# List of ambassadors of the United States to Sweden

The United States ambassador to Sweden (Swedish: Förenta Staternas ambassadör i Sverige) serves as the official diplomatic representative of the United States to the King and the Government of the Kingdom of Sweden. Diplomatic relations between Sweden and the United States began with the signing of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce in 1783. Sweden received its first U.S. resident minister in 1814, but in 1818, the senior U.S. diplomat again became the chargé d'affaires. In 1854, the senior American diplomat in Sweden again became the minister resident. From 1814 to 1905 the United States Chief of Mission in Sweden also represented United States interests with respect to Norway, as Norway was aligned with Sweden during this period in the Union between Sweden and Norway.
The contemporary tendency of American presidents is to appoint fundraisers or prominent campaign supporters to the ambassador's post in Sweden, rather than promoting career members of the United States Foreign Service. The position is currently vacant.

## Residence

Since the 1930s, the ambassador is resident in the ambassadorial residence, Villa Åkerlund, of the United States Embassy in Diplomatstaden, Stockholm.

## List of American chiefs of mission to Sweden
### 18th century

| Portrait | Representative | Title | Appointment | Presentation of credentials | Termination of mission |
| | Benjamin Franklin | Minister Plenipotentiary | September 28, 1782 | Note: Was in Paris as U.S. ambassador to France; negotiated treaty with the Swedish Ambassador in Paris. | April 3, 1783 |

### 1814–1854 (non-resident minister)

| Representative | Title | Appointment | Presentation of credentials | Termination of mission |
| Jonathan Russell | Minister Plenipotentiary | January 18, 1814 | April 29, 1818 | October 22, 1818 |
| Christopher Hughes | Chargé d'Affaires | January 21, 1819 | | July 5, 1825 |
| William C. Somerville | Chargé d'Affaires | March 9, 1825 | | Died en route to post |
| John James Appleton | Chargé d'Affaires | May 2, 1826 | October 28, 1826 | August 16, 1830 |
| Christopher Hughes | Chargé d'Affaires | March 3, 1830 | August 16, 1830 | September 22, 1841 |
| George W. Lay | Chargé d'Affaires | May 12, 1842 | October 4, 1842 | October 11, 1845 |
| Henry W. Ellsworth | Chargé d'Affaires | April 19, 1845 | October 11, 1845 | January 25, 1861 |
| Francis Schroeder | Chargé d'Affaires | November 7, 1849 | April 22, 1850 | June 29, 1854 |

### 1854–1885 (minister resident)

| Representative | Title | Appointment | Presentation of credentials | Termination of mission |
| Francis Schroeder | Minister Resident | June 29, 1854 | August 19, 1854 | September 17, 1857 |
| Benjamin F. Angel | Minister Resident | July 17, 1857 | November 4, 1857 | June 25, 1861 |
| Jacob S. Haldeman | Minister Resident | March 16, 1861 | June 25, 1861 | September 24, 1864 |
| James H. Campbell | Minister Resident | May 18, 1864 | Sep 24, 1864 | March 29, 1867 |
| John McGinnis, Jr. | Minister Resident | November 16, 1866 | | Did not proceed to post, his nomination having been rejected by the Senate while he was en route. |
| Joseph J. Bartlett | Minister Resident | March 19, 1867 | June 4, 1867 | July 24, 1869 |
| John S. Carlile | Minister Resident | | | Not commissioned |
| Christopher Columbus Andrews | Minister Resident | June 3, 1869 | July 24, 1869 | November 5, 1877 |
| John L. Stevens | Minister Resident | August 28, 1877 | November 5, 1877 | June 3, 1883 |
| William W. Thomas, Jr. | Minister Resident | June 6, 1883 | September 6, 1883 | June 30, 1885 |
| Rufus Magee | Minister Resident | April 2, 1885 | July 3, 1885 | Promoted to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary |

