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This is a list of [[ambassadors of the United States]] to [[Bulgaria]].
The '''United States ambassador to Bulgaria''' ({{lang-bg|Посланик на САЩ в България}}) is the [[Ambassador|ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary]] from the [[United States]] to [[Bulgaria]].

== Ambassadors ==
== Ambassadors ==
===Diplomatic agent===


{| class="wikitable"
*[[Charles M. Dickinson]] <ref name="Dickinson">Appointed to Bulgaria was in addition to assignment as Consul General at Constantinople, where Dickinson resided. No record has been found of Presented credentials at Sofia. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on December 10, 1901.</ref>
|-
**Title: Agent
! Name
**Appointed: April 24, 1901
! Appointed
**Terminated Mission: Appointed terminated, June 30, 1903
! Presented credentials
! End of term
|-
|[[Charles M. Dickinson]] {{efn|name="Dickinson"|Appointed to Bulgaria was in addition to assignment as Consul General at Constantinople, where Dickinson resided. No record has been found of Presented credentials at Sofia. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate.}}
| April 24, 1901
|
|Appointed terminated, June 30, 1903 {{efn|Dickinson became persona non grata after some very strong representations in Fall 1901 and was recommissioned after confirmation on December 10, 1901}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=1902-03-30 |title=Bulgaria Shows Resentment.; United States Diplomatic Agent's Activity in Stone Case Causes His Recall. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1902/03/30/archives/bulgaria-shows-resentment-united-states-diplomatic-agents-activity.html |access-date=2022-10-25 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
|-
| [[John Brinkerhoff Jackson]] {{efn|name="Jackson"|Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Greece, Romania, and Serbia and Diplomatic Agent in Bulgaria; resident at Athens. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on November 16, 1903.}}
| June 5, 1903
| September 19, 1903
| Recommissioned to a different combination of countries
|-
| [[John Brinkerhoff Jackson]] {{efn|name="Jackson2"|Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Greece and Montenegro and Diplomatic Agent in Bulgaria; resident at Athens.}}
| March 8, 1905
|
| Presented recall, June 4, 1907
|-
| [[Horace G. Knowles]] {{efn|name="Knowles"|Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Romania and Serbia and Diplomatic Agent in Bulgaria; resident at Bucharest.}}{{efn|name="Knowles2"|Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on December 12, 1907.}}
| July 1, 1907
| August 21, 1907
| Left Bucharest, February 4, 1909
|-
| [[Huntington Wilson]] {{efn|name="Wilson"|Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Romania and Serbia and Diplomatic Agent in Bulgaria; took oath of office, but did not proceed to post.}}
| December 17, 1908
| January 11, 1909
|
|-
| [[Spencer F. Eddy]] {{efn|name="Eddy"|Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Romania and Diplomatic Agent in Bulgaria; served at Bucharest, but did not present credentials in Bulgaria.}}
| January 11, 1909
|
|
|-
| [[John R. Carter (diplomat)|John R. Carter]] {{efn|name="Carter"|Commissioned during a recess of the Senate as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Romania and Serbia and Diplomatic Agent in Bulgaria; served at Bucharest, but did not present credentials in Bulgaria. Recommissioned after confirmation on December 13, 1909.}}
| September 25, 1909
| October 24, 1911
| October 24, 1911
|
|}
{{notelist|efn}}


===Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary===
*[[John B. Jackson]] <ref name="Jackson">Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Greece, Romania, and Serbia and Diplomatic Agent in Bulgaria; resident at Athens. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on November 16, 1903.</ref>
**Title: Diplomatic Agent
**Appointed: June 5, 1903
**Presented Credentials: September 19, 1903
**Terminated Mission: Recommissioned to a different combination of countries


