United States Ambassador to Denmark
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The first representative from the United States
to Denmark
was appointed in 1827 as a Chargé d'Affaires
. There followed a series of chargés and ministers until 1890 when the first full ambassador (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary) was appointed. The title was changed to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in 1946.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
to Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
was appointed in 1827 as a 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...
. There followed a series of chargés and ministers until 1890 when the first full ambassador (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary) was appointed. The title was changed to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in 1946.
Ambassadors
- Henry Wheaton
- Appointed: March 3, 1827
- Title: Chargé d'Affaires
- Presented Credentials: September 20, 1827
- Terminated Mission: Presented recall on or shortly before May 29, 1835
- Jonathan F. Woodside
- Appointed: March 3, 1835
- Title: Chargé d'Affaires
- Presented Credentials: September 1, 1835
- Terminated Mission: Paid farewell calls on June 29, 1841
- Isaac Rand Jackson
- Appointed: May 20, 1841
- Title: Chargé d'Affaires
- Presented Credentials: October 12, 1841
- Terminated Mission: Died at post, July 27, 1842
- William W. IrwinWilliam W. IrwinWilliam Wallace Irwin was Mayor of Pittsburgh and a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Early life:...
- Appointed: March 3, 1843
- Title: Chargé d'Affaires
- Presented Credentials: June 19, 1843
- Terminated Mission: Presented recall on June 12, 1847
- Robert P. Flenniken
- Appointed: January 11, 1847
- Title: Chargé d'Affaires
- Presented Credentials: June 12, 1847
- Terminated Mission: Presented recall about September 15, 1849
- Walter ForwardWalter ForwardWalter Forward was an American lawyer and politician. He was the brother of Chauncey Forward.-Biography:...
- Appointed: November 8, 1849
- Title: Chargé d'Affaires
- Presented Credentials: June 15, 1850
- Terminated Mission: Recalled on September 10, 1851
- Andrew J. Ogle
- Appointed: January 22, 1852
- Title:
- Presented Credentials:
- Terminated Mission:
- Miller Grieve
- Appointed: August 30, 1852
- Title: Chargé d'Affaires
- Presented Credentials: December 15, 1852
- Terminated Mission: Left post on or after June 23, 1853
- Henry BedingerHenry BedingerHenry Bedinger III was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and diplomat from Virginia. He was the nephew of George Michael Bedinger....
- Appointed: May 24, 1853
- Title: Chargé d'Affaires
- Presented Credentials: October 13, 1853
- Terminated Mission: Promoted to Minister Resident, September 23, 1854
- Henry BedingerHenry BedingerHenry Bedinger III was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and diplomat from Virginia. He was the nephew of George Michael Bedinger....
- Appointed: June 29, 1854
- Title: Minister Resident
- Presented Credentials: September 23, 1854
- Terminated Mission: Presented recall on August 10, 1858
- James M. Buchanan
- Appointed: May 11, 1858
- Title: Minister Resident
- Presented Credentials: August 10, 1858
- Terminated Mission: Presented recall on May 10, 1861
- Bradford R. WoodBradford R. WoodBradford Ripley Wood was a U.S. Representative from New York.-Early life and legal career:Born in Westport, Connecticut, Wood attended the common schools and was graduated from Union College at Schenectady, New York, in 1824. He was engaged in teaching and lecturing. He studied law at the...
- Appointed: March 22, 1861
- Title: Minister Resident
- Presented Credentials: August 18, 1861
- Terminated Mission: Presented recall on November 15, 1865
- Samuel J. KirkwoodSamuel J. KirkwoodSamuel Jordan Kirkwood , was an American politician best known as Iowa's American Civil War Governor. He also served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of the Interior.-Early life and career:...
- Appointed: March 11, 1863
- Title: Minister Resident
- Presented Credentials:
- Terminated Mission:
- George H. Yeaman
- Appointed: August 25, 1865
- Title: Minister Resident
- Presented Credentials: November 20, 1865
- Terminated Mission: Presented recall, November 7, 1870
- Christopher Columbus AndrewsChristopher Columbus AndrewsChristopher Columbus Andrews was an American soldier, diplomat, newspaperman, author, and forester.-Early life and career:...
