United States Ambassador to Bolivia
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The following is a list of United States
Ambassador
s, or other Chiefs of Mission, to Bolivia
. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
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Ambassador
Ambassador
An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....
s, or other Chiefs of Mission, to Bolivia
Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
| Representative | Title | Presentation of Credentials |
Termination of Mission |
Appointed by |
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| John Appleton John Appleton John Appleton was born in Beverly, Massachusetts and raised in Cumberland County, Maine, USA. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1834, also studied at Cambridge Law School, and was admitted to the Cumberland County bar in 1837, commencing practice in Portland, Maine.He also did editorial work on... |
Chargé d'Affaires Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were... |
January 3, 1849 | May 4, 1849 | James K. Polk James K. Polk James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States . Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He later lived in and represented Tennessee. A Democrat, Polk served as the 17th Speaker of the House of Representatives and the 12th Governor of Tennessee... |
| Alexander Keith McClung Alexander Keith McClung Alexander Keith McClung briefly served as US chargé d'affaires to Bolivia in president Zachary Taylor's administration. Nicknamed "The Black Knight of the South," he was a duellist and poet. James H... |
Chargé d'Affaires | July 3, 1850 | June 30, 1851 | Zachary Taylor Zachary Taylor Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States and an American military leader. Initially uninterested in politics, Taylor nonetheless ran as a Whig in the 1848 presidential election, defeating Lewis Cass... |
| Horace H. Miller | Chargé d'Affaires | December 18, 1852 | January 18, 1854 | Millard Fillmore Millard Fillmore Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president... |
| John W. Dana John W. Dana John W. Dana was the 19th and 21st Governor of Maine.- Early life :Dana was born in Fryeburg, Maine on June 21, 1808. He studied in local schools and at the Fryeburg Academy. He started his career as a businessman.... |
Chargé d'Affaires | February 23, 1854 | September 24, 1854 | Franklin Pierce Franklin Pierce Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States and is the only President from New Hampshire. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. Pierce took part in the Mexican-American War and became a brigadier general in the Army... |
| Minister Resident | September 24, 1854 | March 10, 1859 | ||
| John Cotton Smith | Minister Resident | March 10, 1859 | May 1, 1861 | James Buchanan James Buchanan James Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States . He is the only president from Pennsylvania, the only president who remained a lifelong bachelor and the last to be born in the 18th century.... |
| David K. Cartter | Minister Resident | July 28, 1861 | March 10, 1862 | Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and... |
| Allen A. Hall | Minister Resident | September 4, 1863 | May 18, 1867 | |
| John W. Caldwell | Minister Resident | November 2, 1868 | July 25, 1869 | Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States . As Vice-President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination. Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American... |
| Leopold Markbreit Leopold Markbreit Leopold Markbreit was a German-American Republican politician in Cincinnati, Ohio. The half-brother of Frederick Hassaurek, Markbreit was a lawyer who was briefly the law partner of Rutherford B. Hayes. President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him Minister to Bolivia in 1869... |
Minister Resident | July 25, 1869 | February 12, 1873 | Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. Under Grant's command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America... |
| John T. Croxton John T. Croxton John Thomas Croxton was an attorney, a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and a postbellum U.S. diplomat.-Early life and career:... |
Minister Resident | April 9, 1873 | April 16, 1874 | |
| Robert M. Reynolds | Minister Resident | January 30, 1875 | October 11, 1876 | |
| S. Newton Pettis Solomon Newton Pettis Solomon Newton Pettis was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Early life:... |
Minister Resident/Consul General | June 2, 1879 | October 30, 1879 | Rutherford B. Hayes Rutherford B. Hayes Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States . As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution... |
| Charles Adams Charles Adams (Colorado) Charles Adams, born Charles Schwanbeck , was a United States Army officer, US Indian agent, diplomat and businessman. In 1879 he secured the release of five hostages taken captive by the White River Utes after the Meeker Massacre, and held an official inquiry into their treatment... |
Minister Resident/Consul General | July 8, 1880 | August 29, 1882 | |
| George Maney George Maney George Earl Maney was an American soldier, politician, railroad executive and diplomat. He was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a postbellum U.S... |