{| class="wikitable"
*[[John B. Jackson]] <ref name="Jackson">Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Greece and Montenegro and Diplomatic Agent in Bulgaria; resident at Athens.</ref>
|-
**Title: Diplomatic Agent
! Name
**Appointed: March 8, 1905
! Career
**Terminated Mission: Presented recall, June 4, 1907
! Appointed
! Presented credentials
! End of term
|-
| [[John R. Carter (diplomat)|John R. Carter]] {{efn|name="Carter"|Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria; resident at Bucharest.}}
|
| June 24, 1910
|
|
|-
| [[John Brinkerhoff Jackson]]
|
| August 12, 1911
| February 1, 1912
| Presented recall, October 18, 1913
|-
| [[Charles J. Vopicka]] {{efn|name="Vopicka"|Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria; resident at Bucharest. Charles S. Wilson presented credentials March 18, 1919, as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at Sofia and served as such until July 1921.}}
| Non-career appointee
| September 11, 1913
| December 26, 1913
| Relieved of active functions pertaining to Legation Sofia, December 17, 1918
|-
| [[Charles S. Wilson]]
| Foreign Service officer
| October 8, 1921
| December 5, 1921
| Presented recall, October 4, 1928
|-
| [[H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld]] {{efn|name="Schoenfeld"|Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 23, 1929; did not serve under either Appointed.}}
| Foreign Service officer
| July 17, 1928
|
|
|-
| [[Henry Wharton Shoemaker]]
| Non-career appointee
| January 22, 1930
| March 28, 1930
| Left post, August 2, 1933
|-
| [[Frederick A. Sterling]] {{efn|name="Sterling"|Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 15, 1934.}}
| Foreign Service officer
| September 1, 1933
| April 3, 1934
| Left post, June 30, 1936
|-
| [[Ray Atherton]]
| Foreign Service officer
| July 13, 1937
| October 21, 1937
| Left post, July 5, 1939
|-
| [[George H. Earle III]] {{efn|name="Earle"|Earle left post late in Dec. 1941, arriving at Istanbul (en route to the U.S.) December 27, 1941. Legation Sofia was reestablished September 27, 1947, with John Evarts Horner as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim.}}
| Non-career appointee
| February 14, 1940
| April 2, 1940
| Bulgaria declared war on the U.S. on the 13 December 1941
|-
| [[Donald R. Heath]] {{efn|name="Heath"|Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on December 9, 1947. The Department of State announced on February 21, 1950, the suspension of diplomatic relations with Bulgaria; Heath left post, February 24, 1950.}}
| Foreign Service officer
| September 30, 1947
| November 8, 1947
| Declared persona non grata by Government of Bulgaria, January 19, 1950
|-
| [[Edward Page, Jr.]]{{efn| name="Page, Jr."|Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 21, 1960.}}
| Foreign Service officer
| November 23, 1959
| March 14, 1960
| Left post, May 25, 1962
|-
| [[Eugenie Anderson]]
| Non-career appointee
| May 28, 1962
| August 3, 1962
| Left post, December 6, 1964
|-
| [[Nathaniel Davis]]
| Foreign Service officer
| May 6, 1965
| June 4, 1965
| Left post, May 20, 1966
|-
| [[John M. McSweeney]]
| Foreign Service officer
| September 16, 1966
| October 26, 1966
| Promoted to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
|}
{{notelist}}


===Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary===
*[[Horace G. Knowles]] <ref name="Knowles">Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Romania and Serbia and Diplomatic Agent in Bulgaria; resident at Bucharest.</ref><ref name="Knowles">Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on December 12, 1907.</ref>
**Title: Diplomatic Agent
**Appointed: July 1, 1907
**Presented Credentials: August 21, 1907
**Terminated Mission: Left Bucharest, February 4, 1909


