| Ambassador |
Dates served |
| William H. Draper, Jr. |
April 8, 1953 – June 13, 1953 |
| John C. Hughes |
June 12, 1953 – April 20, 1955 |
| George W. Perkins |
March 14, 1955 – October 12, 1957 |
| W. Randolph Burgess |
September 21, 1957 – March 23, 1961 |
| Thomas K. Finletter |
March 2, 1961 – September 2, 1965 |
| Harlan Cleveland |
September 1, 1965 – June 11, 1969 |
| Robert F. Ellsworth |
May 13, 1969 – June 30, 1971 |
| David M. Kennedy |
March 17, 1972 – February 1, 1973 |
| Donald Rumsfeld |
February 2, 1973 – December 5, 1974 |
| David K. E. Bruce |
October 17, 1974 – February 12, 1976 |
| Robert Strausz-Hupé |
March 3, 1976 – April 20, 1977 |
| W. Tapley Bennett, Jr. |
April 26, 1977 – March 31, 1983 |
| David Abshire |
July 13, 1983 – January 5, 1987 |
| Alton G. Keel, Jr. |
March 13, 1987 – June 17, 1989 |
| William Howard Taft IV |
August 3, 1989 – June 26, 1992 |
| Reginald Bartholomew |
June 15, 1992 – March 25, 1993 |
| Robert E. Hunter |
July 1, 1993 – December 31, 1997 |
| Alexander Vershbow |
November 10, 1997 – July 9, 2001 |
| R. Nicholas Burns |
August 7, 2001 – March 7, 2005 |
| Victoria Nuland |
July 13, 2005 – c. July 2008 |
| Kurt Volker |
July 2, 2008 – May 15, 2009 |
| Ivo Daalder |
May 15, 2009 – Incumbent |