List of ambassadors of Chile to the United States

The Chilean ambassador in Washington, D.C. is the official representative of the Government in Santiago de Chile to the Government of the United States.

Ambassador of Chile to the United States
Coat of Arms of Chile
Incumbent Juan Gabriel Valdés since May 21, 2014
Inaugural holder	Domingo Gama
Formation	June 21, 1893

List of representatives

Agrément	Diplomatic accreditation	Ambassador	Observations	List of presidents of Chile	List of presidents of the United States	Term end
June 21, 1893		Domingo Gama		Jorge Montt Álvarez	Grover Cleveland
April 1, 1898		Eliodoro Infante	Chargé d'affaires	Federico Errázuriz Echaurren	William McKinley
August 16, 1898		Carlos Morla Vicuña	(1846, Santiago de Chile – 1900, Buffalo, New York) December 28, 1896 May 11, 1897: Chilean Minister of Foreign affairs, Cult and Colonization, also accreditedt to Japan.[1]	Federico Errázuriz Echaurren	William McKinley
September 1, 1901		Eliodoro Infante	Chargé d'affaires.	Aníbal Zañartu	Theodore Roosevelt
March 4, 1902		Joaquin Walker-Martinez		Aníbal Zañartu	Theodore Roosevelt
November 16, 1907		Anibal Cruz		Pedro Montt Montt	Theodore Roosevelt
December 18, 1910		Alberto Yoacham	Chargé d'affaires.	Elías Fernández Albano	William Howard Taft
June 27, 1911		Eduardo Suarez	On December 1, 1914, the mission was upgraded to an embassy.	Elías Fernández Albano	William Howard Taft
December 1, 1914		Eduardo Suarez-Mujica		Elías Fernández Albano	Woodrow Wilson
June 16, 1916		Gustavo Munizaga-Varela	Chargé d'affaires.	Juan Luis Sanfuentes Andonaegui	Woodrow Wilson
April 16, 1917		Santiago Aldunate	(; † April 17, 1918)	Juan Luis Sanfuentes Andonaegui	Woodrow Wilson
April 17, 1918		Gustavo Munizaga Varela	Chargé d'affaires.	Juan Luis Sanfuentes Andonaegui	Woodrow Wilson
November 27, 1918		Beltran Mathieu		Juan Luis Sanfuentes Andonaegui	Woodrow Wilson
March 23, 1926		Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal	[2]	Arturo Alessandri Palma	Calvin Coolidge
October 6, 1927		Carlos G. Davila		Carlos Ibáñez del Campo	Calvin Coolidge
September 18, 1931		Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal		Pedro Opazo	Herbert C. Hoover
October 17, 1933		Manuel Trucco		Carlos Dávila	Franklin D. Roosevelt
May 24, 1939	May 25, 1939	Alberto Cabero Diaz		Pedro Aguirre Cerda	Franklin D. Roosevelt
November 16, 1940		Guillermo Gazitua	Chargé d'affaires	Pedro Aguirre Cerda	Franklin D. Roosevelt
January 16, 1941	January 17, 1941	Rodolfo Michels		Jerónimo Méndez	Franklin D. Roosevelt
January 1, 1943		Luis Muñoz Cortés [es]		Juan Antonio Ríos Morales	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1947
September 22, 1944	October 5, 1944	Marcial Mora		Juan Antonio Ríos Morales	Franklin D. Roosevelt
January 14, 1947	January 27, 1947	Felix Nieto del Rio		Alfredo Duhalde	Harry S. Truman
February 11, 1953	February 24, 1953	Anibal Jara		Carlos Ibáñez del Campo	Dwight D. Eisenhower
February 6, 1956	February 7, 1956	Mario Rodriguez Altamirano		Carlos Ibáñez del Campo	Dwight D. Eisenhower
March 12, 1957	March 12, 1957	Mariano Puga		Carlos Ibáñez del Campo	Dwight D. Eisenhower
June 25, 1958	July 16, 1958	José Serrano Palma		Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez	Dwight D. Eisenhower
January 30, 1959	February 13, 1959	Walter Müller Hess [de]		Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez	Dwight D. Eisenhower
February 11, 1963	February 21, 1963	Sergio Gutierrez-Olivos		Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez	Lyndon B. Johnson
March 12, 1965	April 13, 1965	Radomiro Tomic		Eduardo Frei Montalva	Lyndon B. Johnson
July 1, 1968	July 1, 1968	Domingo Santa María Santa Cruz [es]		Eduardo Frei Montalva	Lyndon B. Johnson
February 22, 1971	March 2, 1971	Orlando Letelier		Salvador Allende Gossens	Richard Nixon
July 30, 1973		Patricio Rodriguez	Chargé d'affaires	Augusto Pinochet Ugarte	Richard Nixon
November 5, 1973	November 9, 1973	Walter Herbert Heitmann Wörner		Augusto Pinochet Ugarte	Richard Nixon
March 31, 1975		Enrique Guzman	Chargé d'affaires	Augusto Pinochet Ugarte	Gerald Ford
April 9, 1975	April 29, 1975	Manuel Trucco Gaete [es]		Augusto Pinochet Ugarte	Gerald Ford
March 10, 1977	March 23, 1977	Jorge Cauas		Augusto Pinochet Ugarte	Jimmy Carter
May 18, 1978	June 5, 1978	José Miguel		Augusto Pinochet Ugarte	Jimmy Carter
June 29, 1981		Carlos De Costa Nora	Chargé d'affaires	Augusto Pinochet Ugarte	Ronald Reagan
July 27, 1981	September 21, 1981	Valenzuela Blanquier		Augusto Pinochet Ugarte	Ronald Reagan
May 21, 1984	June 18, 1984	Hernán Felipe Errázuriz [es]		Augusto Pinochet Ugarte	Ronald Reagan
March 2, 1989	May 11, 1989	Octavio Errázuriz		Augusto Pinochet Ugarte	George H. W. Bush
April 23, 1990	May 29, 1990	Patricio Silva Echenique [es]		Patricio Aylwin Azócar	George H. W. Bush
August 3, 1994	August 11, 1994	John Biehl		Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle	Bill Clinton
September 17, 1998	October 27, 1998	Genaro Arriagada		Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle	Bill Clinton
September 9, 1999	November 29, 1999	Mario Artaza [es]		Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle	Bill Clinton
June 9, 2000	September 5, 2000	Andrés Bianchi [es]		Ricardo Lagos Escobar	Bill Clinton	2006
January 1, 2006		Mariano Fernández		Michelle Bachelet	George W. Bush	April 20, 2009
April 20, 2009	May 2010	José Goñi		Michelle Bachelet	Barack Obama
June 21, 2010	June 28, 2010	Arturo Fermandois [es]		Sebastián Piñera	Barack Obama
April 25, 2012	May 2, 2012	Felipe Bulnes		Sebastián Piñera	Barack Obama
May 14, 2014	May 21, 2014	Juan Gabriel Valdés Soublette		Michelle Bachelet	Barack Obama
		Julio Pedro Fiol Zuniga	Chargé d'affaires	Michelle Bachelet	Barack Obama
		Julio Pedro Fiol Zuniga	Chargé d'affaires	Michelle Bachelet	Barack Obama

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