United States Ambassador to Chile
Columns: Representative | Title | Presentation of credentials | Termination of mission | Appointed by
Heman Allen | Minister Plenipotentiary | April 23, 1824 | July 31, 1827 | James Monroe | Samuel Larned | Chargé d'Affaires | November 9, 1828 | October 29, 1829 | John Quincy Adams | John Hamm | Chargé d'Affaires | May 24, 1831 | October 19, 1833 | Andrew Jackson | Richard Pollard | Chargé d'Affaires | March 13, 1835 | May 12, 1842 | Andrew Jackson | John S. Pendleton | Chargé d'Affaires | May 24, 1842 | June 6, 1844 | John Tyler | William Crump | Chargé d'Affaires | August 18, 1845 | November 1, 1847 | James K. Polk | Seth Barton | Chargé d'Affaires | January 5, 1848 | May 22, 1849 | James K. Polk | Balie Peyton | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 16, 1850 | September 26, 1853 | Zachary Taylor | David A. Starkweather | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 22, 1854 | August 26, 1857 | Franklin Pierce | John Bigler | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 5, 1857 | October 4, 1861 | James Buchanan | Thomas H. Nelson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 4, 1861 | March 12, 1866 | Abraham Lincoln | Hugh Judson Kilpatrick | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 12, 1866 | August 3, 1870 | Andrew Johnson | Joseph P. Root | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 2, 1870 | June 27, 1873 | Ulysses S. Grant | Cornelius A. Logan | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 27, 1873 | November 10, 1876 | Ulysses S. Grant | Thomas A. Osborn | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 28, 1877 | July 25, 1881 | Rutherford B. Hayes | Hugh Judson Kilpatrick | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 25, 1881 | December 2, 1881 | James Garfield | Cornelius A. Logan | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 7, 1882 | June 16, 1885 | Chester A. Arthur | William R. Roberts | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 4, 1885 | August 9, 1889 | Grover Cleveland | Patrick Egan | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 9, 1889 | July 4, 1893 | Benjamin Harrison | James D. Porter | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 4, 1893 | March 14, 1894 | Grover Cleveland | Edward H. Strobel | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 6, 1895 | August 17, 1897 | Grover Cleveland | Henry L. Wilson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 14, 1897 | July 18, 1904 | William McKinley | John Hicks | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 5, 1905 | May 11, 1909 | Theodore Roosevelt | Thomas C. Dawson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 20, 1909 | November 16, 1909 | William H. Taft | Henry P. Fletcher | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 9, 1910 | November 19, 1914 | William H. Taft | Henry P. Fletcher | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 19, 1914 | March 9, 1916 | Woodrow Wilson | Joseph H. Shea | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 30, 1916 | May 5, 1921 | Woodrow Wilson | William Miller Collier | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 29, 1921 | August 6, 1928 | Warren G. Harding | William S. Culbertson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 16, 1928 | August 19, 1933 | Calvin Coolidge | Hal H. Sevier | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 25, 1933 | May 4, 1935 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Hoffman Philip | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 7, 1935 | October 31, 1937 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Norman Armour | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 21, 1938 | June 10, 1939 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Claude G. Bowers | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 7, 1939 | September 2, 1953 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Willard L. Beaulac | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 5, 1953 | May 28, 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Cecil B. Lyon | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 15, 1956 | February 25, 1958 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Walter Howe | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 1, 1958 | March 15, 1961 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Robert F. Woodward | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 5, 1961 | July 6, 1961 | John F. Kennedy | Charles W. Cole | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 21, 1961 | September 27, 1964 | John F. Kennedy | Ralph A. Dungan | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 10, 1964 | August 2, 1967 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Edward M. Korry | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 16, 1967 | October 12, 1971 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Nathaniel Davis | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 20, 1971 | November 1, 1973 | Richard Nixon | David H. Popper | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 22, 1974 | May 22, 1977 | Gerald Ford | George W. Landau | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 1977 | January 16, 1982 | Jimmy Carter | James D. Theberge | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 8, 1982 | August 2, 1985 | Ronald Reagan | Harry George Barnes, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 18, 1985 | November 26, 1988 | Ronald Reagan | Charles A. Gillespie, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 20, 1988 | December 10, 1991 | Ronald Reagan | Curtis Warren Kamman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 14, 1992 | October 21, 1994 | George H. W. Bush | Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 24, 1994 | June 13, 1998 | Bill Clinton | John O'Leary | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 19, 1998 | June 29, 2001 | Bill Clinton | William R. Brownfield | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 25, 2002 | July 19, 2004 | George W. Bush | Craig A. Kelly | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 9, 2004 | 9 November 2007 | George W. Bush | Paul E. Simons | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 9 November 2007 | July 4 2010 | George W. Bush | Alejandro Daniel Wolff | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 9 July 2010 | Incumbent | Barack Obama