Chiefs of Mission for Spain

Chiefs of Mission

• William Carmichael Jr. (?–1795)
  • Chargé d’Affaires, April 20, 1790–September 5, 1794
• William Short (1759–1849)
  • Minister Resident, September 7, 1794–November 1, 1795
• David Humphreys (1752–1818)
  • Minister Plenipotentiary, September 10, 1797–December 28, 1801
• Charles Pinckney (1757–1824)
  • Minister Plenipotentiary, June 6, 1801–October 25, 1804
• George William Erving (1769–1850)
  • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, October 1805–February 1810
• George William Erving (1769–1850)
  • Minister Plenipotentiary, August 24, 1816–May 15, 1819
• John Forsyth (1780–1841)
  • Minister Plenipotentiary, May 18, 1819–March 2, 1823
• Hugh Nelson (1768–1836)
  • Minister Plenipotentiary, December 4, 1823–July 10, 1825
• Alexander Hill Everett (1790–1847)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, September 4, 1825–August 1, 1829
• Cornelius Peter Van Ness (1782–1852)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, December 9, 1829–December 21, 1836
• John Henry Eaton (1790–1856)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, March 16, 1836–May 1, 1840
• Aaron Vail (1796–1878)
  • Chargé d’Affaires, November 5, 1840–August 1, 1842
• Washington Irving (1783–1859)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, August 1, 1842–July 29, 1846
• Romulus Mitchell Saunders (1791–1867)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, July 31, 1846–September 24, 1849
• Daniel Moreau Barringer (1806–1873)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, October 24, 1849–September 4, 1853
• Pierre Soule (1801–1870)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, October 24, 1853–February 1, 1855
• Augustus Caesar Dodge (1812–1883)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, June 17, 1855–March 12, 1859
• William Preston (1861–1887)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, March 12, 1859–May 24, 1861
• Carl Schurz (1829–1906)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, July 13, 1861–December 18, 1861
• Gustavus Koerner (1809–1896)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, November 4, 1862–July 20, 1864
• John Parker Hale (1806–1873)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, September 30, 1865–July 29, 1869
• Daniel Edgar Sickles (1825–1914)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, July 29, 1869–January 31, 1874
• Caleb Cushing (1800–1879)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, May 30, 1874–April 9, 1877
• James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, August 18, 1877–March 2, 1880
• Lucius Fairchild (1831–1896)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, March 31, 1880–December 20, 1881
• Hannibal Hamlin (1809–1891)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, December 20, 1881–October 17, 1882
• John Watson Foster (1836–1917)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, June 16, 1883–August 28, 1885
• Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825–1903)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, December 22, 1885–July 5, 1888
• Perry Belmont (1851–1947)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, February 13, 1889–May 1, 1889
• Thomas Witherell Palmer (1830–1913)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, June 17, 1889–April 19, 1890
• Edward Burd Grubb (1841–1917)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, December 23, 1890–May 26, 1892
• Archibald Loudon Snowden (1837–1912)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, October 6, 1892–June 3, 1893
• Hannis Taylor (1851–1922)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, July 1, 1893–September 13, 1897
• Stewart Lyndon Woodford (1835–1913)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, September 13, 1897–April 21, 1898
• Bellamy Storer (1847–1922)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, June 16, 1899–December 10, 1902
• Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1847–1930)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, March 2, 1903–May 1, 1905
• William Miller Collier (1867–1956)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, May 15, 1905–June 9, 1909
• Henry Clay Ide (1844–1921)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, June 9, 1909–July 8, 1913
• Joseph Edward Willard (1865–1924)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 31, 1913–July 7, 1921
• Cyrus E. Woods (1861–1938)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 14, 1921–April 18, 1923
• Alexander Pollock Moore (1867–1930)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 16, 1923–December 20, 1925
• Ogden Haggerty Hammond (1869–1956)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 26, 1926–October 13, 1929
• Irwin Boyle Laughlin (1871–1941)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 24, 1929–April 12, 1933
• Claude Gernade Bowers (1878–1958)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 1, 1933–February 2, 1939
• Harrison Freeman Matthews (1899–1986)
  • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, April 13, 1939–
• Alexander Wilbourne Weddell (1876–1948)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 15, 1939–February 7, 1942
• Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes (1882–1964)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 9, 1942–January 18, 1945
• Norman Armour (1887–1982)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 24, 1945–December 1, 1945
• Philip Wilson Bonsal (1903–1995)
  • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, March 1946–June 1947
• Paul Trauger Culbertson (1897–1968)
  • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, June 1947–December 1950
• Stanton Griffis (1887–1974)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 1, 1951–January 28, 1952
• Lincoln MacVeagh (1890–1972)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 27, 1952–March 4, 1953
• James Clement Dunn (1890–1979)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 9, 1953–February 9, 1955
• John Davis Lodge (1903–1985)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 24, 1955–April 13, 1961
• Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. (1896–1961)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 25, 1961–October 12, 1961
• Robert Forbes Woodward (1908–2001)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 10, 1962–February 1, 1965
• Angier Biddle Duke (1915–1995)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 1, 1965–March 30, 1968
• Robert Ferdinand Wagner Jr. (1910–1991)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 4, 1968–March 7, 1969
• Robert Charles Hill (1917–1978)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 12, 1969–January 12, 1972
• Horacio Rivero Jr. (1910–2000)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 11, 1972–November 26, 1974
• Wells Stabler (1919–2009)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 13, 1975–May 4, 1978
• Terence Alphonso Todman (1926–2014)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 20, 1978–August 8, 1983
• Thomas Ostrom Enders (1931–1996)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 15, 1983–July 6, 1986
• Reginald Bartholomew (1936–2012)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 17, 1986–March 12, 1989
• Joseph Zappala (1933–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 16, 1989–June 4, 1992
• Richard Goodwin Capen Jr. (1934–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 8, 1992–February 17, 1993
• Richard Newton Gardner (1927–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 4, 1993–July 12, 1997
• Edward L. Romero (1934–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 30, 1998–June 1, 2001
• George L. Argyros Sr. (1937–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 13, 2001–November 21, 2004
• Eduardo Aguirre (1946–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 29, 2005–January 20, 2009
• Alan D. Solomont (1949–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, January 27, 2010–June 28, 2013
• James Costos (1963–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 24, 2013–January 18, 2017
• Richard D. Buchan III (?–)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, January 18, 2018–

Other Nominees

• John Jay (1745–1829)
  • Minister Plenipotentiary: Proceeded to post, but was not formally received at court; left post about May 20, 1782.
• James Bowdoin III (1752–1811)
  • Minister Plenipotentiary: Did not proceed to post.
• William Taylor Barry (1784–1835)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary: Took oath of office, but died en route to post. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate.
• John Cabell Breckinridge (1821–1875)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary: Declined appointment.
• Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810–1903)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary: Declined appointment.
• William Starke Rosecrans (1819–1898)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary: Not commissioned; nomination tabled by the Senate.
• Henry Shelton Sanford (1823–1891)
  • Minister Resident: Not commissioned; nomination not confirmed by the Senate.
• Joseph Edward Willard (1865–1924)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary: Took oath of office, but did not proceed to post under this appointment.
• Ellis Ormsbee Briggs (1899–1976)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary: Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.
• Frank Edward McKinney (1904–1974)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary: Took oath of office, but did not proceed to post under this appointment.
• Peter Magnus Flanigan (1923–2013)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary: Not commissioned; nomination of September 17, 1974, not acted upon by the Senate.