List of Belgian ambassadors to the United States
On 12 May 1920, was Belgian diplomatic mission in Washington, DC to the Embassy upgraded.
Heads of mission
appointment | Surname | Remarks | appointed by | accredited by the government | Recall |
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1833 | Francois Jean Desire de Behr | (* 1793; † 1869) | Leopold I. | Andrew Jackson | 1837 |
September 22, 1838 | Charles Serruys | Charge d'Affaires negotiated the second treaty with the US His brother John was named by Samuel Haight in September 1842, to be US Consular | Leopold I. | Martin Van Buren | March 9, 1846 |
1844 | Gabriel Auguste van der Straten-Ponthoz | Leopold I. | Martin Van Buren | 1845 | |
March 9, 1846 | Napoleon Alcindor de Beaulieu | (May 21, 1802 - October 11, 1871), Minister-Resident | Leopold I. | James K. Polk | August 5, 1848 |
August 5, 1848 | Auguste Moxhet | Belgian Consul at New York, remained in charge of the Legation until the arrival of successor. | Leopold I. | James K. Polk | August 5, 1848 |
March 1850 | Henry Bosch Spencer | Charge d'Affaires | Leopold I. | Millard Fillmore | March 1850 |
March 1850 | Adolph Travers Kieckhoefer | Chancellor of the Legation | Leopold I. | Millard Fillmore | April 15, 1854 |
April 15, 1854 | Henry Solvyns | Charge d'Affaires | Leopold I. | Franklin Pierce | August 9, 1855 |
August 25, 1865 | Maurice Delfosse also Maurice de la Fosse | Leopold I. | Andrew Johnson | ||
1889 | Alfred Le Ghait | Leopold II. | Benjamin Harrison | 1897 | |
1897 | Gontran de Lichtervelde | (* 1849; † 1905) | Leopold II. | William McKinley | 1899 |
1901 | Ludovic Moncheur | Leopold II. | Theodore Roosevelt | 1909 | |
1909 | Conrad de Buisseret Steenbecque de Blarenghien | (* 1865; † 1927) | Albert I. | William Howard Taft | 1911 |
1911 | Emmanuel Havenith | Albert I. | William Howard Taft | 1917 | |
1917 | Emile de Cartier de Marchienne | (* 1871; † 1946) ambassador from 1920 | Albert I. | Woodrow Wilson | 1927 |
1927 | Eugène II. De Ligne | Chargé d'affaires | Albert I. | Calvin Coolidge | 1931 |
1931 | Paul May | († July 30, 1934) | Albert I. | Herbert Hoover | 1934 |
1935 | Robert van der Straten-Ponthoz | Bobby | Leopold III. | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1945 |
1946 | Robert Silvercruys | Charles of Belgium | Harry S. Truman | 1959 | |
1959 | Louis Scheyven | Baudouin I. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1969 | |
1969 | Walter Loridan | Baudouin I. | Richard Nixon | 1974 | |
1974 | Willy Van Cauwenberg | Baudouin I. | Gerald Ford | 1979 | |
1979 | Raoul Schoumaker | (* April 13, 1921 in Lescheret; † September 21, 2008 in Ébly in the same province of Luxembourg ) | Baudouin I. | Jimmy Carter | 1985 |
1986 | Herman Dehennin | 1978–1981: Ambassador to Tokyo | Baudouin I. | Ronald Reagan | 1991 |
1991 | Juan Cassiers | Baudouin I. | George Bush | 1994 | |
1994 | André Adam | Albert II | Bill Clinton | 1998 | |
1998 | Alexis Reyn | Albert II | Bill Clinton | 2002 | |
2002 | Francis Van Daele | Albert II | George W. Bush | 2006 | |
2007 | Dominique Struye de Swielande | Albert II | George W. Bush | 2009 | |
2009 | Jan Matthysen | Albert II | Barack Obama | 2014 | |
2014 | Johan Verbeke | Philippe | Barack Obama |
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ United States. Dept. of State, Biographic register, US Govt. Print. Off., 1874 p. 107
- ↑ Alfred Le Ghait his son was the diplomat Raymond Le Ghait. In 1897 Alfred Le Ghait was transferred to St. Petersburg .
- ↑ Ludovic de Moncheur: The New York Press, March 19, 1906: The Belgian minister at Washington and the Belgian consul at Chicago having been reported as ascribing mercenary and political motives to the Brittsh criticism of the Congo administration
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.