United States Ambassador to Peru
Columns: Representative | Title | Presentation of Credentials | Termination of Mission | Appointed by
James Cooley | Chargé d'Affaires | May 21, 1827 | February 24, 1828 | John Quincy Adams | Samuel Larned | Chargé d'Affaires | November 30, 1829 | March 6, 1837 | John Quincy Adams | James B. Thornton | Chargé d'Affaires | March 16, 1837 | December 10, 1837 | Andrew Jackson | J. C. Pickett | Chargé d'Affaires | January 30, 1840 | April 28, 1845 | Martin Van Buren | John A. Bryan | Chargé d'Affaires | April 28, 1845 | August 4, 1845 | John Tyler | Albert G. Jewett | Chargé d'Affaires | August 4, 1845 | July 21, 1847 | James K. Polk | John Randolph Clay | Chargé d'Affaires | December 15, 1847 | August 22, 1853 | James K. Polk | John Randolph Clay | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 22, 1853 | October 27, 1860 | Franklin Pierce | Christopher Robinson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 11, 1862 | December 21, 1865 | Abraham Lincoln | Alvin P. Hovey | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 22, 1866 | September 22, 1870 | Andrew Johnson | Thomas Settle | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 13, 1871 | November 22, 1871 | Ulysses S. Grant | Francis Thomas | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 10, 1872 | July 5, 1875 | Ulysses S. Grant | Richard Gibbs | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 10, 1875 | April 15, 1879 | Ulysses S. Grant | Isaac P. Christiancy | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 19, 1879 | August 2, 1881 | Rutherford B. Hayes | Stephen A. Hurlbut | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 2, 1881 | March 27, 1882 | James Garfield | Seth Ledyard Phelps | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 24, 1884 | June 24, 1885 | Chester A. Arthur | Charles W. Buck | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 1881 | March 13, 1889 | Grover Cleveland | John Hicks | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 31, 1889 | June 24, 1893 | Benjamin Harrison | James A. McKenzie | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 24, 1893 | April 13, 1897 | Grover Cleveland | Irving B. Dudley | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 20, 1897 | February 14, 1907 | William McKinley | Leslie Combs | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 10, 1907 | February 23, 1911 | Theodore Roosevelt | H. Clay Howard | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 1, 1911 | September 9, 1913 | William H. Taft | Benton McMillin | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 9, 1913 | September 5, 1919 | Woodrow Wilson | William E. Gonzales | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 24, 1920 | October 11, 1921 | Woodrow Wilson | Miles Poindexter | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 20, 1923 | March 21, 1928 | Calvin Coolidge | Alexander P. Moore | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 11, 1928 | July 10, 1929 | Calvin Coolidge | Fred Morris Dearing | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 23, 1930 | June 3, 1937 | Herbert Hoover | Laurence A. Steinhardt | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 13, 1937 | April 10, 1939 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | R. Henry Norweb | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 10, 1940 | September 30, 1943 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | John Campbell White | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 4, 1944 | June 17, 1945 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | William D. Pawley | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 20, 1945 | April 27, 1946 | Harry S. Truman | Prentice Cooper | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 1, 1946 | June 29, 1948 | Harry S. Truman | Harold H. Tittmann, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 27, 1948 | March 30, 1955 | Harry S. Truman | Ellis O. Briggs | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 27, 1955 | June 5, 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Theodore C. Achilles | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 24, 1956 | January 27, 1960 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Selden Chapin | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 7, 1960 | August 7, 1960 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | James Loeb | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 23, 1961 | July 26, 1962 | John F. Kennedy | J. Wesley Jones | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 6, 1963 | June 2, 1969 | John F. Kennedy | Taylor G. Belcher | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 29, 1969 | April 4, 1974 | Richard Nixon | Robert W. Dean | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 2, 1974 | June 17, 1977 | Richard Nixon | Harry W. Shlaudeman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 28, 1977 | October 20, 1980 | Jimmy Carter | Edwin Gharst Corr | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 6, 1980 | October 11, 1981 | Jimmy Carter | Frank V. Ortiz, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 10, 1981 | October 27, 1983 | Ronald Reagan | David C. Jordan | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 20, 1984 | July 17, 1986 | Ronald Reagan | Alexander Fletcher Watson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 27, 1986 | August 9, 1989 | Ronald Reagan | Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 11, 1989 | September 16, 1992 | George H. W. Bush | Charles H. Brayshaw | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | September 1992 | December 1993 | George H. W. Bush | Alvin P. Adams, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 15, 1993 | August 16, 1996 | Bill Clinton | Dennis C. Jett | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 16, 1996 | July 3, 1999 | Bill Clinton | John Randle Hamilton | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 6, 1999 | July 10, 2002 | Bill Clinton | John R. Dawson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 2, 2002 | June 10, 2003 | George W. Bush | James Curtis Struble | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 4, 2004 | before June 2007 | George W. Bush | P. Michael McKinley | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 28, 2007 | August, 2010 | George W. Bush | Rose M. Likins | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 15, 2010 | Incumbent | Barack Obama