List of ambassadors of the United States to Chile
The following is a list of Ambassadors that the United States has sent to Chile. 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 Chile

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Table Section Text: The following is a list of Ambassadors that the United States has sent to Chile. 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

Heman Allen	Minister Plenipotentiary	April 23, 1824	July 31, 1827	James Monroe

Samuel Larned	Chargé d'Affaires	November 9, 1828	October 29, 1829	John Quincy Adams

John Hamm	Chargé d'Affaires	May 24, 1831	October 19, 1833	Andrew Jackson

Richard Pollard	Chargé d'Affaires	March 13, 1835	May 12, 1842

John S. Pendleton	Chargé d'Affaires	May 24, 1842	June 6, 1844	John Tyler

William Crump	Chargé d'Affaires	August 18, 1845	November 1, 1847	James K. Polk

Seth Barton	Chargé d'Affaires	January 5, 1848	May 22, 1849

Balie Peyton	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 16, 1850	September 26, 1853	Zachary Taylor

David A. Starkweather	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 22, 1854	August 26, 1857	Franklin Pierce

John Bigler	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 5, 1857	October 4, 1861	James Buchanan

Thomas H. Nelson	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 4, 1861	March 12, 1866	Abraham Lincoln

Hugh Judson Kilpatrick	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 12, 1866	August 3, 1870	Andrew Johnson

Joseph P. Root	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 2, 1870	June 27, 1873	Ulysses S. Grant

Cornelius A. Logan	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 27, 1873	November 10, 1876

Thomas A. Osborn	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 28, 1877	July 25, 1881	Rutherford B. Hayes

Hugh Judson Kilpatrick	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 25, 1881	December 2, 1881	James Garfield

Cornelius A. Logan	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 7, 1882	June 16, 1885	Chester A. Arthur

William R. Roberts	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 4, 1885	August 9, 1889	Grover Cleveland

Patrick Egan	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 9, 1889	July 4, 1893	Benjamin Harrison

James D. Porter	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 4, 1893	March 14, 1894	Grover Cleveland

Edward H. Strobel	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 6, 1895	August 17, 1897

Henry L. Wilson	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 14, 1897	July 18, 1904	William McKinley

John Hicks	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 5, 1905	May 11, 1909	Theodore Roosevelt

Thomas C. Dawson	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 20, 1909	November 16, 1909	William H. Taft

Henry P. Fletcher	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 9, 1910	November 19, 1914

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 19, 1914	March 9, 1916	Woodrow Wilson

Joseph Hooker Shea	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 30, 1916	May 5, 1921

William Miller Collier	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 29, 1921	August 6, 1928	Warren G. Harding

William S. Culbertson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 16, 1928	August 19, 1933	Calvin Coolidge

Hal H. Sevier	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 25, 1933	May 4, 1935	Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hoffman Philip	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 7, 1935	October 31, 1937

Norman Armour	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 21, 1938	June 10, 1939

Claude G. Bowers	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 7, 1939	September 2, 1953

Willard L. Beaulac	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 5, 1953	May 28, 1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower

Cecil B. Lyon	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 15, 1956	February 25, 1958

Walter Howe	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 1, 1958	March 15, 1961

Robert F. Woodward	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 5, 1961	July 6, 1961	John F. Kennedy

Charles W. Cole	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 21, 1961	September 27, 1964

Ralph A. Dungan	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 10, 1964	August 2, 1967	Lyndon B. Johnson

Edward M. Korry	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 16, 1967	October 12, 1971

Nathaniel Davis	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 20, 1971	November 1, 1973	Richard Nixon

David H. Popper	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 22, 1974	May 22, 1977	Gerald Ford

George W. Landau	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 1977	January 16, 1982	Jimmy Carter

James D. Theberge	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 8, 1982	August 2, 1985	Ronald Reagan

Harry George Barnes, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 18, 1985	November 26, 1988

Charles A. Gillespie, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 20, 1988	December 10, 1991

Curtis Warren Kamman	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	January 14, 1992	October 21, 1994	George H. W. Bush

Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 24, 1994	June 13, 1998	Bill Clinton

John O'Leary	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 19, 1998	June 29, 2001

William R. Brownfield	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 25, 2002	July 19, 2004	George W. Bush

Craig A. Kelly	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 9, 2004	November 9, 2007

Paul E. Simons	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 9, 2007	July 4, 2010

Alejandro Daniel Wolff	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 9, 2010	December 2013	Barack Obama

Michael A. Hammer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 7, 2014	August 2016

Carol Z. Perez	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 13, 2016	January 31, 2019

Sentence(s)

From 1956 to 1958, Cecil B. Lyon served as United States Ambassador to Chile.

final_sentence: From 1956 to 1958, Cecil B. Lyon served as United States Ambassador to Chile.