Ambassador of Colombia to the United States

Ambassador of Colombia to the United States Embajadora de Colombia a los Estados Unidos
Incumbent Gabriel Silva Luján since October 4, 2010
Style	Her Excellency
Residence	Thomas T. Gaff House
Appointer	Juan Manuel Santos Calderón as President of Colombia
Inaugural holder	Manuel Torres as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
Formation	October 28, 1938
Salary	USD$10,000.00
Website	Ambassador's Website

The Ambassador of Colombia to the United States (Spanish: Embajador(a) de Colombia a los Estados Unidos) is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and chief of mission of the Government of Colombia to the Government of United States, the officeholder is charged with representing the interest of the President and Government of Colombia in the United States and advancing the relations between Colombia and the United States.

In accordance with the Colombian presidential Decree 0087 of 1994,^[1] and Decree 2028 of 2004^[2] the monthly salary for the Colombian Ambassador is of USD$10,000.00, one of the highest paid posts of the Colombian government.

Envoys

Representative	Title	Presentation of Credentials	Termination of Mission	Notes
Manuel Torres	Chargé d'Affaires	June 18, 1822	June 10, 1823	[3]
José María Salazar	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 10, 1823	June 17, 1828	[3]
Alejandro Vélez	Chargé d'Affaires	June 17, 1828	August 17, 1828	[3]
Domingo Acosta	Chargé d'Affaires and Consul General	January 2, 1832		[3]
Joaquín Acosta	Chargé d'Affaires	July 20, 1842	November 8, 1842	[3]
Pedro Alcántara Herrán	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 7, 1847	August 16, 1849	[3]
Rafael Rivas	Chargé d'Affaires	August 29, 1849	June 7, 1850	[3]
Victoriano de Diego Paredes	Chargé d'Affaires	April 27, 1852	June 20, 1855	[3]
Pedro Alcántara Herrán	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 20, 1855	March 3, 1863	[3]
Rafael Pombo	Secretary of Legation, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	January 19, 1860	June 4, 1861	[3]
José Marcelino Hurtado	Commissioner and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 4, 1861	June 16, 1863	[3]
Rafael Pombo	Secretary of Legation, Chargé d'Affaires	June 16, 1863	July 21, 1863	[3]
Manuel Murillo Toro	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 21, 1863	Februarv 11, 1864	[3]
Francisco Párraga	Secretary of Legation, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	Februarv 11, 1864	September 15, 1864	[3]
Eustorgio Salgar Moreno	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 9, 1867		[3]
Santos Acosta	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 20, 1868	May 3, 1870	[3]
Enrique Cortés	Secretary of Legation, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	May 3, 1870	August 21, 1870	[3]
Santiago Pérez Triana	Minister Resident	August 24, 1870		[3]
	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 81, 1871	June 10, 1872	[3]
Carlos Martín	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 11, 1872		[3]
Felipe Zapata	Non Resident Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 6, 1874		[3]
Santiago Pérez Triana	Minister Resident	October 27, 1876	April 27, 1877
Justo Arosemena	Minister Resident	October 27, 1879
Ramón Santo Domingo Vila	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 15, 1880
José Marcelino Hurtado	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 13, 1887		[4]
Julio Rengifo	Minister Resident, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	1894	1898
Clímaco Calderón Reyes	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 1, 1899	1900	[4]
Luis Cuervo Márquez	Chargé d'affaires	October 1900		[4]
Carlos Martínez Silva	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 2, 1901	March 8, 1902	[4][5][6]
José Vicente Concha	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 17, 1902	November 28, 1902	[4][7][8]
Tomás Herrán y Mosquera	Minister Resident, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	November 28, 1902	September 1, 1904	[4][8][9]
Eduardo Pérez Triana	Minister Resident, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	August 31, 1904		[4]
Diego Mendoza Pérez	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 29, 1905	October 18, 1906	[4][10][11]
Enrique Cortés	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 18, 1906		[4][11]
Francisco de Paula Borda	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	January 25, 1910		[4]
Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 31, 1911		[4]
Julio Betancourt	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 25, 1912		[4]
Carlos Adolfo Urueta	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 11, 1917		[4]
Carlos Uribe	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	October 15, 1921		[4]
Enrique Olaya Herrera	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 23, 1922		[4]
José M. Coronado	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	July 2, 1930		[4]
Fabio Lozano Torrijos	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 20, 1931		[4]
Alberto Gonzalez Fernandez	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	July 31, 1934		[4]
Miguel López Pumarejo	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 15, 1935		[4]

