U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom
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The office of United States Ambassador (or Minister) to the United Kingdom (also known as Ambassador to the Court of St. James), has traditionally been the highest position in the American foreign service, and has been held by various notable politicians, including five future presidents (John Adams, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, and James Buchanan).
Ministers Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James, 1785-1811
- John Adams (MA) 1785-1788
- Thomas Pinckney (SC) 1792-1796
- Rufus King (NY) 1796-1803
- James Monroe (VA) 1803-1807
- William Pinkney (MD) 1808-1811
from 1811 to the outbreak of the War of 1812, chargé d'affaires Jonathan Russell was the chief American officer in London
Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James, 1815-1893
- John Quincy Adams (MA) 1815-1817
- Richard Rush (PA) 1818-1825
- Rufus King (NY) 1825-1826
- Albert Gallatin (PA) 1826-1827
- James Barbour (VA) 1828-1829
- Louis McLane (DE) 1829-1831
- Martin Van Buren (NY) 1831-1832
- from 1832 to 1836, Aaron Vail, the American chargé d'affaires, acted as the chief American officer in London.
- Andrew Stevenson (VA) 1836-1841
- Edward Everett (MA) 1841-1845
- Louis McLane (MD) 1845-1849
- George Bancroft (NY) 1846-1849
- Abbott Lawrence (MA) 1849-1852
- Joseph R. Ingersoll (PA) 1852-1853
- James Buchanan (PA) 1853-1856
- George M. Dallas (PA) 1856-1861
- Charles Francis Adams (MA) 1861-1868
- Reverdy Johnson (MD) 1868-1869
- J. Lothrop Motley (MA) 1869-1870
- Robert C. Schenck (OH) 1871-1876
- Edwards Pierrepont (NY) 1876-1877
- John Welsh (PA) 1877-1879
- James Russell Lowell (MA) 1880-1885
- Edward J. Phelps (VT) 1885-1889
- Robert T. Lincoln (IL) 1889-1893
Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James, 1893-present
- Thomas F. Bayard (DE) 1893-1897
- John Hay (DC) 1897-1898
- Joseph Choate (NY) 1899-1905
- Whitelaw Reid (NY) 1905-1912
- Walter Hines Page (NY) 1913-1918
- John W. Davis (WV) 1918-1921
- George Harvey (NJ) 1921-1923
- Frank B. Kellogg (MN) 1924-1925
- Alanson B. Houghton (NY) 1925-1929
- Charles G. Dawes (IL) 1929-1931
- Andrew W. Mellon (PA) 1932-1933
- Robert Worth Bingham (KY) 1933-1937
- Joseph P. Kennedy (NY) 1938-1940
- John G. Winant (NH) 1941-1946
- W. Averell Harriman (NY) 1946
- Lewis W. Douglas (AZ) 1947-1950
- Walter S. Gifford (NY) 1950-1953
- Winthrop W. Aldrich (NY) 1953-1957
- John Hay Whitney (NY) 1957-1961
- David K. E. Bruce (MD) 1961-1969
- Walter H. Annenberg (PA) 1969-1974
- Elliot L. Richardson (MA) 1975-1976
- Anne Legendre Armstrong (TX) 1976-1977
- Kingman Brewster, Jr. (CT) 1977-1981
- John J. Louis, Jr. (IL) 1981-1983
- Charles H. Price II (MO) 1983-1989
- Henry E. Catto, Jr. (TX) 1989-1991
- Raymond G. H. Seitz (TX) 1991-1994
- William J. Crowe, Jr. (VA) 1994-1997
- Philip Lader (SC) 1997-2001
- William S. Farish (TX) 2001-2004
- David T. Johnson (GA) (Chargé d'Affaires ad interim) 10th July 2004-