List of ambassadors of the United States to Nicaragua
Ambassadors

List of ambassadors of the United States to Nicaragua

Section Title: Ambassadors
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Representative	Title	Presentation of Credentials	Termination of Mission	Appointed by

John B. Kerr	Chargé d'Affaires	February 18, 1851	June 1, 1853	Millard Fillmore

Solon Borland	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 14, 1853	April 17, 1854	Franklin Pierce

John H. Wheeler	Minister Resident	April 7, 1855	October 23, 1856

Mirabeau B. Lamar	Minister Resident	February 8, 1858	May 20, 1859	James Buchanan

Alexander Dimitry	Minister Resident	December 7, 1859	April 27, 1861

Andrew B. Dickinson	Minister Resident	July 11, 1861	January 15, 1863	Abraham Lincoln

Thomas H. Clay	Minister Resident	January 15, 1863	May 31, 1863

Andrew B. Dickinson	Minister Resident and Extraordinary	May 31, 1863	July 29, 1869

Charles N. Riotte	Minister Resident	July 29, 1869	January 15, 1873	Ulysses S. Grant

George Williamson	Minister Resident	November 1, 1873	January 31, 1879

Cornelius A. Logan	Minister Resident	July 30, 1879	April 15, 1882	Rutherford B. Hayes

Henry C. Hall	Minister Resident	August 12, 1882	November 2, 1882	Chester A. Arthur

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 2, 1882	May 23, 1889

Lansing B. Mizner	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 7, 1889	December 31, 1890	Benjamin Harrison

Romualdo Pacheco	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 21, 1891	October 13, 1891

Richard Cutts Shannon	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 13, 1891	April 30, 1893

Lewis Baker	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 13, 1893	December 9, 1897	Grover Cleveland

William L. Merry	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 1, 1899	August 24, 1908	William McKinley

John Gardner Coolidge	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 24, 1908	November 21, 1908	Theodore Roosevelt

John H. Gregory, Jr.	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	November 21, 1908	March 12, 1909

Elliott Northcott	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 21, 1911	June 23, 1911	William H. Taft

George T. Weitzel	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	January 22, 1912	April 19, 1913

Benjamin L. Jefferson	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 5, 1913	October 24, 1921	Woodrow Wilson

John E. Ramer	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 30, 1921	April 5, 1925	Warren G. Harding

Charles C. Eberhardt	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 7, 1925	May 10, 1929	Calvin Coolidge

Matthew E. Hanna	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 11, 1930	September 6, 1933	Herbert Hoover

Arthur Bliss Lane	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 7, 1933	March 14, 1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt

Boaz Long	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 19, 1936	April 1, 1938

Meredith Nicholson	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 9, 1938	February 27, 1941

Pierre de Lagarde Boal	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 24, 1941	March 5, 1942

James B. Stewart	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 12, 1942	April 14, 1943

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 14, 1943	January 4, 1945

Fletcher Warren	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 9, 1945	May 4, 1947	Harry S. Truman

George P. Shaw	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 1, 1948	June 8, 1949

Capus M. Waynick	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 12, 1949	July 22, 1951

Thomas E. Whelan	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 3, 1951	March 22, 1961

Aaron S. Brown	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 21, 1961	May 3, 1967	John F. Kennedy

Kennedy M. Crockett	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 21, 1967	April 19, 1970	Lyndon B. Johnson

Turner B. Shelton	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 20, 1970	August 11, 1975	Richard Nixon

James D. Theberge	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 11, 1975	June 8, 1977	Gerald Ford

Mauricio Solaún	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 30, 1977	February 26, 1979	Jimmy Carter

Lawrence A. Pezzullo	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 31, 1979	August 18, 1981

Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 26, 1982	May 6, 1984	Ronald Reagan

Harry E. Bergold, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 31, 1984	July 1, 1987

Richard Huntington Melton	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 4, 1988	July 12, 1988

Jack Leonard	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	July 11, 1988	June 21, 1990

Harry W. Shlaudeman	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 21, 1990	March 14, 1992	George H. W. Bush

Ron Godard	Chargé d’Affaires a.i.

John Francis Maisto	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 8, 1993	November 15, 1996	Bill Clinton

Lino Gutierrez	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 5, 1996	July 21, 1999

Oliver P. Garza	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 24, 1999	August 30, 2002

Barbara C. Moore	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 13, 2002	July 15, 2005	George W. Bush

Paul A. Trivelli	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 9, 2005	2008

Robert J. Callahan	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 24, 2008	July 2011

Robert R. Downes	Chargé d’Affaires a.i.	July 2011	March 2012	Barack Obama

Phyllis M. Powers	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 30, 2011	November 9, 2015

Laura Farnsworth Dogu	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 10, 2015	2018

Kevin K. Sullivan	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 14, 2018	Incumbent	Donald Trump

Sentence(s)

William Lawrence Merry was an American ambassador to Nicaragua.

final_sentence: William Lawrence Merry was an American ambassador to Nicaragua.