List of ambassadors of the United States to the Dominican Republic
Table:
Name
Title
Presentation of Credentials
Termination of Mission
Notes

John M. Langston

Chargé d'Affaires

March 26, 1884

Transmitted recall by mail, June 23, 1885

Accredited to Santo Domingo, also accredited to Haiti; resident at Port-au-Prince.

John E. W. Thompson

Chargé d'Affaires

March 1, 1885

Relinquished charge at Port-au-Prince about October 17, 1889

Accredited to Santo Domingo, also accredited to Haiti; resident at Port-au-Prince.

Frederick Douglass

Chargé d'Affaires

January 25, 1890

Left Port-au-Prince, July 1891

Accredited to Santo Domingo, also accredited to Haiti; resident at Port-au-Prince.

John S. Durham

Chargé d'Affaires

January 14, 1892

Presented recall, November 18, 1893

Accredited to Santo Domingo, also accredited to Haiti; resident at Port-au-Prince.

Henry M. Smythe

Chargé d'Affaires

November 18, 1893

Left Santo Domingo, March 20, 1897

Accredited to Santo Domingo, also accredited to Haiti; resident at Port-au-Prince. Credentials presented on November 18, 1893, by his predecessor; Smythe was officially received in person at Santo Domingo, October 28, 1895.

William F. Powell

Chargé d'Affaires

February 18, 1898

Superseded, July 23, 1904

Accredited to Santo Domingo, also accredited to Haiti; resident at Port-au-Prince. Officially received on February 18, 1898; had transmitted credentials by mail in November 1897.

Thomas C. Dawson

Minister Resident/Consul General

July 23, 1904

Left post, May 5, 1907

Accredited to Santo Domingo.

Fenton R. McCreery

Minister Resident/Consul General

May 18, 1907

Left post, October 7, 1909

Accredited to Santo Domingo.

Horace G. Knowles

Minister Resident/Consul General

March 7, 1910

Presented recall, August 2, 1910

William W. Russell

Minister Resident/Consul General

November 3, 1910

Promoted to Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

William W. Russell

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

September 5, 1911

Left post, March 2, 1913

James Mark Sullivan

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

September 23, 1913

Left post, June 20, 1915

William W. Russell

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

October 7, 1915

Left post, September 12, 1925

Evan E. Young

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

October 28, 1925

Left post, December 31, 1929

Charles B. Curtis

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

January 28, 1930

Left post, August 11, 1931

H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

October 9, 1931

Left post, April 27, 1937

R. Henry Norweb

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

October 7, 1937

Presented recall, February 13-February 19, 1940

Robert M. Scotten

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

June 21, 1940

Left post, March 14, 1942

Avra M. Warren

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

July 4, 1942

Promoted to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Avra M. Warren

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

April 17, 1943

Left post, April 22, 1944

Ellis O. Briggs

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

June 3, 1944

Left post, January 14, 1945

Joseph F. McGurk

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

April 17, 1945

Left post, November 16, 1945

George Howland Butler

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

September 19, 1946

Left post, February 5, 1948

Ralph H. Ackerman

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

August 27, 1948

Left post, June 11, 1952

Phelps Phelps

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

July 29, 1952

Left post, May 30, 1953

William T. Pheiffer

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

June 29, 1953

Left post, June 2, 1957

Joseph S. Farland

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

August 7, 1957

Left post, May 28, 1960

Henry Dearborn

Chargé d'Affaires ad interim

Unknown

Diplomatic ties severed, August 26, 1960

U.S. severed diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic on August 26, 1960.

John Calvin Hill

Chargé d'Affaires ad interim

January 6, 1962

Unknown

U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo was reestablished January 6, 1962

Vinton Chapin

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

June 23, 1960

Unknown

Appointed on June 23, 1960 and took oath of office, but did not proceed to post.

John Bartlow Martin

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

March 9, 1962

Left post, September 28, 1963

Normal relations interrupted, September 25, 1963; new Government of the Dominican Republic still unrecognized by the U.S. when Martin left post.

W. Tapley Bennett, Jr.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

March 23, 1964

Left post, April 13, 1966

John Hugh Crimmins

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

June 29, 1966

Left post, April 16, 1969

Francis E. Meloy, Jr.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

July 16, 1969

Left post, August 6, 1973

Robert A. Hurwitch

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

September 5, 1973

Left post, April 5, 1978

Robert L. Yost

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

May 15, 1978

Left post, June 7, 1982

Robert Anderson

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

June 22, 1982

Left post, August 3, 1985

Lowell C. Kilday

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

September 11, 1985

Left post, August 8, 1988

Paul D. Taylor

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

August 18, 1988

Left post, January 9, 1992

Robert Stephen Pastorino

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

February 6, 1992

Left post, June 28, 1994

Donna Jean Hrinak

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

July 22, 1994

Left post, December 8, 1997

Mari Carmen Aponte

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Unknown

Unknown

Nomination of April 28 withdrawn on October 5, 1998

Charles Taylor Manatt

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

December 17, 1999

Left post, March 1, 2001

Hans H. Hertell

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

November 29, 2001

Unknown

P. Robert Fannin

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

November 15, 2007

Unknown

Christopher Lambert

Chargé d'Affaires ad interim

Unknown

Unknown

Raúl H. Yzaguirre

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

November 17, 2010

May 29, 2013

James "Wally" Brewster, Jr.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

November 22, 2013

January 20, 2017

Robin S. Bernstein

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

September 3, 2018

Incumbent

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