List of ambassadors of the United States to Egypt

This is a list of ambassadors (or other diplomatic representatives) of the United States to Egypt.

Ambassador of the United States to Egypt
سفير الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية فى مصر
Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent Herro Mustafa since November 15, 2023
Nominator	The President of the United States
Appointer	The President with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural holder	Daniel Smith McCauley as Agent/Consul General
Formation	August 14, 1848
Website	U.S. Embassy - Cairo

The United States first established diplomatic relations with Egypt in 1848, when President James K. Polk appointed Daniel Smith McCauley as the first envoy to Egypt with the title Consul General. McCauley and his family were transported to Egypt aboard the USS Constitution in 1849.

Relations between Egypt and the United States have been continuous since 1848, except for the period between 1967 and 1974. The then United Arab Republic severed relations with the U.S. following the Six-Day War; Egypt restored relations following the Yom Kippur War.

The United States Embassy in Egypt is located in Cairo.

Ambassadors

Name	Appointed	Presented credentials	Terminated mission	Notes
Daniel Smith McCauley	August 14, 1848	March 17, 1849	Died at post October 24, 1852	Envoys held the title of Agent/Consul General[1] until 1922
Richard B. Jones	December 28, 1852	May 7, 1853	December 14, 1853
Edwin De Leon	May 24, 1853	December 14, 1853	March 4, 1861
William Sydney Thayer	March 20, 1861	Unknown. Assumed charge July 1, 1861	Died at post April 10, 1864
Charles Hale[2]	May 18, 1864	About October 15, 1864	Presented recall, May 23, 1870
George Harris Butler	March 15, 1870	June 2, 1870	July 16, 1872
Richard Beardsley	July 23, 1872	September 24, 1872	Died at post January 23, 1876
Elbert E. Farman	March 27, 1876	July 17, 1876	May 17, 1881
Simon Wolf	June 30, 1881	October 22, 1881	March 27, 1882
George P. Pomeroy	December 16, 1881	July 1, 1882	July 20, 1884
John Cardwell	October 2, 1885	April 19, 1886	October 7, 1889
Eugene Schuyler[3]	June 26, 1889	November 23, 1889	July 2, 1890
John A. Anderson	February 27, 1891	July 13, 1891	April 21, 1892
Edward C. Little	November 15, 1892	April 22, 1893	August 22, 1893
Frederic Courtland Penfield	May 13, 1893	December 11, 1893	June 17, 1897
Thomas Harrison	April 22, 1897	December 23, 1897	March 22, 1899
John G. Long	October 30, 1899	April 2, 1900	July 15, 1903
John W. Riddle	September 8, 1903	March 28, 1904	June 9, 1905
Lewis M. Iddings[4]	March 23, 1905	December 23, 1905	April 14, 1910
Peter Augus Jay	December 21, 1909	November 28, 1910	October 8, 1913
Olney Arnold	September 2, 1913	March 23, 1914	January 8, 1916
Hampson Gary	October 2, 1917	February 7, 1918[5]	December 7, 1919
Carroll Sprigg	May 11, 1920	August 2, 1920[6]	October 31, 1921
J. Morton Howell	October 7, 1921	Unknown[7]	July 6, 1927	The title of the envoy was changed to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary on June 21, 1922.
Franklin Mott Gunther	April 5, 1928	July 19, 1928	July 30, 1930
William M. Jardine	July 21, 1930	October 13, 1930	September 5, 1933
Bert Fish[8]	September 6, 1933	December 2, 1933	February 28, 1941
Alexander C. Kirk[9][10]	February 11, 1941	March 29, 1941	April 29, 1944
S. Pinkney Tuck	May 4, 1944	June 14, 1944	May 30, 1948	The title of the envoy was changed to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on September 19. 1946
Stanton Griffis	July 7, 1948	September 2, 1948	March 18, 1949
Jefferson Caffery	July 9, 1949	September 29, 1949	January 11, 1955
Henry A. Byroade	January 24, 1955	March 7, 1955	September 10, 1956
Raymond A. Hare	August 14, 1956	September 25, 1956	March 10, 1958	Recommissioned and reaccredited to the United Arab Republic. Egypt and Syria incorporated themselves into United Arab Republic on February 22, 1958. Subsequent ambassadors were commissioned to the UAR until 1967. Syria seceded from the UAR in September 1961 but Egypt continued to use the UAR name until 1971.
Raymond A. Hare[11][12]	March 10, 1958	March 19, 1958	December 18, 1959
G. Frederick Reinhardt[12][13]	January 27, 1960	March 22, 1960	May 6, 1961
John S. Badeau[12]	May 29, 1961	July 19, 1961	June 9, 1964
Lucius D. Battle[12]	July 31, 1964	September 22, 1964	March 5, 1967
Richard H. Nolte[12]	April 5, 1967	Did not present credentials[14]	June 10, 1967	The United Arab Republic (Egypt) severed diplomatic relations with the United States on June 6, 1967 during the Six-Day War with Israel.
Hermann F. Eilts[15]	March 19, 1974	April 20, 1974	May 20, 1979	Diplomatic relations between the United States and Egypt were resumed in 1974. The U.S. embassy was reestablished on February 28, 1974.
Alfred L. Atherton, Jr.	May 17, 1979	July 2, 1979	November 12, 1983
Nicholas A. Veliotes	October 7, 1983	November 24, 1983	April 1, 1986
Frank G. Wisner	August 18, 1986	August 28, 1986	June 6, 1991
Robert H. Pelletreau	July 2, 1992	September 12, 1991	December 11, 1993
Edward S. Walker, Jr.	May 9, 1994	July 20, 1994	December 7, 1997
Daniel Charles Kurtzer	November 10, 1997	January 13, 1998	June 22, 2001
C. David Welch	July 12, 2001	September 22, 2001	March 15, 2005
Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr.	August 2, 2005	November 13, 2005	April 18, 2008[16]
Margaret Scobey	March 14, 2008	June 16, 2008	June 30, 2011
Anne W. Patterson	July 2011	August 18, 2011	August 31, 2013
Robert Stephen Beecroft[17]	June 26, 2014	February 14, 2015[18]	June 30, 2017[19]
Thomas H. Goldberger[20]	June 30, 2017		October 16, 2019	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
Jonathan Cohen	August 1, 2019	November 17, 2019	March 31, 2022
Nicole Shampaine	March 31, 2022		August 23, 2022	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
Daniel Rubinstein	August 23, 2022		April 26, 2023	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
John Desrocher	April 26, 2023		August 12, 2023	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
Evyenia Sidereas	August 12, 2023		October 9, 2023	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
A. Elizabeth Jones	October 9, 2023		November 15, 2023	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
Herro Mustafa	November 1, 2023	November 15, 2023	present

