List of ambassadors of Brazil to the United States

The following is a list of ambassadors of Brazil, or other chiefs of mission, to the United States of America.^[1] The title given by the Ministry of External Relations of the Federative Republic of Brazil to this position is currently "Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary" (Portuguese: Embaixador Extraordinário e Plenipotenciário). There have been fifty representatives of various ranks and titles from Brazil to the United States since diplomatic relations were inaugurated in 1824 to the present.

Ambassador of Brazil to the United States
Embaixadora do Brasil nos Estados Unidos
Coat of arms of Brazil
Incumbent Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti since June 30, 2023
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Style	Madam Ambassador (informal) Her Excellency (diplomatic)
Reports to	Minister of Foreign Affairs
Seat	3006 Massachusetts Ave NW 20008 Washington, D.C.
Appointer	The President with Senate advice and consent
Term length	No fixed term
Formation	January 1, 1824
First holder	José Silvestre Rebello as Chargé d'Affaires
Website	Embassy of Brazil in Washington

The United States of America was the second country^[2] to recognize Brazil's Declaration of Independence, which was proclaimed in September 1822, by the regent, heir and crown prince to the throne of the former United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves, Dom Pedro of the House of Braganza. He soon became Emperor Pedro I (1798-1834, reigned 1822-1834), of the Empire of Brazil, which endured under his son Dom Pedro II until 1889, when the present republic and federation were established.^[3] The huge South American nation's first legation was thus established in Washington, only a quarter-century after the founding of the American national capital and federal district itself. The long Brazilian-North American diplomatic relationship and inter-continental friendship was founded on May 26, 1824,^[2] when José Silvestre Rebello presented his diplomatic accreditation credentials as first Charge d'Affaires to fifth President James Monroe (1758-1831, served 1817-1825), at the newly restored Executive Mansion, now acquiring its new nickname and title of the White House, having been burned only a decade before by the invading British. He represented the new Emperor and Empire of Brazil for over five years to August 1829.

In 1905, the United States Legation representing the U.S. Department of State and its Secretary of State in the original coastal capital city of Rio de Janeiro was raised to a full embassy under 26th President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, served 1901-1909), similar to the gradual increased status of diplomatic missions across the board in international relations in the 20th century.

