List of ambassadors of the United States to Canada
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Ambassador
Picture
Took office
Left office
President(s)

1

William Phillips

June 1, 1927

December 14, 1929

Calvin Coolidge,
Herbert Hoover

2

Hanford MacNider

August 29, 1930

August 15, 1932

Herbert Hoover

3

Warren Delano Robbins

May 16, 1933

March 28, 1935

Franklin D. Roosevelt

4

Norman Armour

August 7, 1935

January 15, 1939

5

Daniel Calhoun Roper

May 19, 1939

August 20, 1939

6

James H. R. Cromwell

January 24, 1940

May 16, 1940

7

Jay Pierrepont Moffat

June 13, 1940

January 24, 1943

8

Ray Atherton

August 3, 1943

August 30, 1948

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman

9

Laurence Steinhardt

November 1, 1949

March 28, 1950

Harry S. Truman

10

Stanley Woodward

June 22, 1950

January 14, 1953

11

R. Douglas Stuart

July 15, 1953

May 4, 1956

Dwight D. Eisenhower

12

Livingston T. Merchant

May 23, 1956

November 6, 1958

13

Richard B. Wigglesworth

December 15, 1958

October 19, 1960

14

Livingston T. Merchant

March 15, 1961

May 26, 1962

John F. Kennedy

15

William Walton Butterworth

December 11, 1962

September 10, 1968

John F. Kennedy,
Lyndon B. Johnson

16

Harold F. Linder

September 10, 1968

July 9, 1969

Lyndon B. Johnson,
Richard M. Nixon

17

Adolph W. Schmidt

September 11, 1969

January 29, 1974

Richard M. Nixon

18

William J. Porter

March 13, 1974

December 16, 1975

Richard M. Nixon,
Gerald R. Ford

19

Thomas O. Enders

February 17, 1976

December 14, 1979

Gerald R. Ford,
Jimmy Carter

20

Kenneth M. Curtis

October 5, 1979

January 20, 1981

Jimmy Carter

21

Paul H. Robinson, Jr.

July 15, 1981

September 9, 1985

Ronald Reagan

22

Thomas M. T. Niles

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September 10, 1985

June 28, 1989

Ronald Reagan,
George H. W. Bush

23

Edward N. Ney

June 30, 1989

June 20, 1992

George H. W. Bush

24

Peter Teeley

July 3, 1992

February 28, 1993

George H. W. Bush,
Bill Clinton

25

James Blanchard

August 19, 1993

March 15, 1996

Bill Clinton

26

Gordon Giffin

September 17, 1997

April 10, 2001

Bill Clinton,
George W. Bush

27

Paul Cellucci

April 17, 2001

March 18, 2005

George W. Bush

28

David Wilkins

June 29, 2005

January 20, 2009

George W. Bush

29

David Jacobson

October 2, 2009

July 15, 2013

Barack Obama

30

Bruce Heyman

March 26, 2014

January 20, 2017

Barack Obama

31

Kelly Knight Craft

October 23, 2017

Incumbent

Donald Trump

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