United States Ambassador To The United Nations - Office-holders

Office-holders

The following is a chronological list of those who have held the office:

# Image US Ambassador to UN Years served U.N. Secretary-General U.S. President
1 Edward Stettinius, Jr. 1945–1946 Gladwyn Jebb Harry S. Truman
1946 Trygve Lie
— Herschel V. Johnson
(acting)
1946–1947
2 Warren Austin 1947–1952
1953 Dag Hammarskjöld
3 Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. 1953–1960 Dwight D. Eisenhower
4 James Jeremiah Wadsworth 1960–1961
5 Adlai Stevenson 1961 John F. Kennedy
1961-1963 U Thant
1963-1965 Lyndon B. Johnson
6 Arthur Goldberg 1965–1968
7 George W. Ball 1968
8 James Russell Wiggins 1968–1969
9 Charles Woodruff Yost 1969–1971 Richard Nixon
10 George H. W. Bush 1971
1972-1973 Kurt Waldheim
11 John A. Scali 1973–1974
1974-1975 Gerald Ford
12 Daniel Patrick Moynihan 1975–1976
13 William Scranton 1976–1977
14 Andrew Young 1977–1979 Jimmy Carter
15 Donald McHenry 1979–1981
16 Jeane Kirkpatrick 1981 Ronald Reagan
1982-1985 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
17 Vernon A. Walters 1985–1989
18 Thomas R. Pickering 1989–1991 George H. W. Bush
1992 Boutros Boutros-Ghali
19 Edward J. Perkins 1992–1993
20 Madeleine Albright 1993–1996 Bill Clinton
1997 Kofi Annan
21 Bill Richardson 1997–1998
— Peter Burleigh
(acting)
1998–1999
22 Richard Holbrooke 1999–2001
— James B. Cunningham
(acting)
2001 George W. Bush
23 John Negroponte 2001–2004
24 John Danforth 2004–2005
— Anne W. Patterson (acting) 2005
25 John R. Bolton 2005–2006
— Alejandro Daniel Wolff (acting) 2006
2007 Ban Ki-moon
26 Zalmay Khalilzad 2007–2009
27 Susan Rice 2009–present Barack Obama

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