Chiefs of Mission for Belgium

Chiefs of Mission

• Hugh Swinton Legare (1797–1843)
  • Chargé d’Affaires, September 25, 1832–June 9, 1836
• Virgil Maxcy (1785–1844)
  • Chargé d’Affaires, October 24, 1837–September 17, 1842
• Henry Washington Hilliard (1808–1892)
  • Chargé d’Affaires, September 17, 1842–August 12, 1844
• Thomas Green Clemson (1807–1888)
  • Chargé d’Affaires, October 7, 1844–March 1, 1851
• Richard Henry Bayard (1796–1868)
  • Chargé d’Affaires, March 1, 1851–September 12, 1853
• John Jacob Seibels (1816–1865)
  • Chargé d’Affaires, September 12, 1853–August 6, 1854
• John Jacob Seibels (1816–1865)
  • Minister Resident, August 6, 1854–September 14, 1856
• Elisha Young Fair (1809–1886)
  • Minister Resident, September 27, 1858–May 8, 1861
• Henry Shelton Sanford (1823–1891)
  • Minister Resident, May 8, 1861–July 21, 1869
• Joseph Russell Jones (1823–1909)
  • Minister Resident, July 21, 1869–July 22, 1875
• Ayres Phillips Merrill (1825–1883)
  • Minister Resident, May 18, 1876–November 25, 1877
• William Cassius Goodloe (1841–1889)
  • Minister Resident, May 12, 1878–June 27, 1880
• James Osborne Putnam (1818–1903)
  • Minister Resident, July 12, 1880–June 30, 1882
• Nicholas Fish (1846–1902)
  • Minister Resident, July 5, 1882–October 6, 1885
• Lambert Tree (1832–1910)
  • Minister Resident, October 10, 1885–September 25, 1888
• Lambert Tree (1832–1910)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, September 25, 1888–December 18, 1888
• John Gibson Parkhurst (1824–1906)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, December 20, 1888–June 12, 1889
• Edwin Holland Terrell (1848–1910)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, July 10, 1889–June 22, 1893
• James Stevenson Ewing (1835–1918)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, June 22, 1893–July 6, 1897
• Bellamy Storer (1847–1922)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, July 21, 1897–May 31, 1899
• Lawrence Townsend (1860–1954)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, June 18, 1899–May 5, 1905
• Henry Lane Wilson (1856–1932)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, May 5, 1905–December 25, 1909
• Charles Page Bryan (1856–1918)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, February 10, 1910–September 18, 1911
• Larz Anderson (1866–1937)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, November 18, 1911–December 1, 1912
• Theodore Marburg (1862–1946)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, January 24, 1913–January 23, 1914
• Brand Whitlock (1869–1934)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, February 14, 1914–October 3, 1919
• Brand Whitlock (1869–1934)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 3, 1919–December 1, 1921
• Henry Prather Fletcher (1873–1959)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 3, 1922–March 25, 1924
• William Phillips (1878–1968)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 5, 1924–March 1, 1927
• Hugh Simons Gibson (1883–1954)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 9, 1927–June 11, 1933
• Dave Hennen Morris (1872–1944)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 6, 1933–May 5, 1937
• Hugh Simons Gibson (1883–1954)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 28, 1937–June 15, 1938
• Joseph Edward Davies (1876–1958)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 20, 1938–November 30, 1939
• John Clarence Cudahy (1887–1943)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, January 17, 1940–May 16, 1940
• Rudolf Emil Schoenfeld (1895–1981)
  • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, November 1, 1940–
• Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. (1896–1961)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 24, 1941–December 1, 1943
• Rudolf Emil Schoenfeld (1895–1981)
  • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, –September 8, 1944
• Ernest de Wael Mayer (1903–1968)
  • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, September 14, 1944–
• Charles Sawyer (1887–1979)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 8, 1944–November 20, 1945
• Alan Goodrich Kirk (1888–1963)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 1, 1946–May 6, 1949
• Robert Daniel Murphy (1894–1978)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 29, 1949–March 19, 1952
• Myron Melvin Cowen (1898–1965)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 11, 1952–June 8, 1953
• Frederick Moulton Alger Jr. (1907–1967)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 22, 1953–March 27, 1957
• John Clifford Folger (1896–1981)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 24, 1957–September 11, 1959
• William Armistead Moale Burden (1906–1984)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 26, 1959–February 28, 1961
• Douglas MacArthur II (1909–1997)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 9, 1961–February 11, 1965
• Ridgway Brewster Knight (1911–2001)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 24, 1965–April 16, 1969
• John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower (1922–2013)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 14, 1969–September 28, 1971
• Robert Strausz-Hupé (1903–2002)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 24, 1972–May 22, 1974
• Leonard Kimball Firestone (1907–1996)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 14, 1974–January 20, 1977
• Anne Cox Chambers (1919–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 17, 1977–January 17, 1981
• Charles H. Price II (1931–2012)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 3, 1981–November 15, 1983
• Geoffrey Swaebe (1911–1997)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 2, 1983–June 30, 1988
• Maynard Wayne Glitman (1933–2010)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 28, 1988–June 17, 1991
• Bruce S. Gelb (1927–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 9, 1991–January 20, 1993
• Alan John Blinken (1937–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 2, 1993–July 15, 1998
• Paul L. Cejas (1943–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 6, 1998–January 31, 2001
• Stephen Brauer (1945–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 12, 2001–September 17, 2003
• Tom C. Korologos (1933–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 14, 2004–February 6, 2007
• Sam Fox (1929–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 5, 2007–January 2, 2009
• Howard W. Gutman (1956–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 31, 2009–July 23, 2013
• Denise Campbell Bauer (1963–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 26, 2013–January 20, 2017
• Matthew R. Lussenhop (?–)
  • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, January 20, 2017–July 3, 2018
• Ronald J. Gidwitz (?–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 4, 2018–

Other Nominees

• William Henry Haywood Jr. (1801–1852)
  • Chargé d’Affaires: Declined appointment.
• John Jacob Seibels (1816–1865)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary: Nomination of February 25, 1856, withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.
• Henry Shelton Sanford (1823–1891)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary: Nomination of December 17, 1866, rejected by the Senate.
• Henry Shelton Sanford (1823–1891)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary: Nomination of March 8, 1867, rejected by the Senate.
• Adam Badeau (1831–1895)
  • Minister Resident: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; declined appointment.
• Henry Shelton Sanford (1823–1891)
  • Minister Resident: Not commissioned; nomination not confirmed by the Senate.
• Jeffrey A. Marcus (1945–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary: Nomination not acted upon by the Senate.
• Sam Fox (1929–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary: Nomination of January 9, 2007, was withdrawn on March 28, 2007.
• Jamie D. McCourt (?–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary: Nominated June 26, 2017, withdrawn on August 2, 2017.