List of ambassadors of the United States to Cambodia

This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to Cambodia.

Ambassador of the United States to Cambodia
ឯកអគ្គរដ្ឋទូតនៃសហរដ្ឋអាមេរិកប្រចាំនៅកម្ពុជា
Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent Bridgette L. Walker Chargé d'Affaires ad interim[1] since August 12, 2024
Nominator	President of the United States
Appointer	The President with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural holder	Donald R. Heath as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Formation	June 29, 1950; 74 years ago (1950-06-29)
Website	U.S. Embassy – Phnom Penh

Until 1953 Cambodia had been French protectorate as a part of French Indochina, but became independent on November 9, 1953. The United States had appointed its first envoy to Cambodia, Donald R. Heath, in 1950. Heath was a non-resident minister who was commissioned to Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, while resident in Saigon.

Diplomatic relations between Cambodia and the United States were broken twice: The first time between 1965 and 1969, and the second time in 1975 just before the Pol Pot regime gained control of the country. Relations were finally restored in 1991.

The U.S. Embassy in Cambodia is located in Phnom Penh.

Ambassadors

Name	Portrait	Appointed	Presentation of credentials	Termination of mission	President
Donald R. Heath		June 29, 1950	July 11, 1950	October 2, 1954	Harry S. Truman
					Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert McClintock		August 18, 1954	October 2, 1954	October 15, 1956
Carl W. Strom		October 11, 1956	December 7, 1956	March 8, 1959
William C. Trimble		February 16, 1959	April 23, 1959	June 8, 1962
					John F. Kennedy
Philip D. Sprouse		June 28, 1962	August 20, 1962	March 3, 1964	John F. Kennedy
					Lyndon B. Johnson
Randolph A. Kidder[2]		July 9, 1964	did not present credentials	September 18, 1964	Lyndon B. Johnson
Office vacant from 1964 to 1970.
Emory C. Swank		September 3, 1970	September 15, 1970	September 5, 1973	Richard Nixon
John Gunther Dean		March 14, 1974	April 3, 1974	April 12, 1975
					Gerald Ford
Office vacant from 1975 to 1994.
Charles H. Twining		May 13, 1994	May 17, 1994	November 20, 1995	Bill Clinton
Kenneth M. Quinn		December 12, 1995	March 28, 1996	July 25, 1999
Kent M. Wiedemann		June 7, 1999	August 31, 1999	May 16, 2002
					George W. Bush
Charles A. Ray		November 15, 2002	January 4, 2003	July 11, 2005
Joseph A. Mussomeli		June 27, 2005	September 22, 2005	December 25, 2008
Carol A. Rodley		October 24, 2008	January 20, 2009	September 29, 2011
					Barack Obama
William E. Todd		April 2, 2012	June 8, 2012	August 14, 2015
William A. Heidt		September 14, 2015	December 2, 2015	November 28, 2018
					Donald Trump
W. Patrick Murphy		August 8, 2019	October 19, 2019	May 18, 2024
					Joe Biden
Robert W. Forden (nominee)		Pending U.S. Senate confirmation	–	–

Source: List of U.S. Ambassadors to Cambodia

Notes

1. "Charge d'Affaires, a.i. Bridgette L. Walker".
2. "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR RANDOLPH A. KIDDER" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 13 December 1989. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 June 2024. Retrieved 23 July 2024.

See also

• Cambodia – United States relations
• Foreign relations of Cambodia
• Ambassadors of the United States

References

• United States Department of State: Background notes on Cambodia
•  This article incorporates public domain material from U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets. United States Department of State.

External links

• United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Cambodia
• United States Department of State: Cambodia
• United States Embassy in Cambodia