United States Ambassador to Guatemala

The following is a list of Ambassadors of the United States, or other chiefs of mission

Head of Mission

In diplomatic usage, Head of Mission or Chief of Mission from the French "Chef de Mission Diplomatique" is the generic term used to refer to the head of a diplomatic representation, such as an Ambassador, High Commissioner, Nuncio, Chargé d'affaires, Permanent Representative, and sometimes to a...

, to Guatemala

Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...

. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Representative	Title	Presentation of Credentials	Termination of Mission	Appointed by
John Williams John Williams (Tennessee) John Williams was an American lawyer, soldier, and statesman, operating primarily out of Knoxville, Tennessee, in the first part of the 19th century. He represented Tennessee in the United States Senate from 1815 to 1823, when he lost reelection to Andrew Jackson. Williams also served as colonel...	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...	May 3, 1826	December 1, 1826	John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States . He served as an American diplomat, Senator, and Congressional representative. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of former...
Charles G. DeWitt Charles G. DeWitt Charles Gerrit DeWitt was a U.S. Congressman from Kingston, New York. He was born at the son of a miller, Gerrit DeWitt, and the grandson of Charles DeWitt. He represented New York's 7th district in the 21st Congress in 1829 and 1830. On March 22, 1831, he was appointed by Secretary of the...	Chargé d'Affaires	December 17, 1833	January 1, 1839	Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States . Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend , and the British at the Battle of New Orleans...
Elijah Hise Elijah Hise Elijah Hise was a United States diplomat and U.S. Representative from the of Kentucky.Hise was born 4 July 1802 in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania before moving with his parents, Frederick and Nancy Hise, to Russellville, Kentucky when young. He completed preparatory studies and then attended...	Chargé d'Affaires	January 31, 1849	June 23, 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...
Solon Borland Solon Borland Solon Borland was a newspaperman, soldier, diplomat, Democratic United States Senator from the State of Arkansas and a Confederate officer during the American Civil War.-Early life:...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary		December 31, 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...
John L. Marling	Minister Resident	February 14, 1855	May 8, 1856
Beverly L. Clarke Beverly L. Clarke Beverly Leonidas Clarke was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.Born in Winterfield, Virginia, Clarke attended the common schools. He moved to Kentucky in 1823. He studied law in Franklin, Kentucky, and graduated from the Lexington Law School in 1831. He was admitted to the bar in 1833 and...	Minister Resident	July 13, 1858	March 17, 1860	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....
Elisha Oscar Crosby	Minister Resident	May 28, 1861	June 22, 1864	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...
Fitz Henry Warren Fitz Henry Warren Fitz Henry Warren was a politician and a general during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:Warren was born in Brimfield, Massachusetts. In August 1844, he moved to Burlington in the Iowa Territory. He was an early political activist in the Whig Party...	Minister Resident	June 27, 1866	August 11, 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...
Silas A. Hudson	Minister Resident	August 11, 1869	October 12, 1872	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...
George Williamson	Minister Resident	September 9, 1873	January 31, 1879
Cornelius A. Logan	Minister Resident	June 11, 1879	April 12, 1882	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...
Henry C. Hall	Minister Resident	July 25, 1882	August 10, 1882	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...
Henry C. Hall	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 10, 1882	May 15, 1889
Lansing B. Mizner	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 4, 1889	December 31, 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...
Romualdo Pacheco Romualdo Pacheco José Antonio Romualdo Pacheco Jr. was an American politician and diplomat. Involved in California state and federal politics, Pacheco was elected and appointed to various posts and offices throughout his more than thirty-year career, including the California State Senate, the 12th Governor of...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 28, 1891	June 12, 1893
Pierce M. B. Young Pierce M. B. Young Pierce Manning Butler Young was a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a post-war politician, diplomat, and four-term United States Congressman from Georgia....	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 12, 1893	May 23, 1896	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...
Macgrane Coxe	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 29, 1896	June 30, 1897
W. Godfrey Hunter W. Godfrey Hunter Whiteside Godfrey Hunter was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.Born near Belfast, Ireland, Hunter completed preparatory studies.Immigrated to the United States in 1858 and settled in New Castle, Pennsylvania....	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	January 25, 1898	February 2, 1903	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...
Leslie Combs	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	February 2, 1903	February 25, 1907	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...
Joseph W. J. Lee	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 19, 1907	October 13, 1907
William Heimke	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 2, 1908	September 30, 1909
William F. Sands	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 9, 1909	October 14, 1910	William H. Taft
R. S. Reynolds Hitt	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 14, 1910	March 4, 1913	William H. Taft
William Hayne Leavell	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 29, 1913	October 24, 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...
Benton McMillin Benton McMillin Benton McMillin was governor of the U.S. state of Tennessee from 1899 to 1903. A Democrat, he was a native of Monroe County, Kentucky and an attorney.-Biography:...	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	January 15, 1920	December 6, 1921
Arthur H. Geissler	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 31, 1922	January 23, 1930	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...
