United States Ambassador to the United Nations
The United States Ambassador to the United Nations is the leader of the delegation of the United States, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. Its incumbent is Kelly Craft since September 12, 2019.
Ambassador of the United States to the United Nations | |
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![]() Seal of the United States Department of State | |
Nominator | Donald Trump |
Inaugural holder | Edward Stettinius, Jr. as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary |
Formation | 1945 |
Website | U.S. Mission - UN |
Ambassadors that served in political positions include Adlai Stevenson, George H.W. Bush, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Madeleine Albright, John R. Bolton, Susan Rice and Nikki Haley.
United States Ambassadors to the United NationsEdit
# | Image | US Ambassador to UN | Years served | U.N. Secretary-General | U.S. President |
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1 | Edward Stettinius, Jr. | 1945–1946 | Gladwyn Jebb Acting |
Harry S. Truman | |
Trygve Lie | |||||
— | Herschel V. Johnson Acting |
1946–1947 | |||
2 | Warren Austin | January 14, 1947 – January 22, 1953 | |||
Dag Hammarskjöld | |||||
3 | Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. | January 12, 1953 – September 2, 1960 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | ||
4 | James Jeremiah Wadsworth | September 8, 1960 – January 21, 1961 | |||
5 | Adlai Stevenson II | January, 1961 — July 14, 1965 | John F. Kennedy | ||
U Thant | |||||
Lyndon B. Johnson | |||||
6 | Arthur Goldberg | 1965–1968 | |||
7 | George W. Ball | June 26, 1968 – September 25, 1968 | |||
8 | James Russell Wiggins | October 7, 1968 – January 20, 1969 | |||
9 | Charles Woodruff Yost | 1969–1971 | Richard Nixon | ||
10 | George H. W. Bush | March 1, 1971 – January 18, 1973 | |||
Kurt Waldheim | |||||
11 | John A. Scali | February 20, 1973 – June 29, 1975 | |||
Gerald Ford | |||||
12 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan | June 30, 1975 – February 2, 1976 | |||
13 | William Scranton | March 15, 1976 – January 19, 1977 | |||
14 | Andrew Young | January 30, 1977 – September 23, 1979 | Jimmy Carter | ||
15 | Donald McHenry | September 23, 1979 – January 20, 1981 | |||
16 | Jeane Kirkpatrick | February 4, 1981 – April 1, 1985 | Ronald Reagan | ||
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar | |||||
17 | Vernon A. Walters | 1985–1989 | |||
18 | Thomas R. Pickering | 1989–1992 | George H. W. Bush | ||
Boutros Boutros-Ghali | |||||
19 | Edward J. Perkins | May 12, 1992 – January 27, 1993 | |||
Bill Clinton | |||||
20 | Madeleine Albright | January 27, 1993 – January 21, 1997 | |||
21 | Bill Richardson | February 13, 1997 – August 18, 1998 | Kofi Annan | ||
— | Peter Burleigh Acting |
August 18, 1998 – August 25, 1999 | |||
22 | Richard Holbrooke | August 25, 1999 – January 20, 2001 | |||
— | James B. Cunningham Acting |
January 20, 2001 – September 15, 2001 | George W. Bush | ||
23 | John Negroponte | September 15, 2001 – July 1, 2004 | |||
24 | John Danforth | July 1, 2004 – January 20, 2005 | |||
— | Anne W. Patterson Acting |
January 20 – August 1, 2005 | |||
25 | John R. Bolton Recess Appointment Never Confirmed by the U.S. Senate |
August 1, 2005 – December 9, 2006 | |||
— | Alejandro Daniel Wolff Acting |
December 9, 2006 – April 17, 2007 | |||
Ban Ki-moon | |||||
26 | Zalmay Khalilzad | April 17, 2007 – January 22, 2009 | |||
27 | Susan Rice | January 22, 2009 – July 1, 2013 | Barack Obama | ||
— | Rosemary DiCarlo Acting |
July 1 – August 1, 2013 | |||
28 | Samantha Power | August 2, 2013 – January 20, 2017 | |||
António Guterres | |||||
– | Michele J. Sison Acting |
January 20, 2017 – January 24, 2017 | Donald Trump | ||
29 | Nikki Haley | January 24, 2017 – December 31, 2018 | |||
– | Jonathan Cohen (Acting) |
January 1, 2019 – August 14, 2019 | |||
30 | Kelly Craft | September 12, 2019 |