US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

US Ambassador to Turkey.

13-Sep-1831	03-Mar-1843	David Porter	Died at post
29-Feb-1844	20-Oct-1849	Dabney S. Carr
11-Mar-1850	19-Dec-1853	George Perkins Marsh
09-Feb-1854	12-Dec-1857	Carroll Spence
27-May-1858	25-May-1861	James Williams
22-Oct-1861	25-Oct-1870	Edward Joy Morris
25-Oct-1870	10-Jun-1871	Wayne MacVeagh
25-Mar-1872	01-May-1875	George Henry Boker
12-Jun-1875	15-Jul-1880	Horace Maynard
14-Dec-1880	29-Apr-1881	James Longstreet
06-Sep-1881	15-May-1885	Lew Wallace
25-Aug-1885	14-Sep-1886	Samuel S. Cox
01-Jul-1887	16-Jun-1889	Oscar S. Straus
28-Dec-1889	16-Jun-1892	Solomon Hirsch
11-Jan-1893	01-May-1893	David P. Thompson
07-Jul-1893	15-Jun-1897	Alexander W. Terrell
03-Sep-1897	13-Aug-1898	James B. Angell
15-Oct-1898	20-Dec-1899	Oscar S. Straus
29-Mar-1901	10-Jun-1909	John G. A. Leishman
04-Oct-1909	03-Sep-1910	Oscar S. Straus
28-Aug-1911	20-Nov-1913	William Woodville Rockhill
11-Dec-1913	01-Feb-1916	Henry Morgenthau
02-Oct-1916	29-May-1917	Abram I. Elkus	Turkey severs diplomatic relations 20-Apr-1917
12-Oct-1927	13-Mar-1932	Joseph Grew
20-May-1932	23-Mar-1933	Charles H. Sherrill
16-Oct-1933	16-Jan-1936	Robert P. Skinner
16-Mar-1936	28-Nov-1941	John Van A. MacMurray
10-Mar-1942	02-Apr-1945	Laurence A. Steinhardt
11-Jun-1945	20-Aug-1948	Edwin C. Wilson
01-Oct-1948	02-Jan-1952	George Wadsworth
15-Jan-1952	19-Jun-1953	George C. McGhee
17-Sep-1953	17-Feb-1956	Avra M. Warren
13-Jun-1956	15-Nov-1960	Fletcher Warren
05-Apr-1961	27-Aug-1965	Raymond A. Hare
11-Oct-1965	03-Oct-1968	Parker T. Hart
03-Dec-1968	07-May-1969	Robert W. Komer
01-Jul-1969	19-Apr-1973	William J. Handley
16-May-1973	15-Jun-1977	William B. Macomber, Jr.
12-Jul-1977	11-Jan-1980	Ronald Spiers
26-Feb-1980	16-Aug-1981	James W. Spain
07-Sep-1981	18-May-1989	Robert Strausz-Hupé
01-Aug-1989	25-Jul-1991	Morton I. Abramowitz
08-Nov-1991	15-Dec-1994	Richard C. Barkley
03-Jan-1995	01-Jun-1997	Marc Grossman
12-Nov-1997	08-Sep-2000	Mark R. Parris
21-Sep-2000	12-Feb-2003	W. Robert Pearson
29-Aug-2003	19-Jun-2005	Eric S. Edelman
08-Dec-2005	09-Aug-2008	Ross Wilson
25-Nov-2008	30-Jul-2010	James F. Jeffrey
01-Jan-2011	--	Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr.

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