The United States diplomatic mission to the Netherlands consists of the embassy located in The Hague and a consular office located in Amsterdam.

In 1782, John Adams was appointed America's first Minister Plenipotentiary to Holland. According to the United States Department of State, the same year came formal recognition by the Netherlands of the United States as a separate and independent nation, along with badly needed financial help that indicated faith in its future. These loans from the United Provinces, which have been called "the Marshall Plan in reverse," were the first the new government received. Adams purchased a home in the Hague at Fluwelen Burgwal 18 (located within Uilebomen, The Hague Center), as the first U.S. embassy.

The current American Embassy building in The Hague opened on January 29, 2018. Notable Americans such as former Presidents Adams and John Quincy Adams, General Hugh Ewing and Iraq Envoy L. Paul Bremer have held the title of Ambassador.

Besides the embassy, a U.S. consulate-general is located on Curaçao which is responsible for the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean. This consulate is not part of the U.S. diplomatic mission to the Netherlands.

April 19, the day John Adams presented his credentials in the Hague, was declared by President Ronald Reagan to be memorialized as "Dutch-American Friendship Day".

Ambassadors

# Name Type Start date End date 1 John Adams MP April 19, 1782 March 30, 1788 2 William Livingston He declined his appointment. 3 John Rutledge 4 William Short June 18, 1792 December 19, 1792 5 John Quincy Adams November 6, 1794 June 20, 1797 6 William Vans Murray June 20, 1797 September 2, 1801 7 William Eustis EE/MP July 20, 1815 May 5, 1818 8 Alexander H. Everett Chd'Aff January 4, 1819 April 7, 1824 9 Christopher Hughes July 10, 1826 January 28, 1830 10 William Pitt Preble EE/MP January 28, 1830 May 2, 1831 11 Auguste Davezac Chd'Aff December 30, 1831 July 13, 1839 12 Harmanus Bleecker July 13, 1839 August 22, 1842 13 Christopher Hughes August 22, 1842 June 28, 1845 14 Auguste Davezac June 28, 1845 September 16, 1850 15 George Folsom September 16, 1850 October 11, 1853 16 August Belmont October 11, 1853 September 26, 1854 MR September 26, 1854 September 22, 1857 17 Henry C. Murphy September 24, 1857 June 8, 1861 18 James S. Pike June 8, 1861 May 29, 1866 19 Daniel E. Sickles 20 John A. Dix 21 Albert Rhodes Chd'Aff October 19, 1866 December 1, 1866 22 Hugh Ewing MR December 1, 1866 October 31, 1870 23 Joseph P. Root His nomination was withdrawn. 24 Charles T. Gorham December 15, 1870 July 9, 1875 25 Francis B. Stockbridge He took the oath of office, but he never proceeded to the post. 26 James Birney March 29, 1876 April 20, 1882 27 William L. Dayton, Jr. September 26, 1882 June 8, 1885 28 Isaac Bell, Jr. June 8, 1885 April 29, 1888 29 Robert B. Roosevelt August 10, 1888 September 26, 1888 EE/MP September 26, 1888 May 17, 1889 30 Samuel R. Thayer May 24, 1889 August 7, 1893 31 William E. Quinby August 11, 1893 July 26, 1897 32 Stanford Newel August 19, 1897 June 30, 1905 33 David J. Hill July 15, 1905 June 1, 1908 34 Arthur M. Beaupre June 15, 1908 September 25, 1911 35 Lloyd Bryce November 16, 1911 September 10, 1913 36 Henry van Dyke October 15, 1913 January 11, 1917 37 John W. Garrett October 11, 1917 June 18, 1919 38 William Phillips April 23, 1920 April 11, 1922 39 Richard M. Tobin May 1, 1923 August 29, 1929 40 Gerrit John Diekema November 20, 1929 December 20, 1930He died at his post. 41 Laurits S. Swenson April 29, 1931 March 5, 1934 42 Grenville T. Emmet March 21, 1934 August 21, 1937 43 George A. Gordon September 10, 1937 July 16, 1940He left with a special ambassador train from The Hague on the July 16. This train was specially meant for ambassadors and their families. See for a picture of ambassador Gordon in this train: http://www.haagsebeeldbank.nl/ 44 Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr.He served in England. March 27, 1941 May 8, 1942 AE/P May 8, 1942 December 1, 1943 45 Stanley K. Hornbeck December 8, 1944 March 7, 1947 46 Herman B. Baruch April 12, 1947 August 26, 1949 47 Selden Chapin October 27, 1949 October 30, 1953 48 H. Freeman Matthews November 25, 1953 June 11, 1957 49 Philip Young June 27, 1957 December 20, 1960 50 John S. Rice May 6, 1961 May 27, 1964 51 William R. Tyler June 23, 1965 June 20, 1969 52 J. William Middendorf II July 9, 1969 June 10, 1973 53 Kingdon Gould, Jr. October 18, 1973 September 30, 1976 54 Robert J. McCloskey October 22, 1976 March 10, 1978 55 Geri M. Joseph September 6, 1978 June 17, 1981 56 William J. Dyess September 2, 1982 July 19, 1983 57 L. Paul Bremer August 31, 1983 August 25, 1986 58 John Shad June 24, 1987 February 23, 1989 59 C. Howard Wilkins, Jr. July 13, 1989 July 11, 1992 60 K. Terry Dornbush March 16, 1994 July 28, 1998 61 Cynthia P. Schneider September 2, 1998 June 17, 2001 62 Clifford Sobel December 6, 2001 August 24, 2005 63 Roland Arnall Mar 8, 2006 March 7, 2008 64 James Culbertson July 10, 2008 January 20, 2009 65 Fay Hartog-Levin August 19, 2009 September 1, 2011 66 Timothy M. Broas March 19, 2014 February 12, 2016 67 Adam H. Sterling Chd'Aff February 12, 2016 July 29, 2016 68 Shawn P. Crowley July 29, 2016U.S. Chargé d'affaires in The Hague accredited, diplomat magazine.nl, 2016/08/04 (in English). January 10, 2018 69 Pete Hoekstra AE/P January 10, 2018 January 17, 2021 70 Marja Verloop Chd'Aff January 17, 2021 July 4, 2022 71 Aleisha Woodward July 4, 2022 October 18, 2022 72 Shefali Razdan Duggal AE/P October 19, 2022 January 20, 2025 72 Marcus Micheli Chd'Aff January 20, 2025 October 29, 202573Joseph Popolo, Jr. AE/P October 29, 2025 Present See also

List of ambassadors of the Netherlands to the United States Ambassadors of the United States Foreign relations of the Netherlands Netherlands–United States relations

References

United States Department of State: Background notes on the Netherlands

External links United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for the Netherlands United States Department of State: Netherlands United States Embassy and Consulate in the Netherlands