The following is a list of United States Ambassadors, or other Chiefs of Mission, to Peru. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
| Representative | Title | Presentation of Credentials |
Termination of Mission |
Appointed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Cooley | Chargé d'Affaires | May 21, 1827 | February 24, 1828 | John Quincy Adams |
| Samuel Larned | Chargé d'Affaires | November 30, 1829 | March 6, 1837 | |
| James B. Thornton | Chargé d'Affaires | March 16, 1837 | December 10, 1837 | Andrew Jackson |
| J. C. Pickett | Chargé d'Affaires | January 30, 1840 | April 28, 1845 | Martin Van Buren |
| John A. Bryan | Chargé d'Affaires | April 28, 1845 | August 4, 1845 | John Tyler |
| Albert G. Jewett | Chargé d'Affaires | August 4, 1845 | July 21, 1847 | James K. Polk |
| John Randolph Clay | Chargé d'Affaires | December 15, 1847 | August 22, 1853 | |
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 22, 1853 | October 27, 1860 | Franklin Pierce | |
| Christopher Robinson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 11, 1862 | December 21, 1865 | Abraham Lincoln |
| Alvin P. Hovey | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 22, 1866 | September 22, 1870 | Andrew Johnson |
| Thomas Settle | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 13, 1871 | November 22, 1871 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Francis Thomas | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 10, 1872 | July 5, 1875 | |
| Richard Gibbs | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 10, 1875 | April 15, 1879 | |
| Isaac P. Christiancy | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 19, 1879 | August 2, 1881 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Stephen A. Hurlbut | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 2, 1881 | March 27, 1882 | James Garfield |
| Seth Ledyard Phelps | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 24, 1884 | June 24, 1885 | Chester A. Arthur |
| Charles W. Buck | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 1881 | March 13, 1889 | Grover Cleveland |
| John Hicks | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 31, 1889 | June 24, 1893 | Benjamin Harrison |
| James A. McKenzie | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 24, 1893 | April 13, 1897 | Grover Cleveland |
| Irving B. Dudley | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 20, 1897 | February 14, 1907 | William McKinley |
| Leslie Combs | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 10, 1907 | February 23, 1911 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| H. Clay Howard | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 1, 1911 | September 9, 1913 | William H. Taft |
| Benton McMillin | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 9, 1913 | September 5, 1919 | Woodrow Wilson |
| William E. Gonzales | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 24, 1920 | October 11, 1921 | |
| Miles Poindexter | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 20, 1923 | March 21, 1928 | Calvin Coolidge |
| Alexander P. Moore | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 11, 1928 | July 10, 1929 | |
| Fred Morris Dearing | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 23, 1930 | June 3, 1937 | Herbert Hoover |
| Laurence A. Steinhardt | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 13, 1937 | April 10, 1939 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| R. Henry Norweb | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 10, 1940 | September 30, 1943 | |
| John Campbell White | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 4, 1944 | June 17, 1945 | |
| William D. Pawley | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 20, 1945 | April 27, 1946 | Harry S. Truman |
| Prentice Cooper | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 1, 1946 | June 29, 1948 | |
| Harold H. Tittmann, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 27, 1948 | March 30, 1955 | |
| Ellis O. Briggs | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 27, 1955 | June 5, 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Theodore C. Achilles | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 24, 1956 | January 27, 1960 | |
| Selden Chapin | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 7, 1960 | August 7, 1960 | |
| James Loeb | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 23, 1961 | July 26, 1962 | John F. Kennedy |
| J. Wesley Jones | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 6, 1963 | June 2, 1969 | |
| Taylor G. Belcher | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 29, 1969 | April 4, 1974 | Richard Nixon |
| Robert W. Dean | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 2, 1974 | June 17, 1977 | |
| Harry W. Shlaudeman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 28, 1977 | October 20, 1980 | Jimmy Carter |
| Edwin Gharst Corr | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 6, 1980 | October 11, 1981 | |
| Frank V. Ortiz, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 10, 1981 | October 27, 1983 | Ronald Reagan |
| David C. Jordan | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 20, 1984 | July 17, 1986 | |
| Alexander Fletcher Watson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 27, 1986 | August 9, 1989 | |
| Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 11, 1989 | September 16, 1992 | George H. W. Bush |
| Charles H. Brayshaw | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | September 1992 | December 1993 | |
| Alvin P. Adams, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 15, 1993 | August 16, 1996 | Bill Clinton |
| Dennis C. Jett | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 16, 1996 | July 3, 1999 | |
| John Randle Hamilton | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 6, 1999 | July 10, 2002 | |
| John R. Dawson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 2, 2002 | June 10, 2003 | George W. Bush |
| James Curtis Struble | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 4, 2004 | before June 2007 | |
| P. Michael McKinley | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 28, 2007 | August, 2010 | |
| Rose M. Likins | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 15, 2010 | Incumbent | Barack Obama |
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