The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Honduras. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
Ambassadors Representative Title Presentationof credentials Terminationof mission Appointed by Solon Borland Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Did not present credentials in Honduras. April 17, 1854 Franklin Pierce Beverly L. Clarke Minister Resident August 10, 1858 March 17, 1860Died at post. James Buchanan James R. Partridge Minister Resident April 25, 1862 November 14, 1862 Abraham Lincoln Thomas H. Clay Minister Resident April 5, 1864 August 10, 1866 Richard H. Rousseau Minister Resident October 10, 1866 August 10, 1869 Andrew Johnson Henry Baxter Minister Resident August 10, 1869 June 30, 1873 Ulysses S. Grant George WilliamsonCommissioned to the “Central American States” but accredited individually to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua; resident at Guatemala. Minister Resident February 19, 1874 January 31, 1879 Cornelius A. Logan Minister Resident October 10, 1879 April 15, 1882 Rutherford B. Hayes Henry C. Hall Minister Resident April 21, 1882 September 26, 1882 Chester A. Arthur Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 26, 1882 May 16, 1889 Lansing B. Mizner Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary March 30, 1889 December 31, 1890 Benjamin Harrison Romualdo PachecoCommissioned to Guatemala and Honduras; Resident at Guatemala. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary April 17, 1891 June 12, 1893 Pierce M. B. Young Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 12, 1893 May 23, 1896 Grover Cleveland Macgrane Coxe Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary June 30, 1897 W. Godfrey Hunter Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary January 19, 1899 February 2, 1903 William McKinley Leslie Combs Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 22, 1903 February 27, 1907 Theodore Roosevelt Joseph W. J. Lee Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary July 1, 1907 Henry Percival DodgeCommissioned to Honduras and El Salvador; resident at San Salvador. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary June 17, 1908 February 6, 1909 Philip Marshall Brown Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary February 21, 1909 February 26, 1910 Fenton R. McCreery Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary March 10, 1910 July 2, 1911 William H. Taft Charles Dunning White Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 9, 1911 November 4, 1913 John Ewing Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary December 26, 1913 January 18, 1918 Woodrow Wilson T. Sambola Jones Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary October 2, 1918 October 17, 1919Declared persona non grata on January 1, 1920, did not return to post. Franklin E. Morales Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary January 18, 1922 March 2, 1925 Warren G. Harding George T. Summerlin Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 21, 1925 December 17, 1929 Calvin Coolidge Julius Gareché Lay Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 31, 1930 March 17, 1935 Herbert Hoover Leo J. Keena Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary July 19, 1935 May 1, 1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt John Draper Erwin Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 8, 1937 April 27, 1943 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 27, 1943 April 16, 1947 Paul C. Daniels Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary June 23, 1947 October 30, 1947 Harry S. Truman Herbert S. Bursley Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 15, 1948 December 12, 1950 John Draper Erwin Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary March 14, 1951 February 28, 1954 Whiting Willauer Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary March 5, 1954 March 24, 1958 Dwight D. Eisenhower Robert Newbegin Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 30, 1958 August 3, 1960 Charles R. Burrows Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 3, 1960 June 28, 1965 Joseph J. Jova Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 12, 1965 June 21, 1969 Lyndon B. Johnson Hewson A. Ryan Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 5, 1969 May 30, 1973 Richard Nixon Phillip V. Sanchez Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary June 15, 1973 July 17, 1976 Ralph E. Becker Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 27, 1976 August 1, 1977 Gerald Ford Mari-Luci Jaramillo Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 27, 1977 September 19, 1980 Jimmy Carter Jack R. Binns Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 10, 1980 October 31, 1981 John D. Negroponte Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 11, 1981 May 30, 1985 Ronald Reagan John Arthur Ferch Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 22, 1985 July 9, 1986 Everett Ellis Briggs Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 4, 1986 June 15, 1989 Cresencio S. Arcos, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary January 29, 1990 July 1, 1993 George H. W. Bush William Thornton Pryce Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 21, 1993 August 15, 1996 Bill Clinton James F. Creagan Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 29, 1996 July 20, 1999 Frank Almaguer Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 25, 1999 September 5, 2002 Larry Leon Palmer Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 8, 2002 May 7, 2005 George W. Bush Charles A. Ford Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 8, 2005 March 18, 2008 Hugo Llorens Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 19, 2008 July 3, 2011 Lisa Kubiske Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 26, 2011 August 2, 2014 Barack Obama James D. Nealon Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 21, 2014 June 11, 2017 Heide B. Fulton Chargé d'Affaires ad interim June 11, 2017 August 30, 2019 Donald Trump Colleen A. Hoey Chargé d'Affaires ad interim August 30, 2019 April 7, 2022 Laura Farnsworth Dogu Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 12, 2022 April 18, 2025 Joe Biden Roy Perrin Chargé d'Affaires ad interim April 18, 2025 June 6, 2025 Donald Trump Lyra Carr Chargé d'Affaires ad interim June 6, 2025 June 23, 2025 Colleen A. Hoey Chargé d'Affaires ad interim June 23, 2025 Present
See also Honduras – United States relations Foreign relations of Honduras Ambassadors of the United States
References
United States Department of State: Background notes on Honduras
External links United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Honduras United States Department of State: Honduras United States Embassy in Tegucigalpa