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

Ambassadors

Representative Title Presentationof credentials Terminationof mission Appointed by John B. Kerr Chargé d'Affaires February 18, 1851 June 1, 1853 Millard Fillmore Solon BorlandCommissioned to Central America; resident at Managua. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary April 18, 1853 April 17, 1854 Franklin Pierce John H. Wheeler Minister Resident April 7, 1855 October 23, 1856 Mirabeau B. LamarAlso accredited to Costa Rica; resident at Managua. Minister Resident February 8, 1858 May 20, 1859 James Buchanan Alexander DimitryAlso accredited to Costa Rica; resident partly at Managua and partly at San José. ALEXANDER DIMITRY, Minister to Nicaragua and Costa Rica, has been recalled, although no successor bas been named. It is becoming a disgrace to the late Administration that this step was not taken long ago. Let us hope that Mr. LINCOLN will send sober men and anti-filibusters to represent the United States in all the Spanish-American countries. The New York Times, March 20, 1861, Minister Resident December 7, 1859 April 27, 1861 Andrew B. Dickinson Minister Resident July 11, 1861 January 15, 1863 Abraham Lincoln Thomas H. Clay Minister Resident January 15, 1863 May 31, 1863 Andrew B. Dickinson Minister Resident and Extraordinary May 31, 1863 July 29, 1869 Charles N. Riotte Minister Resident July 29, 1869 January 15, 1873 Ulysses S. Grant George WilliamsonCommissioned to "the Central American States" but accredited individually to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua; resident at Guatemala. Minister Resident November 1, 1873 January 31, 1879 Cornelius A. Logan Minister Resident July 30, 1879 April 15, 1882 Rutherford B. Hayes Henry C. Hall Minister Resident August 12, 1882 November 2, 1882 Chester A. Arthur Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 2, 1882 May 23, 1889 Lansing B. Mizner Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 7, 1889 December 31, 1890 Benjamin Harrison Romualdo Pacheco Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 21, 1891 October 13, 1891 Richard Cutts ShannonAlso accredited to El Salvador and Costa Rica; resident at Managua. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary October 13, 1891 April 30, 1893 Lewis Baker Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 13, 1893 December 9, 1897 Grover Cleveland William L. MerryOriginally accredited to Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua; after December 12, 1907, only to Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Resident at San José. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary March 1, 1899 August 24, 1908 William McKinley John Gardner Coolidge Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 24, 1908 November 21, 1908 Theodore Roosevelt John H. Gregory, Jr. Chargé d'Affaires ad interim November 21, 1908 March 12, 1909 Elliott Northcott Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary February 21, 1911 June 23, 1911 William H. Taft George T. Weitzel Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary January 22, 1912 April 19, 1913 Benjamin L. Jefferson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 5, 1913 October 24, 1921 Woodrow Wilson John E. Ramer Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary December 30, 1921 April 5, 1925 Warren G. Harding Charles C. Eberhardt Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 7, 1925 May 10, 1929 Calvin Coolidge Matthew E. Hanna Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary April 11, 1930 September 6, 1933 Herbert Hoover Arthur Bliss Lane Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary December 7, 1933 March 14, 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt Boaz W. Long Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary March 19, 1936 April 1, 1938 Meredith Nicholson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary June 9, 1938 February 27, 1941 Pierre de Lagarde Boal Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary July 24, 1941 March 5, 1942 James B. Stewart Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary June 12, 1942 April 14, 1943 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 14, 1943 January 4, 1945 Fletcher Warren Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 9, 1945 May 4, 1947 Harry S. Truman George P. Shaw Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 1, 1948 June 8, 1949 Capus M. Waynick Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 12, 1949 July 22, 1951 Thomas E. Whelan Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 3, 1951 March 22, 1961 Aaron S. Brown Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 21, 1961 May 3, 1967 John F. Kennedy Kennedy M. Crockett Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 21, 1967 April 19, 1970 Lyndon B. Johnson Turner B. Shelton Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 20, 1970 August 11, 1975 Richard Nixon James D. Theberge Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 11, 1975 June 8, 1977 Gerald Ford Mauricio Solaún Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 30, 1977 February 26, 1979 Jimmy Carter Lawrence A. Pezzullo Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 31, 1979 August 18, 1981 Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary March 26, 1982 May 6, 1984 Ronald Reagan Harry E. Bergold, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 31, 1984 July 1, 1987 Richard Huntington Melton Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 4, 1988 July 12, 1988Ambassador Melton and seven other members of the American embassy were expelled by the Government of Nicaragua on July 11, 1988 because of United States support of the opposition to the Sandinista government. – Jack Leonard Chargé d'Affaires ad interim July 11, 1988 June 21, 1990 Harry W. Shlaudeman Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary June 21, 1990 March 14, 1992 George H. W. Bush Ron Godard Chargé d’Affaires a.i. March 14, 1992 September 8, 1993 John Francis Maisto Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 8, 1993 November 15, 1996 Bill Clinton Lino Gutierrez Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary December 5, 1996 July 21, 1999 Oliver P. Garza Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 24, 1999 August 30, 2002 Barbara C. Moore Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 13, 2002 July 15, 2005 George W. Bush Paul A. Trivelli Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 9, 2005 August 6, 2008 Robert J. Callahan Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 27, 2008 July 19, 2011Robert R. DownesChargé d’Affaires a.i.July 19, 2011March 30, 2012 Barack Obama Phyllis M. Powers Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryMay 3, 2012August 5, 2015 Laura Farnsworth Dogu Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 6, 2015October 30, 2018 Kevin K. Sullivan Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 14, 2018May 19, 2023 Donald Trump Carla Fleharty Chargé d’Affaires a.i.May 20, 2023June 28, 2023 Joe Biden Kevin O'ReillyChargé d’Affaires a.i.June 28, 2023 December 23, 2025 Joe Biden Elias BaumannChargé d’Affaires a.i.December 24, 2025Present Donald Trump

Notes

See also Embassy of the United States, Chișinău Nicaragua – United States relations Foreign relations of Nicaragua Ambassadors of the United States

References United States Department of State: Background notes on Nicaragua

External links United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Nicaragua United States Department of State: Nicaragua United States Embassy in Managua