Ambassadors of The United States - Selected Past Ambassadors

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

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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