List of ambassadors of the United States to Sweden
1947-present day (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary)

List of ambassadors of the United States to Sweden

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

Portrait	Representative	Title	Appointment	Presentation of credentials	Termination of mission

H. Freeman Matthews	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 20, 1947	December 5, 1947	May 24, 1950

W. Walton Butterworth	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 5, 1950	September 18, 1950	December 9, 1953

John M. Cabot	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 1, 1954	May 6, 1954	May 14, 1957

Francis White	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 3, 1957	September 17, 1957	December 9, 1958

James C.H. Bonbright	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 29, 1958	January 9, 1959	March 20, 1961

J. Graham Parsons	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 15, 1961	May 16, 1961	April 17, 1967

William Womack Heath	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 5, 1967	May 23, 1967	January 23, 1969

Vacant	No ambassador appointed	January 24, 1969	February 15, 1970

Jerome H. Holland	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 16, 1970	April 14, 1970	August 30, 1972

Arthur J. Olsen	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	December 1972	May 1974

Robert Strausz-Hupé	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 25, 1974	May 29, 1974	March 3, 1976

David S. Smith	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 6, 1976	May 7, 1976	April 29, 1977

Rodney O'Gliasain Kennedy-Minott	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 3, 1977	September 29, 1977	September 26, 1980

Franklin S. Forsberg	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 11, 1981	January 14, 1982	December 12, 1985

Gregory J. Newell	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 9, 1985	December 19, 1985	June 12, 1989

Charles Edgar Redman	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 12, 1989	June 13, 1989	August 24, 1992

Thomas L. Siebert	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 9, 1994	March 24, 1994	December 17, 1997

Lyndon Lowell Olson, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 10, 1997	January 22, 1998	August 1, 2001

Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 3, 2001	September 26, 2001	February 12, 2004

-	Miles T. Bivins	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 25, 2004	June 9, 2004	January 31, 2006

-	Michael M. Wood	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 5, 2006	January 20, 2009

-	Matthew Barzun	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 12, 2009	August 21, 2009	May 28, 2011

-	Mark Brzezinski	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 18, 2011	November 24, 2011	July 1, 2015

Robert Gilchrist	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	July 1, 2015	March 1, 2016

-	Azita Raji	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 1, 2016	March 1, 2016	January 20, 2017

David Lindwall	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	January 20, 2017	Incumbent

Sentence(s)

On March 15, 1961, Parsons was the United States Ambassador to Sweden.

final_sentence: On March 15, 1961, Parsons was the United States Ambassador to Sweden.