List of ambassadors of Bulgaria to the United States

The Bulgarian Ambassador to the United States is the official representative of the Government of Bulgaria to the Government of the United States in Washington, D.C. Diplomatic relations between the two countries were established in 1903.^[2]

Ambassador of Bulgaria to the United States Embassy of Bulgaria in Washington, D.C.
Incumbent Tihomir Stoytchev[1] since August 10, 2010
Inaugural holder	Stefan Panaretov
Formation	December 22, 1914

List of representatives

Diplomatic Agreement	Diplomatic Accreditation	Ambassador	Observations	Prime Minister of Bulgaria	List of presidents of the United States	Term end
December 22, 1914			Legation opened	Vasil Radoslavov	Woodrow Wilson
December 22, 1914		Stefan Panaretov		Vasil Radoslavov	Woodrow Wilson
December 16, 1920		Paul Lessinoff	Chargé d'affaires	Aleksandar Stamboliyski	Woodrow Wilson
August 24, 1921		Stefan Panaretov		Aleksandar Stamboliyski	Warren G. Harding
August 5, 1922		Paul Lessinoff[3]	Chargé d'affaires	Aleksandar Stamboliyski	Warren G. Harding
June 1, 1925		Stephen P. Bisseroff	Chargé d'affaires	Aleksandar Stamboliyski	Calvin Coolidge
December 17, 1925		Simeon Radev		Aleksandar Stamboliyski	Calvin Coolidge
October 20, 1933		Stoyan Petroff Tchomakoff	Chargé d'affaires	Nikola Mushanov	Franklin D. Roosevelt
May 1, 1936		Dimitri Naoumoff	[4]	Andrey Toshev	Franklin D. Roosevelt
December 13, 1941			Announcement of State of War	Georgi Kyoseivanov	Franklin D. Roosevelt
November 21, 1947			Legation re-opened as People's Republic of Bulgaria	Georgi Dimitrov	Harry S. Truman
November 21, 1947		Boyan Athanassov	Chargé d'affaires[5]	Georgi Dimitrov	Harry S. Truman
December 16, 1947	December 29, 1947	Nissim Judasy Mevorah		Georgi Dimitrov	Harry S. Truman
December 24, 1948		Peter Voutov	Chargé d'affaires. On December 12, 1949, Voutov was informed that the United States took a serious view of the persecution of Bulgarian employees of the Legation.[6]	Georgi Dimitrov	Harry S. Truman
February 20, 1950			Severed relations	Valko Chervenkov	Harry S. Truman
December 2, 1959	January 15, 1960	Peter G. Voutov		Anton Yugov	Dwight D. Eisenhower
May 13, 1963	June 1, 1963	Lubomir Dimitrov Popov		Todor Zhivkov	Lyndon B. Johnson
August 30, 1965	September 1, 1965	Luben Guerassimov		Todor Zhivkov	Lyndon B. Johnson
November 28, 1966			Legation raised to embassy	Todor Zhivkov	Lyndon B. Johnson
December 12, 1966	December 14, 1966	Luben Guerassimov		Todor Zhivkov	Lyndon B. Johnson
October 17, 1972	December 19, 1972	Khristo Delchev Zdravchev		Stanko Todorov	Richard Nixon
October 14, 1973		Vladimir Velchev	Chargé d'affaires	Stanko Todorov	Richard Nixon
May 10, 1974	June 5, 1974	Lubomir Dimitrov Popov		Stanko Todorov	Gerald Ford
September 14, 1977		Krassin Himmirsky	Chargé d'affaires	Stanko Todorov	Jimmy Carter
February 8, 1978	February 15, 1978	Konstantin Nicolov Grigorov	[7]	Stanko Todorov	Jimmy Carter
September 17, 1980	November 24, 1980	Stoyan Iliev Zhulev	Head of Chemical Fibers and served on Committee of Light Industry (1965-1968)[8]	Stanko Todorov	Jimmy Carter
September 23, 1988	November 9, 1988	Velichko Filipov Velichkov		Georgi Atanasov	Ronald Reagan
December 18, 1990	February 19, 1991	Ognian Pishev		Andrey Lukanov	George H. W. Bush
April 1994	August 11, 1994	Snezhana Botusharova	J.D./Ph.D., Deputy Chairperson and Acting Chairperson of the National Parliament	Reneta Indzhova	Bill Clinton
September 4, 1998	September 10, 1998	Philip Dimitrov		Ivan Kostov	Bill Clinton
February 13, 2002	February 14, 2002	Elena Poptodorova		Simeon Sakskoburggotski	George W. Bush
November 5, 2008	December 3, 2008	Latchezar Petkov		Sergei Stanishev	George W. Bush
August 4, 2010	August 10, 2010	Elena Poptodorova		Boyko Borisov	Barack Obama
	June 27, 2016	Tihomir Stoytchev		Ognyan Gerdzhikov	Barack Obama

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References

1. "BG Embassy". www.bulgaria-embassy.org. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
2. "Relations". www.bulgaria-embassy.org. Archived from the original on 9 October 2006. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
3. "Constant shifts being made in diplomatic corps" (PDF). New York Tribune. 6 August 1922. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
4. Dunn, Landon Alfriend; Ryan, Timothy J. (10 August 2016). Axis Diplomats in American Custody: The Housing of Enemy Representatives and Their Exchange for American Counterparts, 1941–1945. McFarland. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-4766-2539-3.
5. Robbins, Louise (20 March 2009). The Librarian Spies: Philip and Mary Jane Keeney and Cold War Espionage: Philip and Mary Jane Keeney and Cold War Espionage. ABC-CLIO. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-56720-707-1.
6. Inter-parliamentary Bulletin: Official Publication of the Bureau of the Inter-parliamentary Union. The Bureau. 1990. p. 289.
7. Paxton, J. (15 December 2016). The Statesman's Year-Book 1982-83. Springer. p. 251. ISBN 978-0-230-27111-1.
8. Stoyan Iliev Zhulev