{| class="wikitable"
*[[Huntington Wilson]] <ref name="Wilson">Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Romania and Serbia and Diplomatic Agent in Bulgaria; took oath of office, but did not proceed to post.</ref>
|-
**Title: Diplomatic Agent
! Name
**Appointed: December 17, 1908
! Career
! Appointed
! Presented credentials
! End of term
|-
| [[John M. McSweeney]] {{efn| name="McSweeney"|Legation Sofia had been raised to Embassy status November 28, 1966 with Minister McSweeney in charge pending his own promotion to the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.}}
| Foreign Service officer
| April 5, 1967
| April 19, 1967
| Left post, May 29, 1970
|-
| [[Horace G. Torbert, Jr.]]
| Foreign Service officer
| October 6, 1970
| November 4, 1970
| Left post, January 23, 1973
|-
| [[Martin F. Herz]]
| Foreign Service officer
| February 28, 1974
| April 3, 1974
| Left post, August 6, 1977
|-
| [[Raymond L. Garthoff]]
| Foreign Service officer
| July 29, 1977
| September 16, 1977
| Left post, October 9, 1979
|-
| [[Jack Richard Perry]]
| Foreign Service officer
| September 20, 1979
| October 17, 1979
| Left post, September 27, 1981
|-
| [[Robert L. Barry]]
| Foreign Service officer
| November 25, 1981
| December 8, 1981
| July 12, 1984
|-
| [[Melvyn Levitsky]]
| Foreign Service officer
| September 21, 1984
| November 13, 1984
| Left post, February 6, 1987
|-
| [[Sol Polansky]]
| Foreign Service officer
| June 15, 1987
| September 4, 1987
| Left post, August 17, 1990
|-
| [[Hugh Kenneth Hill]]
| Foreign Service officer
| August 6, 1990
| September 18, 1990
| Left post, September 5, 1993
|-
| [[William Dale Montgomery]]
| Foreign Service officer
| October 8, 1993
| October 27, 1993
| Left post, January 17, 1996
|-
| [[Avis T. Bohlen]]
| Foreign Service officer
| July 2, 1996
| September 5, 1996
| Left post August 13, 1999
|-
| [[Richard Monroe Miles]]
| Foreign Service officer
| August 9, 1999
| September 8, 1999
| Left post February 28, 2002
|-
| [[James W. Pardew]]
| Foreign Service officer
| April 1, 2002
| May 13, 2002
| Left post, July 30, 2005
|-
| [[John Beyrle]]
| Foreign Service officer
| July 9, 2005
| September 8, 2005
| April 28, 2008
|-
| [[Nancy McEldowney]]
| Foreign Service officer
| May 2, 2008
| August 26, 2008
| July 30, 2009
|-
| [[James B. Warlick, Jr.]]
| Foreign Service officer
| December 24, 2009
| January 19, 2010
| September 14, 2012
|-
| [[Marcie Berman Ries]]
| Foreign Service officer
| May 24, 2012
| October 1, 2012
| July 28, 2015
|-
| [[Eric S. Rubin]]<ref>[https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/253107.htm Ambassador Rubin] U.S. Embassy, Bulgaria, accessed May 6, 2016</ref>
| Foreign Service officer
| December 9, 2015
| January 27, 2016
| July 9, 2019
|-
| [[Herro Mustafa]]
| Foreign Service officer
| September 29, 2019
| October 18, 2019
| March 1, 2023
|-
| [[Kenneth H. Merten]]
| Foreign Service officer
| December 13, 2022
| April 7, 2023
| ''Incumbent''
|}
{{notelist}}


==References==
*[[Spencer F. Eddy]] <ref name="Eddy">Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Romania and Diplomatic Agent in Bulgaria; served at Bucharest, but did not present credentials in Bulgaria.</ref>
{{reflist}}
**Title: Diplomatic Agent
**Appointed: January 11, 1909


==See also==
*[[John R. Carter (diplomat)|John R. Carter]] <ref name="Carter">Commissioned during a recess of the Senate as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Romania and Serbia and Diplomatic Agent in Bulgaria; served at Bucharest, but did not present credentials in Bulgaria. Recommissioned after confirmation on December 13, 1909.</ref>
*[[Bulgaria - United States relations]]
**Title: Diplomatic Agent
*[[Foreign relations of Bulgaria]]
**Appointed: September 25, 1909
*[[Ambassadors of the United States]]
*[[Bulgarian Ambassador to the United States]]


==References==
*[[John R. Carter (diplomat)|John R. Carter]] <ref name="Jackson">Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria; resident at Bucharest.</ref>
*[https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3236.htm United States Department of State: Background notes on Bulgaria]
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
*{{StateDept}}
**Appointed: June 24, 1910

*[[John B. Jackson]] <ref name="Jackson"/>
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: August 12, 1911
**Presented Credentials: February 1, 1912
**Terminated Mission: Presented recall, October 18, 1913

*[[Charles J. Vopicka]] <ref name="Vopicka">Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria; resident at Bucharest. Charles S. Wilson presented credentials March 18, 1919, as Charg? d'Affaires ad interim at Sofia and served as such until July 1921.</ref>
**Non-career appointee
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: September 11, 1913
**Presented Credentials: December 26, 1913
**Terminated Mission: Relieved of active functions pertaining to Legation Sofia, December 17, 1918

*[[Charles S. Wilson]]
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: October 8, 1921
**Presented Credentials: December 5, 1921
**Terminated Mission: Presented recall, October 4, 1928

