United States Ambassador to Bolivia
Columns: Representative | Title | Presentation of Credentials | Termination of Mission | Appointed by
John Appleton | Chargé d'Affaires | January 3, 1849 | May 4, 1849 | James K. Polk | Alexander Keith McClung | Chargé d'Affaires | July 3, 1850 | June 30, 1851 | Zachary Taylor | Horace H. Miller | Chargé d'Affaires | December 18, 1852 | January 18, 1854 | Millard Fillmore | John W. Dana | Chargé d'Affaires | February 23, 1854 | September 24, 1854 | Franklin Pierce | John W. Dana | Minister Resident | September 24, 1854 | March 10, 1859 | Franklin Pierce | John Cotton Smith | Minister Resident | March 10, 1859 | May 1, 1861 | James Buchanan | David K. Cartter | Minister Resident | July 28, 1861 | March 10, 1862 | Abraham Lincoln | Allen A. Hall | Minister Resident | September 4, 1863 | May 18, 1867 | Abraham Lincoln | John W. Caldwell | Minister Resident | November 2, 1868 | July 25, 1869 | Andrew Johnson | Leopold Markbreit | Minister Resident | July 25, 1869 | February 12, 1873 | Ulysses S. Grant | John T. Croxton | Minister Resident | April 9, 1873 | April 16, 1874 | Ulysses S. Grant | Robert M. Reynolds | Minister Resident | January 30, 1875 | October 11, 1876 | Ulysses S. Grant | S. Newton Pettis | Minister Resident/ Consul General | June 2, 1879 | October 30, 1879 | Rutherford B. Hayes | Charles Adams | Minister Resident/Consul General | July 8, 1880 | August 29, 1882 | Rutherford B. Hayes | George Maney | Minister Resident/Consul General | November 4, 1882 | June 1, 1883 | Chester A. Arthur | Richard Gibbs | Minister Resident/Consul General | October 16, 1883 | September 11, 1885 | Chester A. Arthur | William A. Seay | Minister Resident/Consul General | September 19, 1885 | April 12, 1887 | Grover Cleveland | S. S. Carlisle | Minister Resident/Consul General | January 17, 1888 | December 16, 1889 | Grover Cleveland | Thomas H. Anderson | Minister Resident/Consul General | December 16, 1889 | October 4, 1890 | Benjamin Harrison | Thomas H. Anderson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 4, 1890 | November 22, 1892 | Benjamin Harrison | Frederic J. Grant | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 12, 1893 | October 24, 1893 | Grover Cleveland | Thomas Moonlight | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 14, 1894 | January 8, 1898 | Grover Cleveland | George H. Bridgman | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 4, 1898 | January 13, 1902 | William McKinley | William B. Sorsby | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 4, 1902 | March 16, 1908 | Theodore Roosevelt | James F. Stutesman | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 8, 1908 | April 15, 1910 | William Howard Taft | Horace G. Knowles | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 28, 1910 | August 23, 1913 | William Howard Taft | John D. O'Rear | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 31, 1913 | July 14, 1918 | Woodrow Wilson | S. Abbot Maginnis | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 14, 1920 | December 5, 1921 | Woodrow Wilson | Jesse S. Cottrell | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 6, 1922 | January 26, 1928 | Warren G. Harding | David E. Kaufman | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 30, 1928 | January 10, 1929 | Calvin Coolidge | Edward F. Feely | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 23, 1930 | September 29, 1933 | Herbert Hoover | Fay A. Des Portes | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 15, 1933 | May 1, 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | R. Henry Norweb | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 10, 1936 | June 15, 1937 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Robert Granville Caldwell | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 21, 1937 | June 23, 1939 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Douglas Jenkins | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 26, 1939 | October 3, 1941 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Pierre de Lagarde Boal | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 23, 1942 | February 5, 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Walter C. Thurston | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 16, 1944 | January 3, 1946 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Joseph Flack | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 15, 1946 | May 17, 1949 | Harry S. Truman | Irving Florman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 27, 1950 | September 4, 1951 | Harry S. Truman | Edward J. Sparks | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 13, 1952 | October 29, 1954 | Harry S. Truman | Gerald A. Drew | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 8, 1954 | April 6, 1957 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Philip W. Bonsal | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 10, 1957 | February 6, 1959 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Carl W. Strom | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 4, 1959 | May 8, 1961 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Ben S. Stephansky | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 29, 1961 | October 15, 1963 | John F. Kennedy | Douglas Henderson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 7, 1963 | August 6, 1968 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Raúl H. Castro | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 3, 1968 | November 3, 1969 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Ernest V. Siracusa | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 5, 1969 | July 30, 1973 | Richard Nixon | William Perry Stedman, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 3, 1973 | June 23, 1977 | Richard Nixon | Paul M. Boeker | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 26, 1977 | February 17, 1980 | Jimmy Carter | Marvin Weissman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 26, 1980 | July 20, 1980 | Jimmy Carter | Alexander Watson | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | July 1980 | September 1981 | Jimmy Carter | Edwin G. Corr | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 10, 1981 | August 9, 1985 | Ronald Reagan | Edward Morgan Rowell | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 20, 1985 | January 19, 1988 | Ronald Reagan | Robert S. Gelbard | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 11, 1988 | July 20, 1991 | George H. W. Bush | Charles R. Bowers | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 23, 1991 | October 7, 1994 | George H. W. Bush | Curtis Warren Kamman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 16, 1994 | November 26, 1997 | Bill Clinton | Donna Jean Hrinak | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 14, 1998 | July 17, 2000 | Bill Clinton | V. Manuel Rocha | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 4, 2000 | April 27, 2002 | George W. Bush | David N. Greenlee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 17, 2003 | May 10, 2006 | George W. Bush | Philip S. Goldberg | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 13, 2006 | September 10, 2008 | George W. Bush | Krishna R. Urs | Chargé d’Affaires a.i. | September 15, 2008 | June 25, 2009 | George W. Bush | James Creagan | Chargé d’Affaires a.i. | June 25, 2009 | August 28, 2009 | Barack Obama | John S. Creamer | Chargé d’Affaires a.i. | August 28, 2009 | July 13, 2012 | Barack Obama | Larry L. Memmott | Chargé d’Affaires a.i. | July 14, 2012 | Incumbent | Barack Obama