List of ambassadors of the United States to Brazil

The following is a list of ambassadors of the United States, or other chiefs of mission, to Brazil. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.

Ambassador of the United States to Brazil
Embaixador dos Estados Unidos da América no Brasil
Seal of the United States Department of State
Flag of a United States ambassador
Incumbent Gabriel Escobar Chargé d'Affaires ad interim since January 21, 2025[1]
Nominator	The president of the United States
Appointer	The president with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural holder	Condy Raguet as Chargé d'Affaires
Formation	October 29, 1825
Website	U.S. Embassy - Brazil

List

Representative	Title	Presentation of credentials	Termination of mission	Appointed by
Condy Raguet	Chargé d'Affaires	October 29, 1825	April 16, 1827	John Quincy Adams
William Tudor		June 25, 1828	March 9, 1830[2]
Ethan A. Brown		February 18, 1831	April 11, 1834	Andrew Jackson
William Hunter		January 7, 1835	January 1, 1842
	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	January 1, 1842	December 9, 1843	John Tyler
George H. Proffit		December 11, 1843	August 10, 1844[3]
Henry A. Wise		August 10, 1844	August 28, 1847
David Tod		August 28, 1847	August 9, 1851	James K. Polk
Robert C. Schenck		August 9, 1851	October 8, 1853	Millard Fillmore
William Trousdale		October 8, 1853	December 5, 1857	Franklin Pierce
Richard K. Meade		December 5, 1857	July 9, 1861	James Buchanan
James Watson Webb		October 21, 1861	May 26, 1869	Abraham Lincoln
James Monroe[4][5]	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	1869	1869	Ulysses S. Grant
Henry T. Blow	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 28, 1869	November 6, 1870
James R. Partridge		July 31, 1871	June 11, 1877
Henry W. Hilliard		October 23, 1877	June 15, 1881	Rutherford B. Hayes
Thomas A. Osborn		December 17, 1881	July 11, 1885	James Garfield
Thomas J. Jarvis		July 11, 1885	November 19, 1888	Grover Cleveland
Robert Adams, Jr.		July 20, 1889	March 1, 1890	Benjamin Harrison
Edwin H. Conger		December 19, 1890	September 9, 1893
Thomas L. Thompson		September 9, 1893	July 17, 1897	Grover Cleveland
Edwin H. Conger		August 9, 1897	February 6, 1898	William McKinley
Charles Page Bryan		April 11, 1898	December 3, 1902
David E. Thompson		April 1, 1903	March 16, 1905	Theodore Roosevelt
	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 16, 1905	November 3, 1905
Lloyd C. Griscom		June 6, 1906	January 2, 1907
Irving Bedell Dudley		April 1, 1907	September 16, 1911
Edwin V. Morgan		June 4, 1912	August 23, 1933	William H. Taft
Hugh S. Gibson		August 23, 1933	December 3, 1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jefferson Caffery		August 17, 1937	September 17, 1944
Adolf A. Berle, Jr.		January 30, 1945	February 27, 1946
William D. Pawley		June 13, 1946	March 26, 1948	Harry S. Truman
Herschel Vespasian Johnson		July 22, 1948	May 27, 1953
James S. Kemper		August 18, 1953	January 26, 1955	Dwight D. Eisenhower
James Clement Dunn		March 11, 1955	July 4, 1956
Ellis O. Briggs		July 24, 1956	April 29, 1959
John M. Cabot		July 22, 1959	August 17, 1961
Lincoln Gordon		October 19, 1961	February 25, 1966	John F. Kennedy
John W. Tuthill		June 30, 1966	January 9, 1969	Lyndon B. Johnson
Charles Burke Elbrick		July 14, 1969	May 7, 1970	Richard Nixon
William M. Rountree		November 16, 1970	May 30, 1973
John Hugh Crimmins		August 13, 1973	February 25, 1978
Robert M. Sayre		June 8, 1978	September 19, 1981	Jimmy Carter
Langhorne A. Motley		October 6, 1981	July 6, 1983	Ronald Reagan
Diego C. Asencio		December 20, 1983	February 28, 1986
Harry W. Shlaudeman		August 5, 1986	May 14, 1989
Richard Huntington Melton		December 12, 1989	December 16, 1993	George H. W. Bush
Melvyn Levitsky		June 1, 1994	June 17, 1998	Bill Clinton
Anthony Stephen Harrington		February 8, 2000	February 28, 2001
Cristobal R. Orozco	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	February 28, 2001	April 23, 2002	George W. Bush
Donna J. Hrinak	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 23, 2002	June 26, 2004
John J. Danilovich		September 2, 2004	November 7, 2005
Philip T. Chicola	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	November 7, 2005	August 2, 2006
Clifford M. Sobel	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 7, 2006	August 7, 2009[6]
Tom Shannon		February 4, 2010	September 6, 2013	Barack Obama
Liliana Ayalde		October 31, 2013	January 3, 2017
P. Michael McKinley		January 20, 2017	November 5, 2018	Donald Trump
William W. Popp	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	November 5, 2018	March 30, 2020
Todd C. Chapman	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 30, 2020	July 23, 2021
Douglas Koneff	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	July 28, 2021	February 2, 2023	Joe Biden
Elizabeth Bagley	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 3, 2023	January 20, 2025	Joe Biden
Gabriel Escobar	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	January 21, 2025	Incumbent	Donald Trump

See also

• Embassy of the United States, Brasília
• Brazilian Ambassador to the United States
• Embassy of Brazil, Washington, D.C.
• Brazil – United States relations
• Foreign relations of Brazil
• Ambassadors of the United States