List of ambassadors of the United States to Guatemala
The following is a list of Ambassadors of the United States, or other chiefs of mission, to Guatemala. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

List of ambassadors of the United States to Guatemala

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Table Section Text: The following is a list of Ambassadors of the United States, or other chiefs of mission, to Guatemala. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Representative	Title	Presentation of Credentials	Termination of Mission	Appointed by

John Williams	Chargé d'Affaires	May 3, 1826	December 1, 1826	John Quincy Adams

Charles G. DeWitt	Chargé d'Affaires	December 17, 1833	January 1, 1839	Andrew Jackson

Elijah Hise	Chargé d'Affaires	January 31, 1849	June 23, 1849	James K. Polk

Solon Borland	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 31, 1854	Franklin Pierce

John L. Marling	Minister Resident	February 14, 1855	May 8, 1856

Beverly L. Clarke	Minister Resident	July 13, 1858	March 17, 1860	James Buchanan

Elisha Oscar Crosby	Minister Resident	May 28, 1861	June 22, 1864	Abraham Lincoln

Fitz Henry Warren	Minister Resident	June 27, 1866	August 11, 1869	Andrew Johnson

Silas A. Hudson	Minister Resident	August 11, 1869	October 12, 1872	Ulysses S. Grant

George Williamson	Minister Resident	September 9, 1873	January 31, 1879

Cornelius A. Logan	Minister Resident	June 11, 1879	April 12, 1882	Rutherford B. Hayes

Henry C. Hall	Minister Resident	July 25, 1882	August 10, 1882	Chester A. Arthur

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 10, 1882	May 15, 1889

Lansing B. Mizner	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 4, 1889	December 31, 1890	Benjamin Harrison

Romualdo Pacheco	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 28, 1891	June 12, 1893

Pierce M. B. Young	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 12, 1893	May 23, 1896	Grover Cleveland

Macgrane Coxe	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 29, 1896	June 30, 1897

W. Godfrey Hunter	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	January 25, 1898	February 2, 1903	William McKinley

Leslie Combs	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 2, 1903	February 25, 1907	Theodore Roosevelt

Joseph W. J. Lee	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 19, 1907	October 13, 1907

William Heimke	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 2, 1908	September 30, 1909

William F. Sands	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 9, 1909	October 14, 1910	William H. Taft

R. S. Reynolds Hitt	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 14, 1910	March 4, 1913

William Hayne Leavell	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 29, 1913	October 24, 1918	Woodrow Wilson

Benton McMillin	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	January 15, 1920	December 6, 1921

Arthur H. Geissler	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 31, 1922	January 23, 1930	Warren G. Harding

Sheldon Whitehouse	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 21, 1930	July 23, 1933	Herbert Hoover

Matthew E. Hanna	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 28, 1933	February 9, 1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fay A. Des Portes	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 22, 1936	May 14, 1943

Boaz Long	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 19, 1943	April 11, 1945

Edwin Jackson Kyle	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 8, 1945	August 22, 1948

Richard C. Patterson, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 24, 1948	April 24, 1951	Harry S. Truman

Rudolf E. Schoenfeld	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 24, 1951	October 19, 1953

John Emil Peurifoy	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 4, 1953	October 2, 1954	Dwight D. Eisenhower

Norman Armour	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 18, 1954	May 9, 1955

Edward J. Sparks	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 29, 1955	February 15, 1958

Lester D. Mallory	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 27, 1958	November 11, 1959

John J. Muccio	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 1, 1960	November 10, 1961

John O. Bell	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	January 30, 1962	August 26, 1965

John Gordon Mein	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 22, 1965	August 28, 1968	Lyndon B. Johnson

Nathaniel Davis	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 21, 1968	August 21, 1971

William G. Bowdler	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 19, 1971	August 26, 1973	Richard Nixon

Francis E. Meloy, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 7, 1974	April 19, 1976

Davis E. Boster	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 13, 1976	January 17, 1979	Gerald Ford

Frank V. Ortiz, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 17, 1979	August 6, 1980	Jimmy Carter

Frederic L. Chapin	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 3, 1981	February 28, 1984	Ronald Reagan

Alberto Martinez Piedra	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 17, 1984	August 22, 1987

James H. Michel	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 28, 1987	September 1, 1989

Thomas F. Stroock	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 31, 1989	November 10, 1992	George H. W. Bush

Marilyn McAfee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 16, 1993	June 20, 1996	Bill Clinton

Donald J. Planty	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 22, 1996	August 14, 1999

Prudence Bushnell	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 14, 1999	June 15, 2002

John Randle Hamilton	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	January 3, 2003	July 15, 2005	George W. Bush

James M. Derham	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 1, 2005	July 15, 2008

Stephen G. McFarland	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 5, 2008	August 25, 2011

Arnold A. Chacón	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 29, 2011	March 3, 2014	Barack Obama

Todd D. Robinson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 16, 2014	September 20, 2017

David Hodge	Chargé d'Affaires	September 20, 2014	October 3, 2017	Donald Trump

Luis E. Arreaga	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 3, 2017	Incumbent

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Donald J. Planty served as United States Ambassador to Guatemala from 1996 to 1999.
Donald J. Planty served as ambassadors of the United States to Guatemala from 1996 to 1999.
Donald J. Planty served as United States Ambassador to Guatemala from 1996 to 1999.

final_sentence: Donald J. Planty served as United States Ambassador to Guatemala from 1996 to 1999.
final_sentence: Donald J. Planty served as ambassadors of the United States to Guatemala from 1996 to 1999.
final_sentence: Donald J. Planty served as United States Ambassador to Guatemala from 1996 to 1999.