- Appointed: April 16, 1869
- Title:
- Presented Credentials:
- Terminated Mission:
- Michael J. Cramer
- Appointed: September 9, 1870
- Title: Minister Resident
- Presented Credentials: November 7, 1870
- Terminated Mission: Presented recall, October 2, 1876
- Michael J. Cramer
- Appointed: August 15, 1876
- Title: Chargé d'Affaires
- Presented Credentials: October 2, 1876
- Terminated Mission: Presented recall, August 12, 1881
- Adam Badeau
- Appointed:
- Title: Chargé d'Affaires
- Presented Credentials:
- Terminated Mission:
- Charles PaysonCharles PaysonCharles Payson , of Massachusetts, was a United States diplomat. He served as United States Third Assistant Secretary of State from June 22, 1878 to June 30, 1881. In 1881, United States Secretary of State James G. Blaine removed Payson from office so that his son, Walker Blaine, could become...
- Appointed: June 30, 1881
- Title: Chargé d'Affaires
- Presented Credentials: August 12, 1881
- Terminated Mission: Left post, February 23, 1882
- J. P. Wickersham
- Appointed: May 1, 1882
- Title: Chargé d'Affaires
- Presented Credentials: June 13, 1882
- Terminated Mission: Promoted to Minister Resident/Consul General August 21, 1882
- J.P. Wickersham
- Appointed: July 13, 1882
- Title: Minister Resident/Consul General
- Presented Credentials: August 21, 1882
- Terminated Mission: Notified the Government of Denmark from in Paris, September 8, 1882.
- Wickham Hoffman
- Appointed: February 27, 1883
- Title: Minister Resident/Consul General
- Presented Credentials: May 4, 1883
- Terminated Mission: Presented recall, June 1, 1885
- Rasmus B. AndersonRasmus B. AndersonRasmus Bjørn Anderson was an American author, professor, and diplomat. He brought to popular attention the idea that Viking explorers discovered the New World and was the originator of Leif Erikson Day.-Biography:...
- Appointed: April 2, 1885
- Title: Minister Resident/Consul General
- Presented Credentials: June 1, 1885
- Terminated Mission: Presented recall, August 28, 1889
- John A. Enander
- Appointed: March 13, 1889
- Title:
- Presented Credentials:
- Terminated Mission:
- Clark E. Carr
- Appointed: May 16, 1889
- Title: Minister Resident/Consul General
- Presented Credentials: August 28, 1889
- Terminated Mission: Promoted to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary July 30, 1890
- Clark E. Carr
- Appointed: July 30, 1890
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: September 22, 1890
- Terminated Mission: Presented recall, July 14, 1893
- John E. Risley
- Appointed: March 27, 1893
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: July 14, 1893
- Terminated Mission: Presented recall, December 11, 1897
- Laurits S. Swenson
- Appointed: October 4, 1897
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: December 11, 1897
- Terminated Mission: Presented recall, May 27, 1905
- Thomas J. O’BrienThomas J. O'Brien (Michigan)[[File:OBrien USAmbassador 1910 Japan.jpg|thumb|right|Hon. Thomas O’Brien[[File:OBrien USAmbassador 1910 Japan.jpg|thumb|right|Hon. Thomas O’Brien[[File:OBrien USAmbassador 1910 Japan.jpg|thumb|right|Hon...
- Appointed: March 8, 1905
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: May 27, 1905
- Terminated Mission: Left post, June 5, 1907
- Maurice Francis Egan – Political appointee
- Appointed:
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: June 10, 1907
- Terminated Mission: September 6, 1907 Left post, December 16, 1917
- Norman HapgoodNorman HapgoodNorman Hapgood was an American writer, journalist, editor, and critic, born in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Harvard in 1890 and from the law school there in 1893, then chose to become a writer...
– Political appointee- Appointed: April 16, 1919
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: June 17, 1919
- Terminated Mission: Left post, December 9, 1919
- Joseph C. GrewJoseph GrewJoseph Clark Grew was a United States diplomat and career foreign service officer. He was the chargé d'affaires at the U.S. embassy in Vienna when Austria-Hungary severed diplomatic relations with the United States on April 9, 1917. Later he was the U.S. Ambassador to Denmark 1920–1921 and U.S....
