The following is a list of ambassadors of the United States, or other chiefs of mission, to Guatemala. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
Representative Title Presentationof credentials Terminationof mission Appointed by John WilliamsCommissioned to Central America. Chargé d'Affaires May 3, 1826 December 1, 1826 John Quincy Adams Charles G. DeWitt Chargé d'Affaires December 17, 1833 January 1, 1839 Andrew Jackson Elijah Hise Chargé d'Affaires January 31, 1849 June 23, 1849 James K. Polk Solon BorlandCommissioned to Central America. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Borland did not present credentials in Guatemala. December 31, 1854 Franklin Pierce John L. Marling Minister Resident February 14, 1855 May 8, 1856 Beverly L. ClarkeCommissioned to Guatemala and Honduras. Minister Resident July 13, 1858 March 17, 1860Died at post. James Buchanan Elisha Oscar Crosby Minister Resident May 28, 1861 June 22, 1864 Abraham Lincoln Fitz Henry Warren Minister Resident June 27, 1866 August 11, 1869 Andrew Johnson Silas A. Hudson Minister Resident August 11, 1869 October 12, 1872 Ulysses S. Grant George WilliamsonCommissioned to “the Central American States” but individually accredited to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua; resident at Guatemala. Minister Resident September 9, 1873 January 31, 1879 Cornelius A. Logan Minister Resident June 11, 1879 April 12, 1882 Rutherford B. Hayes Henry C. Hall Minister Resident July 25, 1882 August 10, 1882 Chester A. Arthur Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 10, 1882 May 15, 1889 Lansing B. Mizner Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary June 4, 1889 December 31, 1890 Benjamin Harrison Romualdo Pacheco Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary February 28, 1891 June 12, 1893 Pierce M. B. Young Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary June 12, 1893 May 23, 1896 Grover Cleveland Macgrane Coxe Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 29, 1896 June 30, 1897 W. Godfrey Hunter Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary January 25, 1898 February 2, 1903 William McKinley Leslie Combs Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary February 2, 1903 February 25, 1907 Theodore Roosevelt Joseph W. J. Lee Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary March 19, 1907 October 13, 1907 William Heimke Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 2, 1908 September 30, 1909 William Franklin Sands Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary October 9, 1909 October 14, 1910 William H. Taft R. S. Reynolds Hitt Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary October 14, 1910 March 4, 1913 William Hayne Leavell Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 29, 1913 October 24, 1918 Woodrow Wilson Benton McMillin Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary January 15, 1920 December 6, 1921Normal relations interrupted December 6, 1921. Arthur H. Geissler Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary July 31, 1922 January 23, 1930 Warren G. Harding Sheldon Whitehouse Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary March 21, 1930 July 23, 1933 Herbert Hoover Matthew E. Hanna Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary October 28, 1933 February 9, 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt Fay A. Des Portes Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 22, 1936 May 14, 1943 Boaz Long Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 19, 1943 April 11, 1945 Edwin Jackson Kyle Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 8, 1945 August 22, 1948 Richard C. Patterson, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 24, 1948 April 24, 1951 Harry S. Truman Rudolf E. Schoenfeld Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 24, 1951 October 19, 1953 John Peurifoy Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 4, 1953 October 2, 1954 Dwight D. Eisenhower Norman Armour Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 18, 1954 May 9, 1955 Edward J. Sparks Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 29, 1955 February 15, 1958 Lester D. Mallory Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary February 27, 1958 November 11, 1959 John J. Muccio Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary February 1, 1960 November 10, 1961 John O. Bell Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary January 30, 1962 August 26, 1965John F. Kennedy John Gordon Mein Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 22, 1965 August 28, 1968Assassinated. Lyndon B. Johnson Nathaniel Davis Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 21, 1968 August 21, 1971 William G. Bowdler Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 19, 1971 August 26, 1973 Richard Nixon Francis E. Meloy, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary February 7, 1974 April 19, 1976 Davis E. Boster Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 13, 1976 January 17, 1979 Gerald Ford Frank V. Ortiz, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 17, 1979 August 6, 1980 Jimmy Carter Frederic L. Chapin Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 3, 1981 February 28, 1984 Ronald Reagan Alberto Martinez Piedra Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 17, 1984 August 22, 1987 James H. Michel Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 28, 1987 September 1, 1989 Thomas F. Stroock Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 31, 1989 November 10, 1992 George H. W. Bush Marilyn McAfee Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary June 16, 1993 June 20, 1996 Bill Clinton Donald J. Planty Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 22, 1996 August 14, 1999 Prudence Bushnell Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 14, 1999 June 15, 2002 John Randle Hamilton Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary January 3, 2003 July 15, 2005 George W. Bush James M. Derham Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 1, 2005 July 15, 2008 Stephen G. McFarland Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 5, 2008 August 25, 2011 Arnold A. Chacón Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 29, 2011 March 5, 2014 Barack Obama Todd D. Robinson Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 16, 2014 September 20, 2017 David Hodge Chargé d'Affaires September 20, 2017 October 3, 2017 Donald Trump Luis E. Arreaga Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 3, 2017 October 2, 2020 William W. Popp Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 19, 2020 August 24, 2023 Patrick Ventrell Chargé d'Affaires August 24, 2023 February 2, 2024 Joe Biden Tobin John Bradley Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary February 12, 2024 January 17, 2026 John M. Barrett Chargé d'Affaires January 23, 2026 April 20, 2026Donald Trump Jorgan K. Andrews Chargé d'Affaires April 20, 2026 Present
See also Foreign relations of Guatemala Ambassadors of the United States
References
United States Department of State: Background notes on Guatemala
External links United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Guatemala United States Department of State: Guatemala United States Embassy in Guatemala