List of United States Ambassadors to Egypt

The list of ambassadors of the United States in Egypt contains all heads of the US mission in Cairo since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1848. As a result of the Six Day War , the Egyptian government broke off diplomatic relations with the United States on June 6, 1967 and took over it did not open again until February 28, 1974, five months after the end of the Yom Kippur War .

Heads of mission

title	Name (life data)	US state	appointment	Accreditation	Recall	Remarks
Consul General	Daniel Smith McCauley († 1852)	Pennsylvania	Aug 14, 1848	March 17, 1849	Oct. 24, 1852	died on duty
	Richard B. Jones	Pennsylvania	Dec 28, 1852	May 7, 1853	Dec 14, 1853	was replaced
	Edwin de Leon (1818-1891)	South carolina	May 24, 1853	Dec 14, 1853	March 4, 1861	resigned
	William Sydney Thayer (1830–1864)		March 20, 1861	July 1, 1861	Apr 10, 1864	died on duty
	Charles Hale (1831-1882)	Massachusetts	May 18, 1864	Oct 15, 1864	May 23, 1870	was recalled
	George Harris Butler († 1886)	California	March 15, 1870	June 2, 1870	July 16, 1872	left Egypt
	Richard Beardsley (1838–1876)	Indiana	July 23, 1872	Sep 24 1872	Jan. 23, 1876	died on duty
	Elbert Eli Farman (1831-1911)	new York	March 27, 1876	July 17, 1876	May 17, 1881	retired from service
	Simon Wolf (1836-1923)	District of Columbia	June 30, 1881	Oct. 22, 1881	March 27, 1882	retired from service
	George Potwin Pomeroy (1837-1887)	New Jersey	July 1, 1882	Dec 16, 1882	July 20, 1884	retired from service
	John Cardwell (1837-1893)	Texas	Oct. 2, 1885	Apr 19, 1886	Oct 7, 1889	left Egypt
	Eugene Schuyler (1840-1890)	new York	June 26, 1889	Nov 23, 1889	July 2, 1890	retired from service
	John Alexander Anderson (1834-1892)	Kansas	Feb. 27, 1891	July 13, 1891	Apr 21, 1892	retired from service
	Edward Campbell Little (1858-1924)	Kansas	Nov 15, 1892	Apr 22, 1893	22 Aug 1893	resigned
	Frederic Courtland Penfield (1855-1922)	Pennsylvania	May 13, 1893	Dec 11, 1893	June 17, 1897	resigned
	Thomas Skelton Harrison (1837-1919)	Pennsylvania	Apr 22, 1897	23 Dec 1897	March 22, 1899	left Egypt
	John G. Long (1846-1903)	Florida	Oct 30, 1899	Apr 2, 1900	July 15, 1903	retired from service
	John Wallace Riddle (1864-1941)	Minnesota	8 Sep 1903	March 28, 1904	June 9, 1905	retired from service
	Lewis Morris Iddings (1850-1921)	new York	March 23, 1905	23 Dec 1905	Apr 14, 1910	retired from service
	Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933)	Rhode Island	Dec 21, 1909	Nov 28, 1910	Oct 8, 1913	retired from service
	Olney Arnold (1861-1916)	Rhode Island	Sep 2 1913	March 23, 1914	Jan. 8, 1916	resigned
	Hampson Gary (1873-1952)	Texas	Oct. 2, 1917	Feb. 7, 1918	December 7, 1919	retired from service
	Carroll Sprigg (1880-1944)	Ohio	May 11, 1920	Aug 2, 1920	Oct 31, 1921	resigned
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Joseph Morton Howell (1863-1937)	Ohio	June 21, 1922	Aug 28, 1922	July 6, 1927	left Egypt
	Franklin Mott Gunther (1885-1941)	Virginia	Apr 5, 1928	July 19, 1928	July 30, 1930	left Egypt
	William Marion Jardine (1874–1955)	Kansas	July 21, 1930	Oct 13, 1930	5th Sep 1933	left Egypt
	Bert Fish (1875-1943)	Florida	6 Sep 1933	Dec. 2, 1933	Feb. 28, 1941	retired from service
	Alexander Comstock Kirk (1888–1979)	Illinois	Feb 11, 1941	March 29, 1941	Apr 29, 1944	retired from service
	Somerville Pinkney Tuck (1891-1967)	new York	May 4, 1944	June 14, 1944		promoted to extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador	Somerville Pinkney Tuck (1891-1967)	new York	19 Sep 1946	Oct 10, 1946	May 30, 1948	retired from service
	Stanton Griffis (1887–1974)	Connecticut	July 7, 1948	Sep 2 1948	March 18, 1949	retired from service
	Jefferson Caffery (1886–1974)	Louisiana	July 9, 1949	29 Sep 1949	Jan. 11, 1955	left Egypt
	Henry Alfred Byroade (1913-1993)	Indiana	Jan. 24, 1955	March 7, 1955	Sep 10 1956	retired from service
	Raymond Arthur Hare (1901-1994)	West Virginia	Aug 14, 1956	25 Sep 1956	Dec 18, 1959	retired from service; since March 19, 1958 appointed as Ambassador to the United Arab Republic
	George Frederick Reinhardt (1911–1971)	California	Jan. 27, 1960	March 22, 1960	May 6, 1961	retired from service; appointed as Ambassador to the United Arab Republic
	John Stothoff Badeau (1903-1995)	new York	May 29, 1961	July 19, 1961	June 9, 1964	retired from service; appointed as Ambassador to the United Arab Republic
	Lucius Durham Battle (1918-2008)	Florida	July 31, 1964	22 Sep 1964	March 5th 1967	retired from service; appointed as Ambassador to the United Arab Republic
	Hermann Frederick Eilts (1922-2006)	Pennsylvania	March 19, 1974	Apr 20, 1964	May 20, 1979	retired from service
	Alfred Leroy Atherton (1921-2002)	Florida	17th May 1979	2nd July 1979	Nov 12, 1983	retired from service
	Nicholas Alexander Veliotes (1928-)	California	Oct 7, 1983	Nov. 24, 1983	Apr 1, 1986	retired from service
	Frank George Wisner (1938-)	District of Columbia	Aug 18, 1986	Aug 28, 1986	June 6, 1991	retired from service
	Robert Halsey Pelletreau (1935-)	Connecticut	2nd July 1991	Sep 12 1991	Dec 11, 1993	retired from service
	Edward S. Walker (1940-)	Maryland	May 9, 1994	July 20, 1994	Dec 7, 1997	retired from service
	Daniel Charles Kurtzer (1949-)	Maryland	Nov 10, 1997	Jan. 13, 1998	June 22, 2001	retired from service
	Charles David Welch (1953-)	Virginia	July 12, 2001	22 Sep 2001	March 15, 2005	retired from service
	Francis J. Ricciardone (1952-)	Massachusetts	Aug 2, 2005	Nov 13, 2005	Apr 18, 2008
	Margaret Scobey (1949-)	Tennessee	March 17, 2008	June 16, 2008	June 30, 2011	retired from service
	Anne Woods Patterson (1949-)	Virginia	July 5, 2011	Aug 18, 2011	31 Aug 2013	became Assistant Secretary of State
	Robert Stephen Beecroft (1957-)	Utah	May 9, 2014	Feb 14, 2015

See also

• List of Egyptian ambassadors to the United States

Web links

• American Ambassadors to Egypt on the official website of the US Embassy in Cairo
• Chiefs of Mission for Egypt on the official US State Department website