United States Ambassador to Spain

Ambassadors

John Jay

Appointed: September 29, 1779

Title: Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials:

Terminated mission: ~May 20, 1782

William Carmichael

Appointed:

Title: Chargé d'Affaires

Presented credentials: February 20, 1783

Terminated mission: Presented recall September 5, 1794

William Short

Appointed: May 28, 1794

Title: Minister Resident

Presented credentials: September 7, 1794

Terminated mission: Left post November 1, 1795

David Humphreys

Appointed: May 20, 1796

Title: Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: September 10, 1797

Terminated mission: Probably presented recall soon after December 28, 1801

Charles Pinckney

Appointed: June 6, 1801

Title: Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: January–March 1802

Terminated mission: Presented recall October 25, 1804

James Bowdoin III

Appointed: November 22, 1804

Title:

Presented credentials:

Terminated mission:

George W. Erving

Appointed:

Title: Chargé d'Affaires

Presented credentials:

Terminated mission:

George W. Erving

Appointed: August 10, 1814

Title: Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: August 24, 1816

Terminated mission: Left post May 15, 1819

John Forsyth

Appointed: February 16, 1819

Title: Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: May 18, 1819

Terminated mission: Had farewell audience, March 2, 1823

Hugh Nelson

Appointed: January 15, 1823

Title: Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: December 4, 1823

Terminated mission: Presented recall July 10, 1825

Note: In 1825 the ministry was upgraded to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.

Alexander Hill Everett

Appointed: March 9, 1825

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: September 4, 1825

Terminated mission: Left post August 1, 1829

Cornelius P. Van Ness

Appointed: June 1, 1829

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: December 9, 1829

Terminated mission: Presented recall December 21, 1836

William T. Barry

Appointed: April 10, 1835

Title:

Presented credentials: Never; died en route to post.

Terminated mission: N/A.

John H. Eaton

Appointed: March 16, 1836

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials:

Terminated mission: Left post May 1, 1840

Aaron Vail

Appointed: May 20, 1840

Title: Chargé d'Affaires

Presented credentials: November 5, 1840

Terminated mission: Vail was superseded by Ambassador Irving, August 1, 1842.

Washington Irving

Appointed: February 10, 1842

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: August 1, 1842

Terminated mission: July 29, 1846

Romulus M. Saunders

Appointed: February 25, 1846

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: July 31, 1846

Terminated mission: Presented recall September 24, 1849

Daniel M. Barringer

Appointed: June 18, 1849

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: October 24, 1849

Terminated mission: Presented recall September 4, 1853

Pierre Soulé

Appointed: April 7, 1853

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: October 24, 1853

Terminated mission: Presented recall February 1, 1855

John C. Breckinridge

Appointed: January 16, 1855

Title:

Presented credentials:

Terminated mission:

Augustus C. Dodge

Appointed: February 9, 1855

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: June 17, 1855

Terminated mission: Presented recall March 12, 1859

William Preston

Appointed: December 15, 1858

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: March 12, 1859

Terminated mission: Presented recall May 24, 1861

Cassius M. Clay

Appointed: April 14, 1861

Title:

Presented credentials:

Terminated mission:

Carl Schurz

Appointed: March 28, 1861

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: July 13, 1861

Terminated mission: Left post December 18, 1861

Gustavus Koerner

Appointed: June 14, 1862

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: November 4, 1862

Terminated mission: Left post July 20, 1864

John P. Hale

Appointed: March 10, 1865

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: September 30, 1865

Terminated mission: Presented recall July 29, 1869

Note: President Johnson nominated the following two men for the post, but the Senate declined to consider the nominations, probably because of the president’s disputes with the Congress over other issues.

William S. Rosecrans

Henry S. Sanford

Daniel E. Sickles

Appointed: May 15, 1869

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: July 29, 1869

Terminated mission: Transmitted recall by note January 31, 1874

Caleb Cushing

Appointed: January 6, 1874

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: May 30, 1874

Terminated mission: Left post April 9, 1877

James Russell Lowell

Appointed: June 11, 1877

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: August 18, 1877

Terminated mission: Presented recall March 2, 1880

Lucius Fairchild

Appointed: January 26, 1880

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: March 31, 1880

Terminated mission: Presented recall December 20, 1881

Hannibal Hamlin

Appointed: June 30, 1881

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: December 20, 1881

Terminated mission: Left post October 17, 1882

John W. Foster

Appointed: February 27, 1883

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: June 16, 1883

Terminated mission: Presented recall August 28, 1885

Jabez L.M. Curry

Appointed: October 7, 1885

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: December 22, 1885

Terminated mission: Left post July 5, 1888

Perry Belmont

Appointed: November 17, 1888

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: February 13, 1889

Terminated mission: Left post May 1, 1889

Thomas W. Palmer

Appointed: March 12, 1889

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: June 17, 1889

Terminated mission: Left post April 19, 1890

E. Burd Grubb

Appointed: September 27, 1890

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: December 23, 1890

Terminated mission: Left post May 26, 1892

A. Loudon Snowden

Appointed: July 22, 1892

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: October 6, 1892

Terminated mission: Presented recall June 3, 1893

Hannis Taylor

Appointed: April 8, 1893

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: July 1, 1893

Terminated mission: Presented recall September 13, 1897

Stewart L. Woodford

Appointed: June 19, 1897

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: September 13, 1897

Terminated mission: Left post April 21, 1898

Bellamy Storer

Appointed: April 12, 1899

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: June 16, 1899

Terminated mission: Presented recall December 10, 1902

Arthur S. Hardy

Appointed: September 26, 1902

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: March 2, 1903

Terminated mission: Presented recall May 1, 1905

William Miller Collier

Appointed: March 8, 1905

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: May 15, 1905

Terminated mission: Superseded by Ambassador Ide on June 9, 1909

Henry Clay Ide

Appointed: April 1, 1909

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: June 9, 1909

Terminated mission: Left post July 8, 1913

Joseph Edward Willard

Appointed: July 28, 1913

Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials:

Terminated mission:

Note: In August 1913, the title of the office was changed to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. This required a new commission.

