U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom
The office of United States Ambassador (or Minister) to the United Kingdom (also known as Ambassador to the Court of St. James), has traditionally been the highest position in the American foreign service, and has been held by various notable politicians, including five future presidents (John Adams, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, and James Buchanan).
Ministers Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James, 1785-1811John Adams (MA) 1785-1788Thomas Pinckney (SC) 1792-1796Rufus King (NY) 1796-1803James Monroe (VA) 1803-1807William Pinkney (MD) 1808-1811 from 1811 to the outbreak of the War of 1812, chargé d'affaires Jonathan Russell was the chief American officer in London
Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James, 1815-1893John Quincy Adams (MA) 1815-1817Richard Rush (PA) 1818-1825Rufus King (NY) 1825-1826Albert Gallatin (PA) 1826-1827James Barbour (VA) 1828-1829Louis McLane (DE) 1829-1831Martin Van Buren (NY) 1831-1832from 1832 to 1836, Aaron Vail, the American chargé d'affaires, acted as the chief American officer in London.Andrew Stevenson (VA) 1836-1841Edward Everett (MA) 1841-1845Louis McLane (MD) 1845-1849George Bancroft (NY) 1846-1849Abbott Lawrence (MA) 1849-1852Joseph R. Ingersoll (PA) 1852-1853James Buchanan (PA) 1853-1856George M. Dallas (PA) 1856-1861Charles Francis Adams (MA) 1861-1868Reverdy Johnson (MD) 1868-1869J. Lothrop Motley (MA) 1869-1870Robert C. Schenck (OH) 1871-1876Edwards Pierrepont (NY) 1876-1877John Welsh (PA) 1877-1879James Russell Lowell (MA) 1880-1885Edward J. Phelps (VT) 1885-1889Robert T. Lincoln (IL) 1889-1893
Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James, 1893-presentThomas F. Bayard (DE) 1893-1897John Hay (DC) 1897-1898Joseph Choate (NY) 1899-1905Whitelaw Reid (NY) 1905-1912Walter Hines Page (NY) 1913-1918John W. Davis (WV) 1918-1921George Harvey (NJ) 1921-1923Frank B. Kellogg (MN) 1924-1925Alanson B. Houghton (NY) 1925-1929Charles G. Dawes (IL) 1929-1931Andrew W. Mellon (PA) 1932-1933Robert Worth Bingham (KY) 1933-1937Joseph P. Kennedy (NY) 1938-1940John G. Winant (NH) 1941-1946W. Averell Harriman (NY) 1946Lewis W. Douglas (AZ) 1947-1950Walter S. Gifford (NY) 1950-1953Winthrop W. Aldrich (NY) 1953-1957John Hay Whitney (NY) 1957-1961David K. E. Bruce (MD) 1961-1969Walter H. Annenberg (PA) 1969-1974Elliot L. Richardson (MA) 1975-1976Anne Legendre Armstrong (TX) 1976-1977Kingman Brewster, Jr (CT) 1977-1981John J. Louis, Jr (IL) 1981-1983Charles H. Price II (MO) 1983-1989Henry E. Catto, Jr (TX) 1989-1991Raymond G. H. Seitz (TX) 1991-1994William J. Crowe, Jr (VA) 1994-1997Philip Lader (SC) 1997-2001William S. Farish (TX) 2001-2004David T. Johnson (GA) (Chargé d'Affaires ad interim) 10th July 2004-
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