US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

US Ambassador to Russia. Diplomatic relations were interrupted in 1917 with the fall of the Russian monarchy. For ambassadors from the establishment of relations with the USSR in 1933 to the fall of that government in 1991, see US Ambassador to the USSR.

05-Nov-1809	28-Apr-1814	John Quincy Adams
13-Jan-1817	14-Feb-1818	William Pinkney
07-Feb-1819	08-Jul-1820	George W. Campbell
17-Jun-1821	03-Aug-1830	Henry Middleton
11-Jun-1832	05-Aug-1833	James Buchanan
14-Dec-1834	24-Dec-1835	William Wilkins
02-Sep-1836	05-Aug-1837	John Randolph Clay
06-Aug-1837	29-Jul-1939	George M. Dallas
21-Sep-1840	13-Jul-1841	Churchill C. Cambreleng
28-Nov-1841	27-Jan-1846	Charles S. Todd
30-May-1847	01-Jul-1848	Ralph I. Ingersoll
14-Jan-1849	14-May-1849	Arthur P. Bagby
13-Aug-1850	23-Jun-1853	Neill S. Brown
02-Apr-1854	17-Jul-1858	Thomas H. Seymour
18-Jul-1858	09-Sep-1860	Francis W. Pickens
09-Sep-1860	08-Jun-1861	John Appleton
14-Jul-1861	25-Jun-1862	Cassius Marcellus Clay
25-Jun-1862	18-Sep-1862	Simon Cameron
07-May-1863	01-Oct-1869	Cassius Marcellus Clay
28-Oct-1869	01-Jul-1872	Andrew G. Curtin
18-Mar-1873	06-May-1873	James L. Orr	Died at post
09-Dec-1873	19-Jul-1874	Marshall Jewell
24-Jul-1875	14-Jan-1878	George Henry Boker
14-Jan-1878	02-Mar-1879	Edwin W. Stoughton
11-Jun-1880	01-Aug-1881	John W. Foster
23-Aug-1882	27-Feb-1884	William H. Hunt	Died at post
03-Sep-1884	31-Jul-1885	Alphonso Taft
31-Jul-1885	01-Aug-1888	George V. N. Lothrop
04-Jan-1889	02-Feb-1889	Lambert Tree
14-May-1890	17-Apr-1892	Charles Emory Smith
07-Nov-1892	01-Oct-1894	Andrew D. White
01-Nov-1894	10-Dec-1897	Clifton R. Breckinridge
16-Dec-1897	28-Jan-1899	Ethan A. Hitchcock
19-Mar-1899	19-Nov-1902	Charlemagne Tower
12-Jan-1903	27-Mar-1905	Robert S. McCormick
12-Apr-1905	26-Jan-1907	George V. L. Meyer
08-Feb-1907	08-Sep-1909	John W. Riddle
11-Jan-1910	17-Jun-1911	William Woodville Rockhill
17-Aug-1911	24-Apr-1913	Curtis Guild
30-Oct-1914	29-Mar-1916	George T. Marye
05-May-1916	07-Nov-1917	David R. Francis
1933	1991	See US Ambassador to the USSR
24-Aug-1991	19-Nov-1992	Robert S. Strauss
Nov-1992	May-1993	James F. Collins	Interim
21-May-1993	01-Nov-1996	Thomas Pickering
Nov-1996	May-1997	Richard M. Miles	Interim
May-1997	Jan-1998	John F. Tefft	Interim
26-Jan-1998	10-Jul-2001	James F. Collins
17-Oct-2001	22-Jul-2005	Alexander Vershbow
08-Nov-2005	12-May-2008	William Joseph Burns
May-2008	Jul-2008	Daniel Allison Russell	Interim
02-Jul-2008	2011	John R. Beyrle

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