List of United States Ambassadors to Afghanistan

John R. Bass. current US ambassador to Afghanistan

The List of United States Ambassadors to Afghanistan provides an overview of the heads of the US diplomatic mission in Afghanistan from the establishment of diplomatic relations in the 1930s to the present day.

General representative until 1945:

• William H. Hornibrook (1935-1936)
• Louis G. Dreyfus, Jr. (1940-1942)
• Cornelius Van Hemert Engert (1942–1945)

from 1945 ambassador :

• Ely E. Palmer (1945-1948)
• George Robert Merrell (1951–1952)
• Angus I. Ward (1952-1956)
• Sheldon T. Mills (1956-1959)
• Henry A. Byroade (1959–1962)
• John M. Steeves (1962-1966)
• Robert G. Neumann (1966–1973)
• Theodore L. Eliot (1973–1978)
• Adolph Dubs (1978–1979, murdered in office)

1979 to 1989 Chargé d'Affaires :

• J. Bruce Amstutz (1979–1980)
• Hawthorne Q. Mills (1980-1982)
• Archer Blood (appointed in 1982 but rejected by the Afghan government)
• Charles F. Dunbar (1982-1983)
• Edward Hurwitz (1983–1986)
• James Maurice Elaum (1986–1988)
• Jon D. Glassman (1988-1989)
• Peter Tomsen (1989–1992, chargé d'affaires to the Northern Alliance)

From 1992 to 2001 there was no envoy.

• James Dobbins (2001, special envoy, oversaw the reopening of the embassy, ​​not an official ambassador)
• Ryan Crocker (2001–2002, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim)
• Robert Finn (2002-2003)
• Zalmay Khalilzad (2003-2005)
• Ronald E. Neumann (2005-2007)
• William Brauch Wood (2007-2009)
• Karl Eikenberry (2009-2011)
• Ryan Crocker (2011-2012)
• James B. Cunningham (2012-2014)
• P. Michael McKinley (2015-2016)
• Hugo Llorens (2016–2017, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim)
• John R. Bass (since 2017)

See also

• United States Embassy in Kabul