US Ambassador to Japan

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US Ambassador to Japan

US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

05-Nov-1859 26-Apr-1862 Townsend Harris

17-May-1862 28-Apr-1865 Robert H. Pruyn

04-May-1867 11-Nov-1869 Robert B. Van Valkenburgh

11-Nov-1869 07-Oct-1873 Charles E. De Long

07-Oct-1873 02-Jul-1885 John A. Bingham

02-Jul-1885 15-May-1889 Richard B. Hubbard

15-May-1889 10-Mar-1891 John F. Swift Died at post

13-Jun-1892 14-Jul-1893 Frank L. Coombs

14-Jul-1893 02-Jul-1897 Edwin Dun

03-Jul-1898 04-Dec-1902 Alfred E. Buck Died at post

22-Jun-1903 19-Nov-1905 Lloyd C.Griscom

26-May-1906 13-Aug-1907 Luke E. Wright

15-Oct-1907 31-Aug-1911 Thomas J. O'Brien

22-Nov-1911 01-Oct-1912 Charles Page Bryan

01-Feb-1913 15-Mar-1913 Larz Anderson

07-Aug-1913 08-Mar-1917 George W. Guthrie Died at post

30-Oct-1917 15-May-1920 Roland S. Morris

24-Sep-1921 28-Jan-1922 Charles Beecher Warren

21-Jul-1923 05-Jun-1924 Cyrus E. Woods

19-Nov-1924 27-Jul-1925 Edgar A. Bancroft Died at post

09-Dec-1925 06-Dec-1928 Charles MacVeagh

24-Jan-1930 27-May-1930 William R. Castle, Jr.

25-Sep-1930 22-Mar-1932 W. Cameron Forbes

14-Jun-1932 08-Dec-1941 Joseph Grew Japan declares war on US 8-Dec-1941; Grew is interned until 25-Jun-1942

1947 1952 William J. Sebald Interim; Political Advisor to the Supreme Commander for Allied Powers

09-May-1952 28-Apr-1953 Robert D. Murphy

28-May-1953 02-Feb-1957 John M. Allison

25-Feb-1957 12-Mar-1961 Douglas MacArthur II

27-Apr-1961 19-Aug-1966 Edwin O. Reischauer

08-Nov-1966 15-Jan-1969 U. Alexis Johnson

03-Jul-1969 27-Mar-1972 Armin H. Meyer

12-Apr-1972 08-Nov-1973 Robert S. Ingersoll

Nov-1973 Jul-1974 Thomas P. Shoesmith Interim

19-Jul-1974 05-Feb-1977 James D. Hodgson

10-Jun-1977 22-Dec-1988 Mike Mansfield

15-May-1989 19-Jul-1993 Michael Armacost

21-Sep-1993 15-Dec-1996 Walter Mondale

Dec-1996 Sep-1997 Rust M. Deming Interim

19-Nov-1997 01-Apr-2001 Tom Foley

05-Jul-2001 17-Feb-2005 Howard Baker

11-Apr-2005 20-Jan-2009 Tom Schieffer

20-Aug-2009 -- John V. Roos

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