United States Ambassador to the United Nations

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United States Ambassador to the United Nations, full title, Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations (also known as the U.S. Permanent Representative, or "Perm Rep", to the United Nations):

# Name Years served UN Secretary(ies)-General U.S. President(s)
1 Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. 19451946 Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Trygve Lie Harry S. Truman
2 Herschel V. Johnson
(acting)
19461947 Trygve Lie Harry S. Truman
3 Warren R. Austin 19471953 Trygve Lie, Dag Hammarskjöld Harry S. Truman
4 Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. 19531960 Dag Hammarskjöld Dwight D. Eisenhower
5 James J. Wadsworth 19601961 Dag Hammarskjöld Dwight D. Eisenhower
6 Adlai Stevenson 19611965 Dag Hammarskjöld, U Thant John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
7 Arthur J. Goldberg 19651968 U Thant Lyndon B. Johnson
8 George W. Ball 1968 U Thant Lyndon B. Johnson
9 James Russell Wiggins 19681969 U Thant Lyndon B. Johnson
10 Charles W. Yost 19691971 U Thant Richard Nixon
11 George H. W. Bush 19711973 U Thant, Kurt Waldheim Richard Nixon
12 John A. Scali 19731975 Kurt Waldheim Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
13 Daniel Patrick Moynihan 19751976 Kurt Waldheim Gerald Ford
14 William Scranton 19761977 Kurt Waldheim Gerald Ford
15 Andrew Young 19771979 Kurt Waldheim Jimmy Carter
16 Donald McHenry 19791981 Kurt Waldheim Jimmy Carter
17 Jeane Kirkpatrick 19811985 Kurt Waldheim, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar Ronald Reagan
18 Vernon A. Walters 19851989 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar Ronald Reagan
19 Thomas R. Pickering 19891992 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Boutros Boutros-Ghali George H. W. Bush
20 Edward J. Perkins 19921993 Boutros Boutros-Ghali George H. W. Bush
21 Madeleine Albright 19931997 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Kofi Annan Bill Clinton
22 Bill Richardson 19971998 Kofi Annan Bill Clinton
23 Albert Peter Burleigh
(acting)
19981999 Kofi Annan Bill Clinton
24 Richard Holbrooke 19992001 Kofi Annan Bill Clinton
25 James B. Cunningham
(acting)
2001 Kofi Annan George W. Bush
26 John D. Negroponte 20012004 Kofi Annan George W. Bush
27 John Danforth 20042005 Kofi Annan George W. Bush
28 Anne W. Patterson
(acting)
2005 Kofi Annan George W. Bush
29 John R. Bolton 2005–Present
(recess appointment
to expire January 2007)
Kofi Annan George W. Bush

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