Ambassadors

The following is a list of Ambassadors of Colombia, or other chiefs of mission, to the United States. The post is currently held by Carolina Barco Isakson who is soon to leave her post being replaced by Gabriel Silva Luján who has been appointed but has not yet presented his Letter of Credence.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Appointed	Presentation of Credentials
Miguel López Pumarejo	October 10, 1938	October 28, 1938
Gabriel Turbay Abunader	November 7, 1939	November 14, 1939
Alberto Vargas Nariño	September 29, 1942
Alberto Lleras Camargo	April 22, 1943	May 6, 1943
Gabriel Turbay Abunader	December 30, 1943	January 17, 1944
Carlos Sánz de Santamaría	August 28, 1945	September 12, 1945
Gonzalo Restrepo Jaramillo	February 19, 1947	February 25, 1947
Eduardo Zuleta Ángel	September 21, 1949	September 26, 1949
Cipriano Restrepo Jaramillo	May 22, 1951	June 5, 1951
Eduardo Zuleta Ángel	August 3, 1953	November 10, 1955
Francisco J. Urrutia Holguín	November 10, 1955	November 14, 1955
José Gutiérrez Gómez	September 6, 1957	October 10, 1957
Carlos Sánz de Santamaría	March 16, 1960	April 1, 1960
Eduardo Uribe Botero	June 28, 1963	July 24, 1963
Hernan Echavarría Olózaga	January 10, 1967	January 13, 1967
Misael Pastrana Borrero	January 8, 1969	January 17, 1969
Douglas Botero Boshel	January 7, 1970	February 3, 1970
Rodrigo Escobar Navia	December 31, 1974
Julio César Turbay Ayala	April 29, 1975	April 29, 1975
Alfonso Dávila Ortiz	August 18, 1976
Virgilio Barco Vargas	June 7, 1977	June 24, 1977
Jorge Mario Eastman Robledo	November 6, 1980	December 11, 1980
Fernando Cepeda Ulloa	May 27, 1981
Fernando Gaviria Cadavid	July 28, 1981	September 21, 1981
Jorge Salazar	February 8, 1983
Álvaro Gómez Hurtado	March 9, 1983	April 7, 1983
Rodrigo Lloreda Caicedo	December 17, 1985	January 15, 1986
Francisco Posada De La Peña	February 28, 1986	March 11, 1986
Víctor Mosquera Chaux	November 12, 1987	December 21, 1987
Jaime García Parra	December 14, 1990	February 19, 1991
Gabriel Silva Luján	August 18, 1993	October 1, 1993
Carlos Lleras de la Fuente	August 9, 1994	October 25, 1994
Juan Carlos Esguerra Portocarrero	January 23, 1997	February 11, 1997
Luis Alberto Moreno Mejía	September 29, 1998	October 27, 1998
Andrés Pastrana Arango	November 9, 2005	December 2, 2005
Carolina Barco Isakson	September 7, 2006	September 12, 2006
Gabriel Silva Luján	August 7, 2010	October 4, 2010

See also

• United States Ambassador to Colombia
• Colombia – United States relations

References

1. ^ "Decreto 0087 de 1994" (in Spanish) (PDF). President of Colombia. 1994-01-10. p. 1. http://www.presidencia.gov.co/prensa_new/decretoslinea/1994/enero/10/dec0087101994.pdf. Retrieved 2010-02-10. 
2. ^ "Decreto Número 2078 de 2004" (in Spanish) (PDF). Administrative Department of Public Service. 2004-06-28. p. 1. http://www.presidencia.gov.co/prensa_new/decretoslinea/2004/junio/28/dec2078280604.pdf. Retrieved 2010-02-10. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u} Charles, Lanman (1876). Biographical Annals of The Civil Government of The United States: During Its First Century: From Original and Official Sources. Washington, D.C.: James Anglim. OCLC 420698. http://books.google.com/books?id=WG8sAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA614. Retrieved 2010-08-27. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s} "Diplomatic Representation for Republic of Colombia". Office of the Chief of Protocol of the United States. 2006-09-12. http://www.state.gov/s/cpr/91589.htm. Retrieved 2010-08-25. 
5. ^ Bulletin of the Pan American Union, Vol. 10 (Government publication). Washington, D.C.: International Bureau of the American Republics. 1901. p. 482. OCLC 1761817. http://books.google.com/books?id=vJECAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA5-PA482. Retrieved 2010-08-26. 
6. ^ "Dr. Silva's Departure: Retiring Minister from Colombia Bids Mr. Roosevelt Good-bye." (PDF). The New York Times (Washington, D.C.): 4. 1902-03-09. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9804EFDF1230E733A2575AC0A9659C946397D6CF. Retrieved 2010-08-26. 
7. ^ Monthly bulletin of the Bureau of the American Republics, International Union of American Republics, Vol. 12 (Government publication). Washington, D.C.: International Bureau of the American Republics. 1902. p. 888. OCLC 4321603. http://books.google.com/books?id=zNlmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA888. Retrieved 2010-08-26. 
8. ^ ^{a b} Cavelier Gaviria, Germán (1960) (in Spanish). La Política Internacional de Colombia [The Foreign Policy of Colombia] (3 ed.). Bogotá: Editorial Iqueima. pp. 293–294. OCLC 23744625. 
9. ^ "Death List of a Day: Dr. Tomas Herran" (PDF). The New York Times: 7, "Obituary" section. 1904-09-01. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D0CEEDA1F3AE733A25752C0A96F9C946597D6CF. Retrieved 2010-08-27. 
10. ^ (Government publication) Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. 1906. p. 245. OCLC 45844717. http://books.google.com/books?id=JScTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA245. Retrieved 2010-08-27. 
11. ^ ^{a b} Monthly bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics, International Union of American Republics, Vol. 23 (Government publication). Washington, D.C.: International Bureau of the American Republics. 1906. p. 1174. http://books.google.com/books?id=_qVLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1174. Retrieved 2010-08-27.