List of ambassadors of the United States to China
List of Envoys to the Qing Empire

List of ambassadors of the United States to China

Section Title: List of Envoys to the Qing Empire
Table Section Text: None

Name	Portrait	Home state	Presented credentials	Terminated

Caleb Cushing	-	Massachusetts	June 12, 1844	August 27, 1844

Alexander Hill Everett	-	Massachusetts	October 26, 1846	June 28, 1847

John W. Davis	-	Indiana	October 6, 1848	May 25, 1850

Humphrey Marshall	-	Kentucky	July 4, 1853	January 27, 1854

Robert Milligan McLane	-	Maryland	November 3, 1854	December 12, 1854

Peter Parker	-	Massachusetts	July 15, 1856	August 25, 1857

William B. Reed	-	Pennsylvania	May 3, 1858	November 11, 1858

John Elliott Ward	-	Georgia	August 10, 1859	December 15, 1860

Anson Burlingame	-	Massachusetts	August 20, 1862	November 21, 1867

John Ross Browne	-	California	October 28, 1868	July 5, 1869

Frederick Low	-	California	April 27, 1870	July 24, 1873

Benjamin Avery	-	California	November 29, 1874	November 8, 1875

George Seward	-	California	April 24, 1876	August 16, 1880

James Burrill Angell	-	Michigan	August 16, 1880	October 4, 1881

John Russell Young	-	New York	August 17, 1882	April 7, 1885

Charles Harvey Denby	-	Indiana	October 1, 1885	July 8, 1898

Edwin H. Conger	-	Iowa	July 8, 1898	April 4, 1905

William Woodville Rockhill	-	District of Columbia	June 17, 1905	June 1, 1909

William J. Calhoun	-	Illinois	April 21, 1910	February 26, 1913

Sentence(s)

John Elliott Ward served as the United States Minister to China.

final_sentence: John Elliott Ward served as the United States Minister to China.