The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to El Salvador. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
Chiefs of mission Representative Title Presentationof credentials Terminationof mission Appointed by James R. Partridge Minister Resident June 15, 1863 March 22, 1866 Abraham Lincoln Alpheus Starkey Williams Minister Resident January 21, 1867 October 27, 1869 Andrew Johnson Alfred T. A. Torbert Minister Resident October 27, 1869 May 10, 1871 Ulysses S. Grant Thomas Biddle Minister Resident December 5, 1871 June 30, 1873 George Williamson Minister Resident October 18, 1873 before July 7, 1879 Cornelius A. Logan Minister Resident July 7, 1879 on or soon after April 15, 1882 Rutherford B. Hayes Henry C. Hall Minister Resident August 7, 1882 May 2, 1883 Chester A. Arthur Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 2, 1883 on or shortly before May 16, 1889 Lansing B. Mizner Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary April 7–April 12, 1890 December 31, 1890 Benjamin Harrison Romualdo Pacheco Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary March 28, 1891 November 14, 1891 Richard Cutts Shannon Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 14, 1891 April 30, 1893 Lewis Baker Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 20, 1893 December 9, 1897 Grover Cleveland William L. Merry Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary April 3, 1899 December 31, 1907 William McKinley Henry Percival Dodge Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary July 1, 1908 February 6, 1909 Theodore Roosevelt William Heimke Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary October 18, 1909 March 16, 1914 William Howard Taft Boaz W. Long Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary October 14, 1914 November 7, 1917 Woodrow Wilson Frank D. Arnold Chargé d'Affaires ad interim July 1918 February 10, 1921 Peter Augustus Jay Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary February 10, 1921 April 28, 1921 Montgomery Schuyler, Jr. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary July 12, 1921 April 22, 1925 Warren G. Harding Jefferson Caffery Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary July 20, 1926 July 22, 1928 Calvin Coolidge Warren D. Robbins Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary February 27, 1929 April 30, 1931 Herbert Hoover Charles B. Curtis Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 6, 1931 January 10, 1932Normal relations interrupted, December 4, 1931 Frank P. Corrigan Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary April 30, 1934 August 28, 1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt Robert Frazer Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary December 6, 1937 October 31, 1942 Walter C. Thurston Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary January 14, 1943 April 16, 1943 Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary April 16, 1943 October 14, 1944 John F. Simmons Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary February 21, 1945 July 1, 1947 Albert F. Nufer Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 13, 1947 July 16, 1949 Harry S. Truman George P. Shaw Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 23, 1949 April 25, 1952 Angier Biddle Duke Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary June 5, 1952 May 21, 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower Michael J. McDermott Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary June 25, 1953 September 28, 1954 Robert C. Hill Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 4, 1954 September 21, 1955 Thomas C. Mann Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 24, 1955 September 24, 1957 Thorsten V. Kalijarvi Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary December 6, 1957 December 18, 1960 Murat W. Williams Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary February 21, 1961 July 4, 1964 John F. Kennedy Raúl H. Castro Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary December 11, 1964 July 17, 1968 Lyndon B. Johnson William G. Bowdler Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 15, 1968 September 2, 1971 Richard Nixon Henry E. Catto, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary October 21, 1971 September 2, 1973 James F. Campbell Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary April 5, 1974 July 23, 1976 Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 31, 1976 June 1, 1977 Gerald Ford Frank J. Devine Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 1, 1977 February 15, 1980 Jimmy Carter Robert E. White Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary March 11, 1980 February 1, 1981 Deane R. Hinton Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 28, 1981 July 15, 1983 Ronald Reagan Thomas R. Pickering Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 5, 1983 June 7, 1985 Edwin G. Corr Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 29, 1985 August 10, 1988 William Graham Walker Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 30, 1988 February 21, 1992 Peter F. Romero Chargé d'Affaires ad interim February 21, 1992 July 1992 George H. W. Bush Gwen C. Clare Chargé d'Affaires ad interim July 1992 September 20, 1993 Alan H. Flanigan Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 20, 1993 July 9, 1996 Bill Clinton Anne W. Patterson Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 16, 1997 July 15, 2000 Rose M. Likins Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 23, 2000 June 16, 2003 Philip C. French Chargé d'Affaires ad interim June 13, 2003 December 13, 2003 George W. Bush H. Douglas Barclay Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary December 13, 2003 July 23, 2006 Charles L. Glazer Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary December 5, 2006 January 20, 2009 Robert I. Blau Chargé d'Affaires ad interim January 20, 2009 September 22, 2010 Barack Obama Mari Carmen Aponte Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 22, 2010 January 2, 2011 Sean Murphy Chargé d'Affaires ad interim January 2, 2011 August 21, 2012, Mari Carmen Aponte Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary August 21, 2012 February 7, 2016 Jean Elizabeth Manes Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary March 30, 2016 July 31, 2019 Ronald D. Johnson Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 6, 2019 January 20, 2021 Donald Trump Brendan O'Brien Chargé d'Affaires ad interim January 20, 2021 June 1, 2021 Joe Biden Jean Elizabeth Manes Chargé d'Affaires ad interim June 1, 2021 November 22, 2021 Brendan O'Brien Chargé d'Affaires ad interim November 22, 2021 June 3, 2022 Patrick Ventrell Chargé d'Affaires ad interim June 3, 2022 June 27, 2022 Matthew Rees Chargé d'Affaires ad interim June 27, 2022 August 11, 2022 Katherine Dueholm Chargé d'Affaires ad interim August 11, 2022 February 2, 2023 William H. Duncan Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary February 2, 2023 July 31, 2025 Elizabeth Hoffman Franolich Chargé d'Affaires ad interim July 31, 2025 August 14, 2025 Donald Trump Naomi Fellows Chargé d'Affaires ad interim August 14, 2025 Incumbent
See also El Salvador – United States relations Foreign relations of El Salvador Ambassadors of the United States
References
United States Department of State: Background notes on El Salvador
External links United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for El Salvador United States Department of State: El Salvador United States Embassy in San Salvador