– Career FSO- Appointed: April 7, 1920
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: June 9, 1920
- Terminated Mission: Left post, October 14, 1921
- John Dyneley PrinceJohn Dyneley PrinceJohn Dyneley Prince was an American linguist, diplomat, and politician. He was a professor at New York University and Columbia University, minister to Denmark and Yugoslavia, and leader of both houses of the New Jersey Legislature.-Early life:Prince was born in New York City in 1868, the son of...
– Political appointee- Appointed: September 24, 1921
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: November 23, 1921
- Terminated Mission: Presented recall, March 30, 1926
- H. Percival Dodge – Career FSO
- Appointed: February 23, 1926
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: August 24, 1926
- Terminated Mission: Left post, March 1, 1930
- Ralph H. Booth – Political appointee
- Appointed: January 22, 1930
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: June 13, 1930
- Terminated Mission: Relinquished charge, May 11, 1931
- Frederick W. B. Coleman – Political appointee
- Appointed: September 23, 1931
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: February 10, 1932
- Terminated Mission: Appointment terminated, May 1, 1933
- Ruth Bryan OwenRuth Bryan OwenRuth Bryan Owen was the daughter of William Jennings Bryan and mother of Helen Rudd Brown. A Democrat, in 1929 she became Florida’s first woman representative in the United States Congress, coming from Florida’s 4th district. Representative Owen was also the first woman to earn a spot on the...
– Political appointee- Appointed: April 13, 1933
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: May 29, 1933
- Terminated Mission: Left post, June 27, 1936
- Alvin Mansfield Owsley – Political appointee
- Appointed: May 28, 1937
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: July 16, 1937
- Terminated Mission: Left post, May 15, 1939
- Ray AthertonRay AthertonRay Atherton was a United States diplomat who served as the first United States Ambassador to Canada .-Biography:Ray Atherton was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1883. He was educated at Harvard College, graduating with a B.A. in 1905. He then moved to Paris to study architecture, becoming...
– Career FSO- Appointed: August 7, 1939
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: September 8, 1939
- Terminated Mission: Left post, June 5, 1940
- Monnett B. Davis – Career FSO
- Appointed: June 8, 1945
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: June 21, 1945
- Terminated Mission: Left post, January 10, 1946
- Josiah Marvel, Jr. – Political appointee
- Appointed: March 13, 1946
- Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: April 23, 1946
- Terminated Mission: Promoted to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary February 27, 1947
- Josiah Marvel, Jr. – Political appointee
- Appointed: February 27, 1947
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: March 18, 1947
- Terminated Mission: Left post, March 4, 1949
- Eugenie AndersonEugenie AndersonEugenie Anderson , also known as Helen Eugenie Moore Anderson, was a United States diplomat. She is best known as the first woman appointed chief of mission at the ambassador level in US history .-Personal life:Helen Eugenie Moore was born on May 26, 1909, in Adair, Iowa, one of five...
– Political appointee- Appointed: October 20, 1949
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: December 22, 1949
- Terminated Mission: Left post, January 19, 1953
- Robert D. Coe – Career FSO
- Appointed: July 29, 1953
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: September 25, 1953
- Terminated Mission: Relinquished charge, June 1, 1957
- Val PetersonVal PetersonFrederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson , also known as Val Peterson, was an American politician who served as the 26th Governor of Nebraska from 1947 to 1953; as director of the Federal Civil Defense Administration from 1953–1957; as U.S. ambassador to Denmark 1957–1961; and as U.S...
– Political appointee- Appointed: June 26, 1957
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: August 22, 1957
- Terminated Mission: Left post, February 21, 1961
- William McCormick Blair, Jr. – Political appointee
- Appointed: March 29, 1961
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: May 9, 1961
- Terminated Mission: Left post, May 17, 1964
- Katharine Elkus WhiteKatharine Elkus WhiteKatharine Elkus White was an American Democratic Party politician and diplomat, who served as Mayor of Red Bank, New Jersey from 1951 to 1956, chairwoman of the New Jersey Highway Authority , and United States Ambassador to Denmark .-Early life:White was born in 1906, the daughter of Abram Isaac...
– Political appointee- Appointed: April 8, 1964
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: June 2, 1964
- Terminated Mission: Left post, September 9, 1968
- Angier Biddle DukeAngier Biddle DukeAngier Biddle Duke had a career which included being a diplomat in the United States foreign service.-Biography:Angier Biddle Duke was born November 30, 1915 in New York City....
