The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Nicaragua. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
| Ambassador of the United States to Nicaragua | |
|---|---|
 Seal of the United States Department of State | |
Incumbent since June 28, 2023Kevin O'Reilly Chargé d'Affairs ad interim | |
| Nominator | The President of the United States |
| Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
| Inaugural holder | John B. Kerr as Chargé d'Affaires |
| Formation | February 18, 1851 |
| Website | Ambassador to Nicaragua |
Ambassadors
edit| Representative | Title | Presentation of credentials |
Termination of mission |
Appointed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John B. Kerr | Chargé d'Affaires | February 18, 1851 | June 1, 1853 | Millard Fillmore |
| Solon Borland[1] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 18, 1853 | April 17, 1854 | Franklin Pierce |
| John H. Wheeler | Minister Resident | April 7, 1855 | October 23, 1856 | |
| Mirabeau B. Lamar[2] | Minister Resident | February 8, 1858 | May 20, 1859 | James Buchanan |
| Alexander Dimitry[3] | Minister Resident | December 7, 1859 | April 27, 1861 | |
| Andrew B. Dickinson | Minister Resident | July 11, 1861 | January 15, 1863 | Abraham Lincoln |
| Thomas H. Clay | Minister Resident | January 15, 1863 | May 31, 1863 | |
| Andrew B. Dickinson | Minister Resident and Extraordinary | May 31, 1863 | July 29, 1869 | |
| Charles N. Riotte | Minister Resident | July 29, 1869 | January 15, 1873 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| George Williamson[4] | Minister Resident | November 1, 1873 | January 31, 1879 | |
| Cornelius A. Logan[4] | Minister Resident | July 30, 1879 | April 15, 1882 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Henry C. Hall[4] | Minister Resident | August 12, 1882 | November 2, 1882 | Chester A. Arthur |
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 2, 1882 | May 23, 1889 | ||
| Lansing B. Mizner[4] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 7, 1889 | December 31, 1890 | Benjamin Harrison |
| Romualdo Pacheco[4] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 21, 1891 | October 13, 1891 | |
| Richard Cutts Shannon[5] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 13, 1891 | April 30, 1893 | |
| Lewis Baker[5] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 13, 1893 | December 9, 1897 | Grover Cleveland |
| William L. Merry[6] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 1, 1899 | August 24, 1908 | William McKinley |
| John Gardner Coolidge | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 24, 1908 | November 21, 1908 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| John H. Gregory, Jr. | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | November 21, 1908 | March 12, 1909 | |
| Elliott Northcott | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 21, 1911 | June 23, 1911 | William H. Taft |
| George T. Weitzel | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 22, 1912 | April 19, 1913 | |
| Benjamin L. Jefferson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 5, 1913 | October 24, 1921 | Woodrow Wilson |
| John E. Ramer | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 30, 1921 | April 5, 1925 | Warren G. Harding |
| Charles C. Eberhardt | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 7, 1925 | May 10, 1929 | Calvin Coolidge |
| Matthew E. Hanna | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 11, 1930 | September 6, 1933 | Herbert Hoover |
| Arthur Bliss Lane | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 7, 1933 | March 14, 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Boaz W. Long | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 19, 1936 | April 1, 1938 | |
| Meredith Nicholson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 9, 1938 | February 27, 1941 | |
| Pierre de Lagarde Boal | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 24, 1941 | March 5, 1942 | |
| James B. Stewart | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 12, 1942 | April 14, 1943 | |
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 14, 1943 | January 4, 1945 | ||
| Fletcher Warren | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 9, 1945 | May 4, 1947 | Harry S. Truman |
| George P. Shaw | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 1, 1948 | June 8, 1949 | |
| Capus M. Waynick | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 12, 1949 | July 22, 1951 | |
| Thomas E. Whelan | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 3, 1951 | March 22, 1961 | |
| Aaron S. Brown | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 21, 1961 | May 3, 1967 | John F. Kennedy |
| Kennedy M. Crockett | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 21, 1967 | April 19, 1970 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Turner B. Shelton | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 20, 1970 | August 11, 1975 | Richard Nixon |
| James D. Theberge | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 11, 1975 | June 8, 1977 | Gerald Ford |
| Mauricio Solaún | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 30, 1977 | February 26, 1979 | Jimmy Carter |
| Lawrence A. Pezzullo | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 31, 1979 | August 18, 1981 | |
| Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 26, 1982 | May 6, 1984 | Ronald Reagan |
| Harry E. Bergold, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 31, 1984 | July 1, 1987 | |
| Richard Huntington Melton | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 4, 1988 | July 12, 1988[7] | |
| Jack Leonard | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | July 11, 1988 | June 21, 1990 | |
| Harry W. Shlaudeman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 21, 1990 | March 14, 1992 | George H. W. Bush |
| Ron Godard | Chargé d’Affaires a.i. | March 14, 1992 | September 8, 1993 | |
| John Francis Maisto | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 8, 1993 | November 15, 1996 | Bill Clinton |
| Lino Gutierrez | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 5, 1996 | July 21, 1999 | |
| Oliver P. Garza | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 24, 1999 | August 30, 2002 | |
| Barbara C. Moore | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 13, 2002 | July 15, 2005 | George W. Bush |
| Paul A. Trivelli | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 9, 2005 | August 6, 2008[8] | |
| Robert J. Callahan | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 27, 2008 | July 19, 2011[9] | |
| Robert R. Downes | Chargé d’Affaires a.i. | July 19, 2011 | March 2012 | Barack Obama |
| Phyllis M. Powers[10] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 5, 2012 | August 5, 2015 | |
| Laura Farnsworth Dogu[10] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 6, 2015 | October 30, 2018 | |
| Kevin K. Sullivan[11] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 14, 2018 | May 19, 2023[12] | Donald Trump |
| Carla Fleharty | Chargé d’Affaires a.i. | May 20, 2023 | June 28, 2023 | Joe Biden |
| Kevin O'Reilly | Chargé d’Affaires a.i. | June 28, 2023[13] | Present | Joe Biden |
Notes
edit- ^ Commissioned to Central America; resident at Managua.
- ^ Also accredited to Costa Rica; resident at Managua.
- ^ Also accredited to Costa Rica; resident partly at Managua and partly at San José. ALEXANDER DIMITRY, Minister to Nicaragua and Costa Rica, has been recalled, although no successor bas been named. It is becoming a disgrace to the late Administration that this step was not taken long ago. Let us hope that Mr. LINCOLN will send sober men and anti-filibusters to represent the United States in all the Spanish-American countries. The New York Times, March 20, 1861, [1]
- ^ a b c d e Commissioned to "the Central American States" but accredited individually to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua; resident at Guatemala.
- ^ a b Also accredited to El Salvador and Costa Rica; resident at Managua.
- ^ Originally accredited to Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua; after December 12, 1907, only to Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Resident at San José.
- ^ Ambassador Melton and seven other members of the American embassy were expelled by the Government of Nicaragua on July 11, 1988 because of United States support of the opposition to the Sandinista government. – "Nicaragua". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
- ^ "Paul A. Trivelli - People - Department History - Office of the Historian".
- ^ "Robert J. Callahan - People - Department History - Office of the Historian".
- ^ a b "Ambassador - U.S. Embassy Managua, Nicaragua". Archived from the original on September 23, 2006. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
- ^ "Ambassador Kevin K. Sullivan". State Department. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- ^ "Technical Difficulties". May 2, 2023.
- ^ "U.S. Embassy Managua Welcomes Kevin M. O'Reilly as Chargé d'Affaires". June 28, 2023.
