US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

US Ambassador to Japan.

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	present	Tom Schieffer

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