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Suzan Johnson Cook

On June 15, 2010 she was nominated by president Barack Obama for the post of United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom in the State Department.


Curtin Winsor, Jr.

From 1983 to 1985, he served as the United States Ambassador to Costa Rica, advising the Central American government on economic policy.

Elinor G. Constable

Elinor Greer Constable (born 1934) is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Kenya (1986–89).

John Hugh Crimmins

John Hugh Crimmins (November 26, 1919 in Worcester, Massachusetts - December 12, 2007 in Mitchellville, Maryland.) was a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Dominican Republic (1966–69) and Brazil (1973–78).

Richard Kenneth Fox

(born October 22, 1925 in Cincinnati, Ohio) was United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago (1977–79).

Robert E. Hunter

He was National Security Council Director of West European Affairs (1977–1979), Director of Middle East Affairs (1979–1981) (in the administration of President Jimmy Carter), and United States Ambassador to NATO (1993–1998) (in the administration of President Bill Clinton), where he was principal architect and negotiator of the "new NATO."

Stephen Seche

Stephen A. Seche (born 1952) was the United States Ambassador to Yemen from 2007 to September 2010.

Walter L. Cutler

Walter Leon Cutler (born November 25, 1931 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Congo-Kinshasa (1975-79), Tunisia (1982-84), Saudi Arabia (1984-87; 1987-89), and Ambassador-Designate to Iran (1979).

William L. Swing

He is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador, and United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Under Secretary General.


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1917 in Mexico

February 24 – WWI: United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, Walter H. Page, is shown the intercepted Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany offers to give the American Southwest back to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.

Armenian cemetery in Julfa

In April 2011, the newly appointed United States ambassador to Azerbaijan Matthew Bryza visited Nakhchivan but was inexplicably refused access to Julfa by Azerbaijani authorities.

Arthur Lane

Arthur Bliss Lane (1894–1956), United States Ambassador to Poland, 1944–1947

Arthur Watson

Arthur K. Watson (1919–1974), president of IBM World Trade Corporation and United States Ambassador to France

Dallas Regional Chamber

Former United States Ambassador James C. Oberwetter has served as president of the Dallas Regional Chamber since February, 2009.

David Korn

David A. Korn (born 1930), former United States Ambassador to Togo

David Newton

David George Newton (born 1935), United States Ambassador to Iraq, 1985–1988, and to Yemen, 1994–1997

Douglas Stuart

R. Douglas Stuart (1886–1975), United States Ambassador to Canada, 1953–1956

R. Douglas Stuart, Jr. (born 1916), founder of the America First Committee, CEO of Quaker Oats; and United States Ambassador to Norway, 1984–1989

Edward P. Brynn

Brynn served as chargé d'Affaires ad interim to Mauritania from July 1982 to February 1983 and chargé d'Affaires ad interim to the Gambia from May 1984 to June 1984 before he was the United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso (1991–1993) and Ghana (1995–1998).

Embassy of the United States, London

Matthew Barzun was sworn in as the United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James's on August 15, 2013, by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

Foreign relations of NATO

In 2006, the now United States Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder together with James Goldgeier conceived the term "Global NATO".

Four Days in September

It is a fictional version of the 1969 kidnapping of the United States Ambassador to Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick, by members of Revolutionary Movement 8th October (MR-8).

Harry Barnes

Harry G. Barnes, Jr. (1926–2012), American diplomat, United States Ambassador to India

Henry Grady

Henry F. Grady (1882 – 1957), United States ambassador to India, Greece and Iran

Hugh Barclay

Hugh Douglas Barclay (born 1932), New York State Senator and former United States Ambassador to El Salvador

Hugh Wilson

Hugh R. Wilson (1885–1946), United States Ambassador to Germany, 1938

I Saw Poland Betrayed

I saw Poland betrayed: An American ambassador reports to the American people (1948) is a book written by Arthur Bliss Lane, former United States ambassador to Poland, who observed what he considered to be the betrayal of Poland by the Western Allies at the end of World War II.

Ignacio E. Lozano

Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr. (born 1927), former United States Ambassador to El Salvador

James W. Gerard

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania with many United States residents on board, on May 7, 1915, the United States ambassador's position became more difficult.

Joan M. Plaisted

She is a career diplomat of the United States Foreign Service, and was the United States Ambassador to the Marshall Islands and Kiribati from 1995 to 2000 concurrently, while resident at Majuro.

John Bolton

John R. Bolton (born 1948), former United States Ambassador to the United Nations

Joseph Davies

Joseph E. Davies (1876–1958), United States ambassador to the Soviet Union

Karl Hoffmann

Karl W. Hofmann (born 1961), former United States Ambassador to Togo

Kurtzer

Daniel C. Kurtzer (1949-) served as the United States ambassador to Israel from 2001 to 2005.

Mary Monnett Bain

Mary Monnett Bain's grandson, Monnett Bain Davis (1893-1953) served as the United States Ambassador to Panama 1948-51 and to Israel 1951-1953.

Nathaniel Davis

When Costa-Gavras's film Missing was released by Universal Studios in 1982, Davis, who had been the United States Ambassador to Chile from 1971 to 1973, filed a USD $150 million libel suit against the director and the studio.

Orison

Orison Rudolph Aggrey (born 1926), United States Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia and Romania

Paul Robinson

Paul H. Robinson, Jr. (born 1930), United States Ambassador to Canada 1981–1985

Penns Grove High School

William J. Hughes (born 1932), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1995 who was appointed by President Bill Clinton as United States Ambassador to Panama, a post he held until October, 1998 leading up to the historic turnover of the Panama Canal to Panamanian control.

Robert Adams II

He is the great grandfather of United States Ambassador Weston Adams (ambassador), and the great-great grandfather of filmmaker Julian Adams, both of whom portrayed Robert in the feature film The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams.

Robert Keeley

Robert V. Keeley (born 1929), former United States Ambassador to Greece, Zimbabwe, and Mauritius

Stanley Woodward

He served as the United States Ambassador to Canada (1950–1953), graduated from Yale University in 1922 and was a 1922 initiate into the Skull and Bones Society.

Taliban Provincial Governors

Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John R. Bolton republished a United Nations list of senior Taliban leaders that included Taliban Provincial Governors.

Ted Taylor

Teddy B. Taylor, U.S. diplomat, United States Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, accredited to Solomon Islands, Vanuatu

Thomas Dodd

Thomas J. Dodd, Jr. (born 1935), former United States Ambassador to Uruguay and to Costa Rica

United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine

France (Vote: For): Shortly before the vote, France's delegate to the United Nations was visited by Bernard Baruch, a long-term Jewish supporter of the Democratic Party who, during the recent world war, had been an economic adviser to President Roosevelt, and had latterly been appointed by President Truman as the United States' ambassador to the newly created UN Atomic Energy Commission.

Warren W. Tichenor

Warren W. Tichenor (born in Harlingen, Texas in 1960) served as the nation's 17th United States Ambassador to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, serving under President George W. Bush, having been sworn in on 12 June 2006 after being confirmed by a unanimous vote of the United States Senate on 26 May 2006.

Wendy Luers

She is married to William H. Luers, former President of the United Nations Association of the United States of America, former President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and former United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1983–1986) and Venezuela (1978–1982).

William Woodward, Sr.

For the next two years Woodward lived in London, UK where he served as secretary to the United States ambassador to Britain, Joseph Choate.