– Political appointee- Appointed: September 26, 1968
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: October 3, 1968
- Terminated Mission: Left post, May 1, 1969
- Guilford Dudley Jr.Guilford Dudley (ambassador)Guilford Dudley , was the United States ambassador to Denmark under the Nixon and Ford presidential administrations. From 1952 until 1969 Dudley served as president of Life & Casualty Insurance Company...
– Political appointee- Appointed: May 13, 1969
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: June 18, 1969
- Terminated Mission: Left post, November 2, 1971
- Fred J. Russell – Political appointee
- Appointed: November 5, 1971
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: December 9, 1971
- Terminated Mission: Left post, November 4, 1972
- Philip K. Crowe – Political appointee
- Appointed: July 16, 1973
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: September 13, 1973
- Terminated Mission: Left post, September 27, 1975
- John Gunther DeanJohn Gunther DeanJohn Gunther Dean is a distinguished career United States diplomat. From 1974-1988, Dean served as the United States Ambassador to five different nations under four different U.S. Presidents.-Early years:...
– Career FSO- Appointed: October 23, 1975
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: November 6, 1975
- Terminated Mission: Left post, July 18, 1978
- Warren Demian ManshelWarren Demian ManshelWarren Demian Manshel was born in Germany and went to school with Henry Kissinger. Manshel became a naturalized US citizen and graduated from Harvard University.He was U.S. Ambassador to Denmark from 1978–1981....
– Political appointee- Appointed: June 22, 1978
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: July 31, 1978
- Terminated Mission: Left post, March 6, 1981
- John Langeloth Loeb, Jr.John Langeloth Loeb, Jr.John L. Loeb Jr. is a businessman, philanthropist, art collector, and former United States Ambassador to Denmark and Delegate to the United Nations ....
– Political appointee- Appointed: July 30, 1981
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: October 13, 1981
- Terminated Mission: Left post, September 17, 1983
- Terence A. TodmanTerence TodmanTerrance Alphonso Todman , is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Chad, Guinea, Costa Rica, Spain, Denmark and Argentina. In 1990, he was awarded the rank of Career Ambassador....
– Career FSO- Appointed: October 3, 1983
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: November 17, 1983
- Terminated Mission: Left post, January 8, 1989
- Keith Lapham Brown – Political appointee
- Appointed: November 22, 1988
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: January 8, 1989
- Terminated Mission: Left post, January 16, 1992
- Richard B. StoneRichard Bernard StoneRichard Bernard Stone was a Democratic United States Senator from Florida and later served as Ambassador at Large to Central America and Ambassador to Denmark.-Early life and career:...
– Political appointee- Appointed: November 21, 1991
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: February 10, 1992
- Terminated Mission: Left post, October 14, 1993
- Edward Elliott Elson – Political appointee
- Appointed: November 22, 1993
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: January 18, 1994
- Terminated Mission: Left post June 25, 1998
- Richard SwettRichard SwettRichard "Dick" Swett is an American politician from the U.S. state of New Hampshire.-Early life, education and career:Swett was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and moved to New Hampshire with his family as a child...
– Political appointee- Appointed: June 29, 1998
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: September 8, 1998
- Terminated Mission: Left post July 6, 2001
- Stuart A. Bernstein – Political appointee
- Appointed: August 3, 2001
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: September 3, 2001
- Terminated Mission: Left post, January 16, 2005
- James CainJames P. CainJames P. "Jim" Cain is a former United States Ambassador to Denmark from July 2005 to January 2009. He was appointed by President George W. Bush on June 30, 2005. He was replaced by Laurie S. Fulton. Cain is a member of the North Carolina Republican Party-Early Life:Jim Cain is a native of High...
– Political appointee- Appointed: August 2, 2005
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: September 9, 2005
- Terminated Mission: Left post, January 23, 2009
- Laurie S. Fulton – Political appointee
- Appointed: July 15, 2009
- Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- Presented Credentials: August 3, 2009
See also
- Denmark – United States relations
- Foreign relations of DenmarkForeign relations of DenmarkDanish foreign policy is based on its identity as a sovereign nation in Europe. As such its primary foreign policy focus is on its relations with other nations as a sovereign independent nation. Denmark has long had good relations with other nations....
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