United States Ambassador to Colombia
Republic of Colombia
Columns: Representative | Title | Presentation of Credentials | Termination of Mission | Appointed by
Dabney H. Maury | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 20, 1887 | June 22, 1889 | Grover Cleveland | John T. Abbott | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 22, 1889 | July 17, 1893 | Benjamin Harrison | Luther F. McKinney | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 17, 1893 | December 6, 1896 | Grover Cleveland | Charles Burdett Hart | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 19, 1897 | March 19, 1903 | William McKinley | Arthur M. Beaupre | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 13, 1903 | December 19, 1903 | Theodore Roosevelt | William W. Russell | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 9, 1904 | May 24, 1905 | Theodore Roosevelt | John Barrett | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 27, 1905 | September 24, 1906 | Theodore Roosevelt | Thomas C. Dawson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 16, 1907 | April 25, 1909 | Theodore Roosevelt | Elliott Northcott | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 13, 1909 | September 16, 1910 | William H. Taft | James T. DuBois | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 18, 1911 | March 1, 1913 | William H. Taft | Thaddeus Austin Thompson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 30, 1913 | June 26, 1916 | Woodrow Wilson | Hoffman Philip | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 22, 1919 | May 29, 1922 | Woodrow Wilson | Samuel H. Piles | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 29, 1922 | September 17, 1928 | Warren G. Harding | Jefferson Caffery | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 28, 1928 | May 20, 1933 | Calvin Coolidge | Sheldon Whitehouse | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 6, 1933 | December 8, 1934 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | William Dawson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 6, 1935 | November 16, 1937 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Spruille Braden | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 15, 1939 | March 12, 1942 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Arthur Bliss Lane | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 30, 1942 | October 18, 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | John C. Wiley | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 16, 1944 | May 3, 1947 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Willard L. Beaulac | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 30, 1947 | June 29, 1951 | Harry S. Truman | Capus M. Waynick | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 23, 1951 | September 21, 1953 | Harry S. Truman | Rudolf E. Schoenfeld | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 28, 1954 | January 26, 1955 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Philip W. Bonsal | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 1, 1955 | April 24, 1957 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | John M. Cabot | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 12, 1957 | July 15, 1959 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Dempster McIntosh | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 30, 1959 | January 6, 1961 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Fulton Freeman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 15, 1961 | March 14, 1964 | John F. Kennedy | Covey T. Oliver | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 13, 1964 | August 29, 1966 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Reynold E. Carlson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 6, 1966 | June 2, 1969 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Jack Hood Vaughn | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 9, 1969 | June 25, 1970 | Richard Nixon | Leonard J. Saccio | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 24, 1971 | July 12, 1973 | Richard Nixon | Viron P. Vaky | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 5, 1974 | June 23, 1976 | Richard Nixon | Phillip V. Sanchez | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 2, 1976 | April 5, 1977 | Gerald Ford | Diego C. Asencio | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 6, 1977 | June 22, 1980 | Jimmy Carter | Thomas D. Boyatt | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 3, 1980 | April 14, 1983 | Jimmy Carter | Lewis Arthur Tambs | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 2, 1983 | February 15, 1985 | Ronald Reagan | Charles A. Gillespie, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 28, 1985 | September 19, 1988 | Ronald Reagan | Thomas Edmund McNamara | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 4, 1988 | August 14, 1991 | Ronald Reagan | Morris D. Busby | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 18, 1991 | July 5, 1994 | George H. W. Bush | Myles Robert Rene Frechette | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 25, 1994 | November 8, 1997 | Bill Clinton | Curtis W. Kamman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 19, 1998 | August 15, 2000 | Bill Clinton | Anne W. Patterson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 24, 2000 | June 11, 2003 | Bill Clinton | William B. Wood | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 13, 2003 | March 12, 2007 | George W. Bush | William Brownfield | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 12, 2007 | August 3, 2010 | George W. Bush | P. Michael McKinley | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 3, 2010 | Incumbent | Barack H. Obama