List of United States Ambassadors in Peru

The list of United States Ambassadors to Peru provides an overview of the heads of the US diplomatic mission in Peru from the establishment of diplomatic relations to the present day.

The heads of the diplomatic mission in Lima had the following titles:

• From August 22, 1853: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
• From April 24, 1920: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Appointment accreditation	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited by the government	Leave post
1826	John B. Prevost	(* New York)	John Quincy Adams	Andrés de Santa Cruz	1827
1827	James Cooley	(1791 in Ohio ; † February 24, 1828 in Lima) died in office.	John Quincy Adams	Andrés de Santa Cruz	1828
1829	Emanuel J. West		John Quincy Adams	Andrés de Santa Cruz
1829	Samuel Larned		John Quincy Adams	Antonio Gutiérrez de la Fuente	1837
1837	James B. Thornton		Andrew Jackson	Felipe Santiago de Salaverry	1837
1840	JC Pickett		Martin Van Buren	Agustín Gamarra	1845
1845	John A. Bryan		John Tyler	Ramon Castilla	1845
1845	Albert G. Jewett	Dismissed at the request of the government of Peru	James K. Polk	Ramon Castilla	1847
1847	John Randolph Clay		James K. Polk, Franklin Pierce	Ramon Castilla	1853
1862	Christopher Robinson	Normal relationships were broken on November 26, 1865	Abraham Lincoln	Miguel de San Roman	1865
1866	Alvin Peterson Hovey		Andrew Johnson	Mariano Ignacio Prado	1870
1871	Thomas Settle		Ulysses S. Grant	Luis La Puerta	1871
1872	Francis Thomas		Ulysses S. Grant	Tomás Gutiérrez	1875
1875	Richard Gibbs		Ulysses S. Grant	Tomás Gutiérrez	1879
1879	Isaac P. Christiancy		Rutherford B. Hayes	Nicolás de Piérola	1881
1881	Stephen A. Hurlbut	On September 28, 1881 normal relations were broken	James A. Garfield	Francisco García-Calderón y Landa	1882
1884	Seth Ledyard Phelps		Chester A. Arthur	Andrés Avelino Cáceres	1885
1881	Charles W. Buck		Grover Cleveland	Francisco García-Calderón y Landa	1889
1889	John Hicks		Benjamin Harrison	Andrés Avelino Cáceres	1893
1893	James A. McKenzie		Grover Cleveland	Remigio Morales Bermúdez	1897
1897	Irving B. Dudley		William McKinley	Manuel Candamo	1907
1907	Leslie Combs		Theodore Roosevelt	Serapio Calderón	1911
1911	H. Clay Howard		William Howard Taft	Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo	1913
1913	Benton McMillin		Woodrow Wilson	Guillermo Billinghurst	1919
1920	William Elliott Gonzales		Woodrow Wilson	Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo	1921
1923	Miles Poindexter		Calvin Coolidge	Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo	1928
1928	Alexander Pollock Moore		Calvin Coolidge	Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo	1929
1930	Fred Morris Dearing		Herbert Hoover	Manuel María Ponce Brousset	1937
1937	Laurence Steinhardt		Franklin D. Roosevelt	Oscar R. Benavides	1939
1940	Raymond Henry Norweb		Franklin D. Roosevelt	Manuel Prado y Ugarteche	1943
1944	John Campbell White		Franklin D. Roosevelt	Manuel Prado y Ugarteche	1945
1945	William D. Pawley		Harry S. Truman	José Luis Bustamante y Rivero	1946
1946	Prentice Cooper		Harry S. Truman	José Luis Bustamante y Rivero	1948
1948	Harold H. Tittmann		Harry S. Truman	Manuel Apolinario Odría Amoretti	1955
1955	Ellis O. Briggs		Dwight D. Eisenhower	Zenón Noriega Aguero	1956
1956	Theodore Achilles		Dwight D. Eisenhower	Manuel Prado y Ugarteche	1960
1960	Selden Chapin		Dwight D. Eisenhower	Manuel Prado y Ugarteche	1960
1961	James Loeb	On July 18, 1962, normal relations were broken	John F. Kennedy	Manuel Prado y Ugarteche	1962
1963	J. Wesley Jones		John F. Kennedy	Nicolás Lindley López	1969
1969	Taylor G. Belcher		Richard Nixon	Juan Velasco Alvarado	1974
1974	Robert W. Dean		Richard Nixon	Juan Velasco Alvarado	1977
1977	Harry W. Shlaudeman		Jimmy Carter	Francisco Morales Bermúdez	1980
1980	Edwin G. Corr		Jimmy Carter	Fernando Belaúnde Terry	1981
1981	Frank Vincent Ortiz		Ronald Reagan	Fernando Belaúnde Terry	1983
1984	David C. Jordan		Ronald Reagan	Fernando Belaúnde Terry	1986
1986	Alexander Watson		Ronald Reagan	Alan García	1989
1989	Anthony CE Quainton		George Bush	Alan García	1992
1992	Charles H. Brayshaw		George Bush	Alan García	1993
1993	Alvin P. Adams		Bill Clinton	Alberto Fujimori	1996
1996	Dennis Jett		Bill Clinton	Alberto Fujimori	1999
1999	John R. Hamilton		Bill Clinton	Alberto Fujimori	2002
2002	John R. Dawson	(* 1950 in Kansas City; † August 1, 2003 in New York)	George W. Bush	Alejandro Toledo	2003
2004	J. Curtis Struble		George W. Bush	Alejandro Toledo	2007
2008	P. Michael McKinley

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elmer Plischke, US Department of State: a reference history
2. ↑ A LIST OF THE DIPLOMATIC OFFICEES AND CONSULS OF FOREEIGN COUNTRIES RESIDENT MINISTERS, THE UNITED STATES . Corrected to September 25, 1872
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