List of ambassadors of the United States to Paraguay
The following is a list of United States Ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Paraguay. 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 Paraguay

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Table Section Text: The following is a list of United States Ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Paraguay. 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

Charles Ames Washburn	Commissioner	November 26, 1861	May 13, 1863	Abraham Lincoln

Minister Resident	May 13, 1863	September 10, 1868

Martin T. McMahon	Minister Resident	December 12, 1868	June 21, 1869	Andrew Johnson

John L. Stevens	Minister Resident	August 26, 1870	May 19, 1873	Ulysses S. Grant

John C. Caldwell	Minister Resident	December 15, 1874	October 6, 1876

Chargé d'Affaires	October 6, 1876	July 10, 1882

William Williams	Chargé d'Affaires	August 26, 1882	July 21, 1885	Chester A. Arthur

John E. Bacon	Chargé d'Affaires	September 16, 1885	October 23, 1888	Grover Cleveland

Minister Resident	October 23, 1888	December 26, 1888

George Maney	Minister Resident	May 19, 1890	August 1891	Benjamin Harrison

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 1891	June 30, 1894

Granville Stuart	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 6, 1894	January 4, 1898	Grover Cleveland

William R. Finch	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 3, 1898	May 29, 1905	William McKinley

Edward C. O'Brien	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 5, 1905	October 10, 1909	Theodore Roosevelt

Edwin V. Morgan	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 29, 1910	July 8, 1911	William H. Taft

Nicolai A. Grevstad	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 30, 1911	February 19, 1914

Daniel F. Mooney	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 13, 1914	June 13, 1921	Woodrow Wilson

William J. O'Toole	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 3, 1922	February 21, 1924	Warren G. Harding

George L. Kreeck	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 22, 1925	February 5, 1930	Calvin Coolidge

Post Wheeler	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 12, 1930	April 17, 1933	Herbert Hoover

Meredith Nicholson	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 30, 1933	February 3, 1935	Franklin D. Roosevelt

Findley B. Howard	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 14, 1935	January 16, 1941

Wesley Frost	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 30, 1941	April 15, 1942

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 15, 1942	May 28, 1944

Willard L. Beaulac	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 13, 1944	May 28, 1947

Fletcher Warren	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 8, 1947	July 25, 1950	Harry S. Truman

Howard H. Tewksbury	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	January 9, 1951	February 16, 1952

George P. Shaw	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 1, 1952	October 31, 1953

Arthur A. Ageton	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 9, 1954	April 10, 1957	Dwight D. Eisenhower

Walter C. Ploeser	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 6, 1957	September 12, 1959

Harry F. Stimpson, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 23, 1959	March 12, 1961

William P. Snow	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 4, 1961	June 15, 1967	John F. Kennedy

Benigno C. Hernández	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 9, 1967	July 15, 1969	Lyndon B. Johnson

J. Raymond Ylitalo	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 14, 1969	September 11, 1972	Richard Nixon

George W. Landau	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 13, 1972	October 14, 1977

Robert E. White	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 30, 1977	January 27, 1980	Jimmy Carter

Lyle Franklin Lane	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 9, 1980	May 21, 1982

Arthur H. Davis, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 6, 1982	September 28, 1985	Ronald Reagan

Clyde D. Taylor	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 12, 1985	September 2, 1988

Timothy Lathrop Towell	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 26, 1988	April 27, 1991

Jon David Glassman	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 8, 1991	May 3, 1994	George H. W. Bush

Robert Edward Service	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 18, 1994	October 7, 1997	Bill Clinton

Maura Harty	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 22, 1997	May 30, 1999

David N. Greenlee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 19, 2000	January 15, 2003

John F. Keane	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 11, 2003	October 27, 2005	George W. Bush

James Caldwell Cason	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 1, 2006	c. August, 2008

Liliana Ayalde	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 5, 2008	August 5, 2011

James H. Thessin	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 2, 2014	Barack Obama

Leslie A. Bassett	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	January 15, 2015

M. Lee McClenny	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 20 2018	Incumbent	Donald Trump

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Leslie A Bassett was a United States Ambassador to Paraguay.

final_sentence: Leslie A Bassett was a United States Ambassador to Paraguay.