List of ambassadors of the United States to Peru

The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Peru. 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 Peru
Seal of the United States Department of State
Flag of a United States ambassador
Incumbent Joan Perkins Chargé d'affaires[1] since April 18, 2025
Nominator	The president of the United States
Appointer	The president with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural holder	James Cooley as Chargé d'Affaires
Formation	May 21, 1827
Website	U.S. Embassy - Lima

List of representatives

Representative	Title	Presentation of credentials	Termination of mission	Appointed by
James Cooley	Chargé d'Affaires	May 21, 1827	February 24, 1828[2]	John Quincy Adams
Samuel Larned	Chargé d'Affaires	November 30, 1829	March 6, 1837
James B. Thornton	Chargé d'Affaires	March 16, 1837	December 10, 1837	Andrew Jackson
J. C. Pickett	Chargé d'Affaires	January 30, 1840	April 28, 1845	Martin Van Buren
John A. Bryan	Chargé d'Affaires	April 28, 1845	August 4, 1845	John Tyler
Albert G. Jewett	Chargé d'Affaires	August 4, 1845	July 21, 1847[3]	James K. Polk
John Randolph Clay	Chargé d'Affaires	December 15, 1847	August 22, 1853
	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 22, 1853	October 27, 1860	Franklin Pierce
Christopher Robinson	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	January 11, 1862	December 21, 1865[4]	Abraham Lincoln
Alvin P. Hovey	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 22, 1866	September 22, 1870	Andrew Johnson
Thomas Settle	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 13, 1871	November 22, 1871	Ulysses S. Grant
Francis Thomas	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 10, 1872	July 5, 1875
Richard Gibbs	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 10, 1875	April 15, 1879
Isaac P. Christiancy	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 19, 1879	August 2, 1881	Rutherford B. Hayes
Stephen A. Hurlbut	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 2, 1881	March 27, 1882[2][5]	James Garfield
Seth Ledyard Phelps	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 24, 1884	June 24, 1885[2]	Chester A. Arthur
Charles W. Buck	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 1881	March 13, 1889	Grover Cleveland
John Hicks	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 31, 1889	June 24, 1893	Benjamin Harrison
James A. McKenzie	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 24, 1893	April 13, 1897	Grover Cleveland
Irving B. Dudley	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 20, 1897	February 14, 1907	William McKinley
Leslie Combs	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 10, 1907	February 23, 1911	Theodore Roosevelt
H. Clay Howard	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 1, 1911	September 9, 1913	William H. Taft
Benton McMillin	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 9, 1913	September 5, 1919	Woodrow Wilson
William E. Gonzales	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 24, 1920	October 11, 1921
Miles Poindexter	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 20, 1923	March 21, 1928	Calvin Coolidge
Alexander P. Moore	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 11, 1928	July 10, 1929
Fred Morris Dearing	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 23, 1930	June 3, 1937	Herbert Hoover
Laurence A. Steinhardt	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 13, 1937	April 10, 1939	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Raymond Henry Norweb	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 10, 1940	September 30, 1943
John Campbell White	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 4, 1944	June 17, 1945
William D. Pawley	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 20, 1945	April 27, 1946	Harry S. Truman
Prentice Cooper	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 1, 1946	June 29, 1948
Harold H. Tittmann Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 27, 1948	March 30, 1955
Ellis O. Briggs	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 27, 1955	June 5, 1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Theodore C. Achilles	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 24, 1956	January 27, 1960
Selden Chapin	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 7, 1960	August 7, 1960
James Loeb	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 23, 1961	July 26, 1962[6]	John F. Kennedy
J. Wesley Jones	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 6, 1963	June 2, 1969
Taylor G. Belcher	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 29, 1969	April 4, 1974	Richard Nixon
Robert W. Dean	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 2, 1974	June 17, 1977
Harry W. Shlaudeman	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 28, 1977	October 20, 1980	Jimmy Carter
Edwin Gharst Corr	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 6, 1980	October 11, 1981
Frank V. Ortiz Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 10, 1981	October 27, 1983	Ronald Reagan
David C. Jordan	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 20, 1984	July 17, 1986
Alexander Fletcher Watson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 27, 1986	August 9, 1989
Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 11, 1989	September 16, 1992	George H. W. Bush
Charles H. Brayshaw	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	September 16, 1992	December 15, 1993
Alvin P. Adams, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 15, 1993	August 16, 1996	Bill Clinton
Dennis C. Jett	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 16, 1996	July 3, 1999
John Randle Hamilton	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 6, 1999	July 10, 2002
John R. Dawson	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 2, 2002	June 10, 2003[7]	George W. Bush
James Curtis Struble	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 4, 2004	August 13, 2007[8]
P. Michael McKinley	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 27, 2007[9]	July 14, 2010
Rose M. Likins	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 15, 2010	June 27, 2014	Barack Obama
Brian A. Nichols	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 3, 2014[10]	October 13, 2017
Krishna Urs	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 25, 2017	July 29, 2020	Donald Trump
Denison Offutt	Chargé d'Affaires	July 29, 2020	March 10, 2021[11]
Lisa D. Kenna	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 22, 2021	September 8, 2023[12]	Joe Biden
John T. McNamara	Chargé d'Affaires	September 8, 2023	June 20, 2024	Joe Biden
Stephanie Syptak-Ramnath	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 20, 2024	April 18, 2025	Joe Biden
Joan Perkins	Chargé d'Affaires	April 18, 2025	Present	Donald Trump