The following is a list of ambassadors of the United States, or other chiefs of mission, to Guatemala. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
| Ambassador of the United States to Guatemala | |
|---|---|
 Seal of the United States Department of State | |
 | |
| Style | His Excellency |
| Nominator | The President of the United States |
| Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
| Inaugural holder | John Williams as Chargé d'Affaires |
| Formation | May 3, 1826 |
| Website | U.S. Embassy - Guatemala |
| Representative | Title | Presentation of credentials |
Termination of mission |
Appointed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Williams[1] | Chargé d'Affaires | May 3, 1826 | December 1, 1826 | John Quincy Adams |
| Charles G. DeWitt[1] | Chargé d'Affaires | December 17, 1833 | January 1, 1839 | Andrew Jackson |
| Elijah Hise | Chargé d'Affaires | January 31, 1849 | June 23, 1849 | James K. Polk |
| Solon Borland[2] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | [3] | December 31, 1854 | Franklin Pierce |
| John L. Marling | Minister Resident | February 14, 1855 | May 8, 1856 | |
| Beverly L. Clarke[4] | Minister Resident | July 13, 1858 | March 17, 1860[5] | James Buchanan |
| Elisha Oscar Crosby | Minister Resident | May 28, 1861 | June 22, 1864 | Abraham Lincoln |
| Fitz Henry Warren | Minister Resident | June 27, 1866 | August 11, 1869 | Andrew Johnson |
| Silas A. Hudson | Minister Resident | August 11, 1869 | October 12, 1872 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| George Williamson[6] | Minister Resident | September 9, 1873 | January 31, 1879 | |
| Cornelius A. Logan[6] | Minister Resident | June 11, 1879 | April 12, 1882 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Henry C. Hall[6] | Minister Resident | July 25, 1882 | August 10, 1882 | Chester A. Arthur |
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 10, 1882 | May 15, 1889 | ||
| Lansing B. Mizner[6] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 4, 1889 | December 31, 1890 | Benjamin Harrison |
| Romualdo Pacheco[6] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 28, 1891 | June 12, 1893 | |
| Pierce M. B. Young[4] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 12, 1893 | May 23, 1896 | Grover Cleveland |
| Macgrane Coxe[4] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 29, 1896 | June 30, 1897 | |
| W. Godfrey Hunter[4] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 25, 1898 | February 2, 1903 | William McKinley |
| Leslie Combs[4] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 2, 1903 | February 25, 1907 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Joseph W. J. Lee[4] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 19, 1907 | October 13, 1907 | |
| William Heimke | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 2, 1908 | September 30, 1909 | |
| William Franklin Sands | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 9, 1909 | October 14, 1910 | William H. Taft |
| R. S. Reynolds Hitt | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 14, 1910 | March 4, 1913 | |
| William Hayne Leavell | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 29, 1913 | October 24, 1918 | Woodrow Wilson |
| Benton McMillin | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 15, 1920 | December 6, 1921[7] | |
| Arthur H. Geissler | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 31, 1922 | January 23, 1930 | Warren G. Harding |
| Sheldon Whitehouse | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 21, 1930 | July 23, 1933 | Herbert Hoover |
| Matthew E. Hanna | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 28, 1933 | February 9, 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Fay A. Des Portes | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 22, 1936 | May 14, 1943 | |
| Boaz Long | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 19, 1943 | April 11, 1945 | |
| Edwin Jackson Kyle | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 8, 1945 | August 22, 1948 | |
| Richard C. Patterson, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 24, 1948 | April 24, 1951 | Harry S. Truman |
| Rudolf E. Schoenfeld | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 24, 1951 | October 19, 1953 | |
| John Peurifoy | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 4, 1953 | October 2, 1954 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Norman Armour | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 18, 1954 | May 9, 1955 | |
| Edward J. Sparks | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 29, 1955 | February 15, 1958 | |
| Lester D. Mallory | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 27, 1958 | November 11, 1959 | |
| John J. Muccio | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 1, 1960 | November 10, 1961 | |
| John O. Bell | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 30, 1962 | August 26, 1965 | John F. Kennedy |
| John Gordon Mein | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 22, 1965 | August 28, 1968[8] | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Nathaniel Davis | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 21, 1968 | August 21, 1971 | |
| William G. Bowdler | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 19, 1971 | August 26, 1973 | Richard Nixon |
| Francis E. Meloy, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 7, 1974 | April 19, 1976 | |
| Davis E. Boster | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 13, 1976 | January 17, 1979 | Gerald Ford |
| Frank V. Ortiz, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 17, 1979 | August 6, 1980 | Jimmy Carter |
| Frederic L. Chapin | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 3, 1981 | February 28, 1984 | Ronald Reagan |
| Alberto Martinez Piedra | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 17, 1984 | August 22, 1987 | |
| James H. Michel[9] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 28, 1987 | September 1, 1989 | |
| Thomas F. Stroock | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 31, 1989 | November 10, 1992 | George H. W. Bush |
| Marilyn McAfee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 16, 1993 | June 20, 1996 | Bill Clinton |
| Donald J. Planty | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 22, 1996 | August 14, 1999 | |
| Prudence Bushnell | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 14, 1999 | June 15, 2002 | |
| John Randle Hamilton | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 3, 2003 | July 15, 2005 | George W. Bush |
| James M. Derham | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 1, 2005 | July 15, 2008 | |
| Stephen G. McFarland | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 5, 2008 | August 25, 2011 | |
| Arnold A. Chacón | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 29, 2011 | March 5, 2014 | Barack Obama |
| Todd D. Robinson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 16, 2014 | September 20, 2017 | |
| David Hodge | Chargé d'Affaires | September 20, 2017 | October 3, 2017 | Donald Trump |
| Luis E. Arreaga | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 3, 2017[10] | October 2, 2020 | |
| William W. Popp | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 19, 2020 | August 24, 2023[11] | |
| Patrick Ventrell | Chargé d'Affaires | August 24, 2023 | February 2, 2024[12] | Joe Biden |
| Tobin John Bradley | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 12, 2024 | Incumbent |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Commissioned to Central America.
- ^ Commissioned to Central America.
- ^ Borland did not present credentials in Guatemala.
- ^ a b c d e f Commissioned to Guatemala and Honduras.
- ^ Died at post.
- ^ a b c d e Commissioned to “the Central American States” but individually accredited to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua; resident at Guatemala.
- ^ Normal relations interrupted December 6, 1921.
- ^ Assassinated.
- ^ "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR JAMES MICHEL" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. October 21, 2005. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 29, 2024. Retrieved July 29, 2024.
- ^ "Luis E. Arreaga Share". U.S. Department of State. Archived from the original on October 6, 2017. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
- ^ "Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved October 9, 2024.
- ^ "US Embassy Guatemala". Twitter.
- "U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Guatemala". The Political Graveyard. March 10, 2005. Retrieved August 27, 2007.
- United States Department of State: Background notes on Guatemala
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