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

List of ambassadors of the United States to Uruguay

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

Representative	Title	Presentation of credentials	Termination of mission	Appointed by

Alexander Asboth	Minister Resident	October 2, 1867	January 21, 1868	Andrew Johnson

Henry G. Worthington	Minister Resident	October 24, 1868	July 10, 1869

Robert C. Kirk	Minister Resident	July 24, 1869	July 6, 1870	Ulysses S. Grant

John L. Stevens	Minister Resident	July 6, 1870	May 19, 1873

John C. Caldwell	Minister Resident	September 7, 1874	October 6, 1876

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

William Williams	Chargé d'Affaires	July 10, 1882	July 21, 1885	Chester A. Arthur

John E. Bacon	Chargé d'Affaires	July 21, 1885	October 8, 1888	Grover Cleveland

Minister Resident	October 8, 1888	December 26, 1888

George Maney	Minister Resident	November 8, 1889	November 28, 1890	Benjamin Harrison

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 28, 1890	June 30, 1894

Granville Stuart	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 2, 1894	January 4, 1898	Grover Cleveland

William R. Finch	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	January 4, 1898	May 29, 1905	William McKinley

Edward C. O'Brien	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 2, 1905	October 11, 1909	Theodore Roosevelt

Edwin V. Morgan	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 31, 1910	July 8, 1911	William H. Taft

Nicolai A. Grevstad	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 9, 1911	February 19, 1915

Robert Emmett Jeffery	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 4, 1915	March 9, 1921	Woodrow Wilson

Hoffman Philip	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 19, 1922	April 10, 1925	Warren G. Harding

Ulysses Grant-Smith	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 13, 1925	January 11, 1929	Calvin Coolidge

Leland Harrison	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 11, 1930	October 9, 1930	Herbert Hoover

J. Butler Wright	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 9, 1931	July 10, 1934

Julius Gareché Lay	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 20, 1935	August 31, 1937	Franklin D. Roosevelt

William Dawson	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 10, 1938	June 6, 1939

Edwin C. Wilson	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 27, 1939	March 5, 1941

William Dawson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 12, 1941	August 6, 1946

Joseph F. McGurk	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 28, 1946	April 15, 1947	Harry S. Truman

Ellis O. Briggs	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 21, 1947	August 6, 1949

Christian M. Ravndal	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 9, 1949	October 8, 1951

Edward L. Rodden	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 27, 1951	October 12, 1953

Dempster McIntosh	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 12, 1953	April 3, 1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower

Jefferson Patterson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 2, 1956	March 18, 1958

Robert F. Woodward	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 21, 1958	March 29, 1961

Edward J. Sparks	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 24, 1961	May 15, 1962	John F. Kennedy

Wymberley DeRenne Coerr	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 27, 1962	January 22, 1965

Henry A. Hoyt	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 14, 1965	December 16, 1967	Lyndon B. Johnson

Robert M. Sayre	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 27, 1968	October 19, 1969

Charles W. Adair, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 13, 1969	September 28, 1972	Richard Nixon

Ernest V. Siracusa	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 25, 1973	April 22, 1977

Lawrence Pezzulo	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 10, 1977	May 29, 1979	Jimmy Carter

Lyle Franklin Lane	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 17, 1979	July 22, 1980

N. Shaw Smith	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	July 22, 1980	November 5, 1981

Thomas Aranda, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 5, 1981	November 14, 1985	Ronald Reagan

Malcolm Richard Wilkey	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 28, 1985	May 10, 1990

Richard C. Brown	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 19, 1990	August 19, 1993	George H. W. Bush

Thomas J. Dodd, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 23, 1993	September 1, 1997	Bill Clinton

Christopher C. Ashby	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 26, 1997	March 1, 2001

Martin J. Silverstein	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 17, 2001	July 6, 2005	George W. Bush

Frank E. Baxter	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 13, 2006	January 20, 2009

David D. Nelson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 24, 2009	May 23, 2011	Barack Obama

Thomas H. Lloyd	Chargé d'Affaires a.i.	May 23, 2011	May 10, 2012

Julissa Reynoso	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 10, 2012	December 10, 2014

Brad Freden	Chargé d'Affaires a.i.	December 10, 2014	June 23, 2016

Kelly Keiderling	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 23, 2016	Incumbent

Sentence(s)

Jefferson Patterson was a United States Ambassador to Uruguay under Dwight D. Eisenhower, from 1956 to 1958.

final_sentence: Jefferson Patterson was a United States Ambassador to Uruguay under Dwight D. Eisenhower, from 1956 to 1958.