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The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Uruguay. The current title given by the United States State Department to this position is Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
| Representative | Title | Presentation of credentials |
Termination of mission |
Appointed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Asboth[1] | Minister Resident | October 2, 1867 | January 21, 1868[2] | Andrew Johnson |
| Henry G. Worthington[1] | October 24, 1868 | July 10, 1869 | ||
| Robert C. Kirk[1] | July 24, 1869 | July 6, 1870 | Ulysses S. Grant | |
| John L. Stevens[3] | July 6, 1870 | May 19, 1873 | ||
| John C. Caldwell[3] | September 7, 1874 | October 6, 1876 | ||
| Chargé d'Affaires | October 6, 1876 | July 10, 1882 | ||
| William Williams[3] | July 10, 1882 | July 21, 1885 | Chester A. Arthur | |
| John E. Bacon[3] | July 21, 1885 | October 8, 1888 | Grover Cleveland | |
| Minister Resident | October 8, 1888 | December 26, 1888 | ||
| George Maney[3] | November 8, 1889 | November 28, 1890 | Benjamin Harrison | |
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 28, 1890 | June 30, 1894 | ||
| Granville Stuart[3] | July 2, 1894 | January 4, 1898 | Grover Cleveland | |
| William R. Finch[3] | January 4, 1898 | May 29, 1905 | William McKinley | |
| Edward C. O'Brien[3] | June 2, 1905 | October 11, 1909 | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| Edwin V. Morgan[3] | March 31, 1910 | July 8, 1911 | William H. Taft | |
| Nicolai A. Grevstad[3] | October 9, 1911 | February 19, 1915 | ||
| Robert Emmett Jeffery | June 4, 1915 | March 9, 1921 | Woodrow Wilson | |
| Hoffman Philip | September 19, 1922 | April 10, 1925 | Warren G. Harding | |
| Ulysses Grant-Smith | July 13, 1925 | January 11, 1929 | Calvin Coolidge | |
| Leland Harrison | April 11, 1930 | October 9, 1930 | Herbert Hoover | |
| J. Butler Wright | February 9, 1931 | July 10, 1934 | ||
| Julius Gareché Lay | May 20, 1935 | August 31, 1937 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| William Dawson | February 10, 1938 | June 6, 1939 | ||
| Edwin C. Wilson | October 27, 1939 | March 5, 1941 | ||
| William Dawson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 12, 1941 | August 6, 1946 | |
| Joseph F. McGurk | November 28, 1946 | April 15, 1947 | Harry S. Truman | |
| Ellis O. Briggs | August 21, 1947 | August 6, 1949 | ||
| Christian M. Ravndal | September 9, 1949 | October 8, 1951 | ||
| Edward L. Rodden | December 27, 1951 | October 12, 1953 | ||
| Dempster McIntosh | November 12, 1953 | April 3, 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
| Jefferson Patterson | May 2, 1956 | March 18, 1958 | ||
| Robert F. Woodward | April 21, 1958 | March 29, 1961 | ||
| Edward J. Sparks | May 24, 1961 | May 15, 1962 | John F. Kennedy | |
| Wymberley DeRenne Coerr | July 27, 1962 | January 22, 1965 | ||
| Henry A. Hoyt | June 14, 1965 | December 16, 1967[2] | Lyndon B. Johnson | |
| Robert M. Sayre | August 27, 1968 | October 19, 1969 | ||
| Charles W. Adair, Jr. | November 13, 1969 | September 28, 1972 | Richard Nixon | |
| Ernest V. Siracusa | September 25, 1973 | April 22, 1977 | ||
| Lawrence Pezzulo | August 10, 1977 | May 29, 1979 | Jimmy Carter | |
| Lyle Franklin Lane | October 17, 1979 | July 22, 1980 | ||
| N. Shaw Smith | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | July 22, 1980 | November 5, 1981 | |
| Thomas Aranda, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 5, 1981 | November 14, 1985 | Ronald Reagan |
| Malcolm Richard Wilkey | November 28, 1985 | May 10, 1990 | ||
| Richard C. Brown | November 19, 1990 | August 19, 1993 | George H. W. Bush | |
| Thomas J. Dodd, Jr. | September 23, 1993 | September 1, 1997 | Bill Clinton | |
| Christopher C. Ashby | November 26, 1997 | March 1, 2001 | ||
| Martin J. Silverstein | October 17, 2001 | July 6, 2005 | George W. Bush | |
| Frank E. Baxter | December 13, 2006 | January 20, 2009 | ||
| David D. Nelson[4] | December 24, 2009 | May 23, 2011 | Barack Obama | |
| Thomas H. Lloyd[5] | Chargé d'Affaires a.i. | May 23, 2011 | May 10, 2012 | |
| Julissa Reynoso[6] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 10, 2012 | December 10, 2014 | |
| Brad Freden[7] | Chargé d'Affaires a.i. | December 10, 2014 | June 23, 2016 | |
| Kelly Keiderling[8] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 23, 2016 | June 29, 2019 | Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Kenneth S. George | September 2, 2019 | January 20, 2021 | Donald Trump | |
| Jennifer Savage | Chargé d'Affaires | January 20, 2021 | July 10, 2022 | Joe Biden |
| Karl Ríos | July 15, 2022 | March 22, 2023 | ||
| Heide B. Fulton | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 22, 2023 | Incumbent |
| Ambassador of the United States to Uruguay | |
|---|---|
 Seal of the United States Department of State | |
| Nominator | The President of the United States |
| Inaugural holder | Alexander Asboth as Minister Resident |
| Formation | October 2, 1867 |
| Website | U.S. Embassy - Montevideo |
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