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List of ambassadors of the United States to Chile
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The following is a list of ambassadors that the United States has sent to Chile. The current title given by the United States State Department to this position is Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
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| Representative | Title | Presentation of credentials |
Termination of mission |
Appointed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heman Allen | Minister Plenipotentiary | April 23, 1824 | July 31, 1827 | James Monroe |
| Samuel Larned | Chargé d'Affaires | November 9, 1828 | October 29, 1829 | John Quincy Adams |
| John Hamm | Chargé d'Affaires | May 24, 1831 | October 19, 1833 | Andrew Jackson |
| Richard Pollard | Chargé d'Affaires | March 13, 1835 | May 12, 1842 | |
| John S. Pendleton | Chargé d'Affaires | May 24, 1842 | June 6, 1844 | John Tyler |
| George William Crump | Chargé d'Affaires | August 18, 1845 | November 1, 1847 | James K. Polk |
| Seth Barton | Chargé d'Affaires | January 5, 1848 | May 22, 1849 | |
| Balie Peyton | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 16, 1850 | September 26, 1853 | Zachary Taylor |
| David A. Starkweather | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 22, 1854 | August 26, 1857 | Franklin Pierce |
| John Bigler | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 5, 1857 | October 4, 1861 | James Buchanan |
| Thomas H. Nelson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 4, 1861 | March 12, 1866 | Abraham Lincoln |
| Hugh Judson Kilpatrick | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 12, 1866 | August 3, 1870 | Andrew Johnson |
| Joseph P. Root | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 2, 1870 | June 27, 1873 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Cornelius A. Logan | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 27, 1873 | November 10, 1876 | |
| Thomas A. Osborn | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 28, 1877 | July 25, 1881 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Hugh Judson Kilpatrick | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 25, 1881 | December 2, 1881 | James Garfield |
| Cornelius A. Logan | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 7, 1882 | June 16, 1885 | Chester A. Arthur |
| William R. Roberts | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 4, 1885 | August 9, 1889 | Grover Cleveland |
| Patrick Egan | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 9, 1889 | July 4, 1893 | Benjamin Harrison |
| James D. Porter | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 4, 1893 | March 14, 1894 | Grover Cleveland |
| Edward H. Strobel | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 6, 1895 | August 17, 1897 | |
| Henry L. Wilson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 14, 1897 | July 18, 1904 | William McKinley |
| John Hicks | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 5, 1905 | May 11, 1909 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Thomas C. Dawson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 20, 1909 | November 16, 1909 | William H. Taft |
| Henry P. Fletcher | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 9, 1910 | November 19, 1914 | |
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 19, 1914 | March 9, 1916 | Woodrow Wilson | |
| Joseph Hooker Shea | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 30, 1916 | May 5, 1921 | |
| William Miller Collier | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 29, 1921 | August 6, 1928 | Warren G. Harding |
| William S. Culbertson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 16, 1928 | August 19, 1933 | Calvin Coolidge |
| Hal H. Sevier | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 25, 1933 | May 4, 1935 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Hoffman Philip | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 7, 1935 | October 31, 1937 | |
| Norman Armour | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 21, 1938 | June 10, 1939 | |
| Claude G. Bowers | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 7, 1939 | September 2, 1953 | |
| Willard L. Beaulac | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 5, 1953 | May 28, 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Cecil B. Lyon | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 15, 1956 | February 25, 1958 | |
| Walter Howe | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 1, 1958 | March 15, 1961 | |
| Robert F. Woodward | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 5, 1961 | July 6, 1961 | John F. Kennedy |
| Charles W. Cole | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 21, 1961 | September 27, 1964 | |
| Ralph A. Dungan | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 10, 1964 | August 2, 1967 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Edward M. Korry | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 16, 1967 | October 12, 1971 | |
| Nathaniel Davis | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 20, 1971 | November 1, 1973 | Richard Nixon |
| David H. Popper | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 22, 1974 | May 22, 1977 | Gerald Ford |
| George W. Landau | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 1977 | January 16, 1982 | Jimmy Carter |
| James D. Theberge | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 8, 1982 | August 2, 1985 | Ronald Reagan |
| Harry George Barnes, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 18, 1985 | November 26, 1988 | |
| Charles A. Gillespie, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 20, 1988 | December 10, 1991 | |
| Curtis Warren Kamman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 14, 1992 | October 21, 1994 | George H. W. Bush |
| Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 24, 1994 | June 13, 1998 | Bill Clinton |
| John O'Leary | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 19, 1998 | June 29, 2001 | |
| William R. Brownfield | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 25, 2002 | July 19, 2004 | George W. Bush |
| Craig A. Kelly | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 9, 2004 | November 9, 2007 | |
| Paul E. Simons | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 9, 2007 | July 4, 2010 | |
| Alejandro Daniel Wolff | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 9, 2010 | August 10, 2013 | Barack Obama |
| Michael A. Hammer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 8, 2014 | August 2016 | |
| Carol Z. Perez | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 13, 2016 | January 31, 2019 | |
| Baxter Hunt | Chargé d’Affaires | January 31, 2019 | August 10, 2020 | Donald Trump |
| Richard H. Glenn | Chargé d’Affaires | August 10, 2020 | September 13, 2022 | |
| Bernadette Meehan | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 30, 2022 | Janunary 20, 2025 | Joe Biden |
| Richard T. Yoneoka | Chargé d’Affaires | Janunary 20, 2025 | Incumbent | Donald Trump |
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Quick facts Ambassador of the United States to Chile, Nominator ...
| Ambassador of the United States to Chile | |
|---|---|
 Seal of the United States Department of State | |
 Flag of a United States ambassador | |
 Incumbent since January 20, 2025Richard T. Yoneoka Chargé d'affaires | |
| Nominator | The president of the United States |
| Appointer | The president with Senate advice and consent |
| Inaugural holder | Heman Allen as Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary |
| Formation | April 23, 1824 |
| Website | U.S. Embassy - Santiago |
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