List of ambassadors of the United States in Spain

The list of United States Ambassadors to Spain provides an overview of the heads of the US diplomatic mission in Spain from the establishment of diplomatic relations to the present day. Since 1998 the ambassador in Madrid has also been accredited in Andorra .

From 1825 the title of United States Ambassador to Spain was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary . As of August 1913, the title of Head of Mission was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary .

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Surname	appointed	Specialty	accredited	Leave the embassy post
John Jay	September 29, 1779	Minister Plenipotentiary	John Jay took up his embassy post but was formally at the court of Alfonso XII. not received	~ 20. May 1782
William Carmichael	April 20, 1790	Charge d'Affaires	February 20, 1783	Was recalled September 5, 1794
William Short	May 28, 1794	Minister Resident	September 7, 1794	November 1, 1795
David Humphreys	May 20, 1796	Minister Plenipotentiary	September 10, 1797	was probably recalled shortly after December 28, 1801
Charles Pinckney	June 6, 1801	Appointment was initially rejected by the Senate, the Senate approved in the recess on January 26, 1802, Minister Plenipotentiary	January-March 1802	Recalled October 25, 1804.
James Bowdoin	November 22, 1804	did not take up the post.
George W. Erving	November 22, 1804	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	October 1805	February 1810
George W. Erving	August 10, 1814	Appointment was initially rejected by the Senate, Senate agreed in the undocumented Recess on October 3, 1814, Minister Plenipotentiary	August 24, 1816	May 15, 1819
John Forsyth	February 16, 1819	Minister Plenipotentiary	May 18, 1819	Adopted March 2, 1823.
Hugh Nelson	January 15, 1823	Minister Plenipotentiary	4th December 1823	Was recalled July 10, 1825
Alexander Hill Everett	March 9, 1825		September 4, 1825	August 1, 1829
Cornelius P. Van Ness	June 1, 1829	Appointment was initially rejected by the Senate, the Senate approved in the Recess on February 10, 1830.	December 9, 1829	Recalled December 21, 1836.
William T. Barry	April 10, 1835	Was sworn to the post, but died on the way to the embassy.
John Henry Eaton	March 16, 1836		February 1, 1837	May 1, 1840
Aaron Vail	May 20, 1840	Charge d'Affaires	November 5, 1840	Vail was replaced by Washington Irving on August 1, 1842.
Washington Irving	February 10, 1842		August 1, 1842	July 29, 1846
Romulus Mitchell Saunders	February 25, 1846		July 31, 1846	Recalled September 24, 1849.
Daniel Moreau Barringer	June 18, 1849	Appointment was initially rejected by the Senate, the Senate approved in Recess on September 28, 1850.	October 24, 1849	Was recalled September 4, 1853.
Pierre Soulé	April 7, 1853		October 24, 1853	Was recalled February 1, 1855.
John C. Breckinridge	January 16, 1855	declined his appointment
Augustus C. Dodge	February 9, 1855		June 17, 1855	Recalled March 12, 1859
William Preston	December 15, 1858		March 12, 1859	Was recalled May 24, 1861.
Cassius Marcellus Clay	April 14, 1861	declined his appointment
Carl Schurz	March 28, 1861		July 13, 1861	December 18, 1861
Gustav Körner	June 14, 1862		November 4, 1862	July 20, 1864
John Parker Hale	March 10, 1865		September 30, 1865	Was recalled July 29, 1869.
William Starke Rosecrans		Appointed by Andrew Johnson but not approved by Congress.
Henry Shelton Sanford		Appointed by Andrew Johnson but not approved by Congress.
Daniel E. Sickles	May 15, 1869	Appointment was initially rejected by the Senate, the Senate approved in Recess on March 16, 1870.	July 29, 1869	Announced his recall on January 31, 1874.
Caleb Cushing	January 6, 1874		May 30, 1874	April 9, 1877
James Russell Lowell	June 11, 1877	Appointment was initially rejected by the Senate, the Senate approved in Recess on October 30, 1877.	August 18, 1877	Was recalled March 2, 1880.
Lucius Fairchild	January 26, 1880		March 31, 1880	Was recalled December 20, 1881.
Hannibal Hamlin	June 30, 1881	Appointment was initially rejected by the Senate, the Senate approved in Recess on October 13, 1881.	December 20, 1881	October 17, 1882
John W. Foster	February 27, 1883		June 16, 1883	Was recalled August 28, 1885.
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry	October 7, 1885	Appointment was initially rejected by the Senate, the Senate approved in the Recess on January 13, 1886.	December 22, 1885	July 5, 1888
Perry Belmont	November 17, 1888	Appointment was initially rejected by the Senate, the Senate approved in Recess on December 13, 1888.	February 13, 1889	May 1, 1889