Joseph Edward Willard

Appointed: September 10, 1913

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: October 31, 1913

Terminated mission: Left post July 7, 1921

Cyrus E. Woods

Appointed: June 24, 1921

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: October 14, 1921

Terminated mission: Left post April 18, 1923

Alexander P. Moore

Appointed: March 3, 1923

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: May 16, 1923

Terminated mission: Left post December 20, 1925

Ogden H. Hammond

Appointed: December 21, 1925

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: March 26, 1926

Terminated mission: Left post October 13, 1929

Irwin B. Laughlin

Appointed: October 16, 1929

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: December 24, 1929

Terminated mission: Left post April 12, 1933

Claude G. Bowers

Appointed: April 6, 1933

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: June 1, 1933

Terminated mission: Had final interview, February 2, 1939

Alexander W. Weddell

Appointed: May 3, 1939

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: June 15, 1939

Terminated mission: Left post February 7, 1942

Carlton J. H. Hayes

Appointed: May 2, 1942

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: June 9, 1942

Terminated mission: Left Spain, January 18, 1945

Norman Armour

Appointed: December 15, 1944

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: March 24, 1945

Terminated mission: Left post December 1, 1945

Philip W. Bonsal

Appointed:

Title: Chargé d'Affaires

Presented credentials:

Terminated mission:

Paul T. Culbertson

Appointed:

Title: Chargé d'Affaires

Presented credentials:

Terminated mission:

Stanton Griffis

Appointed: February 1, 1951

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: March 1, 1951

Terminated mission: Relinquished charge January 28, 1952

Lincoln MacVeagh

Appointed: February 21, 1952

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: March 27, 1952

Terminated mission: Left post March 4, 1953

James Clement Dunn

Appointed: February 27, 1953

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: April 9, 1953

Terminated mission: Left post February 9, 1955

John Davis Lodge

Appointed: January 22, 1955

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: March 24, 1955

Terminated mission: Left post April 13, 1961

Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr.

Appointed: March 29, 1961

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: May 25, 1961

Terminated mission: Left Spain, October 12, 1961

Ellis O. Briggs

Appointed:

Title:

Presented credentials:

Terminated mission:

Robert F. Woodward

Appointed: April 7, 1962

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: May 10, 1962

Terminated mission: Left post February 1, 1965

Angier Biddle Duke

Appointed: March 11, 1965

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: April 1, 1965

Terminated mission: Left post March 30, 1968

Frank E. McKinney

Appointed: May 11, 1968

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: May 11, 1968

Terminated mission: Took oath of office, but did not proceed to post under this appointment.

Robert F. Wagner, Jr.

Appointed: June 24, 1968

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: July 4, 1968

Terminated mission: Left post March 7, 1969

Robert C. Hill

Appointed: May 1, 1969

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: June 12, 1969

Terminated mission: Left post January 12, 1972

Horacio Rivero

Appointed: September 11, 1972

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: October 11, 1972

Terminated mission: Left post November 26, 1974

Peter M. Flanigan

Appointed: Not Commissioned

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials:

Terminated mission:

Bruce Penn

Appointed: February 20, 1975

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: March 13, 1975

Terminated mission: Left post May 4, 1978

Terence A. Todman

Appointed: May 25, 1978

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: July 20, 1978

Terminated mission: Left post August 8, 1983

Thomas Ostrom Enders

Appointed: August 5, 1983

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: September 15, 1983

Terminated mission: Left post July 6, 1986

Reginald Bartholomew

Appointed: August 18, 1986

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: September 17, 1986

Terminated mission: Left post March 12, 1989

Joseph Zappala

Appointed: October 10, 1989

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: October 16, 1989

Terminated mission: Left post June 4, 1992

Richard Goodwin Capen, Jr.

Appointed: June 15, 1992

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: July 8, 1992

Terminated mission: Left post February 17, 1993

Richard N. Gardner

Appointed: September 16, 1993

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: November 4, 1993

Terminated mission: Left post July 12, 1997

Note: Beginning in 1998, The ambassador to Spain was also accredited to Andorra.

Edward L. Romero

Appointed: April 2, 1998

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: June 30, 1998

Terminated mission: May 1, 2001

George L. Argyros, Sr.

Appointed: November 21, 2001

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: December 13, 2001

Terminated mission: Left post November 21, 2004

Eduardo Aguirre

Appointed: June 21, 2005

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: June 29, 2005

Terminated mission: January 20, 2009

Alan Solomont

Appointed: December 24, 2009

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: January 9, 2010

Terminated mission: August 1, 2013

James Costos

Appointed: August 1, 2013

Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Presented credentials: September 24, 2013

Terminated mission: Incumbent