List of United States Ambassadors to Brazil
Columns: 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 | John Quincy Adams | 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 | Andrew Jackson | William Hunter | 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 | John Tyler | Henry A. Wise | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 10, 1844 | August 28, 1847 | John Tyler | 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 | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | 1869 | 1869 | Ulysses S. Grant | Henry T. Blow | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 28, 1869 | November 6, 1870 | Ulysses S. Grant | James R. Partridge | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 31, 1871 | June 11, 1877 | Ulysses S. Grant | 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 | Benjamin Harrison | 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 | William McKinley | David E. Thompson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 1, 1903 | March 16, 1905 | Theodore Roosevelt | David E. Thompson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 16, 1905 | November 3, 1905 | Theodore Roosevelt | Lloyd C. Griscom | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 6, 1906 | January 2, 1907 | Theodore Roosevelt | Irving B. Dudley | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 1, 1907 | September 16, 1911 | Theodore Roosevelt | Edwin V. Morgan | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 4, 1912 | August 23, 1933 | William H. Taft | Hugh S. Gibson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 8, 1933 | December 3, 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Jefferson Caffery | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 17, 1937 | September 17, 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Adolf A. Berle, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 30, 1945 | February 27, 1946 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 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 | Harry S. Truman | 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 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Ellis O. Briggs | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 24, 1956 | April 29, 1959 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Clare Boothe Luce | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 29, 1959 | May 1, 1959 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | John M. Cabot | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 22, 1959 | August 17, 1961 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 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 | Richard Nixon | John Hugh Crimmins | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 13, 1973 | February 25, 1978 | Richard Nixon | 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 | Ronald Reagan | Harry W. Shlaudeman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 5, 1986 | May 14, 1989 | Ronald Reagan | 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 | Bill Clinton | 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 | George W. Bush | John J. Danilovich | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 2, 2004 | November 7, 2005 | George W. Bush | Philip T. Chicola | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | November 2005 | November 2006 | George W. Bush | Clifford M. Sobel | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 7, 2006 | Unclear | George W. Bush | Thomas A. Shannon, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 24, 2009 | Current | Barack Obama