List of ambassadors of the United States to Norway
List of Ambassadors

List of ambassadors of the United States to Norway

Section Title: List of Ambassadors
Table Section Text: None

Name	Portrait	State	Appointment	Presentation	Termination	Appointer	Notes

Charles H. Graves	-	Minnesota	March 8, 1905	May 31, 1905	August 6, 1906	Theodore Roosevelt	Left post

Herbert H. D. Peirce	-	Massachusetts	June 22, 1906	August 13, 1906	May 30, 1911	Left post

Laurits S. Swenson	-	Minnesota	April 27, 1911	June 10, 1911	October 4, 1913	William H. Taft	Left post

Albert G. Schmedeman	-	Wisconsin	July 21, 1913	October 4, 1913	July 29, 1921	Woodrow Wilson	Left post

Laurits S. Swenson	-	Minnesota	October 8, 1921	November 28, 1921	November 9, 1930	Warren G. Harding	Left post

Hoffman Philip	-	New York	July 22, 1930	November 15, 1930	August 3, 1935	Herbert Hoover	Left post

Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr.	-	Pennsylvania	July 22, 1935	September 7, 1935	May 21, 1937	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Left post

Florence Jaffray Harriman	-	New York	May 4, 1937	July 1, 1937	April 22, 1940	Left Norway because of WWII, first female ambassador to Norway

Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr.	-	Pennsylvania	February 11, 1941	March 20, 1941	December 1, 1943	Left London, where the government of Norway went into exile

Lithgow Osborne	-	New York	September 21, 1944	December 20, 1944	April 20, 1946	Left post

Charles Ulrick Bay	-	New York	June 6, 1946	July 26, 1946	July 31, 1953	Harry S. Truman	Left post

Lester Corrin Strong	-	District of Columbia	June 24, 1953	August 10, 1953	February 16, 1957	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Left post

Frances E. Willis	-	California	May 20, 1957	June 19, 1957	May 15, 1961	Left post

Clifton R. Wharton, Sr.	-	California	March 2, 1961	April 18, 1961	September 4, 1964	John F. Kennedy	Left post

Margaret Joy Tibbetts	-	Maine	July 31, 1964	October 6, 1964	May 23, 1969	Lyndon B. Johnson	Left post

Philip K. Crowe	-	Maryland	May 1, 1969	June 23, 1969	August 31, 1973	Richard Nixon	Left post

Thomas Ryan Byrne	-	Pennsylvania	August 3, 1973	October 4, 1973	April 10, 1976	Left post

William A. Anders	-	Virginia	April 13, 1976	May 11, 1976	June 18, 1977	Gerald R. Ford	Left post

Louis A. Lerner	-	Illinois	July 15, 1977	August 23, 1977	January 28, 1980	Jimmy Carter	Left post

Sidney Anders Rand	-	Minnesota	December 20, 1979	March 4, 1980	February 14, 1981	Left post

Mark Evans Austad	-	Arizona	December 11, 1981	January 5, 1982	September 15, 1984	Ronald Reagan	Left post

R. Douglas Stuart Jr.	-	Illinois	September 18, 1984	October 16, 1984	July 17, 1989	Left post

Loret Miller Ruppe	-	Maryland	August 7, 1989	August 29, 1989	February 28, 1993	George H. W. Bush	Left post

Thomas A. Loftus	-	Wisconsin	November 4, 1993	November 18, 1993	December 22, 1997	Bill Clinton	Left post

David Hermelin	-	Michigan	November 10, 1997	January 8, 1998	January 7, 2000	Left post

Robin Chandler Duke	-	New York	August 3, 2000	September 12, 2000	March 1, 2001	Left post

John D. Ong	-	Ohio	January 30, 2002	February 27, 2002	November 21, 2005	George W. Bush	Left post

Benson K. Whitney	-	Minnesota	November 2, 2005	January 12, 2006	June 20, 2009	Left post

Barry B. White	-	Massachusetts	September 23, 2009	November 5, 2009	September 28, 2013	Barack Obama	Left post

Samuel D. Heins	-	Minnesota	February 16, 2016	March 10, 2016	January 12, 2017	Left post

Kenneth Braithwaite	-	Pennsylvania	December 21, 2017	February 8, 2018	Incumbent	Donald Trump	In office

Sentence(s)

Frances E. Willis served as Ambassador to Norway from 1957 until 1961.

final_sentence: Frances E. Willis served as Ambassador to Norway from 1957 until 1961.