# List of ambassadors of the United States to Bolivia

The following is a list of envoys, ministers, and ambassadors that the United States has sent to Bolivia. As a point of note, the first Ambassador of the United States to Bolivia was John Appleton, who served as the charge d'Affaires from January 3, 1849, to May 4, 1849. Since September 15, 2008, there has been no official Ambassador with the office being held by a chargé d'Affaires.

## List

| No. | Name | Title(s) | Term start | Term finish |
| 1 | John Appleton | Chargé d'Affaires | January 3, 1849 | May 4, 1849 |
| 2 | Alexander Keith McClung | Chargé d'Affaires | July 3, 1850 | 1851 |
| 3 | Horace H. Miller | Chargé d'Affaires | December 18, 1852 | January 1854 |
| 4 | John W. Dana | Chargé d'Affaires Minister Resident | February 23, 1854 | March 10, 1859 |
| 5 | John Cotton Smith | Minister Resident | March 10, 1859 | May 1, 1861 |
| 6 | David K. Cartter | Minister Resident | July 28, 1861 | March 10, 1863 |
| 7 | Allen A. Hall | Minister Resident | September 4, 1863 | May 18, 1867 |
| 8 | John W. Caldwell | Minister Resident | November 2, 1868 | July 25, 1869 |
| 9 | Leopold Markbreit | Minister Resident | July 25, 1869 | February 12, 1873 |
| 10 | John T. Croxton | Minister Resident | April 9, 1873 | April 16, 1874 |
| 11 | Robert M. Reynolds | Minister Resident | January 30, 1875 | October 11, 1876 |
| 12 | Solomon Newton Pettis | Minister Resident Consul General | June 2, 1879 | October 30, 1879 |
| 13 | Charles Adams | Minister Resident Consul General | July 8, 1880 | August 29, 1882 |
| 14 | George Maney | Minister Resident Consul General | November 4, 1882 | June 1, 1883 |
| 15 | Richard Gibbs | Minister Resident Consul General | October 16, 1883 | September 11, 1885 |
| 16 | William A. Seay | Minister Resident Consul General | September 19, 1885 | April 12, 1887 |
| 17 | S. S. Carlisle | Minister Resident Consul General | January 17, 1888 | December 16, 1889 |
| 18 | Thomas H. Anderson | Minister Resident Consul General Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 16, 1889 | November 22, 1892 |
| 19 | Frederic J. Grant | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 12, 1893 | October 24, 1893 |
| 20 | Thomas Moonlight | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 14, 1894 | January 8, 1898 |
| 21 | George H. Bridgman | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 4, 1898 | January 13, 1902 |
| 22 | William B. Sorsby | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 4, 1902 | March 16, 1908 |
| 23 | James F. Stutesman | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 8, 1908 | April 15, 1910 |
| 24 | Horace G. Knowles | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 28, 1910 | August 23, 1913 |
| 25 | John D. O'Rear | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 31, 1913 | July 14, 1918 |
| 26 | S. Abbot Maginnis | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 14, 1920 | December 5, 1921 |
| 27 | Jesse S. Cottrell | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 6, 1922 | January 26, 1928 |
| 28 | David E. Kaufman | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 30, 1928 | January 10, 1929 |
| 29 | Edward F. Feely | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 23, 1930 | September 29, 1933 |
| 30 | Fay A. Des Portes | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 15, 1933 | May 1, 1936 |
| 31 | Raymond Henry Norweb | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 10, 1936 | June 15, 1937 |
| 32 | Robert Granville Caldwell | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 21, 1937 | June 23, 1939 |
| 33 | Douglas Jenkins | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 26, 1939 | October 3, 1941 |
| 34 | Pierre de Lagarde Boal | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 23, 1942 | February 5, 1944 |
| 35 | Walter C. Thurston | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 16, 1944 | January 3, 1946 |
| 36 | Joseph Flack | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 15, 1946 | May 17, 1949 |
| 37 | Irving Florman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 27, 1950 | September 4, 1951 |
| 38 | Edward J. Sparks | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 13, 1952 | October 29, 1954 |
| | Gerald A. Drew | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 8, 1954 | April 6, 1957 |
| | Philip Bonsal | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 10, 1957 | February 6, 1959 |
| | Carl W. Strom | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 4, 1959 | May 8, 1961 |
| | Ben S. Stephansky | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 29, 1961 | October 15, 1963 |
| | Douglas Henderson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 7, 1963 | August 6, 1968 |
| | Raúl Héctor Castro | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 3, 1968 | November 3, 1969 |
| | Ernest V. Siracusa | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 5, 1969 | July 30, 1973 |
| | William Perry Stedman, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 3, 1973 | June 23, 1977 |
| | Paul H. Boeker | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 26, 1977 | February 17, 1980 |
| | Marvin Weissman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 26, 1980 | July 17, 1980 |
| | Edwin G. Corr | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 10, 1981 | August 9, 1985 |
| | Edward Morgan Rowell | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 20, 1985 | January 19, 1988 |
| | Robert S. Gelbard | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 11, 1988 | July 20, 1991 |
| | Charles R. Bowers | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 23, 1991 | October 7, 1994 |
| | Curtis Warren Kamman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 16, 1994 | November 26, 1997 |
| | Donna Jean Hrinak | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 14, 1998 | July 17, 2000 |
| | Manuel Rocha | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 4, 2000 | April 27, 2002 |
| | David N. Greenlee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 17, 2003 | May 10, 2006 |
| | Philip S. Goldberg | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 13, 2006 | September 14, 2008 |
| | Krishna R. Urs | Chargé d’Affaires a.i | September 15, 2008 | June 25, 2009 |
| | James Creagan | Chargé d’Affaires a.i | June 25, 2009 | August 28, 2009 |
| | John S. Creamer | Chargé d’Affaires a.i | August 28, 2009 | July 13, 2012 |
| | Larry L. Memmott | Chargé d’Affaires a.i | July 14, 2012 | February 28, 2014 |
| | Aruna Amirthanayagam | Chargé d’Affaires a.i | February 28, 2014 | June 8, 2014 |
| | Peter M. Brennan | Chargé d’Affaires | June 8, 2014 | December 17, 2017 |
| | Bruce Williamson | Chargé d’Affaires | December 20, 2017 | August 26, 2020 |
| | Charisse Phillips | Chargé d’Affaires | August 26, 2020 | October 7, 2022 |
| | Jarahn Hillsman | Chargé d’Affaires | October 7, 2022 | June 24, 2023 |
| | Marcos Mandojana | Chargé d’Affaires | June 25, 2023 | July 17, 2023 |
| | Joe Tordella | Chargé d’Affaires | July 18, 2023 | September 14, 2023 |
| | Debra Hevia | Chargé d’Affaires | September 14, 2023 | Incumbent |