The following is a list of ambassadors that the United States has sent to Chile. 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 Heman Allen Minister Plenipotentiary April 23, 1824 July 31, 1827 James Monroe Samuel Larned Chargé d'Affaires November 9, 1828 October 29, 1829 John Quincy Adams John Hamm Chargé d'Affaires May 24, 1831 October 19, 1833 Andrew Jackson Richard Pollard Chargé d'Affaires March 13, 1835 May 12, 1842 John S. Pendleton Chargé d'Affaires May 24, 1842 June 6, 1844 John Tyler George William Crump Chargé d'Affaires August 18, 1845 November 1, 1847 James K. Polk Seth Barton Chargé d'Affaires January 5, 1848 May 22, 1849 Balie Peyton Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary February 16, 1850 September 26, 1853 Zachary Taylor David A. Starkweather Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 22, 1854 August 26, 1857 Franklin Pierce John Bigler Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary October 5, 1857 October 4, 1861 James Buchanan Thomas H. Nelson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary October 4, 1861 March 12, 1866 Abraham Lincoln Hugh Judson Kilpatrick Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary March 12, 1866 August 3, 1870 Andrew Johnson Joseph P. Root Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary December 2, 1870 June 27, 1873 Ulysses S. Grant Cornelius A. Logan Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary June 27, 1873 November 10, 1876 Thomas A. Osborn Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 28, 1877 July 25, 1881 Rutherford B. Hayes Hugh Judson Kilpatrick Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary July 25, 1881 December 2, 1881 James Garfield Cornelius A. Logan Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 7, 1882 June 16, 1885 Chester A. Arthur William R. Roberts Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary July 4, 1885 August 9, 1889 Grover Cleveland Patrick Egan Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 9, 1889 July 4, 1893 Benjamin Harrison James D. Porter Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary July 4, 1893 March 14, 1894 Grover Cleveland Edward H. Strobel Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary February 6, 1895 August 17, 1897 Henry L. Wilson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 14, 1897 July 18, 1904 William McKinley John Hicks Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary October 5, 1905 May 11, 1909 Theodore Roosevelt Thomas C. Dawson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 20, 1909 November 16, 1909 William H. Taft Henry P. Fletcher Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 9, 1910 November 19, 1914 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 19, 1914 March 9, 1916 Woodrow Wilson Joseph Hooker Shea Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 30, 1916 May 5, 1921 William Miller Collier Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 29, 1921 August 6, 1928 Warren G. Harding William S. Culbertson Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 16, 1928 August 19, 1933 Calvin Coolidge Hal H. Sevier Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 25, 1933 May 4, 1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt Hoffman Philip Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 7, 1935 October 31, 1937 Norman Armour Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 21, 1938 June 10, 1939 Claude G. Bowers Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 7, 1939 September 2, 1953 Willard L. Beaulac Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 5, 1953 May 28, 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower Cecil B. Lyon Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary June 15, 1956 February 25, 1958 Walter Howe Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary June 1, 1958 March 15, 1961 Robert F. Woodward Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 5, 1961 July 6, 1961 John F. Kennedy Charles W. Cole Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 21, 1961 September 27, 1964 Ralph A. Dungan Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary December 10, 1964 August 2, 1967 Lyndon B. Johnson Edward M. Korry Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 16, 1967 October 12, 1971 Nathaniel Davis Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 20, 1971 November 1, 1973 Richard Nixon David H. Popper Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary February 22, 1974 May 22, 1977 Gerald Ford George W. Landau Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 1977 January 16, 1982 Jimmy Carter James D. Theberge Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary March 8, 1982 August 2, 1985 Ronald Reagan Harry George Barnes, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 18, 1985 November 26, 1988 Charles A. Gillespie, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary December 20, 1988 December 10, 1991 Curtis Warren Kamman Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary January 14, 1992 October 21, 1994 George H. W. Bush Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 24, 1994 June 13, 1998 Bill Clinton John O'Leary Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 19, 1998 June 29, 2001 William R. Brownfield Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary March 25, 2002 July 19, 2004 George W. Bush Craig A. Kelly Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 9, 2004 November 9, 2007 Paul E. Simons Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 9, 2007 July 4, 2010 Alejandro Daniel Wolff Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 9, 2010 August 10, 2013 Barack Obama Michael A. Hammer Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 8, 2014 September 20, 2016 Carol Z. Perez Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 13, 2016 January 31, 2019 Baxter Hunt Chargé d’Affaires January 31, 2019 August 10, 2020 Donald Trump Richard H. Glenn Chargé d’Affaires August 10, 2020 September 13, 2022 Bernadette Meehan Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 30, 2022 January 20, 2025 Joe Biden Richard T. Yoneoka Chargé d’Affaires January 20, 2025 November 10, 2025 Donald TrumpBrandon Judd Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 10, 2025 Present
See also Ambassadors of the United States Chile–United States relations Foreign relations of Chile Joel Roberts Poinsett
References United States Department of State: Background notes on Chile
External links United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Chile United States Department of State: Chile United States Embassy in Santiago