Minister Resident/Consul General | November 4, 1882 | June 1, 1883 | Chester A. Arthur Chester A. Arthur Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st President of the United States . Becoming President after the assassination of President James A. Garfield, Arthur struggled to overcome suspicions of his beginnings as a politician from the New York City Republican machine, succeeding at that task by embracing... |
| Richard Gibbs | Minister Resident/Consul General | October 16, 1883 | September 11, 1885 | |
| William A. Seay | Minister Resident/Consul General | September 19, 1885 | April 12, 1887 | Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents... |
| S. S. Carlisle | Minister Resident/Consul General | January 17, 1888 | December 16, 1889 | |
| Thomas H. Anderson Thomas H. Anderson (1848-1916) Thomas H. Anderson was a United States federal judge.Anderson was born in Belmont County, Ohio, and attended Mount Union College. He was a high school principal, Cambridge, Ohio in 1871. He was in private practice of law in Cambridge, Ohio from 1871 to 1889. He was a U.S. Minister to Bolivia from... |
Minister Resident/Consul General | December 16, 1889 | October 4, 1890 | Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States . Harrison, a grandson of President William Henry Harrison, was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at age 21, eventually becoming a prominent politician there... |
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 4, 1890 | November 22, 1892 | ||
| Frederic J. Grant | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 12, 1893 | October 24, 1893 | Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents... |
| Thomas Moonlight Thomas Moonlight Thomas Moonlight was a United States politician and general.-Birth:Thomas was baptised on 30 September 1833 in St Vigeans, Angus, Scotland with birth record number 319/0040 0169... |
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 14, 1894 | January 8, 1898 | |
| George H. Bridgman | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 4, 1898 | January 13, 1902 | William McKinley William McKinley William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States . He is best known for winning fiercely fought elections, while supporting the gold standard and high tariffs; he succeeded in forging a Republican coalition that for the most part dominated national politics until the 1930s... |
| William B. Sorsby | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 4, 1902 | March 16, 1908 | Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity... |
| James F. Stutesman | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 8, 1908 | April 15, 1910 | William Howard Taft William Howard Taft William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States... |
| Horace G. Knowles Horace G. Knowles Horace Greeley Knowles was an American attorney and diplomat, who served as an ambassador under three U.S. presidents between 1907 and 1913.-Early life:... |
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 28, 1910 | August 23, 1913 | |
| John D. O'Rear | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 31, 1913 | July 14, 1918 | Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913... |
| S. Abbot Maginnis | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 14, 1920 | December 5, 1921 | |
| Jesse S. Cottrell | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 6, 1922 | January 26, 1928 | Warren G. Harding Warren G. Harding Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States . A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential self-made newspaper publisher. He served in the Ohio Senate , as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and as a U.S. Senator... |
| David E. Kaufman | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 30, 1928 | January 10, 1929 | Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state... |
| Edward F. Feely | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 23, 1930 | September 29, 1933 | Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business... |
| Fay A. Des Portes | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 15, 1933 | May 1, 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war... |
| R. Henry Norweb | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 10, 1936 | June 15, 1937 | |
| Robert Granville Caldwell | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 21, 1937 | June 23, 1939 | |
| Douglas Jenkins | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 26, 1939 | October 3, 1941 | |
| Pierre de Lagarde Boal Pierre de Lagarde Boal Pierre de Lagarde Boal was an American diplomat and aviator. Boal served as the United States Ambassador to Nicaragua from 1941 to 1942 and the United States Ambassador to Bolivia from May 1942 to February 5, 1944.... |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization.... |
May 23, 1942 | February 5, 1944 | |
| Walter C. Thurston | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 16, 1944 | January 3, 1946 | |
| Joseph Flack | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 15, 1946 | May 17, 1949 | Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his... |
| Irving Florman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 27, 1950 | September 4, 1951 | |
| Edward J. Sparks | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 13, 1952 | October 29, 1954 | |
| Gerald A. Drew Gerald A. Drew Gerald Augustin Drew was a career Foreign Service Officer.-Biography:Born in San Francisco, California, Drew was a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley where he was a member of Phi Kappa Tau. He served as U.S. Vice Consul in Pará, 1929; Envoy to Jordan, 1950–52; Ambassador to... |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 8, 1954 | April 6, 1957 | Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army... |
