List of ambassadors of the United States in Austria
This list includes the ambassadors of the United States of America in the Republic of Austria and before that in the Austro-Hungarian Empire . The United States Embassy in Vienna has been located in the Alsergrund district at Boltzmanngasse 16 since 1947 .
Heads of mission
Envoy to the Austrian Empire
- Henry AP Muhlenberg (1838-1840)
- Daniel Jenifer (1842-1845)
- William Henry Stiles (1845–1849)
- James Watson Webb (1850)
- Charles J. McCurdy (1851-1852)
- Thomas M. Foote (1852-1853)
- Henry R. Jackson (1853 / 1854-1858)
- Jehu Glancy Jones (1859–1861)
- Anson Burlingame (1861)
- John Lothrop Motley (1861-1867)
Ambassador to Austria-Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary received extensive autonomy in the Austro-Hungarian Compromise in 1866 , but foreign policy continues to be controlled centrally from Vienna . Hungary did not have its own US embassy.
- Henry M. Watts (1868-1869)
- John Jay (1869-1875)
- Godlove Stein Orth (1875–1876)
- Edward F. Beale (1876–1877)
- John A. Kasson (1877-1881)
- William Walter Phelps (1881-1882)
- Alphonso Taft (1882-1884)
- John M. Francis (1884-1885)
- Anthony M. Keiley (1885)
- Alexander Lawton (1887-1889)
- Frederick Dent Grant (1889-1893)
- Bartlett Tripp (1893-1897)
- Charlemagne Tower (1897–1899)
- Addison C. Harris (1899-1901)
- Robert Sanderson McCormick (1902)
In 1902 the US Legation was elevated to embassy status.
- Bellamy Storer (1903-1906)
- Charles S. Francis (1906-1910)
- Richard C. Kerens (1910-1913)
- Frederic Courtland Penfield (1913-1917)
On April 6, 1917, the USA declared war on the German Empire and withdrew Ambassador Penfield from Vienna the following day, the embassy was closed. Austria-Hungary broke off diplomatic relations on April 9, 1917. Until then, Joseph Grew acted as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim . Consular duties in Austria were then taken over by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain for the United States , until the United States finally declared war on Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917.
Ambassador to the First Republic
In 1921 the USA reestablished full diplomatic relations with the new Republic of Austria.
- Arthur Hugh Frazier (1921-1922)
- Albert Henry Washburn (1922–1930), died on April 29, 1930 during his tenure
- Gilchrist Baker Stockton (1930-1933)
- George Howard Earle (1933-1934)
- George S. Messersmith (1934-1937)
- Grenville T. Emmet (1937), died on September 26, 1937 while in office
After the annexation of Austria in March 1938, the First Republic ceased to exist and Austria became part of the German Reich . John Cooper Wiley served from March 13, 1938 to April 30, as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim in the USA.
Ambassador to the Second Republic
In 1951, the American legation in occupied post-war Austria was upgraded to a regular embassy.
- Envoy
- John G. Erhardt (1946–1950)
- Walter J. Donnelly (1950–1951, also High Commissioner )
- ambassador
- Walter J. Donnelly (continued 1951–1952, also High Commissioner)
- Llewellyn E. Thompson (1952–1957, also High Commissioner until 1955)
- H. Freeman Matthews (1957–1962)
- James W. Riddleberger (1962-1967)
- Douglas MacArthur (1967-1969)
- John P. Humes (1969–1975)
- Wiley T. Buchanan (1975-1977)
- Milton Wolf (1977-1980)
- Philip Mayer Kaiser (1980–1981)
- Theodore E. Cummings (1981-1982)
- Helene von Damm (1983–1986)
- Ronald Lauder (1986-1987)
- Henry Grunwald (1988–1990)
- Roy M. Huffington (1990-1993)
- Swanee Hunt (1993-1997)
- Kathryn Walt Hall (1997-2001)
- Lyons Brown, Jr. (2001-2005)
- Susan McCaw (2006-2007)
- Charles Gargano (designated only)
- David F. Girard-diCarlo (2008-2009)
- William Eacho (2009-2013)
- Alexa Wesner (2013-2017)
- Trevor Traina (since 2018)
