List of United States Ambassadors to Australia

John Berry, current US Ambassador to Australia

The list of ambassadors of the United States in Australia provides an overview of the heads of the US diplomatic mission in Australia since 1940. The post in Canberra has always been highly regarded, as the two states have maintained close ties, which include the ANZUS- Agreements are documented. It has also happened more often in the past that the US ambassador to Australia is a personal friend of the respective US president ; this was the case, for example, for the incumbent between 2009 and 2013, Jeff Bleich , who has known Barack Obama since the early 1990s.

Term of office	Surname	appointed by
1940-1941	Clarence E. Gauss	Franklin D. Roosevelt
1941-1945	Nelson T. Johnson	Franklin D. Roosevelt
1946-1948	Robert Butler	Harry S. Truman
1948-1949	Myron M. Cowen	Harry S. Truman
1949-1953	Pete Jarman	Harry S. Truman
1953-1956	Amos J. Peaslee	Dwight D. Eisenhower
1956	Douglas M. Moffat	Dwight D. Eisenhower
1957-1961	William J. Sebald	Dwight D. Eisenhower
1962-1964	William C. Battle	John F. Kennedy
1965-1967	Edward Clark	Lyndon B. Johnson
1968-1969	William H. Crook	Lyndon B. Johnson
1969-1973	Walter L. Rice	Richard Nixon
1973-1975	Marshall Green	Richard Nixon
1976-1977	James W. Hargrove	Gerald Ford
1977-1981	Philip H. Alston	Jimmy Carter
1981-1985	Robert D. Nesen	Ronald Reagan
1985-1989	Laurence W. Lane	Ronald Reagan
1989-1993	Mel Sembler	George Bush
1993-1996	Edward J. Perkins	Bill Clinton
1997-2000	Genta H. Holmes	Bill Clinton
2000-2001	Edward Gnehm	Bill Clinton
2001-2005	Tom Schieffer	George W. Bush
2006-2009	Robert McCallum	George W. Bush
2009-2013	Jeff Bleich	Barack Obama
2013–	John Berry	Barack Obama

Web links

Website of the US Embassy in Australia


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