The following is a list of ambassadors of the United States, or other chiefs of mission, to Brazil. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
List Representative Title Presentationof credentials Terminationof mission Appointed by Condy Raguet Chargé d'Affaires October 29, 1825 April 16, 1827 John Quincy Adams William Tudor June 25, 1828 March 9, 1830Died at post. Ethan A. Brown February 18, 1831 April 11, 1834 Andrew Jackson William Hunter January 7, 1835 January 1, 1842 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary January 1, 1842 December 9, 1843 John Tyler George H. Proffit December 11, 1843 August 10, 1844Proffit was a recess appointment; the Senate declined to confirm him and he was recalled. Henry A. Wise August 10, 1844 August 28, 1847 David Tod August 28, 1847 August 9, 1851 James K. Polk Robert C. Schenck August 9, 1851 October 8, 1853 Millard Fillmore William Trousdale October 8, 1853 December 5, 1857 Franklin Pierce Richard K. Meade December 5, 1857 July 9, 1861 James Buchanan James Watson Webb October 21, 1861 May 26, 1869 Abraham Lincoln James Monroe Chargé d'Affaires ad interim 1869 1869 Ulysses S. Grant Henry T. Blow Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 28, 1869 November 6, 1870 James R. Partridge July 31, 1871 June 11, 1877 Henry W. Hilliard October 23, 1877 June 15, 1881 Rutherford B. Hayes Thomas A. Osborn December 17, 1881 July 11, 1885 James Garfield Thomas J. Jarvis July 11, 1885 November 19, 1888 Grover Cleveland Robert Adams, Jr. July 20, 1889 March 1, 1890 Benjamin Harrison Edwin H. Conger December 19, 1890 September 9, 1893 Thomas L. Thompson September 9, 1893 July 17, 1897 Grover Cleveland Edwin H. Conger August 9, 1897 February 6, 1898 William McKinley Charles Page Bryan April 11, 1898 December 3, 1902David E. Thompson April 1, 1903 March 16, 1905 Theodore Roosevelt Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary March 16, 1905 November 3, 1905 Lloyd C. Griscom June 6, 1906 January 2, 1907 Irving Bedell Dudley April 1, 1907 September 16, 1911 Edwin V. Morgan June 4, 1912 August 23, 1933 William H. Taft Hugh S. Gibson August 23, 1933 December 3, 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt Jefferson Caffery August 17, 1937 September 17, 1944 Adolf A. Berle, Jr. January 30, 1945 February 27, 1946 William D. Pawley June 13, 1946 March 26, 1948 Harry S. Truman Herschel Vespasian Johnson July 22, 1948 May 27, 1953 James S. Kemper August 18, 1953 January 26, 1955 Dwight D. Eisenhower James Clement Dunn March 11, 1955 July 4, 1956 Ellis O. Briggs July 24, 1956 April 29, 1959 John M. Cabot July 22, 1959 August 17, 1961 Lincoln Gordon October 19, 1961 February 25, 1966 John F. Kennedy John W. Tuthill June 30, 1966 January 9, 1969 Lyndon B. Johnson Charles Burke Elbrick July 14, 1969 May 7, 1970 Richard Nixon William M. Rountree November 16, 1970 May 30, 1973 John Hugh Crimmins August 13, 1973 February 25, 1978 Robert M. Sayre June 8, 1978 September 19, 1981 Jimmy Carter Langhorne A. Motley October 6, 1981 July 6, 1983 Ronald Reagan Diego C. Asencio December 20, 1983 February 28, 1986 Harry W. Shlaudeman August 5, 1986 May 14, 1989 Richard Huntington Melton December 12, 1989 December 16, 1993 George H. W. Bush Melvyn Levitsky June 1, 1994 June 17, 1998 Bill Clinton Anthony Stephen Harrington February 8, 2000 February 28, 2001 Cristobal R. Orozco Chargé d'Affaires ad interim February 28, 2001 April 23, 2002 George W. Bush Donna J. Hrinak Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 23, 2002 June 26, 2004 John J. Danilovich September 2, 2004 November 7, 2005 Philip T. Chicola Chargé d'Affaires ad interim November 7, 2005 August 2, 2006 Clifford M. Sobel Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 7, 2006 August 7, 2009Tom Shannon February 4, 2010 September 6, 2013 Barack Obama Liliana Ayalde October 31, 2013 January 3, 2017 P. Michael McKinley January 20, 2017 November 5, 2018 Donald Trump William W. Popp Chargé d'Affaires ad interim November 5, 2018 March 30, 2020 Todd C. Chapman Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary March 30, 2020 July 23, 2021 Douglas Koneff Chargé d'Affaires ad interim July 28, 2021 February 2, 2023 Joe Biden Elizabeth Bagley Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary February 3, 2023 January 20, 2025 Gabriel Escobar Chargé d'Affaires ad interim January 21, 2025 July 6, 2026 Donald Trump Kimberly Kelly Chargé d'Affaires ad interim July 6, 2026 Present Daniel Perez Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary TBD
See also Embassy of the United States, Brasília Brazilian Ambassador to the United States Embassy of Brazil, Washington, D.C. Brazil – United States relations Foreign relations of Brazil Ambassadors of the United States
References
United States Department of State: Background notes on Brazil
External links United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Brazil United States Department of State: Brazil United States Embassy in Brazil