The office of United States Ambassador (or Minister) to the United Kingdom (also known as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's) has traditionally been the highest position in the United States Foreign Service, and has been held by various notable politicians, including five future presidents: John Adams, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren and James Buchanan. The Ambassador works at the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square, and lives at Winfield House in Regent's Park. An ambassador, rarely embassador, is a diplomatic official accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization, to serve as the official representative of his or her own country. ... The Court of St Jamess is the popular name of the royal court of the United Kingdom. ... The United States Foreign Service represents the United States to the world. ... John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was a politician and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. ... James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was the fifth President of the United States (1817-1825), and the fourth Virginian to hold the office. ... John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was a diplomat, politician, and President of the United States (March 4, 1825 – March 4, 1829). ... Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862), nicknamed Old Kinderhook, was the 8th President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. ... James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the 15th president of the United States (1857–1861). ... The north side of Grosvenor Square in the 18th or early 19th century. ... Winfield House is a mansion set in 12 acres (49,000 m²) of grounds in Regents Park, London, the largest private garden in central London after that of Buckingham Palace. ...

Ministers Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James's, 1785-1811

• John Adams (MA) 1785-1788
• Thomas Pinckney (SC) 1792-1796
• Rufus King (NY) 1796-1803
• James Monroe (VA) 1803-1807
• William Pinkney (MD) 1808-1811

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Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James's, 1815-1893

• John Quincy Adams (MA) 1815-1817
• Richard Rush (PA) 1818-1825
• Rufus King (NY) 1825-1826
• Albert Gallatin (PA) 1826-1827
• James Barbour (VA) 1828-1829
• Louis McLane (DE) 1829-1831
• Martin Van Buren (NY) 1831-1832
• from 1832 to 1836, Aaron Vail, the American chargé d'affaires, acted as the chief American officer in London.
• Andrew Stevenson (VA) 1836-1841
• Edward Everett (MA) 1841-1845
• Louis McLane (DE) 1845-1849
• George Bancroft (NY) 1846-1849
• Abbott Lawrence (MA) 1849-1852
• Joseph R. Ingersoll (PA) 1852-1853
• James Buchanan (PA) 1853-1856
• George M. Dallas (PA) 1856-1861
• Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (MA) 1861-1868
• Reverdy Johnson (MD) 1868-1869
• John Lothrop Motley (MA) 1869-1870
• Robert C. Schenck (OH) 1871-1876
• Edwards Pierrepont (NY) 1876-1877
• John Welsh (PA) 1877-1879
• James Russell Lowell (MA) 1880-1885
• Edward J. Phelps (VT) 1885-1889
• Robert T. Lincoln (IL) 1889-1893

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Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James's, 1893-present

• Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. (DE) 1893-1897
• John Hay (DC) 1897-1898
• Joseph Choate (NY) 1899-1905
• Whitelaw Reid (NY) 1905-1912
• Walter Hines Page (NY) 1913-1918
• John W. Davis (WV) 1918-1921
• George Brinton McClellan Harvey (NJ) 1921-1923
• Frank B. Kellogg (MN) 1924-1925
• Alanson B. Houghton (NY) 1925-1929
• Charles G. Dawes (IL) 1929-1931
• Andrew W. Mellon (PA) 1932-1933
• Robert Worth Bingham (KY) 1933-1937
• Joseph P. Kennedy (NY) 1938-1940
• John G. Winant (NH) 1941-1946
• W. Averell Harriman (NY) 1946
• Lewis W. Douglas (AZ) 1947-1950
• Walter S. Gifford (NY) 1950-1953
• Winthrop W. Aldrich (NY) 1953-1957
• John Hay Whitney (NY) 1957-1961
• David K. E. Bruce (MD) 1961-1969
• Walter H. Annenberg (PA) 1969-1974
• Elliot L. Richardson (MA) 1975-1976
• Anne Legendre Armstrong (TX) 1976-1977
• Kingman Brewster, Jr. (CT) 1977-1981
• John J. Louis, Jr. (IL) 1981-1983
• Charles H. Price II (MO) 1983-1989
• Henry E. Catto, Jr. (TX) 1989-1991
• Raymond G. H. Seitz (TX) 1991-1994
• William J. Crowe, Jr. (VA) 1994-1997
• Philip Lader (SC) 1997-2001
• William S. Farish (TX) 2001-2004
• Robert H. Tuttle (CA) 2005-

Thomas Francis Bayard, Sr. ... John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 – July 1, 1905) was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln. ... Joseph Choate Joseph Hodges Choate (January 24, 1832 - 1917), was an American lawyer and diplomat. ... Whitelaw Reid Whitelaw Reid (October 27, 1837 - December 15, 1912) was a U.S. politician and newspaper editor, as well as the author of a popular history of Ohio in the Civil War. ... Walter Hines Page (August 15, 1855 - December 21, 1918) was an American journalist, publisher, and diplomat. ... John William Davis John William Davis (April 13, 1873 — March 24, 1955) was an American politician and lawyer. ... Frank Billings Kellogg (December 22, 1856 – December 21, 1937) was an American politician and statesman. ... Alanson Bigelow Houghton (October 10, 1863– September 15, 1941) was an American businessman, politician, and diplomat who served as a Congressman and Ambassador. ... Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was an American banker and politician who was the 30th Vice President of the United States. ... Mellon at his Desk, 1929. ... Joseph Joe Patrick Kennedy, Sr. ... William Averell Harriman William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 – July 26, 1986) was an American Democratic Party politician, businessman and diplomat. ... Lewis Williams Douglas (July 2, 1894 – March 7, 1974) was an American politician, diplomat, businessman and academic. ... John Hay Whitney (August 27, 1904 in Ellsworth, Maine – February 8, 1982), colloquially known as Jock Whitney, was U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, and a member of the Whitney family. ... David K. E. Bruce (February 12, 1898 - December 5, 1977) was the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1961 to 1969. ... Walter H. Annenberg Walter H. Annenberg (March 13, 1908 - October 1, 2002) was a billionaire publisher and philanthropist. ... Elliot Lee Richardson Elliot Lee Richardson (July 20, 1920 - December 31, 1999) was an American lawyer and politician who was a member of the cabinet of President Richard Nixon, but he managed to avoid being tainted by the Watergate Scandal. ... Kingman Brewster, Jr. ... Charles H. Price II (b. ... Henry E. Cato, Jr. ... The Honorable Raymond George Hardenbergh Seitz is a former career diplomat and U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom. ... Admiral William J. Crowe, USN (born January 2, 1925) is a former U.S. Navy admiral who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, and as the Ambassador to the United Kingdom under President Bill Clinton. ... Philip Lader served as the US Ambassador to the Court of St. ... William S. Farish III (born March 17, 1939) is an American millionaire, a previous U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom (2001-2004), member of the Council of American Ambassadors, a horse-breeder, a chairman of Churchill Downs, major Republican Party donor, and family friend of President George W. Bush... Robert Holmes Tuttle. ...

External links

• American Ambassadors to the UK (Embassy webpage)