List of ambassadors of the United States to Peru

The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Peru. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.

List of representatives Representative Title Presentationof credentials Terminationof mission Appointed by James Cooley Chargé d'Affaires May 21, 1827 February 24, 1828Died at post John Quincy Adams Samuel Larned Chargé d'Affaires November 30, 1829 March 6, 1837 James B. Thornton Chargé d'Affaires March 16, 1837 December 10, 1837 Andrew Jackson J. C. Pickett Chargé d'Affaires January 30, 1840 April 28, 1845 Martin Van Buren John A. Bryan Chargé d'Affaires April 28, 1845 August 4, 1845 John Tyler Albert G. Jewett Chargé d'Affaires August 4, 1845 July 21, 1847Recall requested by Peruvian government in 1846 James K. Polk John Randolph Clay Chargé d'Affaires December 15, 1847 August 22, 1853 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 22, 1853 October 27, 1860 Franklin Pierce Christopher Robinson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary January 11, 1862 December 21, 1865Normal relations interrupted November 26, 1865. Abraham Lincoln Alvin P. Hovey Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 22, 1866 September 22, 1870 Andrew Johnson Thomas Settle Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 13, 1871 November 22, 1871 Ulysses S. Grant Francis Thomas Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary July 10, 1872 July 5, 1875 Richard Gibbs Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary July 10, 1875 April 15, 1879 Isaac P. Christiancy Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary April 19, 1879 August 2, 1881 Rutherford B. Hayes Stephen A. Hurlbut Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 2, 1881 March 27, 1882Normal relations interrupted September 28, 1881. James Garfield Seth Ledyard Phelps Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary April 24, 1884 June 24, 1885 Chester A. Arthur Charles W. Buck Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 1881 March 13, 1889 Grover Cleveland John Hicks Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 31, 1889 June 24, 1893 Benjamin Harrison James A. McKenzie Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary June 24, 1893 April 13, 1897 Grover Cleveland Irving B. Dudley Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 20, 1897 February 14, 1907 William McKinley Leslie Combs Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary April 10, 1907 February 23, 1911 Theodore Roosevelt H. Clay Howard Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 1, 1911 September 9, 1913 William H. Taft Benton McMillin Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 9, 1913 September 5, 1919 Woodrow Wilson William E. Gonzales Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 24, 1920 October 11, 1921 Miles Poindexter Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 20, 1923 March 21, 1928 Calvin Coolidge Alexander P. Moore Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary June 11, 1928 July 10, 1929 Fred Morris Dearing Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 23, 1930 June 3, 1937 Herbert Hoover Laurence A. Steinhardt Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 13, 1937 April 10, 1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt Raymond Henry Norweb Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 10, 1940 September 30, 1943 John Campbell White Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 4, 1944 June 17, 1945 William D. Pawley Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 20, 1945 April 27, 1946 Harry S. Truman Prentice Cooper Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 1, 1946 June 29, 1948 Harold H. Tittmann Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 27, 1948 March 30, 1955 Ellis O. Briggs Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary March 27, 1955 June 5, 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower Theodore C. Achilles Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 24, 1956 January 27, 1960 Selden Chapin Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 7, 1960 August 7, 1960 James Loeb Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 23, 1961 July 26, 1962Normal relations interrupted July 18, 1962 John F. Kennedy J. Wesley Jones Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary February 6, 1963 June 2, 1969 Taylor G. Belcher Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 29, 1969 April 4, 1974 Richard Nixon Robert W. Dean Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 2, 1974 June 17, 1977 Harry W. Shlaudeman Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary June 28, 1977 October 20, 1980 Jimmy Carter Edwin Gharst Corr Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 6, 1980 October 11, 1981 Frank V. Ortiz Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 10, 1981 October 27, 1983 Ronald Reagan David C. Jordan Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary March 20, 1984 July 17, 1986 Alexander Fletcher Watson Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 27, 1986 August 9, 1989 Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary December 11, 1989 September 16, 1992 George H. W. Bush Charles H. Brayshaw Chargé d'Affaires ad interim September 16, 1992 December 15, 1993 Alvin P. Adams, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary December 15, 1993 August 16, 1996 Bill Clinton Dennis C. Jett Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 16, 1996 July 3, 1999 John Randle Hamilton Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 6, 1999 July 10, 2002 John R. Dawson Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary December 2, 2002 June 10, 2003Died in New York. George W. Bush James Curtis Struble Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary February 4, 2004 August 13, 2007 P. Michael McKinley Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 27, 2007Date of Senate confirmation rather than of Presentation of Credentials. July 14, 2010 Rose M. Likins Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 15, 2010 June 27, 2014 Barack Obama Brian A. Nichols Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 3, 2014Date of Senate confirmation rather than of Presentation of Credentials. October 13, 2017 Krishna Urs Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 25, 2017 July 29, 2020 Donald Trump Denison Offutt Chargé d'Affaires July 29, 2020 March 10, 2021 Lisa D. Kenna Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary March 22, 2021 September 8, 2023 Joe Biden John T. McNamara Chargé d'Affaires September 8, 2023 June 20, 2024 Joe Biden Stephanie Syptak-Ramnath Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary June 20, 2024 April 18, 2025 Joe Biden Joan Perkins Chargé d'Affaires April 18, 2025 February 3, 2026 Donald Trump Bernie Navarro Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary February 3, 2026 Present Donald Trump

Notes

See also Peru – United States relations Foreign relations of Peru Ambassadors of the United States Embassy of the United States, Lima

References United States Department of State: Background notes on Peru

External links United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Peru United States Department of State: Peru United States Embassy in Lima