The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Uruguay. The current title given by the United States State Department to this position is Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
Representative Title Presentationof credentials Terminationof mission Appointed by Alexander AsbothAlso accredited to Argentina; resident at Buenos Aires. Minister Resident October 2, 1867 January 21, 1868Died at post. Andrew Johnson Henry G. Worthington October 24, 1868 July 10, 1869 Robert C. Kirk July 24, 1869 July 6, 1870 Ulysses S. Grant John L. StevensAlso accredited to Paraguay; resident at Montevideo. July 6, 1870 May 19, 1873 John C. Caldwell September 7, 1874 October 6, 1876 Chargé d'Affaires October 6, 1876 July 10, 1882 William Williams July 10, 1882 July 21, 1885 Chester A. Arthur John E. Bacon July 21, 1885 October 8, 1888 Grover Cleveland Minister Resident October 8, 1888 December 26, 1888 George Maney November 8, 1889 November 28, 1890 Benjamin Harrison Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 28, 1890 June 30, 1894 Granville Stuart July 2, 1894 January 4, 1898 Grover Cleveland William R. Finch January 4, 1898 May 29, 1905 William McKinley Edward C. O'Brien June 2, 1905 October 11, 1909 Theodore Roosevelt Edwin V. Morgan March 31, 1910 July 8, 1911 William H. Taft Nicolai A. Grevstad October 9, 1911 February 19, 1915 Robert Emmett Jeffery June 4, 1915 March 9, 1921 Woodrow Wilson Hoffman Philip September 19, 1922 April 10, 1925 Warren G. Harding Ulysses Grant-Smith July 13, 1925 January 11, 1929 Calvin Coolidge Leland Harrison April 11, 1930 October 9, 1930 Herbert Hoover J. Butler Wright February 9, 1931 July 10, 1934 Julius Gareché Lay May 20, 1935 August 31, 1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt William Dawson February 10, 1938 June 6, 1939 Edwin C. Wilson October 27, 1939 March 5, 1941 William Dawson Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 12, 1941 August 6, 1946 Joseph F. McGurk November 28, 1946 April 15, 1947 Harry S. Truman Ellis O. Briggs August 21, 1947 August 6, 1949 Christian M. Ravndal September 9, 1949 October 8, 1951 Edward L. Rodden December 27, 1951 October 12, 1953 Dempster McIntosh November 12, 1953 April 3, 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower Jefferson Patterson May 2, 1956 March 18, 1958 Robert F. Woodward April 21, 1958 March 29, 1961 Edward J. Sparks May 24, 1961 May 15, 1962 John F. Kennedy Wymberley DeRenne Coerr July 27, 1962 January 22, 1965 Henry A. Hoyt June 14, 1965 December 16, 1967 Lyndon B. Johnson Robert M. Sayre August 27, 1968 October 19, 1969 Charles W. Adair, Jr. November 13, 1969 September 28, 1972 Richard Nixon Ernest V. Siracusa September 25, 1973 April 22, 1977 Lawrence Pezzulo August 10, 1977 May 29, 1979 Jimmy Carter Lyle Franklin Lane October 17, 1979 July 22, 1980 N. Shaw Smith Chargé d'Affaires ad interim July 22, 1980 November 5, 1981 Thomas Aranda, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 5, 1981 November 14, 1985 Ronald Reagan Malcolm Richard Wilkey November 28, 1985 May 10, 1990 Richard C. Brown November 19, 1990 August 19, 1993 George H. W. Bush Thomas J. Dodd, Jr. September 23, 1993 September 1, 1997 Bill Clinton Christopher C. Ashby November 26, 1997 March 1, 2001 Martin J. Silverstein October 17, 2001 July 6, 2005 George W. Bush Frank E. Baxter December 13, 2006 January 20, 2009 David D. Nelson December 24, 2009 May 23, 2011 Barack Obama Thomas H. Lloyd Chargé d'Affaires a.i. May 23, 2011 May 10, 2012 Julissa Reynoso Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 10, 2012 December 10, 2014 Brad Freden Chargé d'Affaires a.i. December 10, 2014 June 23, 2016 Kelly KeiderlingPN1054 — Kelly Keiderling-Franz — Department of State Congressional record, May 17, 2016 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary June 23, 2016 June 29, 2019 Barack ObamaDonald Trump Kenneth S. George September 2, 2019 January 20, 2021 Donald Trump Jennifer Savage Chargé d'Affaires January 20, 2021 July 10, 2022 Joe Biden Karl Rios July 15, 2022 March 22, 2023 Heide B. Fulton Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary March 22, 2023 June 27, 2025 Chris Andino Chargé d'Affaires June 27, 2025 September 26, 2025 Donald Trump Lou Rinaldi Ambassador Extraordinary And Plenipotentiary September 30, 2025
See also United States – Uruguay relations Foreign relations of Uruguay Ambassadors of the United States
References
External links United States Department of State: Background notes on Uruguay United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Uruguay United States Department of State: Uruguay United States Embassy in Montevideo