List of ambassadors of the United States to Cambodia
This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to Cambodia .
Until 1953 Cambodia had been French protectorate as a part of French Indochina , but became independent on November 9, 1953. The United States had appointed its first envoy to Cambodia, Donald R. Heath , in 1950. Heath was a non-resident minister who was commissioned to Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, while resident in Saigon.
Diplomatic relations between Cambodia and the United States were broken twice: The first time between 1965 and 1969, and the second time in 1975 just before the Pol Pot regime gained control of the country. Relations were finally restored in 1991.
The U.S. Embassy in Cambodia is located in Phnom Penh .
Ambassadors
Name
Portrait
Appointed
Presentation
of credentials
Termination of mission
President
Donald R. Heath
June 29, 1950
July 11, 1950
October 2, 1954
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert McClintock
August 18, 1954
October 2, 1954
October 15, 1956
Carl W. Strom
October 11, 1956
December 7, 1956
March 8, 1959
William C. Trimble
February 16, 1959
April 23, 1959
June 8, 1962
John F. Kennedy
Philip D. Sprouse
June 28, 1962
August 20, 1962
March 3, 1964
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Randolph A. Kidder
July 9, 1964
did not present credentials
September 18, 1964
Lyndon B. Johnson
Office vacant from 1964 to 1970.
Emory C. Swank
September 3, 1970
September 15, 1970
September 5, 1973
Richard Nixon
John Gunther Dean
March 14, 1974
April 3, 1974
April 12, 1975
Gerald Ford
Office vacant from 1975 to 1994.
Charles H. Twining
May 13, 1994
May 17, 1994
November 20, 1995
Bill Clinton
Kenneth M. Quinn
December 12, 1995
March 28, 1996
July 25, 1999
Kent M. Wiedemann
June 7, 1999
August 31, 1999
May 16, 2002
George W. Bush
Charles A. Ray
November 15, 2002
January 4, 2003
July 11, 2005
Joseph A. Mussomeli
June 27, 2005
September 22, 2005
December 25, 2008
Carol A. Rodley
October 24, 2008
January 20, 2009
September 29, 2011
Barack Obama
William E. Todd
April 2, 2012
June 8, 2012
August 14, 2015
William A. Heidt
September 14, 2015
December 2, 2015
November 28, 2018
Donald Trump
W. Patrick Murphy
August 8, 2019
October 19, 2019
May 18, 2024
Joe Biden
Robert W. Forden (nominee)
Pending U.S. Senate confirmation
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Source: List of U.S. Ambassadors to Cambodia
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