United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
- United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
The office of
United States Ambassador (or Minister) to theUnited Kingdom (known formally as Ambassador to theCourt of St. James's ) has traditionally been the most prestigious position in theUnited States Foreign Service , and has been held by various notable politicians, including five future presidents:John Adams ,James Monroe ,John Quincy Adams ,Martin Van Buren andJames Buchanan . Other prominent politicians to have held the ambassadorship includeRufus King ,Edward Everett ,Charles Francis Adams, Sr. ,Robert T. Lincoln ,John W. Davis ,Joseph P. Kennedy ,Averell Harriman , andElliot Richardson .The Ambassador works at the American Embassy in
Grosvenor Square ,London and lives atWinfield House in Regent's Park.Ministers Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James's, 1785-1811
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John Adams (MA) 1785-1788
*Thomas Pinckney (SC) 1792-1796
*Rufus King (NY) 1796-1803
*James Monroe (VA) 1803-1807
*William Pinkney (MD) 1808-1811
*"From 1811 to the outbreak of theWar of 1812 , "chargé d'affaires "Jonathan Russell was the chief United States officer in London."Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James's, 1815-1893
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John Quincy Adams (MA) 1815-1817
*Richard Rush (PA) 1818-1825
*Rufus King (NY) 1825-1826
*Albert Gallatin (PA) 1826-1827
*James Barbour (VA) 1828-1829
*Louis McLane (DE) 1829-1831
*Martin Van Buren (NY) 1831-1832
*"From 1832 to 1836,Aaron Vail , the American "chargé d'affaires", acted as the chief American officer in London."
*Andrew Stevenson (VA) 1836-1841
*Edward Everett (MA) 1841-1845
*Louis McLane (DE) 1845-1846
*George Bancroft (NY) 1846-1849
*Abbott Lawrence (MA) 1849-1852
*Joseph R. Ingersoll (PA) 1852-1853
*James Buchanan (PA) 1853-1856
*George M. Dallas (PA) 1856-1861
*Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (MA) 1861-1868
*Reverdy Johnson (MD) 1868-1869
*John Lothrop Motley (MA) 1869-1870
*Robert C. Schenck (OH) 1871-1876
*Edwards Pierrepont (NY) 1876-1877
*John Welsh (PA) 1877-1879
*James Russell Lowell (MA) 1880-1885
*Edward J. Phelps (VT) 1885-1889
*Robert T. Lincoln (IL) 1889-1893Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James's, 1893-present
*Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. (DE) 1893-1897
*John Hay (DC) 1897-1898
*Joseph Choate (NY) 1899-1905
*Whitelaw Reid (NY) 1905-1912
*Walter Hines Page (NY) 1913-1918
*John W. Davis (WV) 1918-1921
*George Brinton McClellan Harvey (NJ) 1921-1923
*Frank B. Kellogg (MN) 1924-1925
*Alanson B. Houghton (NY) 1925-1929
*Charles G. Dawes (IL) 1929-1931
*Andrew W. Mellon (PA) 1932-1933
*Robert Worth Bingham (KY) 1933-1937
*Joseph P. Kennedy (NY) 1938-1940
*John G. Winant (NH) 1941-1946
*W. Averell Harriman (NY) 1946
*Lewis W. Douglas (AZ) 1947-1950
*Walter S. Gifford (NY) 1950-1953
*Winthrop W. Aldrich (NY) 1953-1957
*John Hay Whitney (NY) 1957-1961
*David K. E. Bruce (MD) 1961-1969
*Walter H. Annenberg (PA) 1969-1974
*Elliot L. Richardson (MA) 1975-1976
*Anne Legendre Armstrong (TX) 1976-1977
*Kingman Brewster, Jr. (CT) 1977-1981
*John J. Louis, Jr. (IL) 1981-1983
*Charles H. Price II (MO) 1983-1989
*Henry E. Catto, Jr. (TX) 1989-1991
*Raymond G. H. Seitz (TX) 1991-1994
*William J. Crowe, Jr. (VA) 1994-1997
*Philip Lader (SC) 1997-2001
*William S. Farish III (TX) 2001-2004
*Robert H. Tuttle (CA) 2005-External links
* [http://www.usembassy.org.uk/rcambex.html American Ambassadors to the UK (Embassy webpage)]
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