List of ambassadors of the United States to India
The United States Ambassador to India is the chief diplomatic representative of United States in India. The U.S. Ambassador's office is situated at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.
Chiefs of Mission to India
U.S. Ambassadors to the Dominion of India (1947-1950)
President George Washington, on November 19, 1792, nominated Benjamin Joy of Newbury Port as the first American Consul to Kolkata and later commissioned Joy to that office on November 21, 1792.| Name | State | Status | Title | Appointment | Credentials Presented | Termination of Mission | Notes |
| Henry F. Grady | California | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 10, 1947 | July 1, 1947 | Left post, June 22, 1948 | Accredited also to Nepal; resident at New Delhi. |
| Loy W. Henderson | Colorado | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 14, 1948 | November 19, 1948 | Re-accredited when India became a republic; presented new credentials February 24, 1950 | Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on March 2, 1949. Also accredited to Nepal; resident at New Delhi. |
U.S. Ambassadors to the Republic of India (1950-present)
Primary sources
- , US ambassador 1951-53 and 1963–69
- Galbraith, John K. Ambassador's journal: a personal account of the Kennedy years , he was US ambassador to India 1961-63
- U.S. Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States, many volumes of primary sources; the complete texts of these large books are all online. See . For example, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XI, South Asia Crisis, 1971 was published in 2005 and . The most recent volumes are Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–7, Documents on South Asia, 1969–1972 and Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–8, Documents on South Asia, 1973–1976 . Included are the most important cables sent by the ambassador to Washington.