Chiefs of Mission for Canada

Chiefs of Mission

• William Phillips (1878–1968)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, June 1, 1927–December 14, 1929
• Hanford MacNider (1889–1968)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, August 29, 1930–August 15, 1932
• Warren Delano Robbins (1885–1935)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, May 16, 1933–March 28, 1935
• Norman Armour (1887–1982)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, August 7, 1935–January 15, 1938
• Daniel Calhoun Roper (1867–1943)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, May 19, 1939–August 20, 1939
• James Henry Roberts Cromwell (1898–1990)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, January 24, 1940–May 16, 1940
• Jay Pierrepont Moffat (1896–1943)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, June 13, 1940–January 24, 1943
• Ray Atherton (1883–1960)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, August 3, 1943–November 19, 1943
• Ray Atherton (1883–1960)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 19, 1943–August 30, 1948
• Laurence Adolph Steinhardt (1892–1950)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 1, 1948–March 28, 1950
• Stanley Woodward (1899–1992)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 22, 1950–January 14, 1953
• R. Douglas Stuart (1886–1975)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 15, 1953–May 4, 1956
• Livingston Tallmadge Merchant (1903–1976)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 23, 1956–November 6, 1958
• Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth (1891–1960)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 15, 1958–October 19, 1960
• Livingston Tallmadge Merchant (1903–1976)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 15, 1961–May 26, 1962
• William Walton Butterworth (1903–1975)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 11, 1962–September 10, 1968
• Harold Francis Linder (1900–1981)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 10, 1968–July 9, 1969
• Adolph William Schmidt (1904–2000)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 11, 1969–January 29, 1974
• William James Porter (1914–1988)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 13, 1974–December 16, 1975
• Thomas Ostrom Enders (1931–1996)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 17, 1976–September 14, 1979
• Kenneth Merwin Curtis (1931–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 5, 1979–January 20, 1981
• Paul Heron Robinson Jr. (1930–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 15, 1981–September 9, 1985
• Thomas Michael Tolliver Niles (1939–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 10, 1985–June 28, 1989
• Edward Noonan Ney (1925–2014)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 30, 1989–June 29, 1992
• Peter Barry Teeley (1940–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 3, 1992–February 19, 1993
• James J. Blanchard (1942–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 19, 1993–March 29, 1996
• James Donald Walsh (1946–)
  • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, March 1996–May 1997
• Gordon D. Giffen (1949–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 17, 1997–March 1, 2001
• Argeo Paul Cellucci (1948–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 17, 2001–March 18, 2005
• David Horton Wilkins (1946–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 24, 2005–January 20, 2009
• David C. Jacobson (1951–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 2, 2009–July 10, 2013
• Bruce Alan Heyman (1958–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 8, 2014–January 18, 2017
• Kelly Knight Craft (?–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 23, 2017–August 23, 2019

Other Nominees

• Nathan William MacChesney (1878–1954)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary: Not commissioned; nomination not confirmed by the Senate.