List of ambassadors of the United States to Honduras
| Ambassador of the United States to Honduras | |
|---|---|
 Seal of the United States Department of State | |
 | |
| Nominator | The President of the United States |
| Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
| Inaugural holder | Solon Borland as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary |
| Formation | 1850s |
| Website | U.S. Embassy - Tegucigalpa |
The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Honduras. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
| Representative | Title | Presentation of credentials |
Termination of mission |
Appointed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solon Borland | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | [1] | April 17, 1854 | Franklin Pierce |
| Beverly L. Clarke | Minister Resident | August 10, 1858 | March 17, 1860[2] | James Buchanan |
| James R. Partridge | Minister Resident | April 25, 1862 | November 14, 1862 | Abraham Lincoln |
| Thomas H. Clay | Minister Resident | April 5, 1864 | August 10, 1866 | |
| Richard H. Rousseau | Minister Resident | October 10, 1866 | August 10, 1869 | Andrew Johnson |
| Henry Baxter | Minister Resident | August 10, 1869 | June 30, 1873 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| George Williamson[3] | Minister Resident | February 19, 1874 | January 31, 1879 | |
| Cornelius A. Logan[3] | Minister Resident | October 10, 1879 | April 15, 1882 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Henry C. Hall[3] | Minister Resident | April 21, 1882 | September 26, 1882 | Chester A. Arthur |
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 26, 1882 | May 16, 1889 | ||
| Lansing B. Mizner[3] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 30, 1889 | December 31, 1890 | Benjamin Harrison |
| Romualdo Pacheco[3][4] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 17, 1891 | June 12, 1893 | |
| Pierce M. B. Young[4] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 12, 1893 | May 23, 1896 | Grover Cleveland |
| Macgrane Coxe[4] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | [1] | June 30, 1897 | |
| W. Godfrey Hunter[4] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 19, 1899 | February 2, 1903 | William McKinley |
| Leslie Combs[4] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 22, 1903 | February 27, 1907 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Joseph W. J. Lee[4] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | [1] | July 1, 1907 | |
| Henry Percival Dodge[5] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 17, 1908 | February 6, 1909 | |
| Philip Marshall Brown | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 21, 1909 | February 26, 1910 | |
| Fenton R. McCreery | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 10, 1910 | July 2, 1911 | William H. Taft |
| Charles Dunning White | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 9, 1911 | November 4, 1913 | |
| John Ewing | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 26, 1913 | January 18, 1918 | Woodrow Wilson |
| T. Sambola Jones | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 2, 1918 | October 17, 1919[6] | |
| Franklin E. Morales | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 18, 1922 | March 2, 1925 | Warren G. Harding |
| George T. Summerlin | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 21, 1925 | December 17, 1929 | Calvin Coolidge |
| Julius Gareché Lay | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 31, 1930 | March 17, 1935 | Herbert Hoover |
| Leo J. Keena | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 19, 1935 | May 1, 1937 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| John Draper Erwin | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 8, 1937 | April 27, 1943 | |
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 27, 1943 | April 16, 1947 | ||
| Paul C. Daniels | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 23, 1947 | October 30, 1947 | Harry S. Truman |
| Herbert S. Bursley | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 15, 1948 | December 12, 1950 | |
| John Draper Erwin | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 14, 1951 | February 28, 1954 | |
| Whiting Willauer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 5, 1954 | March 24, 1958 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Robert Newbegin | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 30, 1958 | August 3, 1960 | |
| Charles R. Burrows | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 3, 1960 | June 28, 1965 | |
| Joseph J. Jova | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 12, 1965 | June 21, 1969 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Hewson A. Ryan | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 5, 1969 | May 30, 1973 | Richard Nixon |
| Phillip V. Sanchez | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 15, 1973 | July 17, 1976 | |
| Ralph E. Becker | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 27, 1976 | August 1, 1977 | Gerald Ford |
| Mari-Luci Jaramillo | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 27, 1977 | September 19, 1980 | Jimmy Carter |
| Jack R. Binns | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 10, 1980 | October 31, 1981 | |
| John D. Negroponte | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 11, 1981 | May 30, 1985 | Ronald Reagan |
| John Arthur Ferch | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 22, 1985 | July 9, 1986 | |
| Everett Ellis Briggs | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 4, 1986 | June 15, 1989 | |
| Cresencio S. Arcos, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 29, 1990 | July 1, 1993 | George H. W. Bush |
| William Thornton Pryce | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 21, 1993 | August 15, 1996 | Bill Clinton |
| James F. Creagan | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 29, 1996 | July 20, 1999 | |
| Frank Almaguer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 25, 1999 | September 5, 2002 | |
| Larry Leon Palmer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 8, 2002 | May 7, 2005 | George W. Bush |
| Charles A. Ford | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 8, 2005 | March 18, 2008 | |
| Hugo Llorens | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 19, 2008 | July 3, 2011 | |
| Lisa Kubiske | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 26, 2011 | August 2, 2014 | Barack Obama |
| James D. Nealon | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 21, 2014 | June 11, 2017 | |
| Heide B. Fulton | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | June 11, 2017 | August 30, 2019 | Donald Trumpov |
| Colleen A. Hoey | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | August 30, 2019 | April 7, 2022 | |
| Laura Farnsworth Dogu | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 12, 2022 | Incumbent | Joe Biden |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Did not present credentials in Honduras.
- ^ Died at post.
- ^ a b c d e Commissioned to the “Central American States” but accredited individually to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua; resident at Guatemala.
- ^ a b c d e f Commissioned to Guatemala and Honduras; Resident at Guatemala.
- ^ Commissioned to Honduras and El Salvador; resident at San Salvador.
- ^ Declared persona non grata on January 1, 1920, did not return to post.
- "U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Honduras". The Political Graveyard. March 10, 2005. Retrieved September 5, 2007.
- United States Department of State: Background notes on Honduras
This article incorporates public domain material from U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets. United States Department of State.
External links
[edit]- United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Honduras
- United States Department of State: Honduras
- United States Embassy in Tegucigalpa
