List of ambassadors of the United States to Canada


This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to Canada. The ambassador is the head of the Embassy of the United States in Ottawa.
Prior to 1943, the head of the U.S. diplomatic mission to Canada bore the title of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. The U.S. mission to Canada was upgraded from legation to embassy status in June 1943, and Ray Atherton was the first chief of mission to hold ambassadorial rank.
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1William PhillipsJune 1, 1927December 14, 1929Calvin Coolidge,
Herbert Hoover
2Hanford MacNiderAugust 29, 1930August 15, 1932Herbert Hoover
3Warren Delano RobbinsMay 16, 1933March 28, 1935Franklin D. Roosevelt
4Norman ArmourAugust 7, 1935January 15, 1939Franklin D. Roosevelt
5Daniel Calhoun RoperMay 19, 1939August 20, 1939Franklin D. Roosevelt
6James H. R. CromwellJanuary 24, 1940May 16, 1940Franklin D. Roosevelt
7Jay Pierrepont MoffatJune 13, 1940January 24, 1943Franklin D. Roosevelt
8Ray AthertonAugust 3, 1943August 30, 1948Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
9Laurence SteinhardtNovember 1, 1949March 28, 1950Harry S. Truman
10Stanley WoodwardJune 22, 1950January 14, 1953Harry S. Truman
11R. Douglas StuartJuly 15, 1953May 4, 1956Dwight D. Eisenhower
12Livingston T. MerchantMay 23, 1956November 6, 1958Dwight D. Eisenhower
13Richard B. WigglesworthDecember 15, 1958October 19, 1960Dwight D. Eisenhower
14Livingston T. MerchantMarch 15, 1961May 26, 1962John F. Kennedy
15William Walton ButterworthDecember 11, 1962September 10, 1968John F. Kennedy,
Lyndon B. Johnson
16Harold F. LinderSeptember 10, 1968July 9, 1969Lyndon B. Johnson,
Richard M. Nixon
17Adolph W. SchmidtSeptember 11, 1969January 29, 1974Richard M. Nixon
18William J. PorterMarch 13, 1974December 16, 1975Richard M. Nixon,
Gerald R. Ford
19Thomas O. EndersFebruary 17, 1976December 14, 1979Gerald R. Ford,
Jimmy Carter
20Kenneth M. CurtisOctober 5, 1979January 20, 1981Jimmy Carter
21Paul H. Robinson, Jr.July 15, 1981September 9, 1985Ronald Reagan
22Thomas M. T. NilesSeptember 10, 1985June 28, 1989Ronald Reagan,
George H. W. Bush
23Edward N. NeyJune 30, 1989June 20, 1992George H. W. Bush
24Peter TeeleyJuly 3, 1992February 28, 1993George H. W. Bush,
Bill Clinton
25James BlanchardAugust 19, 1993March 15, 1996Bill Clinton
26Gordon GiffinSeptember 17, 1997April 10, 2001Bill Clinton,
George W. Bush
27Paul CellucciApril 17, 2001March 18, 2005George W. Bush
28David WilkinsJune 29, 2005January 20, 2009George W. Bush
29David JacobsonOctober 2, 2009July 15, 2013Barack Obama
30Bruce HeymanMarch 26, 2014January 20, 2017Barack Obama
31Kelly CraftOctober 23, 2017August 23, 2019Donald Trump
32Richard M. Mills Jr. August 23, 2019presentDonald Trump

On July 31, 2019, Kelly Craft was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the new United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Aldona Wos, a retired physician and Republican donor from North Carolina, has been nominated as the next ambassador to Canada.