List of ambassadors of the United States to Brazil
Table:
Representative

Title

Presentation
of Credentials

Termination
of Mission

Appointed by

Condy Raguet

Chargé d'Affaires

October 29, 1825

April 16, 1827

John Quincy Adams

William Tudor

Chargé d'Affaires

June 25, 1828

March 9, 1830[1]

Ethan A. Brown

Chargé d'Affaires

February 18, 1831

April 11, 1834

Andrew Jackson

William Hunter

Chargé d'Affaires

January 7, 1835

January 1, 1842

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

January 1, 1842

December 9, 1843

John Tyler

George H. Proffit

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

December 11, 1843

August 10, 1844[2]

Henry A. Wise

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

August 10, 1844

August 28, 1847

David Tod

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

August 28, 1847

August 9, 1851

James K. Polk

Robert C. Schenck

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

August 9, 1851

October 8, 1853

Millard Fillmore

William Trousdale

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

October 8, 1853

December 5, 1857

Franklin Pierce

Richard K. Meade

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

December 5, 1857

July 9, 1861

James Buchanan

James Watson Webb

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

October 21, 1861

May 26, 1869

Abraham Lincoln

James Monroe [3][4]

Chargé d'Affaires ad interim

1869

1869

Ulysses S. Grant

Henry T. Blow

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

August 28, 1869

November 6, 1870

James R. Partridge

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

July 31, 1871

June 11, 1877

Henry W. Hilliard

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

October 23, 1877

June 15, 1881

Rutherford B. Hayes

Thomas A. Osborn

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

December 17, 1881

July 11, 1885

James Garfield

Thomas J. Jarvis

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

July 11, 1885

November 19, 1888

Grover Cleveland

Robert Adams, Jr.

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

July 20, 1889

March 1, 1890

Benjamin Harrison

Edwin H. Conger

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

December 19, 1890

September 9, 1893

Thomas L. Thompson

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

September 9, 1893

July 17, 1897

Grover Cleveland

Edwin H. Conger

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

August 9, 1897

February 6, 1898

William McKinley

Charles Page Bryan

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

April 11, 1898

December 3, 1902

David E. Thompson

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

April 1, 1903

March 16, 1905

Theodore Roosevelt

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

March 16, 1905

November 3, 1905

Lloyd C. Griscom

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

June 6, 1906

January 2, 1907

Irving Bedell Dudley

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

April 1, 1907

September 16, 1911

Edwin V. Morgan

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

June 4, 1912

August 23, 1933

William H. Taft

Hugh S. Gibson

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

August 23, 1933

December 3, 1936

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Jefferson Caffery

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

August 17, 1937

September 17, 1944

Adolf A. Berle, Jr.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

January 30, 1945

February 27, 1946

William D. Pawley

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

June 13, 1946

March 26, 1948

Harry S. Truman

Herschel Vespasian Johnson

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

July 22, 1948

May 27, 1953

James S. Kemper

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

August 18, 1953

January 26, 1955

Dwight D. Eisenhower

James Clement Dunn

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

March 11, 1955

July 4, 1956

Ellis O. Briggs

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

July 24, 1956

April 29, 1959

Clare Boothe Luce

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

April 29, 1959

May 1, 1959

John M. Cabot

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

July 22, 1959

August 17, 1961

Lincoln Gordon

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

October 19, 1961

February 25, 1966

John F. Kennedy

John W. Tuthill

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

June 30, 1966

January 9, 1969

Lyndon B. Johnson

Charles Burke Elbrick

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

July 14, 1969

May 7, 1970

Richard Nixon

William M. Rountree

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

November 16, 1970

May 30, 1973

John Hugh Crimmins

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

August 13, 1973

February 25, 1978

Robert M. Sayre

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

June 8, 1978

September 19, 1981

Jimmy Carter

Langhorne A. Motley

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

October 6, 1981

July 6, 1983

Ronald Reagan

Diego C. Asencio

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

December 20, 1983

February 28, 1986

Harry W. Shlaudeman

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

August 5, 1986

May 14, 1989

Richard Huntington Melton

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

December 12, 1989

December 16, 1993

George H. W. Bush

Melvyn Levitsky

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

June 1, 1994

June 17, 1998

Bill Clinton

Anthony Stephen Harrington

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

February 8, 2000

February 28, 2001

Cristobal R. Orozco

Chargé d'Affaires ad interim

February 2001

April 2002

George W. Bush

Donna J. Hrinak

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

April 23, 2002

June 26, 2004

John J. Danilovich

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

September 2, 2004

November 7, 2005

Philip T. Chicola

Chargé d'Affaires ad interim

November 2005

November 2006

Clifford M. Sobel

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

November 7, 2006

August 2009

Tom Shannon

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

December 24, 2009

September 2013

Barack Obama

Liliana Ayalde

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

September 12, 2013

January 11, 2017

P. Michael McKinley

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

January 11, 2017

Incumbent

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