See also

• Egypt – United States relations
• Foreign relations of Egypt
• Ambassadors of the United States

References

1. Commissioned as Consul General only and used the title Agent and Consul General with the acquiescence of the Department of State.
2. Hale was commissioned as Consul General only. He was not recommissioned when his title was changed to Agent and Consul General by Act of Congress approved June 20, 1864.
3. Schuyler was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and died in Venice on way home [presumably for his recommissioning].
4. Iddings was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on December 15, 1905.
5. Gary was received by the Sultan on February 7, 1918.
6. Sprigg was received by the Sultan on August 2, 1920.
7. No record has been found of the date on which Howell was presented to the Sultan as Agent and Consul General.
8. Fish was also appointed as the ambassador to Saudi Arabia when that post was established on February 4, 1940. He remained resident in Cairo.
9. Kirk was also accredited to Saudi Arabia, while resident in Cairo, until July 18, 1943, when a minister was appointed to Saudi Arabia.
10. Kirk was also accredited to the government-in-exile of Greece in Cairo Until Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. was appointed to that post on November 13, 1941.
11. Hare was also the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to North Yemen from February 16, 1959 until December 18, 1959.
12. Commissioned to the United Arab Republic
13. Reinhard was also the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to North Yemen.
14. Nolte had proceeded to his post after confirmation, but the UAR had severed relations with the U.S. before he could present his credentials.
15. Eilts had been the last Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Interests section in Cairo during the break in U.S.–Egypt relations.
16. "Francis Joseph Ricciardone - People - Department History - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
17. "US appoints Robert Stephen Beecroft as new Ambassador to Egypt". IANS. news.biharprabha.com. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
18. "Robert Stephen Beecroft - People - Department History - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
19. "U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Completes His Tour, Departs Cairo". United States Embassy and Consulate in Egypt. eg.usembassy.gov. July 2, 2017. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
20. "Thomas Goldberger - People - Department History - Office of the Historian".

• United States Department of State: Background notes on Egypt
•  This article incorporates public domain material from U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets. United States Department of State.

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