List of ambassadors of the United States to India
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Ambassador of the United States to India | |
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भारत के संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिकी राजदूत | |
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since December 19, 2014 | |
Nominator | Barack Obama |
Inaugural holder | George R. Merrell as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim |
Formation | November 1, 1946 |
Website | U.S. Embassy - New Delhi |
The United States Ambassador to India is the chief diplomatic representative of United States in India. The U.S. Ambassador's office is situated at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.
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Chiefs of Mission to India
U.S. Ambassadors to the Dominion of India (1947-1950)
President George Washington, on November 19, 1792, nominated Benjamin Joy of Newbury Port as the first American Consul to Kolkata and later commissioned Joy to that office on November 21, 1792.[1]
Name | State | Status | Title | Appointment | Credentials Presented |
Termination of Mission |
Notes |
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Henry F. Grady | California | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Apr 10, 1947 | Jul 1, 1947 | Left post, Jun 22, 1948 | Accredited also to Nepal; resident at New Delhi. |
Loy W. Henderson | Colorado | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Jul 14, 1948 | Nov 19, 1948 | Re-accredited when India became a republic; presented new credentials Feb 24, 1950 | Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Mar 2, 1949. Also accredited to Nepal; resident at New Delhi. |
U.S. Ambassadors to the Republic of India (1950-present)
Name | State | Status | Title | Appointment | Credentials Presented |
Termination of Mission |
Notes |
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Loy W. Henderson | Colorado | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Feb 24, 1950 | Sept 21, 1951 | Reaccredited when India became a republic; presented new credentials Feb 24, 1950; left post Sep 21, 1951; commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Mar 2, 1949. Also accredited to Nepal; resident at New Delhi. | |
Chester Bowles | Connecticut | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Oct 10, 1951 | Nov 1, 1951 | Left post, Mar 23, 1953 | Also accredited to Nepal; resident at New Delhi. |
George V. Allen | North Carolina | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Mar 11, 1953 | May 4, 1953 | Left post, Nov 30, 1954 | Also accredited to Nepal; resident at New Delhi. |
John Sherman Cooper | Kentucky | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Feb 4, 1955 | Apr 9, 1955 | Left post, Apr 23, 1956 | Also accredited to Nepal; resident at New Delhi. |
Ellsworth Bunker | Vermont | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Nov 28, 1956 | Mar 4, 1957 | Left India, Mar 23, 1961 | Also accredited to Nepal; resident at New Delhi. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Jan 25, 1957. |
John Kenneth Galbraith | Massachusetts | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Mar 29, 1961 | Apr 18, 1961 | Left post, Jul 12, 1963 | |
Chester Bowles | Connecticut | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 3, 1963 | Jul 19, 1963 | Left post, Apr 21, 1969 | |
Kenneth B. Keating | New York | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 1, 1969 | Jul 2, 1969 | Left post, Jul 26, 1972 | |
Daniel P. Moynihan | New York | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Feb 8, 1973 | Feb 28, 1973 | Left post, Jan 7, 1975 | |
William B. Saxbe | Ohio | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Feb 3, 1975 | Mar 8, 1975 | Left post, Nov 20, 1976 | |
Robert F. Goheen | New Jersey | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Apr 26, 1977 | May 26, 1977 | Left post, Dec 10, 1980 | |
Harry G. Barnes, Jr. | Maryland | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Oct 1, 1981 | Nov 17, 1981 | Left post, Jun 27, 1985 | |
John Gunther Dean | New York | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Aug 2, 1985 | Sep 6, 1985 | Left post Nov 7, 1988 | |
John R. Hubbard | California | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Nov 22, 1988 | Dec 27, 1988 | Left post Nov 15, 1989 | Commissioned during a recess of the Senate. |
William Clark, Jr. | District of Columbia | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Oct 10, 1989 | Dec 22, 1989 | Left post, Jul 2, 1992 | |
Thomas R. Pickering | New Jersey | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Apr 6, 1992 | Aug 14, 1992 | Left post, Mar 23, 1993 | Kenneth Brill served as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Mar 1993-Aug 1994. |
Frank G. Wisner | District of Columbia | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Jun 9, 1994 | Aug 2, 1994 | Left post, July 12, 1997 | |
Richard Frank Celeste | Ohio | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Nov 10, 1997 | Nov 28, 1997 | Left post Apr 25, 2001 | |
Robert Blackwill | Kansas | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Jul 12, 2001 | Sep 14, 2001 | Left post Jul 31, 2003 | |
David Campbell Mulford | Illinois | Non-career officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Dec 12, 2003 | Feb 23, 2004 | Left post February 2009 | |
Timothy J. Roemer | Indiana | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Jul 23, 2009[2] | Aug 11, 2009 | Left post June 30, 2011 | |
Albert Peter Burleigh | California | Foreign Service officer[3] | Chargé d'affaires | June 2011 | Left post 2012 | ||
Nancy Jo Powell | Iowa | Foreign Service officer | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 7, 2012 | April 19, 2012 | March 31, 2014 | |
Kathleen Stephens | Arizona | Foreign Service officer (interim) | Chargé d'affaires | May 22, 2014 | Assumed position after resignation of Nancy Jo Powell. | ||
Richard Verma | Pennsylvania | Non-career appointee | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 19, 2014 | First US Ambassador to India of Indian origin.[4] |
U.S. diplomatic terms |
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Career FSO After 1915, The United States Department of State began classifying ambassadors as career Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) for those who have served in the Foreign Service for a specified amount of time. Political appointee A person who is not a career foreign service officer, but is appointed by the president (often as a reward to political friends). Appointed The date that the ambassador took the oath of office; also known as "commissioning". It follows confirmation of a presidential appointment by the Senate, or a Congressional recess appointment by the president. In the case of a recess appointment, the ambassador requires subsequent confirmation by the Senate to remain in office. Presented credentials The date that the ambassador presented his letter of credence to the head of state or appropriate authority of the receiving nation. At this time the ambassador officially becomes the representative of his country. This would normally occur a short time after the ambassador's arrival on station. The host nation may reject the ambassador by not receiving the ambassador's letter, but this occurs only rarely. Terminated mission Usually the date that the ambassador left the country. In some cases a letter of recall is presented, ending the ambassador's commission, either as a means of diplomatic protest or because the diplomat is being reassigned elsewhere and replaced by another envoy. Chargé d'affaires The person in charge of the business of the embassy when there is no ambassador commissioned to the host country. Ad interim Latin phrase meaning "for the time being", "in the meantime". |
See also
- Embassy of India, Washington, D.C.
- India – United States relations
- Indian Ambassador to the United States
- Foreign relations of India
- Ambassadors of the United States
References
- United States Department of State: Background notes on India
This article incorporates public domain material from U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets. United States Department of State.
Sources
- Brands, H. W. Inside the Cold War: Loy Henderson and the Rise of the American Empire 1918-1961 (1991) pp 196–230; Loy Henderson was US Ambassador, 1948–51
Primary sources
- Bowles, Chester (1969). A View from New Delhi: Selected Speeches and Writings, 1963-1969. Yale U.P., US ambassador 1951-53 and 1963–69
- Galbraith, John K. Ambassador's journal: a personal account of the Kennedy years (1969) online, he was US ambassador to India 1961-63
- U.S. Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), many volumes of primary sources; the complete texts of these large books are all online. See Guide to FRUS. For example, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XI, South Asia Crisis, 1971 was published in 2005 and is online here. The most recent volumes are Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–7, Documents on South Asia, 1969–1972 (2005) online here and Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–8, Documents on South Asia, 1973–1976 (2007) online here. Included are the most important cables sent by the ambassador to Washington.
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