The United States has maintained many high level contacts with Turkey since the 19th century.
George W. Erving (pre-1831)
David Porter (1831–1839)
David Porter (1839–1843)
Dabney Smith Carr (1843–1849)
George Perkins Marsh (1849–1853)
Carroll Spence (1853–1857)
James Williams (1858–1861)
Edward Joy Morris (1861–1870)
Wayne MacVeagh (1870–1871)
George H. Boker (1871–1875)
Horace Maynard (1875–1880)
James Longstreet (1880–1881)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Lewis Wallace (1881–1885)
Samuel S. Cox (1885–1886)
Oscar S. Straus (1887–1889)
Solomon Hirsch (1889–1892)
David P. Thompson (1892–1893)
Alexander W. Terrell (1893–1897)
James Burrill Angell (1897–1898)
Oscar S. Straus (1898–1899)
John G. A. Leishman (1899–1901)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
John G. A. Leishman (1901–1909)
Oscar S. Straus (1909–1910)
William Woodville Rockhill (1911–1913)
Henry Morgenthau, Sr. (1913–1916)
Abram I. Elkus (1916–1917)
The Ottoman Empire severed diplomatic relations with the United States on April 20, 1917, after the United States declared war against Germany on April 4, 1917. Normal diplomatic relations were reestablished with the Empire's successor state, Turkey, in 1927.
Joseph Grew (1927–1932)
Charles Hitchcock Sherrill (1932–1933)
Robert Peet Skinner (1933–1936)
John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1936–1941)
Laurence A. Steinhardt (1941–1945)
Edwin C. Wilson (1945–1948)
George Wadsworth (1948–1952)
George C. McGhee (1952–1953)
Avra M. Warren (1953–1956)
Fletcher Warren (1956–1960)
Raymond A. Hare (1960–1965)
Parker T. Hart (1965–1968)
Robert Komer (1968–1969)
William J. Handley (1969–1973)
William B. Macomber, Jr. (1973–1977)
Ronald I. Spiers (1977–1980)
James W. Spain (1980–1981)
Robert Strausz-Hupe (1981–1989)
Morton I. Abramowitz (1989–1991)
Richard Clark Barkley (1991–1994)
Marc Grossman (1994–1997)
Mark Robert Parris (1997–2000)
W. Robert Pearson (2000–2003)
Eric S. Edelman (2003–2005)
Ross Wilson (2005–2008)
James Franklin Jeffrey (2008–2010)
Francis J. Ricciardone (2011–2014)
John R. Bass (2014–)
