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The President of the United States Eugene Schuyler
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This is a list of Ambassadors of the United States to Serbia.
Some parts of today's Serbia had been under the occupation of the Ottoman Empire (from 1459 until 1804) while other parts were occupied by Habsburg Monarchy (1526–1804), Austrian Empire (1804–1867), and Austria-Hungary (1867-1918). Upon regaining its independence (partial in 1804 and full in 1878), the Serbian state strengthened and expanded and was in 1918 the driving force behind the creation of Yugoslavia (the land of South Slavs, a multi-ethnic state that over the following seven decades experienced various models of governance). In 1992 Yugoslavia disintegrated, although two of its constituent units - Serbia and Montenegro - continued in the same federal state under the same name Yugoslavia until 2003, when they re-organized into Serbia-Montenegro. After the Montenegrin independence referendum in May 2006, Serbia, as the only remaining unit in the federation, also became independent on 5 June 2006.
The United States established diplomatic relations with Serbia on November 10, 1882 when Eugene Schuyler was appointed resident U.S. Ambassador to Serbia, Romania and Greece, in Athens.
Since July 17, 1919, U.S. diplomatic missions were based in Yugoslavia and since May 1992 after the breakup of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Serbia – United States relations cooled off, were severed after the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. The U.S. Embassy formally reopened in Belgrade in May 2001.
The United States Embassy in Serbia is located in Belgrade.
Eugene Schuyler – Career FSOTitle: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: November 10, 1882
Presented credentials: Resident in Athens
Terminated mission: Left post, September 19, 1884
Walker Fearn – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: September 19, 1884
Presented credentials: September 28, 1885. Resident in Athens
Terminated mission: Left post, October 24, 1889
A. Loudon Snowden – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: October 24, 1889
Presented credentials: November 28, 1889. Resident in Athens
Terminated mission: Left post, August 25, 1892
Eben Alexander – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: August 25, 1892
Presented credentials: June 29, 1894. Resident in Athens
Terminated mission: Left post, August 10, 1897
William Woodville Rockhill – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: August 10, 1897
Presented credentials: May 7, 1898. Resident in Athens
Terminated mission: Left post, April 27, 1899
Arthur S. Hardy – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: April 27, 1899
Presented credentials: June 24, 1900. Resident in Athens
Terminated mission: Left post, March 2, 1901
Charles S. Francis – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: March 2, 1901
Presented credentials: May 13, 1901. Resident in Athens
Terminated mission: Left post, December 24, 1902
John Brinkerhoff Jackson – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: December 24, 1902
Presented credentials: October 13, 1902. Resident in Athens until 1904, Bucharest thereafter
Terminated mission: Left post, July 13, 1905
John W. Riddle – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: July 13, 1905
Presented credentials: May 7, 1906. Resident in Bucharest
Terminated mission: Left post, January 23, 1907
Horace G. Knowles – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: January 23, 1907
Presented credentials: January 16, 1907. Resident in Bucharest
Terminated mission: Left post, February 4, 1909
John R. Carter – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: February 4, 1909
Presented credentials: May 3, 1910. Resident in Bucharest
Terminated mission: Left post, October 27, 1911
John Brinkerhoff Jackson – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: October 27, 1911
Presented credentials: January 16, 1912. Resident in Bucharest
Terminated mission: Left post, October 15, 1913
Charles J. Vopicka – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: October 15, 1913
Presented credentials: December 15, 1913. Resident in Bucharest
Terminated mission: Left post, December 17, 1918
For U.S. Ambassadors between 1918 and 1992, please see United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia
Robert Rackmales – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (U.S. announced on May 21, 1992 that it did not recognize Federal Republic of Yugoslavia comprising Serbia and Montenegro)
Appointed: Interim
Presented credentials: May 1992
Terminated mission: July 1993
Rudolf V. Perina – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: Interim
Presented credentials: July 1993
Terminated mission: 1995
Lawrence E. Butler – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: Interim
Presented credentials: 1995
Terminated mission: August 2, 1996
Richard M. Miles – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: Interim
Presented credentials: August 2, 1996
Terminated mission: March 23, 1999 (NATO invasion of Yugoslavia, breakup of diplomatic relations)
William Dale Montgomery – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: Interim
Presented credentials: 2000
Terminated mission: 2002
William Dale Montgomery – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: January 4, 2002. (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia becomes Serbia-Montenegro in 2003)
Presented credentials: January 4, 2002
Terminated mission: February 29, 2004
Michael C. Polt – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: February 29, 2004
Presented credentials: May 21, 2004
Terminated mission: July 2007
Cameron Munter – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: July 26, 2007
Presented credentials: July 26, 2007
Terminated mission: January 19, 2010
Mary Burce Warlick – Career FSOTitle: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: December 24, 2009
Presented credentials: January 19, 2010
Terminated mission: September 17, 2012
Michael David Kirby – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: August 3, 2012
Presented credentials: September 19, 2012
Terminated mission: February 5, 2016
Kyle Randolph Scott – Career FSO
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointed: September 15, 2015
Presented credentials: February 5, 2016
Terminated mission:
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