List of ambassadors of the United States in Italy

Palazzo Margherita
US embassy in Rome since 1931

List of ambassadors of the United States in Italy .

From 1861 to 1865 the seat of government of the Kingdom of Italy was Turin , from 1865 to 1871 Florence , and from 1871 in Rome .

ambassador

Appointed	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited at	Leave post
June 23, 1861	George Perkins Marsh	Envoy in Turin	Abraham Lincoln	Bettino Ricasoli	1865
1865	George Perkins Marsh	Envoy in Florence	Andrew Johnson	Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora	1871
1871	George Perkins Marsh	Ambassador in Rome	Ulysses S. Grant	Urbano Rattazzi	July 23, 1882
Nov 21, 1882	William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor		James A. Garfield	Agostino Depretis	March 1, 1885
Nov. 27, 1885	John Stallo		Grover Cleveland	Agostino Depretis	June 6, 1889
June 6, 1889	Albert Porter		Benjamin Harrison	Francesco Crispi	July 9, 1892
Dec 28, 1892	William Potter	Envoy (born April 17, 1852 in Philadelphia / PA; † 1926), son of Adaline Coleman and Thomas Potter. In 1857 his father founded Thomas Potter Sons & Co. , an oilcloth clothing company, and he was the president of the City National Bank of Philadelphia. William Potter attended the University of Pennsylvania	Benjamin Harrison	Giovanni Giolitti	March 8, 1894
March 11, 1894	Wayne MacVeagh	ambassador	Grover Cleveland	Francesco Crispi	March 4, 1897
June 29, 1897	William F. Draper		William McKinley	Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì	June 5, 1900
Feb. 4, 1901	George von Lengerke Meyer		Theodore Roosevelt	Giuseppe Zanardelli	Apr 1, 1905
April 16, 1905	Henry White	(* March 29, 1850 in Baltimore / MD)	Theodore Roosevelt	Tommaso Tittoni	Feb. 26, 1907
March 17, 1907	Lloyd Carpenter Griscom		Theodore Roosevelt	Sidney Sonnino	June 14, 1909
4th July 1909	John George Alexander Leishman		William Howard Taft	Sidney Sonnino	Oct 7, 1911
Nov 13, 1911	Thomas J. O'Brien		William Howard Taft	Giovanni Giolitti	17 Sep 1913
Oct 12, 1913	Thomas Nelson Page		Woodrow Wilson	Giovanni Giolitti	June 21, 1919
Apr 22, 1920	Robert Underwood Johnson		Woodrow Wilson	Francesco Saverio Nitti	May 20, 1921
July 28, 1921	Richard Washburn Child		Warren G. Harding	Ivanoe Bonomi	Jan. 20, 1924
Apr 2, 1924	Henry P. Fletcher		Calvin Coolidge	Benito Mussolini	Aug 3, 1929
Nov 20, 1929	John W. Garrett		Herbert Hoover	Benito Mussolini	May 22, 1933
May 31, 1933	Breckinridge Long		Franklin D. Roosevelt	Benito Mussolini	Apr 23, 1936
Nov 4, 1936	William Phillips		Franklin D. Roosevelt	Benito Mussolini	Oct 6, 1941
Oct 6, 1941	George Wadsworth	Chargé d'affaires	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Benito Mussolini	Dec 11, 1941
Dec 11, 1941	On the afternoon of December 11th, Benito Mussolini declared war on the United States from the balcony of Palazzo Venezia .	Every embassy employee was accompanied in civilian clothes , and Switzerland became the protecting power . The embassy employees returned to the United States on the SS Drottningholm (Swedish America Line ).	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Benito Mussolini	Jan. 8, 1945
Jan. 8, 1945	Alexander Comstock Kirk		Harry S. Truman	Ferruccio Parri	March 5, 1946
Feb 6, 1947	James Clement Dunn		Harry S. Truman	Ferruccio Parri	March 17, 1952
May 7, 1952	Ellsworth Bunker		Harry S. Truman	Ferruccio Parri	Apr 3, 1953
May 4th 1953	Clare Boothe Luce		Dwight D. Eisenhower	Giuseppe Pella	Dec. 27, 1956
Feb 6, 1957	James David Zellerbach		Dwight D. Eisenhower	Adone Zoli	Dec 10, 1960
May 17, 1961	Frederick Reinhardt		John F. Kennedy	Fernando Tambroni	March 3, 1968
Apr 3, 1968	Gardner Ackley		Lyndon B. Johnson	Giovanni Leone	27 Aug 1969
Oct. 30, 1969	Graham Martin		Richard Nixon	Giovanni Leone	Feb 10, 1973
March 6, 1973	John Volpe		Richard Nixon	Mariano Rumor	Jan. 24, 1977
March 21, 1977	Richard N. Gardner		Jimmy Carter	Giulio Andreotti	Feb. 27, 1981
July 1, 1981	Maxwell M. Rabb		Ronald Reagan	Giovanni Spadolini	June 3, 1989
3rd July 1989	Peter F. Secchia		George HW Bush	Giulio Andreotti	Jan. 20, 1993
Oct 14, 1993	Reginald Bartholomew		Bill Clinton	Carlo Azeglio Ciampi	28 Sep 1997
Dec 11, 1997	Thomas M. Foglietta		Bill Clinton	Romano Prodi	March 1, 2001
Dec 10, 2001	Mel Sembler		George W. Bush	Silvio Berlusconi	July 26, 2005
Aug 12, 2005	Ronald P. Spogli		George W. Bush	Silvio Berlusconi	Feb 6, 2009
17 Aug 2009	David Thorne		Barack Obama	Silvio Berlusconi

