Selected Past Ambassadors
Well-known past ambassadors from the United States
| Ambassador |
Host country or organization |
| John Adams |
United Kingdom, Netherlands |
| John Quincy Adams |
United Kingdom, Russia, Netherlands, Germany |
| Madeleine K. Albright |
United Nations |
| Shirley Temple Black |
Czechoslovakia, Ghana |
| James Buchanan |
Russia, United Kingdom |
| George H. W. Bush |
United Nations |
| Frederick Douglass |
Haiti |
| Lawrence Eagleburger |
Yugoslavia |
| Benjamin Franklin |
France, Sweden |
| John Kenneth Galbraith |
India |
| W. Averell Harriman |
Soviet Union, United Kingdom |
| Pamela Harriman |
France |
| Patricia Roberts Harris |
Luxembourg |
| William Henry Harrison |
Colombia |
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| Ambassador |
Host country or organization |
| John Jay |
Spain |
| Thomas Jefferson |
France |
| Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. |
United Kingdom |
| Jeane Kirkpatrick |
United Nations |
| Robert Todd Lincoln |
United Kingdom |
| Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. |
United Nations, Germany |
| Clare Boothe Luce |
Italy |
| George S. McGovern |
United Nations agencies in Rome |
| Walter F. Mondale |
Japan |
| James Monroe |
France, United Kingdom |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
India, United Nations |
| Donald Rumsfeld |
NATO |
| Martin Van Buren |
United Kingdom |
| Paul Wolfowitz |
Indonesia |
| Charles W. Yost |
Laos, Syria, Morocco, United Nations |
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