List of ambassadors of the United States to Peru
The following is a list of United States Ambassadors, or other Chiefs of Mission, to Peru. 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 Peru

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Table Section Text: The following is a list of United States Ambassadors, or other Chiefs of Mission, to Peru. 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

James Cooley	Chargé d'Affaires	May 21, 1827	February 24, 1828	John Quincy Adams

Samuel Larned	Chargé d'Affaires	November 30, 1829	March 6, 1837

James B. Thornton	Chargé d'Affaires	March 16, 1837	December 10, 1837	Andrew Jackson

J. C. Pickett	Chargé d'Affaires	January 30, 1840	April 28, 1845	Martin Van Buren

John A. Bryan	Chargé d'Affaires	April 28, 1845	August 4, 1845	John Tyler

Albert G. Jewett	Chargé d'Affaires	August 4, 1845	July 21, 1847	James K. Polk

John Randolph Clay	Chargé d'Affaires	December 15, 1847	August 22, 1853

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 22, 1853	October 27, 1860	Franklin Pierce

Christopher Robinson	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	January 11, 1862	December 21, 1865	Abraham Lincoln

Alvin P. Hovey	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 22, 1866	September 22, 1870	Andrew Johnson

Thomas Settle	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 13, 1871	November 22, 1871	Ulysses S. Grant

Francis Thomas	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 10, 1872	July 5, 1875

Richard Gibbs	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 10, 1875	April 15, 1879

Isaac P. Christiancy	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 19, 1879	August 2, 1881	Rutherford B. Hayes

Stephen A. Hurlbut	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 2, 1881	March 27, 1882	James Garfield

Seth Ledyard Phelps	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 24, 1884	June 24, 1885	Chester A. Arthur

Charles W. Buck	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 1881	March 13, 1889	Grover Cleveland

John Hicks	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 31, 1889	June 24, 1893	Benjamin Harrison

James A. McKenzie	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 24, 1893	April 13, 1897	Grover Cleveland

Irving B. Dudley	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 20, 1897	February 14, 1907	William McKinley

Leslie Combs	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 10, 1907	February 23, 1911	Theodore Roosevelt

H. Clay Howard	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 1, 1911	September 9, 1913	William H. Taft

Benton McMillin	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 9, 1913	September 5, 1919	Woodrow Wilson

William E. Gonzales	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 24, 1920	October 11, 1921

Miles Poindexter	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 20, 1923	March 21, 1928	Calvin Coolidge

Alexander P. Moore	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 11, 1928	July 10, 1929

Fred Morris Dearing	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 23, 1930	June 3, 1937	Herbert Hoover

Laurence A. Steinhardt	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 13, 1937	April 10, 1939	Franklin D. Roosevelt

Raymond Henry Norweb	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 10, 1940	September 30, 1943

John Campbell White	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 4, 1944	June 17, 1945

William D. Pawley	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 20, 1945	April 27, 1946	Harry S. Truman

Prentice Cooper	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 1, 1946	June 29, 1948

Harold H. Tittmann Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 27, 1948	March 30, 1955

Ellis O. Briggs	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 27, 1955	June 5, 1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower

Theodore C. Achilles	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 24, 1956	January 27, 1960

Selden Chapin	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 7, 1960	August 7, 1960

James Loeb	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 23, 1961	July 26, 1962	John F. Kennedy

J. Wesley Jones	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 6, 1963	June 2, 1969

Taylor G. Belcher	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 29, 1969	April 4, 1974	Richard Nixon

Robert W. Dean	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 2, 1974	June 17, 1977

Harry W. Shlaudeman	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 28, 1977	October 20, 1980	Jimmy Carter

Edwin Gharst Corr	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 6, 1980	October 11, 1981

Frank V. Ortiz Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 10, 1981	October 27, 1983	Ronald Reagan

David C. Jordan	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 20, 1984	July 17, 1986

Alexander Fletcher Watson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 27, 1986	August 9, 1989

Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 11, 1989	September 16, 1992	George H. W. Bush

Charles H. Brayshaw	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	September 1992	December 1993

Alvin P. Adams, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 15, 1993	August 16, 1996	Bill Clinton

Dennis C. Jett	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 16, 1996	July 3, 1999

John Randle Hamilton	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 6, 1999	July 10, 2002

John R. Dawson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 2, 2002	June 10, 2003	George W. Bush

James Curtis Struble	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 4, 2004	before June 2007

P. Michael McKinley	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 28, 2007	August, 2010

Rose M. Likins	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 15, 2010	June 27, 2014	Barack Obama

Brian A. Nichols	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 27, 2014	2017

Krishna Urs	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 25, 2017	Incumbent	Donald Trump

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Phelps was the U.S. minister to Peru.

final_sentence: Phelps was the U.S. minister to Peru.