List of ambassadors of the United States to the United Nations

Ambassador to the United Nations of the United States of America
Flag of the United Nations
Incumbent Susan Rice since January 22, 2009
Appointer	President of the United States
Inaugural holder	Edward Stettinius, Jr.
Formation	1945
Website	History of USUN Ambassadors from the website of the United States Mission to the United Nations

I am a crazy tomatoe eater who love catfish from the lake in my back yard so idc what you have to say nunez your stupid The position is more formally known as the "Permanent 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"; it is also known as the U.S. Permanent Representative, or "Perm Rep", to the United Nations.

The U.S. Permanent Representative, currently Susan Rice, is charged with representing the United States on the U.N. Security Council and during all plenary meetings of the General Assembly except in the rare situation in which a more senior officer of the United States (such as the U.S. Secretary of State or the President of the United States) is present. Like all United States ambassadors, he or she must be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.

Many prominent U.S. politicians and diplomats have held the post, including Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Adlai Stevenson, George H. W. Bush, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Dr. Jeane Kirkpatrick, Richard Holbrooke, Dr. Madeleine Albright, Bill Richardson, and John Danforth.

It was a cabinet-level position under the Clinton administration and is under the Obama administration as well. It was not a cabinet-level position under the Bush administration (from 2001 to 2009).

Office-holders

The following is a chronological list of those who have held the office:

#	US Ambassador to UN	Years served	U.N. Secretary-General	U.S. President
1	Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.	1945–1946	Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Trygve Lie	Harry S. Truman
—	Herschel V. Johnson (acting)	1946–1947	Trygve Lie
2	Warren R. Austin	1947–1953	Trygve Lie, Dag Hammarskjöld
3	Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.	1953–1960	Dag Hammarskjöld	Dwight D. Eisenhower
4	James J. Wadsworth	1960–1961
5	Adlai Stevenson	1961–1965	Dag Hammarskjöld, U Thant	John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
6	Arthur J. Goldberg	1965–1968	U Thant	Lyndon B. Johnson
7	George W. Ball	1968
8	James Russell Wiggins	1968–1969
9	Charles W. Yost	1969–1971		Richard Nixon
10	George H. W. Bush	1971–1973	U Thant, Kurt Waldheim
11	John A. Scali	1973–1975	Kurt Waldheim	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
12	Daniel Patrick Moynihan	1975–1976		Gerald Ford
13	William Scranton	1976–1977
14	Andrew Young	1977–1979		Jimmy Carter
15	Donald McHenry	1979–1981
16	Jeane Kirkpatrick	1981–1985	Kurt Waldheim, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar	Ronald Reagan
17	Vernon A. Walters	1985–1989	Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
18	Thomas R. Pickering	1989–1992	Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Boutros Boutros-Ghali	George H. W. Bush
19	Edward J. Perkins	1992–1993	Boutros Boutros-Ghali
20	Madeleine Albright	1993–1997	Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Kofi Annan	Bill Clinton
21	Bill Richardson	1997–1998	Kofi Annan
—	Peter Burleigh (acting)	1998–1999
22	Richard Holbrooke	1999–2001
—	James B. Cunningham (acting)	2001		George W. Bush
23	John D. Negroponte	2001–2004
24	John Danforth	2004–2005
—	Anne W. Patterson (acting)	2005
25	John R. Bolton (interim)	2005–2006
—	Alejandro Daniel Wolff (acting)	2006–2007	Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon
26	Zalmay Khalilzad	2007–2009	Ban Ki-Moon
27	Susan Rice	2009–present		Barack Obama

External links

• United States Mission to the United Nations
• Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS)
• U.S. Department of State's listing of U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations

See also

• Diplomatic Security Service