*[[H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld]] <ref name="Schoenfeld">Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 23, 1929; did not serve under either Appointed.</ref>
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: July 17, 1928

*[[Henry Wharton Shoemaker]]
**Non-career appointee
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: January 22, 1930
**Presented Credentials: March 28, 1930
**Terminated Mission: Left post, August 2, 1933

*[[Frederick A. Sterling]] <ref name="Sterling">Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 15, 1934.</ref>
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: September 1, 1933
**Presented Credentials: April 3, 1934
**Terminated Mission: Left post, June 30, 1936
*[[Ray Atherton]]
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: July 13, 1937
**Presented Credentials: October 21, 1937
**Terminated Mission: Left post, July 5, 1939

*[[George H. Earle III]] <ref name="Earle">Earle left post late in Dec. 1941, arriving at Istanbul (en route to the U.S.) December 27, 1941. Legation Sofia was reestablished September 27, 1947, with John Evarts Horner as Charg? d'Affaires ad interim.</ref>
**Non-career appointee
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: February 14, 1940
**Presented Credentials: April 2, 1940
**Terminated Mission: Bulgaria declared war on the U.S., December 13, 1941

*[[Donald R. Heath]] <ref name="Heath">Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on December 9, 1947. The Department of State announced on February 21, 1950, the suspension of diplomatic relations with Bulgaria; Heath left post, February 24, 1950.</ref>
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: September 30, 1947
**Presented Credentials: November 8, 1947
**Terminated Mission: Declared persona non grata by Government of Bulgaria, January 19, 1950

*[[Edward Page, Jr.]]<ref name="Page, Jr.">Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 21, 1960.</ref>
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: November 23, 1959
**Presented Credentials: March 14, 1960
**Terminated Mission: Left post, May 25, 1962

*[[Eugenie Anderson]]
**Non-career appointee
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: May 28, 1962
**Presented Credentials: August 3, 1962
**Terminated Mission: Left post, December 6, 1964

*[[Nathaniel Davis]]
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: May 6, 1965
**Presented Credentials: June 4, 1965
**Terminated Mission: Left post, May 20, 1966

*[[John M. McSweeney]]
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: September 16, 1966
**Presented Credentials: October 26, 1966
**Terminated Mission: Promoted to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

*[[John M. McSweeney]] <ref name="McSweeney">Legation Sofia had been raised to Embassy status November 28, 1966 with Minister McSweeney in charge pending his own promotion to the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.</ref>
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: April 5, 1967
**Presented Credentials: April 19, 1967
**Terminated Mission: Left post, May 29, 1970

*[[Horace G. Torbert, Jr.]]
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: October 6, 1970
**Presented Credentials: November 4, 1970
**Terminated Mission: Left post, January 23, 1973

*[[Martin F. Herz]]
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: February 28, 1974
**Presented Credentials: April 3, 1974
**Terminated Mission: Left post, August 6, 1977

*[[Raymond L. Garthoff]]
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: July 29, 1977
**Presented Credentials: September 16, 1977
**Terminated Mission: Left post, October 9, 1979

*[[Jack Richard Perry]]
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: September 20, 1979
**Presented Credentials: October 17, 1979
**Terminated Mission: Left post, September 27, 1981

*[[Robert L. Barry]]
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: November 25, 1981
**Presented Credentials: December 8, 1981
**Terminated Mission: July 12, 1984

*[[Melvyn Levitsky]]
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: September 21, 1984
**Presented Credentials: November 13, 1984
**Terminated Mission: Left post, February 6, 1987

*[[Sol Polansky]]
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: June 15, 1987
**Presented Credentials: September 4, 1987
**Terminated Mission: Left post, August 17, 1990

*[[Hugh Kenneth Hill]]
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: August 6, 1990
**Presented Credentials: September 18, 1990
**Terminated Mission: Left post, September 5, 1993

*[[William Dale Montgomery]]
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: October 8, 1993
**Presented Credentials: October 27, 1993
**Terminated Mission: Left post, January 17, 1996
*[[Avis T. Bohlen]]
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: July 2, 1996
**Presented Credentials: September 5, 1996
**Terminated Mission: Left post August 13, 1999

*[[Richard Monroe Miles]]
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: August 9, 1999
**Presented Credentials: September 8, 1999
**Terminated Mission: Left post February 28, 2002