| Philip W. Bonsal Philip Bonsal Philip Wilson Bonsal was a United States foreign diplomat and the last United States Ambassador to Cuba.-Biography:Bonsal was born in New York in 1903, his father was Stephen Bonsal, a well-known Far Eastern correspondent. Bonsal became Ambassador to Colombia 1955, Bolivia 1957-59, Cuba 1959-60... |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 10, 1957 | February 6, 1959 | |
| Carl W. Strom | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 4, 1959 | May 8, 1961 | |
| Ben S. Stephansky | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 29, 1961 | October 15, 1963 | John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.... |
| Douglas Henderson Douglas Henderson (ambassador) Douglas Henderson was an American diplomat, economist and government official. He is perhaps best known for his service as United States Ambassador to Bolivia during Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara's ill-fated 1966-1967 guerrilla insurgency in that country.- Early life and education... |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 7, 1963 | August 6, 1968 | Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States... |
| Raúl H. Castro Raúl Héctor Castro Raul Hector Castro is a Mexican-born American politician. He has served in both elected and non-elected public offices, including United States Ambassador and the 14th Governor of Arizona. He was the first Mexican American to be elected governor of Arizona... |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 3, 1968 | November 3, 1969 | |
| Ernest V. Siracusa | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 5, 1969 | July 30, 1973 | Richard Nixon Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under... |
| William Perry Stedman, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 3, 1973 | June 23, 1977 | |
| Paul M. Boeker | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 26, 1977 | February 17, 1980 | Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office... |
| Marvin Weissman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 26, 1980 | July 20, 1980 | |
| Alexander Watson Alexander Watson Alexander Fletcher Watson is a retired American ambassador and diplomat.Watson was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University, earning a bachelor's degree in government in 1961, and joined the Foreign Service in 1962.... |
Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | July 1980 | September 1981 | |
| Edwin G. Corr Edwin G. Corr Edwin Gharst Corr was a United States diplomat and served as a United States Ambassador to several Latin-American nations. Corr is from Norman, Oklahoma.... |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 10, 1981 | August 9, 1985 | Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor.... |
| Edward Morgan Rowell | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 20, 1985 | January 19, 1988 | |
| Robert S. Gelbard Robert S. Gelbard Robert S. Gelbard is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Bolivia and Indonesia . He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, and is a 1964 graduate of Colby College and a 1979 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School, where he received a Master of Public Administration.In the... |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 11, 1988 | July 20, 1991 | George H. W. Bush George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to... |
| Charles R. Bowers | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 23, 1991 | October 7, 1994 | |
| Curtis Warren Kamman Curtis Warren Kamman Curtis Warren Kamman is a former career diplomat.Kamman graduated from Tucson High School and Yale University and entered the Foreigh Service in 1960. He served as United States Ambassador to Bolivia, Chile, and Colombia... |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 16, 1994 | November 26, 1997 | Bill Clinton Bill Clinton William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation... |
| Donna Jean Hrinak | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 14, 1998 | July 17, 2000 | |
| V. Manuel Rocha | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 4, 2000 | April 27, 2002 | George W. Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000.... |
| David N. Greenlee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 17, 2003 | May 10, 2006 | |
| Philip S. Goldberg | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 13, 2006 | September 10, 2008 | |
| Krishna R. Urs | Chargé d’Affaires a.i. | September 15, 2008 | June 25, 2009 | |
| James Creagan James Creagan James F. Creagan is a United States diplomat.Creagan was born in Elyria, Ohio in 1940 and grew up on the shores of Lake Erie in nearby Lorain. He is a 1962 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He has taught political science at several... |
Chargé d’Affaires a.i. | June 25, 2009 | August 28, 2009 | Barack Obama Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in... |
| John S. Creamer | Chargé d’Affaires a.i. | August 28, 2009 | Incumbent |
See also
- Bolivia – United States relations
- Foreign relations of BoliviaForeign relations of BoliviaBolivia traditionally has maintained normal diplomatic relations with all hemispheric states except Chile. Foreign relations are handled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs....
- Ambassadors of the United States