List of United States Ambassadors in Paraguay
The list of United States Ambassadors to Paraguay provides an overview of the heads of the US diplomatic mission in Paraguay from the establishment of diplomatic relations to the present day.
Surname | title | Presentation of the accreditation |
End of mission |
Appointed by |
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Charles Ames Washburn | representative | November 26, 1861 | May 13, 1863 | Abraham Lincoln |
Minister Resident | May 13, 1863 | September 10, 1868 | ||
Martin T. McMahon | Minister Resident | December 12, 1868 | June 21, 1869 | Andrew Johnson |
John L. Stevens | Minister Resident | August 26, 1870 | May 19, 1873 | Ulysses S. Grant |
John C. Caldwell | Minister Resident | December 15, 1874 | October 6, 1876 | |
Charge d'Affaires | October 6, 1876 | July 10, 1882 | ||
William Williams | Charge d'Affaires | August 26, 1882 | July 21, 1885 | Chester A. Arthur |
John E. Bacon | Charge d'Affaires | September 16, 1885 | October 23, 1888 | Grover Cleveland |
Minister Resident | October 23, 1888 | December 26, 1888 | ||
George Maney | Minister Resident | May 19, 1890 | August 1891 | Benjamin Harrison |
Envoy and authorized representative | August 1891 | June 30, 1894 | ||
Granville Stuart | Envoy and authorized representative | September 6, 1894 | January 4, 1898 | Grover Cleveland |
William R. Finch | Envoy and authorized representative | August 3, 1898 | May 29, 1905 | William McKinley |
Edward C. O'Brien | Envoy and authorized representative | 5th August 1905 | October 10, 1909 | Theodore Roosevelt |
Edwin V. Morgan | Envoy and authorized representative | June 29, 1910 | July 8, 1911 | William Howard Taft |
Nicolai A. Grevstad | Envoy and authorized representative | October 30, 1911 | February 19, 1914 | |
Daniel F. Mooney | Envoy and authorized representative | May 13, 1914 | June 13, 1921 | Woodrow Wilson |
William J. O'Toole | Envoy and authorized representative | April 3, 1922 | February 21, 1924 | Warren G. Harding |
George L. Kreeck | Envoy and authorized representative | July 22, 1925 | 5th February 1930 | Calvin Coolidge |
Post wheeler | Envoy and authorized representative | February 12, 1930 | April 17, 1933 | Herbert Hoover |
Meredith Nicholson | Envoy and authorized representative | October 30, 1933 | February 3, 1935 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Findley B. Howard | Envoy and authorized representative | October 14, 1935 | January 16, 1941 | |
Wesley Frost | Envoy and authorized representative | April 30, 1941 | April 15, 1942 | |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 15, 1942 | May 28, 1944 | ||
Willard Leon Beaulac | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 13, 1944 | May 28, 1947 | |
Fletcher Warren | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 8, 1947 | July 25, 1950 | Harry S. Truman |
Howard H. Tewksbury | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 9, 1951 | February 16, 1952 | |
George P. Shaw | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 1, 1952 | October 31, 1953 | |
Arthur A. Ageton | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 9, 1954 | April 10, 1957 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Walter C. Ploeser | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 6, 1957 | September 12, 1959 | |
Harry F. Stimpson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 23, 1959 | March 12, 1961 | |
William P. Snow | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 4th August 1961 | June 15, 1967 | John F. Kennedy |
Benigno C. Hernández | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 9, 1967 | 15th July 1969 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
John Raymond Ylitalo | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 14, 1969 | September 11, 1972 | Richard Nixon |
George W. Landau | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 13, 1972 | October 14, 1977 | |
Robert E. White | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 30, 1977 | January 27, 1980 | Jimmy Carter |
Lyle Franklin Lane | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 9, 1980 | May 21, 1982 | |
Arthur H. Davis | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 6, 1982 | September 28, 1985 | Ronald Reagan |
Clyde D. Taylor | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 12, 1985 | 2nd September 1988 | |
Timothy Lathrop Towell | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 26, 1988 | April 27, 1991 | |
Jon David Glassman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 8, 1991 | May 3, 1994 | George Bush |
Robert Edward Service | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 18, 1994 | October 7, 1997 | Bill Clinton |
Maura Harty | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 22, 1997 | May 30, 1999 | |
David N. Greenlee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 19, 2000 | January 15, 2003 | |
John F. Keane | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 11, 2003 | October 27, 2005 | George W. Bush |
James Cason | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 1, 2006 | August 2, 2008 | |
Liliana Ayalde | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 11, 2008 | August 5, 2011 | |
James H. Thessin | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 30, 2011 | 4th August 2014 | Barack Obama |
Lesslie A. Bassett | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | called |