*[[James W. Pardew]]
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: April 1, 2002
**Presented Credentials: May 13, 2002
**Terminated Mission: Left post, July 30, 2005

*[[John Beyrle]]
**Foreign Service officer
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: July 9, 2005
**Presented Credentials: September 8, 2005
**Terminated Mission: April 24, 2008

*[[Nancy E. McEldowney]]
**Career foreign service officer
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: July 25, 2008
**Presented credentials: August 26, 2008
**Terminated mission: ''Unknown''

*[[James B. Warlick, Jr.]]
**Career foreign service officer
**Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
**Appointed: December 24, 2009
**Presented credentials: January 19, 2010
**Terminated mission: ''Incumbent''

== Source ==
*[http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/po/com/10398.htm Dept. of State]

== Notes ==
<references />

==See also==
* [[Bulgarian-American relations]]


==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.state.gov/p/eur/ci/bu/ United States Department of State: Bulgaria]
* [https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/chiefsofmission/bulgaria United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Bulgaria]
* [http://bulgaria.usembassy.gov/ United States Embassy in Sofia]
* [https://2009-2017.state.gov/p/eur/ci/bu/ United States Department of State: Bulgaria]
* [https://bg.usembassy.gov/ United States Embassy in Sofia]


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Ambassador of the United States to Bulgaria
Seal of the United States Department of State
since April 7, 2023
NominatorThe President of the United States
AppointerThe President
with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural holderCharles M. Dickinson
as Agent
FormationApril 24, 1901
WebsiteU.S. Embassy - Sofia

The United States ambassador to Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Посланик на САЩ в България) is the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary from the United States to Bulgaria.

Ambassadors

Diplomatic agent

Name Appointed Presented credentials End of term
Charles M. Dickinson [a] April 24, 1901 Appointed terminated, June 30, 1903 [b][1]
John Brinkerhoff Jackson [c] June 5, 1903 September 19, 1903 Recommissioned to a different combination of countries
John Brinkerhoff Jackson [d] March 8, 1905 Presented recall, June 4, 1907
Horace G. Knowles [e][f] July 1, 1907 August 21, 1907 Left Bucharest, February 4, 1909
Huntington Wilson [g] December 17, 1908 January 11, 1909
Spencer F. Eddy [h] January 11, 1909
John R. Carter [i] September 25, 1909 October 24, 1911 October 24, 1911
  1. ^ Appointed to Bulgaria was in addition to assignment as Consul General at Constantinople, where Dickinson resided. No record has been found of Presented credentials at Sofia. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate.
  2. ^ Dickinson became persona non grata after some very strong representations in Fall 1901 and was recommissioned after confirmation on December 10, 1901
  3. ^ Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Greece, Romania, and Serbia and Diplomatic Agent in Bulgaria; resident at Athens. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on November 16, 1903.
  4. ^ Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Greece and Montenegro and Diplomatic Agent in Bulgaria; resident at Athens.
  5. ^ Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Romania and Serbia and Diplomatic Agent in Bulgaria; resident at Bucharest.
  6. ^ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on December 12, 1907.
  7. ^ Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Romania and Serbia and Diplomatic Agent in Bulgaria; took oath of office, but did not proceed to post.
  8. ^ Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Romania and Diplomatic Agent in Bulgaria; served at Bucharest, but did not present credentials in Bulgaria.
  9. ^ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Romania and Serbia and Diplomatic Agent in Bulgaria; served at Bucharest, but did not present credentials in Bulgaria. Recommissioned after confirmation on December 13, 1909.

Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary

Name Career Appointed Presented credentials End of term
John R. Carter [a] June 24, 1910
John Brinkerhoff Jackson August 12, 1911 February 1, 1912 Presented recall, October 18, 1913
Charles J. Vopicka [b] Non-career appointee September 11, 1913 December 26, 1913 Relieved of active functions pertaining to Legation Sofia, December 17, 1918
Charles S. Wilson Foreign Service officer October 8, 1921 December 5, 1921 Presented recall, October 4, 1928
H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld [c] Foreign Service officer July 17, 1928
Henry Wharton Shoemaker Non-career appointee January 22, 1930 March 28, 1930 Left post, August 2, 1933
Frederick A. Sterling [d] Foreign Service officer September 1, 1933 April 3, 1934 Left post, June 30, 1936
Ray Atherton Foreign Service officer July 13, 1937 October 21, 1937 Left post, July 5, 1939
George H. Earle III [e] Non-career appointee February 14, 1940 April 2, 1940 Bulgaria declared war on the U.S. on the 13 December 1941
Donald R. Heath [f] Foreign Service officer September 30, 1947 November 8, 1947 Declared persona non grata by Government of Bulgaria, January 19, 1950
Edward Page, Jr.[g] Foreign Service officer November 23, 1959 March 14, 1960 Left post, May 25, 1962
Eugenie Anderson Non-career appointee May 28, 1962 August 3, 1962 Left post, December 6, 1964
Nathaniel Davis Foreign Service officer May 6, 1965 June 4, 1965 Left post, May 20, 1966
John M. McSweeney Foreign Service officer September 16, 1966 October 26, 1966 Promoted to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
  1. ^ Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria; resident at Bucharest.
  2. ^ Commissioned as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria; resident at Bucharest. Charles S. Wilson presented credentials March 18, 1919, as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at Sofia and served as such until July 1921.
  3. ^ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 23, 1929; did not serve under either Appointed.
  4. ^ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 15, 1934.
  5. ^ Earle left post late in Dec. 1941, arriving at Istanbul (en route to the U.S.) December 27, 1941. Legation Sofia was reestablished September 27, 1947, with John Evarts Horner as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim.
  6. ^ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on December 9, 1947. The Department of State announced on February 21, 1950, the suspension of diplomatic relations with Bulgaria; Heath left post, February 24, 1950.
  7. ^ Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 21, 1960.

Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary

Name Career Appointed Presented credentials End of term
John M. McSweeney [a] Foreign Service officer April 5, 1967 April 19, 1967 Left post, May 29, 1970
Horace G. Torbert, Jr. Foreign Service officer October 6, 1970 November 4, 1970 Left post, January 23, 1973
Martin F. Herz Foreign Service officer February 28, 1974 April 3, 1974 Left post, August 6, 1977
Raymond L. Garthoff Foreign Service officer July 29, 1977 September 16, 1977 Left post, October 9, 1979
Jack Richard Perry Foreign Service officer September 20, 1979 October 17, 1979 Left post, September 27, 1981
Robert L. Barry Foreign Service officer November 25, 1981 December 8, 1981 July 12, 1984
Melvyn Levitsky Foreign Service officer September 21, 1984 November 13, 1984 Left post, February 6, 1987
Sol Polansky Foreign Service officer June 15, 1987 September 4, 1987 Left post, August 17, 1990
Hugh Kenneth Hill Foreign Service officer August 6, 1990 September 18, 1990 Left post, September 5, 1993
William Dale Montgomery Foreign Service officer October 8, 1993 October 27, 1993 Left post, January 17, 1996
Avis T. Bohlen Foreign Service officer July 2, 1996 September 5, 1996 Left post August 13, 1999
Richard Monroe Miles Foreign Service officer August 9, 1999 September 8, 1999 Left post February 28, 2002
James W. Pardew Foreign Service officer April 1, 2002 May 13, 2002 Left post, July 30, 2005
John Beyrle Foreign Service officer July 9, 2005 September 8, 2005 April 28, 2008
Nancy McEldowney Foreign Service officer May 2, 2008 August 26, 2008 July 30, 2009
James B. Warlick, Jr. Foreign Service officer December 24, 2009 January 19, 2010 September 14, 2012
Marcie Berman Ries Foreign Service officer May 24, 2012 October 1, 2012 July 28, 2015
Eric S. Rubin[2] Foreign Service officer December 9, 2015 January 27, 2016 July 9, 2019
Herro Mustafa Foreign Service officer September 29, 2019 October 18, 2019 March 1, 2023
Kenneth H. Merten Foreign Service officer December 13, 2022 April 7, 2023 Incumbent
  1. ^ Legation Sofia had been raised to Embassy status November 28, 1966 with Minister McSweeney in charge pending his own promotion to the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

References

  1. ^ "Bulgaria Shows Resentment.; United States Diplomatic Agent's Activity in Stone Case Causes His Recall". The New York Times. March 30, 1902. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
  2. ^ Ambassador Rubin U.S. Embassy, Bulgaria, accessed May 6, 2016

See also

References

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