Sheldon Whitehouse	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 21, 1930	July 23, 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...
Matthew E. Hanna	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 28, 1933	February 9, 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...
Fay A. Des Portes	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 22, 1936	May 14, 1943
Boaz Long	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 19, 1943	April 11, 1945
Edwin Jackson Kyle Edwin Jackson Kyle Edwin Jackson Kyle was the U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala from 1945—1948. He was also the first Texan to advocate agricultural teaching in state schools successfully...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 8, 1945	August 22, 1948
Richard C. Patterson, Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 24, 1948	March 28, 1950	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...
Rudolf E. Schoenfeld	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 24, 1951	October 19, 1953
John Emil Peurifoy John Emil Peurifoy John Emil Peurifoy was an American diplomat, an ambassador in the early years of the Cold War. He served as United States ambassador in Greece and Thailand and was the United States Ambassador to Guatemala during the 1954 coup that overthrew the democratic government of Jacobo Arbenz.-Early life...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 4, 1953	October 2, 1954	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...
Norman Armour Norman Armour Norman Armour was a career United States diplomat who The New York Times once called "the perfect diplomat"...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 18, 1954	May 9, 1955
Edward J. Sparks	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 29, 1955	February 15, 1958
Lester D. Mallory Lester D. Mallory Lester DeWitt Mallory was an American diplomat.Mallory was born in Houlton, Maine. He received a bachelor of science in agriculture in 1927 and a master of science in agriculture degree in 1929 from the University of British Columbia. Mallory earned a Ph.D...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 27, 1958	November 11, 1959
John J. Muccio	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 1, 1960	November 10, 1961
John O. Bell	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	January 30, 1962	August 26, 1965
John Gordon Mein John Gordon Mein right\|frame\|Ambassador MeinAmbassador John Gordon Mein was the first United States ambassador to be assassinated while serving in office.He served as the Ambassador of the United States to Guatemala...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 22, 1965	August 28, 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...
Nathaniel Davis Nathaniel Davis Nathaniel Davis A well known career diplomat who served in the United States Foreign Service and the Peace Corps for 36 years. His final years were spent teaching.-Early years:...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 21, 1968	August 21, 1971
William G. Bowdler William G. Bowdler -Biography:William G. Bowdler was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 27, 1924. He later immigrated to Florida, and served in the United States Army from 1944 to 1946. He became a U.S. citizen in 1945. He was educated at the University of Richmond, receiving a B.A. in History in 1948. He...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 19, 1971	August 26, 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...
Francis E. Meloy, Jr. Francis E. Meloy, Jr. Francis Edward Meloy, Jr. was a U.S. diplomat assassinated in Beirut in 1976.-Biography:Meloy was born in Washington, D.C. on March 28, 1917 and served in the United States Navy during World War II. He later become a Foreign Service officer, serving as U.S...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 7, 1974	April 19, 1976
Davis E. Boster	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 13, 1976	January 17, 1979	Gerald Ford Gerald Ford Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...
Frank V. Ortiz, Jr. Frank V. Ortiz, Jr. Frank Vincent Ortiz, Jr. , was an American diplomat. He was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, and Grenada as well as Special Representative to Dominica, Saint Lucia, Antigua, St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, and St...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 17, 1979	August 6, 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...
Frederic L. Chapin Frederic L. Chapin Frederic Lincoln Chapin was a United States diplomat. He was the ambassador to Ethiopia and Guatemala. He was the son of Selden Chapin, United States ambassador to the Netherlands, Peru and Iran.-External links:...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 3, 1981	February 28, 1984	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....
Alberto Martinez Piedra Alberto Martinez Piedra Alberto Martinez Piedra is a Cuban-American Professor of Political Economy at The Institute of World Politics.He was previously the Director of the Latin American Institute at The Catholic University of America, 1965 - 1982...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 17, 1984	August 22, 1987
James H. Michel	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 28, 1987	September 1, 1989
Thomas F. Stroock Thomas F. Stroock Thomas F. Strook was an American ambassador, politician, and businessman.Born in New York City, Strook attended Yale University alongside future President George H. W. Bush, and was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. After graduating he served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 31, 1989	November 10, 1992	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...
Marilyn McAfee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 16, 1993	June 20, 1996	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...
Donald B. Planty	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 22, 1996	August 14, 1999
Prudence Bushnell Prudence Bushnell Prudence Bushnell is an American diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Kenya and Guatemala. -Early life and career:...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 14, 1999	June 15, 2002
John Randle Hamilton	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	January 3, 2003	July 15, 2005	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....
James M. Derham	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 1, 2005	July 15, 2008
Stephen G. McFarland Stephen G. McFarland Stephen George McFarland is an American career diplomat and United States Ambassador to Guatemala .-Background:...	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 5, 2008	August 25, 2011

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