| Ambassador of the United States to Brazil |
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Seal of the United States Department of State |
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| Nominator | Barack Obama |
| Inaugural holder | Condy Raguet as Chargé d'Affaires |
| Formation | October 29, 1825 |
| Website | U.S. Embassy - Brasilia |
The following is a list of Ambassadors of the United States, or other chiefs of mission, to Brazil. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
| Representative | Title | Presentation of Credentials |
Termination of Mission |
Appointed by |
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| Condy Raguet | Chargé d'Affaires | October 29, 1825 | April 16, 1827 | John Quincy Adams |
| William Tudor | Chargé d'Affaires | June 25, 1828 | March 9, 1830[1] | |
| Ethan A. Brown | Chargé d'Affaires | February 18, 1831 | April 11, 1834 | Andrew Jackson |
| William Hunter | Chargé d'Affaires | January 7, 1835 | January 1, 1842 | |
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 1, 1842 | December 9, 1843 | John Tyler | |
| George H. Proffit | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 11, 1843 | August 10, 1844[2] | |
| Henry A. Wise | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 10, 1844 | August 28, 1847 | |
| David Tod | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 28, 1847 | August 9, 1851 | James K. Polk |
| Robert C. Schenck | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 9, 1851 | October 8, 1853 | Millard Fillmore |
| William Trousdale | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 8, 1853 | December 5, 1857 | Franklin Pierce |
| Richard K. Meade | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 5, 1857 | July 9, 1861 | James Buchanan |
| James Watson Webb | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 21, 1861 | May 26, 1869 | Abraham Lincoln |
| Henry T. Blow | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 28, 1869 | November 6, 1870 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| James R. Partridge | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 31, 1871 | June 11, 1877 | |
| Henry W. Hilliard | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 23, 1877 | June 15, 1881 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Thomas A. Osborn | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 17, 1881 | July 11, 1885 | James Garfield |
| Thomas J. Jarvis | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 11, 1885 | November 19, 1888 | Grover Cleveland |
| Robert Adams, Jr. | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 20, 1889 | March 1, 1890 | Benjamin Harrison |
| Edwin H. Conger | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 19, 1890 | September 9, 1893 | |
| Thomas L. Thompson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 9, 1893 | July 17, 1897 | Grover Cleveland |
| Edwin H. Conger | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | August 9, 1897 | February 6, 1898 | William McKinley |
| Charles Page Bryan | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 11, 1898 | December 3, 1902 | |
| David E. Thompson | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 1, 1903 | March 16, 1905 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 16, 1905 | November 3, 1905 | ||
| Lloyd C. Griscom | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 6, 1906 | January 2, 1907 | |
| Irving B. Dudley | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 1, 1907 | September 16, 1911 | |
| Edwin V. Morgan | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 4, 1912 | August 23, 1933 | William H. Taft |
| Hugh S. Gibson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 8, 1933 | December 3, 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Jefferson Caffery | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 17, 1937 | September 17, 1944 | |
| Adolf A. Berle, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 30, 1945 | February 27, 1946 | |
| William D. Pawley | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 13, 1946 | March 26, 1948 | Harry S. Truman |
| Herschel V. Johnson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 22, 1948 | May 27, 1953 | |
| James S. Kemper | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 18, 1953 | January 26, 1955 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| James Clement Dunn | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 11, 1955 | July 4, 1956 | |
| Ellis O. Briggs | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 24, 1956 | May 2, 1959 | |
| John M. Cabot | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 22, 1959 | August 17, 1961 | |
| Lincoln Gordon | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 19, 1961 | February 25, 1966 | John F. Kennedy |
| John W. Tuthill | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 30, 1966 | January 9, 1969 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Charles Burke Elbrick | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 14, 1969 | May 7, 1970 | Richard Nixon |
| William M. Rountree | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 16, 1970 | May 30, 1973 | |
| John Hugh Crimmins | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 13, 1973 | February 25, 1978 | |
| Robert M. Sayre | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 8, 1978 | September 19, 1981 | Jimmy Carter |
| Langhorne A. Motley | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 6, 1981 | July 6, 1983 | Ronald Reagan |
| Diego C. Asencio | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 20, 1983 | February 28, 1986 | |
| Harry W. Shlaudeman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 5, 1986 | May 14, 1989 | |
| Richard Huntington Melton | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 12, 1989 | December 16, 1993 | George H. W. Bush |
| Melvyn Levitsky | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 1, 1994 | June 17, 1998 | Bill Clinton |
| Anthony Stephen Harrington | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 8, 2000 | February 28, 2001 | |
| Cristobal R. Orozco | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | February 2001 | April 2002 | George W. Bush |
| Donna J. Hrinak | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 23, 2002 | June 26, 2004 | |
| John J. Danilovich | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 2, 2004 | November 7, 2005 | |
| Philip T. Chicola | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | November 2005 | November 2006 | |
| Clifford M. Sobel | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 7, 2006 | Unclear | |
| Thomas A. Shannon, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 24, 2009 | Current | Barack Obama |