List of United States Ambassadors to the Philippines

Philip Goldberg has been the US Ambassador to the Philippines since 2013

US Embassy in 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
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

1. ↑ 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.