List of United States Ambassadors to Vietnam

List of United States Ambassadors to Vietnam .

history

Ambassador's residence in Hanoi .

After the end of the French colony of Indochina , the First Indochina War (1946-1954) and the Geneva Indochina Conference of 1954, the country was divided into North and South Vietnam . The United States did not recognize communist North Vietnam under international law and thus only maintained diplomatic relations with the western-oriented South Vietnam (which had existed since 1950). After the American defeat in the Second Indochina War (approx. 1955-1975) and the reunification of North and South Vietnam to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976, a period of about 20 years followed in which the USA had no diplomatic relations with Vietnam.

On 28 January 1995, the United States opened in Hanoi a liaison office , and on 11 July 1995 diplomatic relations were established, with L. Desaix Anderson as charge d'affaires ( business support ) and the first head of mission.

Heads of mission

United States Ambassador to South Vietnam

1950: Establishment of diplomatic relations

1975: Break of diplomatic relations

United States Ambassador to Vietnam

1995: Establishment of diplomatic relations

Appointment / accreditation	Recall	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited at
1995	1997	L. Desaix Anderson	Charge d'Affaires	Bill Clinton	Lê Đức Anh
1997	2001	Pete Peterson	first ambassador	Bill Clinton	Lê Đức Anh
2001	2004	Raymond Burghardt		George W. Bush	Trần Đức Lương
2004	2007	Michael W. Marine		George W. Bush	Trần Đức Lương
2007	2011	Michael W. Michalak		George W. Bush	Nguyon Minh Triet
2011, Feb. 14	2011, Jul.	Virginia E. Palmer	Charge d'Affaires	Barack Obama	Nguyon Minh Triet
2011		David B. Shear		Barack Obama	Trương Tấn Sang
2014		Ted Osius	Ted Osius	Barack Obama	Trương Tấn Sang

Status: March 2016

Individual evidence

^ Chiefs of Mission for Vietnam . United States Department of State, Washington, DC. Retrieved March 23, 2016

[DoS-1] Chiefs of Mission for Vietnam . United States Department of State, Washington, DC. Retrieved March 23, 2016


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