List of ambassadors of the United States to Honduras
The following is a list of United States Ambassadors, or other Chiefs of Mission, to Honduras. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
Representative | Title | Presentation of Credentials | Termination of Mission | Appointed by |
Solon Borland | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 17, 1854 | Franklin Pierce | |
Beverly L. Clarke | Minister Resident | August 10, 1858 | March 17, 1860 | James Buchanan |
James R. Partridge | Minister Resident | April 25, 1862 | November 14, 1862 | Abraham Lincoln |
Thomas H. Clay | Minister Resident | April 5, 1864 | August 10, 1866 | Abraham Lincoln |
Richard H. Rousseau | Minister Resident | October 10, 1866 | August 10, 1869 | Andrew Johnson |
Henry Baxter | Minister Resident | August 10, 1869 | June 30, 1873 | Ulysses S. Grant |
George Williamson | Minister Resident | February 19, 1874 | January 31, 1879 | Ulysses S. Grant |
Cornelius A. Logan | Minister Resident | October 10, 1879 | April 15, 1882 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
Henry C. Hall | Minister Resident | April 21, 1882 | September 26, 1882 | Chester A. Arthur |
Henry C. Hall | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 26, 1882 | May 16, 1889 | Chester A. Arthur |
Lansing B. Mizner | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 30, 1889 | December 31, 1890 | Benjamin Harrison |
Romualdo Pacheco | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | April 17, 1891 | June 12, 1893 | Benjamin Harrison |
Pierce M. B. Young | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 12, 1893 | May 23, 1896 | Grover Cleveland |
Macgrane Coxe | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 30, 1897 | Grover Cleveland | |
W. Godfrey Hunter | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 19, 1899 | February 2, 1903 | William McKinley |
Leslie Combs | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 22, 1903 | February 27, 1907 | Theodore Roosevelt |
Joseph W. J. Lee | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 1, 1907 | Theodore Roosevelt | |
Henry Percival Dodge | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 17, 1908 | February 6, 1909 | Theodore Roosevelt |
Philip Marshall Brown | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | February 21, 1909 | February 26, 1910 | Theodore Roosevelt |
Fenton R. McCreery | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 10, 1910 | July 2, 1911 | William H. Taft |
Charles Dunning White | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 9, 1911 | November 4, 1913 | William H. Taft |
John Ewing | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 26, 1913 | January 18, 1918 | Woodrow Wilson |
T. Sambola Jones | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 2, 1918 | October 17, 1919 | Woodrow Wilson |
Franklin E. Morales | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 18, 1922 | March 2, 1925 | Warren G. Harding |
George T. Summerlin | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 21, 1925 | December 17, 1929 | Calvin Coolidge |
Julius Gareché Lay | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 31, 1930 | March 17, 1935 | Herbert Hoover |
Leo J. Keena | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 19, 1935 | May 1, 1937 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
John Draper Erwin | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 8, 1937 | April 27, 1943 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
John Draper Erwin | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 27, 1943 | April 16, 1947 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Paul C. Daniels | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 23, 1947 | October 30, 1947 | Harry S. Truman |
Herbert S. Bursley | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 15, 1948 | December 12, 1950 | Harry S. Truman |
John Draper Erwin | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 14, 1951 | February 28, 1954 | Harry S. Truman |
Whiting Willauer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 5, 1954 | March 24, 1958 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Robert Newbegin | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 30, 1958 | August 3, 1960 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Charles R. Burrows | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 3, 1960 | June 28, 1965 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Joseph J. Jova | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 12, 1965 | June 21, 1969 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
Hewson A. Ryan | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 5, 1969 | May 30, 1973 | Richard Nixon |
Phillip V. Sanchez | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 15, 1973 | July 17, 1976 | Richard Nixon |
Ralph E. Becker | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 27, 1976 | August 1, 1977 | Gerald Ford |
Mari-Luci Jaramillo | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 27, 1977 | September 19, 1980 | Jimmy Carter |
Jack R. Binns | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 10, 1980 | October 31, 1981 | Jimmy Carter |
John D. Negroponte | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 11, 1981 | May 30, 1985 | Ronald Reagan |
John Arthur Ferch | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 22, 1985 | July 9, 1986 | Ronald Reagan |
Everett Ellis Briggs | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 4, 1986 | June 15, 1989 | Ronald Reagan |
Cresencio S. Arcos, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 29, 1990 | July 1, 1993 | George H. W. Bush |
William Thornton Pryce | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 21, 1993 | August 15, 1996 | Bill Clinton |
James F. Creagan | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 29, 1996 | July 20, 1999 | Bill Clinton |
Frank Almaguer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 25, 1999 | September 5, 2002 | Bill Clinton |
Larry Leon Palmer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 8, 2002 | May 7, 2005 | George W. Bush |
Charles A. Ford | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 8, 2005 | March 18, 2008 | George W. Bush |
Hugo Llorens | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 19, 2008 | July 3, 2011 | George W. Bush |
Lisa Kubiske | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 26, 2011 | July 14, 2014 | Barack Obama |
James D. Nealon | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 15, 2014 | June 11, 2017 | Barack Obama |
Heide B. Fulton | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | June 11, 2017 | August 30, 2019 | Donald Trump |
Colleen A. Hoey | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | August 30, 2019 | present | Donald Trump |