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Jay Pierrepont Moffat (7 Janurary 1896 in Rye, New York– ?? 1943 Ottawa, Canada) was an American diplomat, historian and statesman who served in a variety of posts and who was the from United States Ambassador to Canada from 1940-1943 after the brief (142 days) appointment of James H. R. Cromwell. He died in office and was succeeded by Ray Atherton. Moffat was a professional diplomat who had previously served as the private secretary to the American Ambassador to the Netherlands (1917-1919), secretary of the American legation in Poland from 1919 until 1921, as secretary to the American legation in Switzerland from 1927 until 1931,, from 1935 until 1937 as the U.S. consul general to Australia and as the Chief of the Western European department of the State Department. From 1940 until his death in 1943, he served as the U.S. ambassador to Canada. In addition to his work as a diplomat, he wrote a work on Turkish history, and his papers are in the Harvard University Library
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