# List of ambassadors of the Czech Republic to the United States

The Czech ambassador in Washington, D. C. is the official representative of the Government in Prague to the Government of the United States.

## List of representatives

| Diplomatic agrément | Diplomatic accreditation | Ambassador | Notes | President of the Czech Republic | President of the United States |
| 1918 | | Charles Pergler | | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | Woodrow Wilson |
| December 8, 1919 | | | Legation Opened | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | Woodrow Wilson |
| December 8, 1919 | | Jan Masaryk | Charge d'Affaires | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | Woodrow Wilson |
| October 5, 1920 | | Karel Halla | Charge d'Affaires (1876-1939) | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | Woodrow Wilson |
| January 5, 1921 | | Bedřich Štěpánek | | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | Warren G. Harding |
| June 15, 1923 | | František Chvalkovský | | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | Calvin Coolidge |
| October 12, 1925 | | Zdeněk Fierlinger | | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | Calvin Coolidge |
| November 5, 1928 | November 20, 1928 | Ferdinand Veverka | | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | Calvin Coolidge |
| December 30, 1936 | | Vladimír Ladislav Dionýz Svetozárov Hurban | | Edvard Beneš | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| June 28, 1943 | | | Legation raised to Embassy | Emil Hácha | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| June 14, 1943 | June 28, 1943 | Vladimír Ladislav Dionýz Svetozárov Hurban | | Emil Hácha | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| June 4, 1946 | June 12, 1946 | Juraj Slávik | Juraj Slávik, broadcast 15 June 1942 (originally planned for 11 June 1942). One source even suggests that the speech was originally planned for 1 June 1942. The assassination of Heydrich took place on 27 May | Edvard Beneš | Harry S. Truman |
| March 3, 1948 | | Vladimír Outrata | (19. 4. 1909 Caslav - 9. 7. 1970 Prague) | Klement Gottwald | Harry S. Truman |
| June 14, 1948 | June 21, 1948 | Vladimír Procházka [cs] | | Klement Gottwald | Harry S. Truman |
| August 23, 1951 | August 28, 1951 | Karel Petrželka | Czechoslovak Diplomat: (* April 2, 1907, Brno) educated at Univ. of Brno Law School, LL.D. 1932. Engaged in practice of law, 1932–33 | Klement Gottwald | Harry S. Truman |
| October 13, 1952 | October 24, 1952 | Miroslav Růžek | | Klement Gottwald | Harry S. Truman |
| May 5, 1959 | May 20, 1959 | Karel Duda | 1992 ambassador London | Antonín Novotný | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| October 1, 1963 | November 13, 1963 | Ivan Roháľ-Iľkiv [cs] | (* February 16, 1917) In 1963 he was Ambassador in New Delhi. | Antonín Novotný | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| October 15, 1969 | October 16, 1969 | Dušan Spáčil | (* May 17, 1929 in Brno) Took part in anti-German resistance, once in June 1945 joined the Communist Party. After graduating from secondary school, he studied from r. 1948 first law at Charles University, and later in Kiev and Moscow State University (JUDr. 1954). From August 1954 until his retirement beginning. R. 1990 worked in Czechoslovakia. Communist diplomacy. His career began in the years 1956-1960 as III. Secretary of the Permanent Mission of Czechoslovakia to the United Nations in New York, then he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and OMO in l. 1962 to 1964 then as First Secretary at the Embassy in Vienna, where he worked as the issue IAEA. From September 1964 to September 1967 he was the first secretary and later CS series. Embassy in Moscow after returning to Prague was again included in the OMO, which belonged even during the Prague Spring to the defenders of the "old order" r. 1969 also belonged to the ministry of the founders SČSP. After the onset Minister Mark J. (see) became a member of its narrower cabinet in 1970–71, then he drove OMO. From November 1971 to April 1975 he served as Ambassador to the US, after returning to Prague in May 1975 became one of five deputy ministers B. Chnoupek (see), and remained so until March 1983. His competency initially belonged MIT, and ADO IIR, and later territorial departments in the report were sessions with countries 'capitalist' Europe, after the retirement of F. Krajčír l. 1979-1983 conversely led divisions dedicated to relations with the USSR and the socialist states (1 and 2 TOs) . *From April 1983 to the end of 1988 he was the ambassador in Bonn (Germany) After appeals to Prague, then was appointed last communist Director of IIR, which remained until February 1990. In February 1990, he retired. The author strongly apologetic memoirs: We of Czernin (1996). | Ludvík Svoboda | Richard Nixon |
| September 30, 1971 | | Jaroslav Zantovsky | Charge d'Affaires (* July 2, 1924 in Brandýs n. Labem – December 15, 1986 in Prague). | Ludvík Svoboda | Richard Nixon |
| March 7, 1972 | March 27, 1972 | Dušan Spáčil | | Ludvík Svoboda | Richard Nixon |
| May 15, 1975 | | Vincent Buzek | Charge d'Affaires | Gustáv Husák | Gerald Ford |
| May 4, 1976 | May 21, 1976 | Jaromír Johanes | (* August 21, 1933 Dobra nad Sazavou) Educated in Moscow Inst, of Int. Relations joined Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1958 later Consul-Gen. Australia Amb. to U.S.A. and Canada Deputy Foreign Minister 1982, First Deputy Foreign Minister 1987 Minister of Foreign Affairs 1988-89 Counsellor-Envoy to Turkey 1990–93, Amb. to Turkey 1993–95. | Gustáv Husák | Gerald Ford |
| June 3, 1982 | July 29, 1982 | Jaroslav Žantovský | 1972: Chargé d'Affaires of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, acted as the official Cuban representative in the US | Gustáv Husák | Ronald Reagan |
| September 7, 1983 | October 13, 1983 | Stanislav Suja | (* 1940 in Vglas u Zvolena, studied journalism at Comenius University and law at Moscow's MGIMO (JUDR., 1968). Afterwards he was employed by the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs until his release in 1990. In 1972-75 he was assigned to the Czechoslovak permanent mission | Gustáv Husák | Ronald Reagan |
| April 25, 1986 | June 23, 1986 | Miroslav Houštecký | (*10. 6. 1926, Horky nad Jizerou– 31. 1. 1994, Praha). 8. 12. 1983 Vyslanci Velké Británie | Gustáv Husák | Ronald Reagan |
| March 1, 1990 | | | CZECHOSLOVAK FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC* | Václav Havel | George H. W. Bush |
| February 15, 1990 | April 9, 1990 | Rita Klímová | | Václav Havel | George H. W. Bush |
| October 5, 1992 | November 18, 1992 | Michael Žantovský | | Václav Havel | George H. W. Bush |
| April 4, 1997 | May 14, 1997 | Alexandr Vondra | | Václav Havel | Bill Clinton |
| October 1, 2001 | October 10, 2001 | Martin Palouš | | Václav Havel | George W. Bush |
| November 30, 2005 | December 2, 2005 | Petr Kolář | | Václav Klaus | George W. Bush |
| May 23, 2011 | July 7, 2011 | Petr Gandalovič | | Václav Klaus | Barack Obama |
| March 16, 2017 | April 24, 2017 | Hynek Kmoníček | | Miloš Zeman | Donald Trump |
| September 2, 2022 | September 16, 2022 | Miloslav Stašek | | Miloš Zeman | Joe Biden |
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