| Ambassador of the United States to Uruguay | |
|---|---|
Seal of the United States Department of State | |
Flag of a United States ambassador | |
| Nominator | Thepresident of the United States |
| Inaugural holder | Alexander Asboth as Minister Resident |
| Formation | October 2, 1867 |
| Website | U.S. Embassy - Montevideo |
The following is a list ofUnited States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, toUruguay. The current title given by theUnited States State Department to this position is Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
| Representative | Title | Presentation of credentials | Termination of mission | Appointed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Asboth[2] | Minister Resident | October 2, 1867 | January 21, 1868[3] | Andrew Johnson |
| Henry G. Worthington[2] | October 24, 1868 | July 10, 1869 | ||
| Robert C. Kirk[2] | July 24, 1869 | July 6, 1870 | Ulysses S. Grant | |
| John L. Stevens[4] | July 6, 1870 | May 19, 1873 | ||
| John C. Caldwell[4] | September 7, 1874 | October 6, 1876 | ||
| Chargé d'Affaires | October 6, 1876 | July 10, 1882 | ||
| William Williams[4] | July 10, 1882 | July 21, 1885 | Chester A. Arthur | |
| John E. Bacon[4] | July 21, 1885 | October 8, 1888 | Grover Cleveland | |
| Minister Resident | October 8, 1888 | December 26, 1888 | ||
| George Maney[4] | November 8, 1889 | November 28, 1890 | Benjamin Harrison | |
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 28, 1890 | June 30, 1894 | ||
| Granville Stuart[4] | July 2, 1894 | January 4, 1898 | Grover Cleveland | |
| William R. Finch[4] | January 4, 1898 | May 29, 1905 | William McKinley | |
| Edward C. O'Brien[4] | June 2, 1905 | October 11, 1909 | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| Edwin V. Morgan[4] | March 31, 1910 | July 8, 1911 | William H. Taft | |
| Nicolai A. Grevstad[4] | October 9, 1911 | February 19, 1915 | ||
| Robert Emmett Jeffery | June 4, 1915 | March 9, 1921 | Woodrow Wilson | |
| Hoffman Philip | September 19, 1922 | April 10, 1925 | Warren G. Harding | |
| Ulysses Grant-Smith | July 13, 1925 | January 11, 1929 | Calvin Coolidge | |
| Leland Harrison | April 11, 1930 | October 9, 1930 | Herbert Hoover | |
| J. Butler Wright | February 9, 1931 | July 10, 1934 | ||
| Julius Gareché Lay | May 20, 1935 | August 31, 1937 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| William Dawson | February 10, 1938 | June 6, 1939 | ||
| Edwin C. Wilson | October 27, 1939 | March 5, 1941 | ||
| William Dawson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 12, 1941 | August 6, 1946 | |
| Joseph F. McGurk | November 28, 1946 | April 15, 1947 | Harry S. Truman | |
| Ellis O. Briggs | August 21, 1947 | August 6, 1949 | ||
| Christian M. Ravndal | September 9, 1949 | October 8, 1951 | ||
| Edward L. Rodden | December 27, 1951 | October 12, 1953 | ||
| Dempster McIntosh | November 12, 1953 | April 3, 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
| Jefferson Patterson | May 2, 1956 | March 18, 1958 | ||
| Robert F. Woodward | April 21, 1958 | March 29, 1961 | ||
| Edward J. Sparks | May 24, 1961 | May 15, 1962 | John F. Kennedy | |
| Wymberley DeRenne Coerr | July 27, 1962 | January 22, 1965 | ||
| Henry A. Hoyt | June 14, 1965 | December 16, 1967[3] | Lyndon B. Johnson | |
| Robert M. Sayre | August 27, 1968 | October 19, 1969 | ||
| Charles W. Adair, Jr. | November 13, 1969 | September 28, 1972 | Richard Nixon | |
| Ernest V. Siracusa | September 25, 1973 | April 22, 1977 | ||
| Lawrence Pezzulo | August 10, 1977 | May 29, 1979 | Jimmy Carter | |
| Lyle Franklin Lane | October 17, 1979 | July 22, 1980 | ||
| N. Shaw Smith | Chargé d'Affairesad interim | July 22, 1980 | November 5, 1981 | |
| Thomas Aranda, Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 5, 1981 | November 14, 1985 | Ronald Reagan |
| Malcolm Richard Wilkey | November 28, 1985 | May 10, 1990 | ||
| Richard C. Brown | November 19, 1990 | August 19, 1993 | George H. W. Bush | |
| Thomas J. Dodd, Jr. | September 23, 1993 | September 1, 1997 | Bill Clinton | |
| Christopher C. Ashby | November 26, 1997 | March 1, 2001 | ||
| Martin J. Silverstein | October 17, 2001 | July 6, 2005 | George W. Bush | |
| Frank E. Baxter | December 13, 2006 | January 20, 2009 | ||
| David D. Nelson[5] | December 24, 2009 | May 23, 2011 | Barack Obama | |
| Thomas H. Lloyd[6] | Chargé d'Affaires a.i. | May 23, 2011 | May 10, 2012 | |
| Julissa Reynoso[7] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 10, 2012 | December 10, 2014 | |
| Brad Freden[8] | Chargé d'Affaires a.i. | December 10, 2014 | June 23, 2016 | |
| Kelly Keiderling[9] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 23, 2016 | June 29, 2019 | Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Kenneth S. George | September 2, 2019 | January 20, 2021 | Donald Trump | |
| Jennifer Savage | Chargé d'Affaires | January 20, 2021 | July 10, 2022 | Joe Biden |
| Karl Rios | July 15, 2022 | March 22, 2023 | ||
| Heide B. Fulton | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 22, 2023 | June 27, 2025 | |
| Chris Andino | Chargé d'Affaires | June 27, 2025 | September 26, 2025 | Donald Trump |
| Lou Rinaldi | Ambassador Extraordinary And Plenipotentiary | September 30, 2025 |