, 2009	September 2013	Barack Obama

Liliana Ayalde	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 12, 2013	January 11, 2017

P. Michael McKinley	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	January 11, 2017	Incumbent

Sentence(s)

In 1959, Eisenhower nominated Luce to be the US Ambassador to Brazil.

final_sentence: In 1959, Eisenhower nominated Luce to be the US Ambassador to Brazil.