Ambassador to the United Nations from the United States of America (since 1953)

 Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

James Jeremiah Wadsworth

Adlai Stevenson II

Arthur Goldberg

George Ball

James Russell Wiggins

Charles W. Yost

George H. W. Bush (1971-3)

John A. Scali

Daniel Patrick Moynihan (7 mos. only 1975-6)

William Scranton

Andrew Young of Atlanta, GA (1977-9)

Donald McHenry

Jeane Kirkpatrick (4 yrs. 1981 - 5)

Vernon A. Walters

Thomas R. Pickering

Edward J. Perkins

Madeleine J. Albright (1993-7)

Bill Richards of New Mexico (1997-8)

Peter Burleigh

Richard Holbrooke

John Negroponte

John Danforth of Missouri

John Bolton

Zalmay Khalizad

Susan Rice (2009-13)

Samantha Power (2013-7)

Nikki Haley (2017-Dec. 2018)

Kelly Craft

Linda Thomas-Greenfield (2021

by vote of 78 - 20 early in Biden-Harris

administration - left office at end of 2024)

Mike Waltz (Sept. 2025 - Senate Confirmed

by vote of 47 - 43, 10 members absent)

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[  acting ambassadors, who were not

Senate-confirmed, omitted from above

listing ]

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annual dues expected in 2026 and 

payment toward a $5 billion debt

on behalf of the U.S. :

$850 million

[ credit to Dept. of State ( now

run by Secy. of State / National

Security Adviser / National Archivist

Marco Rubio ) ]