List of United States Ambassadors to the Philippines
The list of ambassadors of the United States to the Philippines provides an overview of the heads of the US diplomatic mission in the Philippines since 1946. After the independence of the Philippines from the United States on July 4, 1946, the office of ambassador was filled for the first time. The ambassador to the Philippines has also been accredited as an ambassador to Palau since 1996 .
The embassy is located at 1201 Roxas Boulevard in Ermita , a district of Manila . There is also an embassy residence in Forbes Park in Makati City and a summer residence at John Hay Air Base in Baguio City . Sung Kim has been the incumbent since 2016 .
Official
Beginning of the term of office | Term expires | Surname | annotation |
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4th July 1946 | March 22, 1947 | Paul V. McNutt | |
September 22, 1947 | April 28, 1948 | Emmet O'Neal | |
May 23, 1949 | October 14, 1951 | Myron Melvin Cowen | |
7th February 1952 | April 1, 1955 | Raymond A. Spruance | |
April 12, 1955 | March 23, 1956 | Homer S. Ferguson | |
July 20, 1956 | November 6, 1956 | Albert F. Nufer | Died in office |
June 4th 1957 | October 15, 1959 | Charles E. Bohlen | |
January 13, 1960 | December 8, 1961 | John D. Hickerson | |
5th February 1962 | June 14, 1964 | William E. Stevenson | |
5th Aug 1964 | October 21, 1967 | William McCormick Blair, Jr. | |
17th June 1968 | April 7, 1969 | G. Mennen Williams | |
29th August 1969 | May 25, 1973 | Henry A. Byroade | |
August 6, 1973 | April 26, 1977 | William H. Sullivan | |
November 11, 1977 | March 30, 1978 | David D. Newsom | |
June 8, 1978 | August 10, 1981 | Richard W. Murphy | |
March 12, 1982 | April 18, 1984 | Michael Armacost | |
May 4th 1984 | April 2nd 1987 | Stephen W. Bosworth | |
August 27, 1987 | July 20, 1991 | Nicholas Platt | |
August 16, 1991 | June 10, 1992 | Frank G. Wisner | |
4th September 1992 | March 1, 1993 | Richard H. Solomon | |
October 26, 1993 | 5th August 1996 | John Negroponte | |
September 3, 1996 | July 24, 2000 | Thomas C. Hubbard | |
July 2000 | September 2001 | Michael E. Malinowski | provisional |
September 2001 | February 2002 | Robert W. Fitts | provisional |
February 21, 2002 | April 3, 2005 | Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr. | |
April 2005 | August 2005 | Joseph A. Mussomeli | provisional |
August 2005 | March 2006 | Darryl N. Johnson | provisional |
March 22, 2006 | July 28, 2009 | Kristie Kenney | |
April 27, 2010 | October 16, 2013 | Harry K. Thomas, Jr. | |
2nd December 2013 | officiating | Philip Goldberg |
Web links
- List of ambassadors on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Homepage of the US Embassy in the Philippines
- US Ambassador to the Philippines
Individual evidence
- ↑ The nomination of Albert Peter Burleigh , proposed as successor to Thomas C. Hubbard, on May 26, 1999, was not discussed in the US Senate and was ultimately withdrawn, so that acting ambassadors subsequently held the function from July 2000 to February 2002.