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List of ambassadors of the United States to Uruguay

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Ambassador of the United States to Uruguay
Seal of the United States Department of State
since March 22, 2023
NominatorThe President of the United States
Inaugural holderAlexander Asboth
as Minister Resident
FormationOctober 2, 1867
WebsiteU.S. Embassy - Montevideo

The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Uruguay. The current title given by the United States State Department to this position is Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.

Representative Title Presentation
of credentials 		Termination
of mission 		Appointed by
Alexander Asboth[1] Minister Resident October 2, 1867 January 21, 1868[2] Andrew Johnson
Henry G. Worthington[1] October 24, 1868 July 10, 1869
Robert C. Kirk[1] July 24, 1869 July 6, 1870 Ulysses S. Grant
John L. Stevens[3] July 6, 1870 May 19, 1873
John C. Caldwell[3] September 7, 1874 October 6, 1876
Chargé d'Affaires October 6, 1876 July 10, 1882
William Williams[3] July 10, 1882 July 21, 1885 Chester A. Arthur
John E. Bacon[3] July 21, 1885 October 8, 1888 Grover Cleveland
Minister Resident October 8, 1888 December 26, 1888
George Maney[3] November 8, 1889 November 28, 1890 Benjamin Harrison
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 28, 1890 June 30, 1894
Granville Stuart[3] July 2, 1894 January 4, 1898 Grover Cleveland
William R. Finch[3] January 4, 1898 May 29, 1905 William McKinley
Edward C. O'Brien[3] June 2, 1905 October 11, 1909 Theodore Roosevelt
Edwin V. Morgan[3] March 31, 1910 July 8, 1911 William H. Taft
Nicolai A. Grevstad[3] October 9, 1911 February 19, 1915
Robert Emmett Jeffery June 4, 1915 March 9, 1921 Woodrow Wilson
Hoffman Philip September 19, 1922 April 10, 1925 Warren G. Harding
Ulysses Grant-Smith July 13, 1925 January 11, 1929 Calvin Coolidge
Leland Harrison April 11, 1930 October 9, 1930 Herbert Hoover
J. Butler Wright February 9, 1931 July 10, 1934
Julius Gareché Lay May 20, 1935 August 31, 1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt
William Dawson February 10, 1938 June 6, 1939
Edwin C. Wilson October 27, 1939 March 5, 1941
William Dawson Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 12, 1941 August 6, 1946
Joseph F. McGurk November 28, 1946 April 15, 1947 Harry S. Truman
Ellis O. Briggs August 21, 1947 August 6, 1949
Christian M. Ravndal September 9, 1949 October 8, 1951
Edward L. Rodden December 27, 1951 October 12, 1953
Dempster McIntosh November 12, 1953 April 3, 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jefferson Patterson May 2, 1956 March 18, 1958
Robert F. Woodward April 21, 1958 March 29, 1961
Edward J. Sparks May 24, 1961 May 15, 1962 John F. Kennedy
Wymberley DeRenne Coerr July 27, 1962 January 22, 1965
Henry A. Hoyt June 14, 1965 December 16, 1967[2] Lyndon B. Johnson
Robert M. Sayre August 27, 1968 October 19, 1969
Charles W. Adair, Jr. November 13, 1969 September 28, 1972 Richard Nixon
Ernest V. Siracusa September 25, 1973 April 22, 1977
Lawrence Pezzulo August 10, 1977 May 29, 1979 Jimmy Carter
Lyle Franklin Lane October 17, 1979 July 22, 1980
N. Shaw Smith Chargé d'Affaires ad interim July 22, 1980 November 5, 1981
Thomas Aranda, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 5, 1981 November 14, 1985 Ronald Reagan
Malcolm Richard Wilkey November 28, 1985 May 10, 1990
Richard C. Brown November 19, 1990 August 19, 1993 George H. W. Bush
Thomas J. Dodd, Jr. September 23, 1993 September 1, 1997 Bill Clinton
Christopher C. Ashby November 26, 1997 March 1, 2001
Martin J. Silverstein October 17, 2001 July 6, 2005 George W. Bush
Frank E. Baxter December 13, 2006 January 20, 2009
David D. Nelson[4] December 24, 2009 May 23, 2011 Barack Obama
Thomas H. Lloyd[5] Chargé d'Affaires a.i. May 23, 2011 May 10, 2012
Julissa Reynoso[6] Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 10, 2012 December 10, 2014
Brad Freden[7] Chargé d'Affaires a.i. December 10, 2014 June 23, 2016
Kelly Keiderling[8] Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary June 23, 2016 June 29, 2019 Barack Obama
Donald Trump
Kenneth S. George September 2, 2019 January 20, 2021 Donald Trump
Jennifer Savage Chargé d'Affaires January 20, 2021 July 10, 2022 Joe Biden
Karl Ríos July 15, 2022 March 22, 2023
Heide B. Fulton Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary March 22, 2023 Incumbent

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Also accredited to Argentina; resident at Buenos Aires.
  2. ^ a b Died at post.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Also accredited to Paraguay; resident at Montevideo.
  4. ^ "Former Ambassadors". United States Department of State, U.S. Embassy Montevideo. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  5. ^ "Chargé d'Affaires". United States Department of State, U.S. Embassy Montevideo. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  6. ^ "Chargé d'Affaires". United States Department of State, U.S. Embassy Montevideo. Retrieved May 10, 2012.
  7. ^ "Chargé d'Affaires". United States Department of State, U.S. Embassy Montevideo. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  8. ^ PN1054 — Kelly Keiderling-Franz — Department of State Congressional record, May 17, 2016
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