Representative	Title	Presentation of credentials	Termination of mission	Appointed by
José Silvestre Rebello	Chargé d'Affaires	May 26, 1824	August 10, 1829	Emperor Pedro I
José de Araújo Ribeiro	Chargé d'Affaires	August 11, 1829	February 14, 1833
José Francisco de Paula Cavalcante de Albuquerque	Chargé d'Affaires	December 30, 1833	July 22, 1838	Emperor Pedro II
Ernesto Ferreira França	Resident Minister	July 23, 1838	October 28, 1839
Pedro Rodrigues Fernandes Chaves	Chargé d'Affaires	March 17, 1840	October 30, 1840
Gaspar José Lisboa	Resident Minister	May 29, 1841	July 8, 1847
	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Sérgio Teixeira de Macedo	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 12, 1849	July 1, 1851
Francisco Ignácio de Carvalho Moreira	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 21, 1852	July 31, 1855
José Francisco de Paula Cavalcante de Albuquerque	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 29, 1856	August 25, 1858
Miguel Maria Lisboa [es]	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 3, 1859	April 27, 1864
Joaquim Maria Nascentes de Azambuja	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 23, 1865	May 17, 1867
Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 5, 1867	October 13, 1870
Antônio Pedro de Carvalho Borges	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 9, 1871	December 7, 1880
Felippe Lopes Neto	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 24, 1882	August 14, 1883
José Gurgel do Amaral Valente	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	August 15, 1883	December 8, 1885
Marcos Antônio de Araújo e Abreu	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 9, 1885	May 16, 1888
José Gurgel do Amaral Valente	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 10, 1889	January 21, 1891
Salvador Furtado de Mendonça Drummond	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	January 22, 1891	May 17, 1898	Deodoro da Fonseca
Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 6, 1898	April 22, 1903	Prudente de Morais
Alfredo de Moraes Gomes Ferreira	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim	December 28, 1904	May 23, 1905	Rodrigues Alves
Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 24, 1905	January 17, 1910
Domicio da Gama	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 16, 1911	October 22, 1918	Hermes da Fonseca
Augusto Cochrane de Alencar	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 26, 1920	March 5, 1924	Epitácio Pessoa
Sylvio Gurgel do Amaral	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 19, 1925	April 9, 1931	Artur Bernardes
Rinaldo de Lima e Silva	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 24, 1931	May 16, 1934	Getúlio Vargas
Oswaldo Aranha	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 2, 1934	December 11, 1937
Mário Pimentel Brandão	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 28, 1938	January 3, 1939
Carlos Martins Pereira e Souza	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 8, 1939	April 20, 1948
Maurício Nabuco	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 1, 1948	October 28, 1951	Eurico Gaspar Dutra
Walther Moreira Salles	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 12, 1952	August 18, 1953	Getúlio Vargas
João Carlos Muniz	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 20, 1953	July 12, 1956
Ernani do Amaral Peixoto	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 18, 1956	May 18, 1959	Juscelino Kubitschek
Walther Moreira Salles	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 23, 1959	February 16, 1961
Roberto de Oliveira Campos	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 18, 1961	January 17, 1964	João Goulart
Juracy Montenegro Magalhães	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 9, 1964	October 6, 1965	Castelo Branco
Vasco Tristão Leitão da Cunha	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 2, 1966	June 29, 1968
Mário Gibson Alves Barbosa	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 21, 1969	October 17, 1969	Artur da Costa e Silva
Mozart Gurgel Valente Jr.	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 20, 1970	December 19, 1970	Emílio Garrastazu Médici
João Augusto de Araújo Castro	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 18, 1971	December 9, 1975
João Batista Pinheiro	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 10, 1976	June 9, 1979	Ernesto Geisel
Antônio Francisco Azeredo da Silveira	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 24, 1979	August 1, 1983	João Figueiredo
Sérgio Corrêa da Costa	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 5, 1983	November 1, 1986
Marcílio Marques Moreira	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 23, 1986	August 24, 1991	José Sarney
Rubens Ricupero	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 25, 1991	August 11, 1993	Fernando Collor de Mello
Paulo Tarso Flecha de Lima	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 12, 1993	May 26, 1999	Itamar Franco
Rubens Antonio Barbosa	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 8, 1999	March 31, 2004	Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Roberto Abdenur	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 3, 2004	November 21, 2006	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Antonio de Aguiar Patriota	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	January 7, 2007	October 4, 2009
Mauro Vieira	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	January 6, 2010	December 31, 2014
Luiz Alberto Figueiredo	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	January 1, 2015	August 16, 2016	Dilma Rousseff
Sérgio Silva do Amaral	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 16, 2016	June 3, 2019	Michel Temer
Nestor Forster Jr.	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	June 3, 2019	December 23, 2020	Jair Bolsonaro
	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 23, 2020	June 30, 2023
Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 30, 2023	Incumbent	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

See also

• List of ambassadors of the United States to Brazil
• Embassy of Brazil, Washington, D.C.
• Brazil–United States relations

References

1. Chefes de Missão do Brasil nos Estados Unidos, 1824-2005 (Chiefs of Mission of Brazil to the United States, 1824-2005) Archived April 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Almeida, Paulo Roberto. Relações Brasil–Estados Unidos: assimetrias e convergências. Retrieved on 2011-10-14. (in Portuguese).
2. Wiese Randig, Rodrigo (2017). "Argentina, primeiro país a reconhecer a independência do Brasil" (PDF). Cadernos do CHDD. 16 (31): 501–524 – via FUNAG.
3. "Statement By Secretary Clinton: Brazilian Independence Day". Department of State.

External links

• Brazilian Embassy in Washington