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US Ambassador to China
US GOVERNMENT OFFICE
US Ambassador to mainland China. See also US Ambassador to Taiwan, US Consul General in Hong Kong.
| 12-Jun-1844 |
27-Aug-1844 |
Caleb Cushing
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| 26-Oct-1846 |
28-Jun-1847 |
Alexander H. Everett |
Died at post
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| 06-Oct-1848 |
25-May-1850 |
John W. Davis
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| May-1850 |
Jul-1853 |
Peter Parker |
Interim
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| 04-Jul-1853 |
27-Jan-1854 |
Humphrey Marshall
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| 03-Nov-1854 |
12-Dec-1854 |
Robert M. McLane
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| 15-Jul-1856 |
25-Aug-1857 |
Peter Parker
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| 03-May-1858 |
11-Nov-1858 |
William B. Reed
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| 10-Aug-1859 |
15-Dec-1860 |
John E. Ward
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| 20-Aug-1862 |
21-Nov-1867 |
Anson Burlingame
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| 29-Sep-1868 |
05-Jul-1869 |
J. Ross Browne
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| 27-Apr-1870 |
24-Jul-1873 |
Frederick F. Low
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| 29-Nov-1874 |
08-Nov-1875 |
Benjamin P. Avery |
Died at post
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| 24-Apr-1876 |
16-Aug-1880 |
George F. Seward
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| 16-Aug-1880 |
04-Oct-1881 |
James B. Angell
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| 17-Aug-1882 |
07-Apr-1885 |
John Russell Young
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| 01-Oct-1885 |
08-Jul-1898 |
Charles Denby
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| 08-Jul-1898 |
04-Apr-1905 |
Edwin H. Conger
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| 17-Jun-1905 |
01-Jun-1909 |
William Woodville Rockhill
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| 21-Apr-1910 |
16-Feb-1913 |
William James Calhoun |
Normal relations interrupted 12-Feb-1912
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| 15-Nov-1913 |
15-Sep-1919 |
Paul S. Reinsch
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| 12-Jun-1920 |
02-Jul-1921 |
Charles R. Crane
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| 12-Sep-1921 |
15-Apr-1925 |
Jacob Gould Schurman
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| 15-Jul-1925 |
22-Nov-1929 |
John Van A. MacMurray
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| 01-Feb-1930 |
14-May-1941 |
Nelson T. Johnson
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| 26-May-1941 |
14-Nov-1944 |
Clarence E. Gauss
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| 08-Jan-1945 |
22-Sep-1945 |
Patrick J. Hurley
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| 19-Jul-1946 |
02-Aug-1949 |
J. Leighton Stuart
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| 1950 |
1979 |
See US Ambassador to Taiwan
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| 14-May-1973 |
25-Sep-1974 |
David K. E. Bruce |
Diplomatic Liaison at Beijing
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| 21-Oct-1974 |
07-Dec-1975 |
George H.W. Bush |
Diplomatic Liaison
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| 06-May-1976 |
07-Mar-1979 |
Thomas S. Gates |
Diplomatic Liaison; Relations established 1-Jan-1979; Liaison office became an Embassy 1-Mar-1979
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| 07-Mar-1979 |
13-Feb-1981 |
Leonard Woodcock
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| 24-Sep-1981 |
24-Sep-1985 |
Arthur W. Hummel, Jr.
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| 19-Nov-1985 |
23-Apr-1989 |
Winston Lord
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| 08-May-1989 |
10-May-1991 |
James Roderick Lilley
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| 20-Aug-1991 |
17-Jun-1995 |
J. Stapleton Roy
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| 14-Feb-1996 |
01-Jul-1999 |
Jim Sasser
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| 15-Dec-1999 |
01-May-2001 |
Joseph W. Prueher
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| 28-Jul-2001 |
present |
Clark T. Randt
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