### 1885–1947 (envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary)

| Representative | Title | Appointment | Presentation of credentials | Termination of mission |
| Rufus Magee | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 10, 1888 | September 26, 1888 | May 25, 1889 |
| William W. Thomas, Jr. | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 19, 1889 | May 27, 1889 | May 2, 1894 |
| Thomas B. Ferguson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 14, 1894 | May 2, 1894 | February 7, 1898 |
| William W. Thomas, Jr. | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 18, 1898 | February 8, 1898 | May 31, 1905 |
| Charles H. Graves | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 8, 1905 | May 31, 1905 | December 12, 1913 |
| Ira Nelson Morris | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 13, 1914 | August 28, 1914 | April 3, 1923 |
| Robert Woods Bliss | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 30, 1923 | August 8, 1923 | March 15, 1927 |
| Leland Harrison | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 26, 1927 | May 31, 1927 | November 11, 1929 |
| John Motley Morehead III | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 22, 1930 | March 31, 1930 | April 6, 1933 |
| Laurence A. Steinhardt | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 11, 1933 | August 28, 1933 | June 26, 1937 |
| Fred Morris Dearing | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 22, 1937 | September 23, 1937 | June 17, 1938 |
| Frederick A. Sterling | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 16, 1938 | September 26, 1938 | July 14, 1941 |
| Herschel V. Johnson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 21, 1941 | December 12, 1941 | April 28, 1946 |
| Louis G. Dreyfus, Jr. | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 1, 1946 | January 3, 1947 | October 6, 1947 |
| H. Freeman Matthews | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 21, 1947 | | |

### 1947–present day (ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary)

| Representative | Title | Appointment | Presentation of credentials | Termination of mission |
| H. Freeman Matthews | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 20, 1947 | December 5, 1947 | May 24, 1950 |
| W. Walton Butterworth | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 5, 1950 | September 18, 1950 | December 9, 1953 |
| John M. Cabot | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 1, 1954 | May 6, 1954 | May 14, 1957 |
| Francis White | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 3, 1957 | September 17, 1957 | December 9, 1958 |
| James C.H. Bonbright | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 29, 1958 | January 9, 1959 | March 20, 1961 |
| J. Graham Parsons | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 15, 1961 | May 16, 1961 | April 17, 1967 |
| William Womack Heath | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 5, 1967 | May 23, 1967 | January 23, 1969 |
| Vacant | No ambassador appointed | January 24, 1969 | | February 15, 1970 |
| Jerome H. Holland | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 16, 1970 | April 14, 1970 | August 30, 1972 |
| Arthur J. Olsen | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | December 1972 | | May 1974 |
| Robert Strausz-Hupé | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 25, 1974 | May 29, 1974 | March 3, 1976 |
| David S. Smith | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 6, 1976 | May 7, 1976 | April 29, 1977 |
| Rodney O'Gliasain Kennedy-Minott | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 3, 1977 | September 29, 1977 | September 26, 1980 |
| Franklin S. Forsberg | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 11, 1981 | January 14, 1982 | December 12, 1985 |
| Gregory J. Newell | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 9, 1985 | December 19, 1985 | June 12, 1989 |
| Charles Edgar Redman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 12, 1989 | June 13, 1989 | August 24, 1992 |
| Thomas L. Siebert | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 9, 1994 | March 24, 1994 | December 17, 1997 |
| Lyndon Lowell Olson, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 10, 1997 | January 22, 1998 | August 1, 2001 |
| Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 3, 2001 | September 26, 2001 | February 12, 2004 |
| Miles T. Bivins | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 25, 2004 | June 9, 2004 | January 31, 2006 |
| Michael M. Wood | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 30, 2006 | June 8, 2006 | January 20, 2009 |
| Matthew Barzun | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 12, 2009 | August 21, 2009 | May 28, 2011 |
| Mark Brzezinski | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 18, 2011 | November 24, 2011 | July 1, 2015 |
| Robert S. Gilchrist | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | July 1, 2015 | | March 1, 2016 |
| Azita Raji | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 1, 2016 | March 1, 2016 | January 20, 2017 |
| David Lindwall | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | January 20, 2017 | | December 18, 2018 |
| Pamela Tremont | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | April 2019 | | November 7, 2019 |
| Ken Howery | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 17, 2019 | November 7, 2019 | January 20, 2021 |
| Pamela Tremont | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | January 20, 2021 | | June 12, 2021 |
| Dillon Banerjee | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | June 12, 2021 | | July 22, 2021 |
| Pamela Tremont | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | July 23, 2021 | | January 20, 2022 |
| Erik Ramanathan | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 18, 2021 | January 20, 2022 | January 20, 2025 |
| Mark Evans | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | January 20, 2025 | | Incumbent |