List of ambassadors of the United States to Nicaragua
The following is a list of United States ambassadors , or other chiefs of mission, to Nicaragua . The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
Ambassadors
Representative
Title
Presentation of credentials
Termination of mission
Appointed by
John B. Kerr
Chargé d'Affaires
February 18, 1851
June 1, 1853
Millard Fillmore
Solon Borland [1]
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
April 18, 1853
April 17, 1854
Franklin Pierce
John H. Wheeler
Minister Resident
April 7, 1855
October 23, 1856
Mirabeau B. Lamar [2]
Minister Resident
February 8, 1858
May 20, 1859
James Buchanan
Alexander Dimitry [3]
Minister Resident
December 7, 1859
April 27, 1861
Andrew B. Dickinson
Minister Resident
July 11, 1861
January 15, 1863
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas H. Clay
Minister Resident
January 15, 1863
May 31, 1863
Andrew B. Dickinson
Minister Resident and Extraordinary
May 31, 1863
July 29, 1869
Charles N. Riotte
Minister Resident
July 29, 1869
January 15, 1873
Ulysses S. Grant
George Williamson [4]
Minister Resident
November 1, 1873
January 31, 1879
Cornelius A. Logan [4]
Minister Resident
July 30, 1879
April 15, 1882
Rutherford B. Hayes
Henry C. Hall [4]
Minister Resident
August 12, 1882
November 2, 1882
Chester A. Arthur
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
November 2, 1882
May 23, 1889
Lansing B. Mizner [4]
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
August 7, 1889
December 31, 1890
Benjamin Harrison
Romualdo Pacheco [4]
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
May 21, 1891
October 13, 1891
Richard Cutts Shannon [5]
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
October 13, 1891
April 30, 1893
Lewis Baker [5]
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
May 13, 1893
December 9, 1897
Grover Cleveland
William L. Merry [6]
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
March 1, 1899
August 24, 1908
William McKinley
John Gardner Coolidge
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
August 24, 1908
November 21, 1908
Theodore Roosevelt
John H. Gregory, Jr.
Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
November 21, 1908
March 12, 1909
Elliott Northcott
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
February 21, 1911
June 23, 1911
William H. Taft
George T. Weitzel
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
January 22, 1912
April 19, 1913
Benjamin L. Jefferson
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
September 5, 1913
October 24, 1921
Woodrow Wilson
John E. Ramer
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
December 30, 1921
April 5, 1925
Warren G. Harding
Charles C. Eberhardt
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
August 7, 1925
May 10, 1929
Calvin Coolidge
Matthew E. Hanna
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
April 11, 1930
September 6, 1933
Herbert Hoover
Arthur Bliss Lane
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
December 7, 1933
March 14, 1936
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Boaz W. Long
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
March 19, 1936
April 1, 1938
Meredith Nicholson
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
June 9, 1938
February 27, 1941
Pierre de Lagarde Boal
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
July 24, 1941
March 5, 1942
James B. Stewart
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
June 12, 1942
April 14, 1943
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
April 14, 1943
January 4, 1945
Fletcher Warren
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
May 9, 1945
May 4, 1947
Harry S. Truman
George P. Shaw
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
September 1, 1948
June 8, 1949
Capus M. Waynick
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
July 12, 1949
July 22, 1951
Thomas E. Whelan
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
November 3, 1951
March 22, 1961
Aaron S. Brown
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
April 21, 1961
May 3, 1967
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy M. Crockett
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
August 21, 1967
April 19, 1970
Lyndon B. Johnson
Turner B. Shelton
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
November 20, 1970
August 11, 1975
Richard Nixon
James D. Theberge
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
August 11, 1975
June 8, 1977
Gerald Ford
Mauricio Solaún
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
September 30, 1977
February 26, 1979
Jimmy Carter
Lawrence A. Pezzullo
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
July 31, 1979
August 18, 1981
Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
March 26, 1982
May 6, 1984
Ronald Reagan
Harry E. Bergold, Jr.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
May 31, 1984
July 1, 1987
Richard Huntington Melton
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
May 4, 1988
July 12, 1988[7]
Jack Leonard
Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
July 11, 1988
June 21, 1990
Harry W. Shlaudeman
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
June 21, 1990
March 14, 1992
George H. W. Bush
Ron Godard
Chargé d’Affaires a.i.
March 14, 1992
September 8, 1993
John Francis Maisto
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
September 8, 1993
November 15, 1996
Bill Clinton
Lino Gutierrez
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
December 5, 1996
July 21, 1999
Oliver P. Garza
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
September 24, 1999
August 30, 2002
Barbara C. Moore
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
September 13, 2002
July 15, 2005
George W. Bush
Paul A. Trivelli
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
September 9, 2005
August 6, 2008[8]
Robert J. Callahan
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
August 27, 2008
July 19, 2011[9]
Robert R. Downes
Chargé d’Affaires a.i.
July 19, 2011
March 2012
Barack Obama
Phyllis M. Powers [10]
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
May 5, 2012
August 5, 2015
Laura Farnsworth Dogu [10]
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
October 6, 2015
October 30, 2018
Kevin K. Sullivan [11]
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
November 14, 2018
May 19, 2023[12]
Donald Trump
Carla Fleharty
Chargé d’Affaires a.i.
May 20, 2023
June 28, 2023
Joe Biden
Kevin O'Reilly
Chargé d’Affaires a.i.
June 28, 2023[13]
Present
Joe Biden
Notes
^ Commissioned to Central America; resident at Managua .
^ Also accredited to Costa Rica ; resident at Managua.
^ Also accredited to Costa Rica ; resident partly at Managua and partly at San José . ALEXANDER DIMITRY, Minister to Nicaragua and Costa Rica, has been recalled, although no successor bas been named. It is becoming a disgrace to the late Administration that this step was not taken long ago. Let us hope that Mr. LINCOLN will send sober men and anti-filibusters to represent the United States in all the Spanish-American countries. The New York Times , March 20, 1861, [1]
^ a b c d e Commissioned to "the Central American States" but accredited individually to Costa Rica, El Salvador , Guatemala , Honduras , and Nicaragua; resident at Guatemala .
^ a b Also accredited to El Salvador and Costa Rica; resident at Managua.
^ Originally accredited to Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua; after December 12, 1907, only to Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Resident at San José.
^ Ambassador Melton and seven other members of the American embassy were expelled by the Government of Nicaragua on July 11, 1988 because of United States support of the opposition to the Sandinista government. – "Nicaragua" . U.S. Department of State. Retrieved July 2, 2011 .
^ "Paul A. Trivelli - People - Department History - Office of the Historian" .
^ "Robert J. Callahan - People - Department History - Office of the Historian" .
^ a b "Ambassador - U.S. Embassy Managua, Nicaragua" . Archived from the original on September 23, 2006. Retrieved May 1, 2012 .
^ "Ambassador Kevin K. Sullivan" . State Department . Retrieved August 14, 2019 .
^ "Technical Difficulties" . May 2, 2023.
^ "U.S. Embassy Managua Welcomes Kevin M. O'Reilly as Chargé d'Affaires" . June 28, 2023.
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