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The Embassy of the United States in
La Paz , Bolivia, where the Ambassador lives
The following is a list of envoys, ministers, and ambassadors that the
United States has sent to
Bolivia . As a point of note, the first
Ambassador of the
United States to
Bolivia was
John Appleton , who served as the
charge d'Affaires from January 3, 1849, to May 4, 1849. Since September 15, 2008, there has been no official Ambassador with the office being held by a chargé d'Affaires.
List
No.
Name
[2]
Title(s)
Term start
Term finish
1
[3]
John Appleton
Chargé d'Affaires
January 3, 1849
May 4, 1849
2
[4]
[5]
Alexander Keith McClung
Chargé d'Affaires
July 3, 1850
1851
3
[6]
[7]
Horace H. Miller
Chargé d'Affaires
December 18, 1852
January 1854
4
[8]
John W. Dana
Chargé d'Affaires
Minister Resident
February 23, 1854
March 10, 1859
5
[9]
John Cotton Smith
Minister Resident
March 10, 1859
May 1, 1861
6
[10]
David K. Cartter
Minister Resident
July 28, 1861
March 10, 1863
7
[11]
Allen A. Hall
Minister Resident
September 4, 1863
May 18, 1867
8
[12]
John W. Caldwell
Minister Resident
November 2, 1868
July 25, 1869
9
[13]
Leopold Markbreit
Minister Resident
July 25, 1869
February 12, 1873
10
[14]
John T. Croxton
Minister Resident
April 9, 1873
April 16, 1874
11
[15]
Robert M. Reynolds
Minister Resident
January 30, 1875
October 11, 1876
12
[16]
Solomon Newton Pettis
Minister Resident
Consul General
June 2, 1879
October 30, 1879
13
[17]
Charles Adams
Minister Resident
Consul General
July 8, 1880
August 29, 1882
14
[18]
George Maney
Minister Resident
Consul General
November 4, 1882
June 1, 1883
15
[19]
Richard Gibbs
Minister Resident
Consul General
October 16, 1883
September 11, 1885
16
[20]
William A. Seay
Minister Resident
Consul General
September 19, 1885
April 12, 1887
17
[21]
S. S. Carlisle
Minister Resident
Consul General
January 17, 1888
December 16, 1889
18
[22]
Thomas H. Anderson
Minister Resident
Consul General
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
December 16, 1889
November 22, 1892
19
[23]
Frederic J. Grant
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
April 12, 1893
October 24, 1893
20
[24]
Thomas Moonlight
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
April 14, 1894
January 8, 1898
21
[25]
George H. Bridgman
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
July 4, 1898
January 13, 1902
22
[26]
William B. Sorsby
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
October 4, 1902
March 16, 1908
23
[27]
James F. Stutesman
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
September 8, 1908
April 15, 1910
24
[28]
Horace G. Knowles
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
December 28, 1910
August 23, 1913
25
[29]
John D. O'Rear
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
August 31, 1913
July 14, 1918
26
[30]
S. Abbot Maginnis
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
January 14, 1920
December 5, 1921
27
[31]
Jesse S. Cottrell
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
January 6, 1922
January 26, 1928
28
[32]
David E. Kaufman
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
May 30, 1928
January 10, 1929
29
[33]
Edward F. Feely
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
September 23, 1930
September 29, 1933
30
[34]
Fay A. Des Portes
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
November 15, 1933
May 1, 1936
31
[35]
Raymond Henry Norweb
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
August 10, 1936
June 15, 1937
32
[36]
Robert Granville Caldwell
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
August 21, 1937
June 23, 1939
33
[37]
Douglas Jenkins
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
October 26, 1939
October 3, 1941
34
[38]
[39]
Pierre de Lagarde Boal
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
May 23, 1942
February 5, 1944
[a]
35
[40]
Walter C. Thurston
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
November 16, 1944
January 3, 1946
36
[41]
Joseph Flack
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
July 15, 1946
May 17, 1949
37
[42]
Irving Florman
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
February 27, 1950
September 4, 1951
38
[43]
Edward J. Sparks
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
June 13, 1952
October 29, 1954
Gerald A. Drew
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
December 8, 1954
April 6, 1957
Philip Bonsal
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
May 10, 1957
February 6, 1959
Carl W. Strom
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
May 4, 1959
May 8, 1961
Ben S. Stephansky
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
June 29, 1961
October 15, 1963
Douglas Henderson
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
December 7, 1963
August 6, 1968
Raúl Héctor Castro
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
September 3, 1968
November 3, 1969
Ernest V. Siracusa
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
December 5, 1969
July 30, 1973
William Perry Stedman, Jr.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
October 3, 1973
June 23, 1977
Paul H. Boeker
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
October 26, 1977
February 17, 1980
Marvin Weissman
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
March 26, 1980
July 17, 1980
Edwin G. Corr
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
December 10, 1981
August 9, 1985
Edward Morgan Rowell
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
August 20, 1985
January 19, 1988
Robert S. Gelbard
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
October 11, 1988
July 20, 1991
Charles R. Bowers
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
August 23, 1991
October 7, 1994
Curtis Warren Kamman
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
November 16, 1994
November 26, 1997
Donna Jean Hrinak
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
January 14, 1998
July 17, 2000
Manuel Rocha
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
August 4, 2000
April 27, 2002
[44]
David N. Greenlee
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
January 17, 2003
May 10, 2006
Philip S. Goldberg
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
October 13, 2006
September 14, 2008
Krishna R. Urs
Chargé d’Affaires a.i
September 15, 2008
June 25, 2009
[45]
James Creagan
Chargé d’Affaires a.i
June 25, 2009
August 28, 2009
[46]
John S. Creamer
Chargé d’Affaires a.i
August 28, 2009
July 13, 2012
[47]
Larry L. Memmott
Chargé d’Affaires a.i
July 14, 2012
February 28, 2014
Aruna Amirthanayagam
Chargé d’Affaires a.i
February 28, 2014
June 8, 2014
[48]
Peter M. Brennan
Chargé d’Affaires
June 8, 2014
December 17, 2017
[49]
Bruce Williamson
Chargé d’Affaires
December 20, 2017
August 26, 2020
[50]
Charisse Phillips
Chargé d’Affaires
August 26, 2020
October 7, 2022
[51]
Jarahn Hillsman
Chargé d’Affaires
October 7, 2022
June 24, 2023
[52]
Marcos Mandojana
Chargé d’Affaires
June 25, 2023
July 17, 2023
[53]
Joe Tordella
Chargé d’Affaires
July 18, 2023
September 14, 2023
[54]
Debra Hevia
Chargé d’Affaires
September 14, 2023
Incumbent
See also
Notes
^ Normal relations interrupted on December 20, 1943. The new Government of Bolivia was still unrecognized by the United States when Boal left post on February 5, 1944.
References
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