List of ambassadors of the United States to Iceland
List of ambassadors
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Name

Title

Appointment

Presentation of credentials

Termination of mission

Nature of appointment

Nature of termination

1

Lincoln MacVeagh

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

8 August 1941

30 September 1941

27 June 1942

Political appointee

Left post

2

Leland Burnette Morris

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

13 August 1942

7 October 1942

10 May 1944

Career FSO

Relinquished charge

3

Louis Goethe Dreyfus, Jr.

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

21 March 1944

14 June 1944

21 October 1946

Career FSO

Left post

4

Richard P. Butrick

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

26 February 1948

29 April 1948

10 August 1949

Career FSO

Left post

5

Edward B. Lawson

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

22 July 1949

22 September 1949

29 May 1954

Career FSO

Left post

6

John Joseph Muccio

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

23 August 1954

12 October 1954

19 October 1955

Career FSO

Mission title changed

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

19 October 1955

3 November 1955

16 December 1959

Left post

7

Tyler Thompson

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

27 January 1960

19 February 1960

16 April 1961

Career FSO

Left post

8

James K. Penfield

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

27 April 1961

24 May 1961

16 March 1967

Career FSO

Left post

9

Karl Fritjof Rolvaag

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

5 April 1967

9 May 1967

27 March 1969

Political appointee

Left post

10

Luther I. Replogle

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

8 July 1969

12 September 1969

15 June 1972

Political appointee

Left post

11

Frederick Irving

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

11 September 1972

11 October 1972

21 April 1976

Career FSO

Left post

12

James J. Blake

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

1 July 1976

8 September 1976

29 September 1978

Career FSO

Left post

13

Richard A. Ericson, Jr.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

12 October 1978

21 November 1978

15 August 1981

Career FSO

Left post

14

Marshall Brement

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

27 July 1981

16 September 1981

1 August 1985

Career FSO

Left post

15

L. Nicholas Ruwe

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

12 July 1985

21 August 1985

7 October 1989

Political appointee

Left post

16

Charles Elvan Cobb, Jr.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

10 October 1989

8 November 1989

10 January 1992

Political appointee

Left post

17

Sigmund Rogich

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

11 May 1992

4 June 1992

14 October 1993

Political appointee

Left post

18

Parker W. Borg

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

8 October 1993

24 November 1993

13 July 1996

Career FSO

Left post

19

Day O. Mount

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

11 June 1996

3 September 1996

12 August 1999

Career FSO

Left post

20

Barbara J. Griffiths

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

9 August 1999

29 September 1999

29 July 2002

Career FSO

Left post

21

James Irvin Gadsden

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

3 October 2002

9 December 2002

14 July 2005

Career FSO

Left post

22

Carol van Voorst

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

3 January 2006

26 January 2006

30 April 2009

Career FSO

Left post

23

Luis E. Arreaga

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

10 September 2010

20 September 2010

23 November 2013

Career FSO

Left post

24

Robert C. Barber

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

2 January 2015

28 January 2015

20 January 2017

Political appointee

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