Envoys in Italian States (before 1861)

Envoy in Naples

From 1831 to 1860 there was a US embassy in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies at the court in Naples .

Appointed	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited at	Leave post
Oct. 24, 1831	John Nelson	Chargé d'affaires	Andrew Jackson	Ferdinand II.	Oct 15, 1832
28 Sep 1838	Enos T. Throop	Chargé d'affaires	Martin Van Buren	Ferdinand II.	December 29, 1841
December 29, 1841	William Boulware	Chargé (* Newton ) was, in the early 1849er years in Syria, Palestine and Egypt.	William H. Harrison	Ferdinand II.	June 24, 1845
July 24, 1845	William Hawkins Polk	Chargé d'affaires	James K. Polk	Ferdinand II.	May 11, 1847
June 27, 1848	John Rowan	Chargé d'affaires	James K. Polk	Ferdinand II.	Nov 9, 1849
Apr 4, 1850	Edward Joy Morris	Chargé d'affaires	Millard Fillmore	Ferdinand II.	25 Aug 1853
Oct. 22, 1853	Robert Dale Owen	Minister Resident	Franklin Pierce	Ferdinand II.	Sep 20 1858
Sep 20 1858	Joseph Ripley Chandler	Minister Resident	James Buchanan	Ferdinand II.	Nov 6, 1860

Envoy in Sardinia-Piedmont

From 1840 to 1861 there was a US legation in the Kingdom of Sardinia at the court of Turin .

Appointed	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited at	Leave post
Sep 15 1840	Hezekiah Gold Rogers	Chargé d'affaires (born February 22, 1811 in Madison ; † 1882), eldest son of Sally Maria Gold and Edward Rogers, MC (Williams College, 1809), grad. Yale Coll. 1840–1842 and 1851 chargé d'affaires in the Kingdom of Sardinia .	Martin Van Buren	Karl Albert	Nov 22, 1841
Dec. 1, 1841	Ambrose Baber	Chargé d'affaires	John Tyler	Karl Albert	Jan. 10, 1844
Jan. 10, 1844	Robert Wickliffe Jr.	Chargé d'affaires (March 30, 1789 in Virginia, † April 5, 1855)	John Tyler	Karl Albert	1847
Apr 28, 1848	Nathaniel Niles	Charge d'Affaires (1791-1869), studied medicine in 1816 at the University of Harvard, several years worked in Boston as a doctor, then he studied medicine in France. In Paris he married the widow of Mario Joseph Sue, a doctor of Louis XVIII. After James Brown resigned as envoy, he served as chargé d'affaires in Paris in 1830. From 1848 to 1850 he advocated the construction of a Panama Canal under international control and the exchange of inexpensive editions of literature to promote understanding of cultures. His written estate is in the Library of Congress .	James K. Polk	Karl Albert	Aug 20, 1850
Aug 21, 1850	William Burnet Kinney	Chargé d'affaires	Millard Fillmore	Victor Emmanuel II	Oct 8, 1853
Oct 10, 1853	John Moncure Daniel	Chargé In February, 1854, he described in a letter to a newspaper in Richmond court in Turin as something more than a collection of Lazzaronis .	Franklin Pierce	Victor Emmanuel II	3rd Sep 1854
4th Sep 1854	John Moncure Daniel	Envoy	Franklin Pierce	Victor Emmanuel II	Jan. 10, 1861
June 23, 1861	George Perkins Marsh	Envoy in Turin, from 1861 envoy in the Kingdom of Italy (see above)	Abraham Lincoln	Bettino Ricasoli	1865

See also

• List of Italian ambassadors to the United States

Individual evidence

1. ^ William Potter, diplomat
2. ↑ Hezekiah Gold Rogers
3. ^ John Moncure Daniel books.google.de