United States Ambassador to China

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The Ambassador to China is the chief American diplomat to China.

1 List of Ambassadors
2 Notes
3 Reference

[edit] List of Ambassadors

[edit] Ambassadors to China (1844–1949)

Name	Home State	Appointed	Terminated
Caleb Cushing	Massachusetts	May 8, 1843	August 27, 1844
Alexander Everett	Massachusetts	March 13, 1845	June 28, 1847
John W. Davis	Indiana	January 3, 1848	May 25, 1850
Humphrey Marshall	Kentucky	August 4, 1852	January 27, 1854
Robert Milligan McLane	Maryland	October 18, 1853	December 12, 1854
Peter Parker	Massachusetts	August 16, 1855	August 25, 1857
William B. Reed	Pennsylvania	April 18, 1857	November 11, 1858
John E. Ward	Georgia	December 15, 1858	December 15, 1860
Anson Burlingame	Massachusetts	June 14, 1861	November 21, 1867
Ross Browne	California	March 11, 1868	July 5, 1869
Frederick F. Low	California	September 28, 1869	July 24, 1873
Benjamin Avery	California	April 10, 1874	November 8, 1875
George Seward	California	January 7, 1876	August 16, 1880
James B. Angell	Michigan	April 9, 1880	October 4, 1881
John Russell Young	New York	March 15, 1882	April 7, 1885
Charles Denby	Indiana	May 29, 1885	July 8, 1898
Edwin Conger	Iowa	July 8, 1898	April 4, 1905
William Rockhill	District of Columbia	March 8, 1905	June 1, 1909
William James Calhoun	Illinois	December 21, 1909	February 16, 1913^[1]
Paul Reinsch	Wisconsin	August 15, 1913	September 15, 1919
Charles R. Crane	Illinois	March 22, 1920	July 2, 1921
Jacob Gould Schuman	New York	June 2, 1921	April 15, 1925
John MacMurray	New Jersey	April 9, 1925	November 22, 1929
Nelson T. Johnson	Oklahoma	December 16, 1929	May 14, 1941
Clarence E. Gauss	Connecticut	February 11, 1941	November 14, 1944
Patrick J. Hurley	Oklahoma	November 30, 1944	September 22, 1945
John Leighton Stuart	New York	July 12, 1946	August 2, 1949

[edit] Ambassadors to the Republic of China (1953–1979)

The United States did not recognize the new communist government on the mainland of China. Therefore, the Ambassador to China maintained residence at Taipei, Taiwan in the Republic of China.

Name	Home State	Appointed	Terminated
Karl Rankin	Maine	February 27, 1953	December 30, 1957
Everett Drumright	Oklahoma	February 17, 1958	March 8, 1962
Alan G. Kirk	New York	June 7, 1962	January 18, 1963
Jerauld Wright	District of Columbia	May 3, 1963	July 25, 1965
Walter McConaughy	Alabama	June 16, 1966	April 4, 1974
Leonard Unger	Maryland	March 14, 1974	January 19, 1979

[edit] Ambassadors/Liaisons to the People's Republic of China (1973–)

Between May 1973 and March 1979, the United States dispatched a Liaison to the People's Republic of China.

The United States established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, and terminated them with the Republic of China, on January 1, 1979. The American Embassy at Taipei closed February 28, 1979, while the American Liaison Office at Beijing was redesignated the American Embassy on March 1, 1979.

Name	Home State	Appointed	Terminated
David K. E. Bruce (liaison)	Virginia	March 15, 1973	September 25, 1974
George H. W. Bush (liaison)	Texas	September 26, 1974	December 7, 1975
Thomas S. Gates, Jr. (liaison)	Pennsylvania	April 14, 1976	March 1, 1979
Leonard Woodcock	Michigan	February 27, 1979	February 13, 1981
Arthur Hummel	Maryland	July 30, 1981	September 24, 1985
Winston Lord	New York	November 6, 1985	April 23, 1989
James Lilley	Maryland	April 20, 1989	May 10, 1991
J. Stapleton Roy	Pennsylvania	July 2, 1991	June 17, 1995
Jim Sasser	Tennessee	February 14, 1996	July 1, 1999
Joseph Prueher	Tennessee	November 16, 1999	May 1, 2001
Clark T. Randt, Jr.	Connecticut	July 12, 2001