Thomas W. Palmer	March 12, 1889		June 17, 1889	April 19, 1890
Edward Burd Grubb	September 27, 1890		December 23, 1890	May 26, 1892
A. Loudon Snowden	July 22, 1892		October 6, 1892	Was recalled June 3, 1893.
Hannis Taylor	April 8, 1893		July 1, 1893	Was recalled September 13, 1897.
Stewart L. Woodford	June 19, 1897	The Spanish government retained diplomatic relations with the US government on April 21, 1898. Woodford was recalled on April 25, 1898, when the US government, following a parliamentary resolution, declared war on Spain.	September 13, 1897	April 21, 1898
Bellamy Storer	April 12, 1899	Appointment was initially rejected by the Senate, the Senate approved in the Recess on December 14, 1899.	June 15, 1899	Was recalled December 10, 1902.
Arthur Sherburne Hardy	September 26, 1902	Appointment was initially rejected by the Senate, the Senate approved in the Recess on December 8, 1902.	March 2, 1903	Was recalled May 1, 1905.
William Miller Collier	March 8, 1905		May 15, 1905	Superseded by Ambassador Ide on June 9, 1909
Henry Clay Ide	April 1, 1909		June 9, 1909	July 8, 1913
Joseph Edward Willard	July 28, 1913	Was sworn in, but did not take office.
Joseph Edward Willard	September 10, 1913		October 31, 1913	July 7, 1921
Cyrus E. Woods	June 24, 1921		October 14, 1921	April 18, 1923
Alexander Pollock Moore	March 3, 1923		May 16, 1923	December 20, 1925
Ogden Hammond	December 21, 1925		March 26, 1926	October 13, 1929
Irwin B. Laughlin	October 16, 1929		December 24, 1929	April 12, 1933
Claude Bowers	April 6, 1933	In the last part of his mission, he moved to Saint-Jean-de-Luz and left the post on June 14, 1939.	June 1, 1933	conducted his last interview on February 2, 1939.
Harrison Freeman Matthews	April 13, 1939	Embassy headquarters in Burgos as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
Alexander W. Weddell	May 3, 1939		June 15, 1939	February 7, 1942
Carlton JH Hayes	May 2, 1942		June 9, 1942	left Spain on January 18, 1945
Norman Armor	December 15, 1944		March 24, 1945	December 1, 1945
Philip Bonsal		March 1946	Charge d'Affaires	June 1947
Paul T. Culbertson		June 1947	Charge d'Affaires	December 1950
Stanton Griffis	February 1, 1951		March 1, 1951	Resigned from office on January 28, 1952.
Lincoln MacVeagh	February 21, 1952		March 27, 1952	March 4th 1953
James Clement Dunn	February 27, 1953		April 9, 1953	February 9, 1955
John Davis Lodge	January 22, 1955		March 24, 1955	April 13, 1961
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle	March 29, 1961		May 25, 1961	left Spain on October 12, 1961
Ellis O. Briggs		Was sworn in, but did not take office. His appointment was withdrawn before the Senate voted on it.
Robert F. Woodward	April 7, 1962		May 10, 1962	February 1, 1965
Angier Biddle Duke	March 11, 1965		April 1, 1965	March 30, 1968
Frank E. McKinney	May 11, 1968	Was sworn in, but did not take office.
Robert F. Wagner junior	June 24, 1968		4th July 1968	March 7, 1969
Robert C. Hill	May 1st 1969		June 12, 1969	January 12, 1972
Horacio Rivero	September 11, 1972		October 11, 1972	November 26, 1974
Peter M. Flanigan	17th September 1974	Appointment was not confirmed by the Senate.
Wells Stabler	20th February 1975		March 13, 1975	May 4th 1978
Terence Todman	May 25, 1978		July 20, 1978	August 8, 1983
Thomas O. Enders	5th August 1983		September 15, 1983	July 6, 1986
Reginald Bartholomew	August 18, 1986		17th September 1986	March 12, 1989
Joseph Zappala	October 10, 1989		October 6, 1989	4th June 1992
Richard Goodwin Capen	June 15, 1992		July 8, 1992	17th February 1993
Richard N. Gardner	September 16, 1993		4th November 1993	July 12, 1997
Edward L. Romero	August 7, 2009		June 30, 1998	June 1, 2001
George Argyros	November 20, 2001		December 13, 2001	November 21, 2004
Eduardo Aguirre	June 21, 2005		June 29, 2005	January 20, 2009
Alan Solomont	December 24, 2009		January 9, 2010	1 August 2013
James Costos	1 August 2013		September 24, 2013

See also

• List of Spanish Ambassadors to the United States

Web links

• US State Department : List of ambassadors
• United States Embassy in Spain : Former US Ambassadors And Presidential Representatives To Spain

Individual evidence

1. ^ Chargé d'Affaires ad interim , February 20, 1783.
2. ^ The New York Times , January 11, 1914, George Washington Irving , pdf
3. ^ Sickles submitted a new accreditation letter after the change of government on February 2, 1871.
4. ^ Cushing submitted his accreditation letter on March 10, 1875, after the restoration of the monarchy.