List of ambassadors of the United States to Ecuador

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

Ambassador of the United States to Ecuador
Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent
Michael J. Fitzpatrick
since July 3, 2019
NominatorThe President of the United States
AppointerThe President
with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural holderVan Brugh Livingston
as Chargé d'Affaires
FormationAugust 12, 1848
WebsiteU.S. Embassy - Quito

Ambassadors and chiefs of mission
Representative Title Presentation
of credentials		 Termination
of mission		 Appointed by
Robert B. McAfee Chargé d'affaires to the governments of New Granada and Ecuador with residence en Bogotá[1] 1835 1836 Andrew Jackson
James Chamberlayne Pickett[2] Plenipotentiary for signing a Treaty of Peace and Commerce 1838 1839 Martin Van Buren
Van Brugh Livingston Chargé d'affaires August 12, 1848 November 12, 1849 James K. Polk
John Trumbull Van Alen Chargé d'affaires November 19, 1849 July 18, 1850 Zachary Taylor
Courtland Cushing Chargé d'affaires June 3, 1851 October 12, 1853 Millard Fillmore
Philo White Minister Resident September 2, 1854 September 14, 1858 Franklin Pierce
Charles R. Buckalew Minister Resident September 20, 1858 July 10, 1861 James Buchanan
Friedrich Hassaurek Minister Resident July 15, 1861 January 13, 1866 Abraham Lincoln
William T. Coggeshall Minister Resident September 20, 1866 August 3, 1867[3] Andrew Johnson
David Alexander Nunn Minister Resident Unknown November 2, 1869 Ulysses S. Grant
E. Rumsey Wing Minister Resident June 23, 1870 October 5, 1874[3]
Christian Wullweber Minister Resident December 20, 1875 September 25, 1876
Rowland B. Mahany Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 22, 1892 June 23, 1893 Benjamin Harrison
Edward Henry Strobel Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary July 15, 1894 December 31, 1894 Grover Cleveland
James D. Tillman Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary June 3, 1895 December 15, 1897
Archibald J. Sampson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary December 16, 1897 July 15, 1905 William McKinley
Joseph W. J. Lee Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary December 30, 1905 February 21, 1907 Theodore Roosevelt
Williams C. Fox Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary April 18, 1907 July 19, 1911
Evan E. Young Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 8, 1911 January 29, 1912 William Howard Taft
Montgomery Schuyler, Jr. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 24, 1913 September 29, 1913 Woodrow Wilson
Charles S. Hartman Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 30, 1913 March 20, 1922
Gerhard Adolph Bading Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 15, 1922 November 1, 1929 Warren G. Harding
William Dawson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 9, 1930 February 27, 1935 Herbert Hoover
Antonio C. Gonzalez Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary March 7, 1935 March 30, 1938 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Boaz Walton Long Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary April 29, 1938 April 14, 1942
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 14, 1942 May 1, 1943
Robert M. Scotten Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 27, 1943 April 17, 1947
John F. Simmons Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 16, 1947 July 12, 1950 Harry S. Truman
Paul C. Daniels Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 25, 1951 July 9, 1953
Sheldon T. Mills Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 19, 1954 April 6, 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower
Christian M. Ravndal Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 29, 1956 August 1, 1960
Maurice M. Bernbaum Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 16, 1960 January 14, 1965
Wymberley DeRenne Coerr Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary March 24, 1965 October 7, 1967[4] Lyndon B. Johnson
Edson O. Sessions Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 26, 1968 February 15, 1970
Findley Burns, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 9, 1970 May 18, 1973 Richard Nixon
Robert C. Brewster Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 1, 1973 April 8, 1976
Richard J. Bloomfield Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 31, 1976 January 21, 1978 Gerald Ford
Raymond E. Gonzalez Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 31, 1978 January 28, 1982 Jimmy Carter
Samuel Friedlander Hart Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary December 22, 1982 April 5, 1985 Ronald Reagan
Fernando Enrique Rondon Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 8, 1985 July 26, 1988
Richard Newton Holwill Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 27, 1988 November 25, 1989
Paul C. Lambert Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 2, 1990 February 1, 1992 George H. W. Bush
James F. Mack Chargé d'affaires ad interim February 1, 1992 November 16, 1993
Peter F. Romero Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 16, 1993 July 25, 1996 Bill Clinton
Leslie M. Alexander Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 5, 1996 June 11, 1999
Gwen C. Clare Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 24, 1999 July 3, 2001
Kristie A. Kenney Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 25, 2002 July 6, 2005 George W. Bush
Linda Jewell[lower-alpha 1] Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 29, 2005 July 22, 2008[9]
Heather M. Hodges Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 2, 2008 April 5, 2011[10][11]
Andrew Bowen Chargé d’Affaires a.i. April 15, 2011 July 2011 Barack Obama
Timothy Zúñiga-Brown Chargé d’Affaires a.i. July 2011 April 2012
Adam E. Namm Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary June 22, 2012 September 28, 2015
Todd C. Chapman Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 14, 2016 June 8, 2019
Michael J. Fitzpatrick Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 3, 2019 Incumbent Donald Trump

See also

Notes
  1. She was treasurer of the Public Diplomacy Council and for the State Department, served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Mexico and Canada and as the American Ambassador to Ecuador.[5] Her other public service positions included Director of the Office of Policy Planning and Coordination in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica and as Director of the Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs of United States Information Agency. From 2010 until 2011, she was a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.[6][7] Jewell was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, attended Hall High School and was a member of the third four-year class of women at Yale College (Literature Major, Class of 1975). She received a masters degree in International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1988.[8][7]

References
Citations
  1. Pablo Núñez Endara, Relaciones internacionales del Ecuador en la fundación de la República
  2. James Chamberlayne Pickett: ,
  3. Died at post.
  4. Recall requested by the government of Ecuador.
  5. "Linda Jewell: An Appreciation". The Public Diplomacy Council. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  6. "Linda Jewell". Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Yale University. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  7. "Jewell, Linda". US State Department Archive. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  8. "Obituary" (PDF). Yale. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  9. https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/jewell-linda
  10. "Heather M. Hodges". U.S. Department of State. Archived from the original on 2011-05-28. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
  11. Hodges was declared persona non grata and expelled from Ecuador July 5, 2011.
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