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Encyclopedia > United States Permanent Representative to NATO

The United States Permanent Representative to NATO (commonly called the US Ambassador to NATO) is the official representative of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Representative has the rank of full ambassador and is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The full official title of the Representative is “United States Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary”. NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation[1] (NATO), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for collective security established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, DC, on 4 April 1949. ... 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 presidential seal was used by President Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ... Seal of the U.S. Senate The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress, the other being the House of Representatives. ...


The first Representative was appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953. Dwight David Eisenhower (also known as Ike) (born David Dwight Eisenhower on October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American soldier and politician. ...


The following is a list of US Permanent Representatives to NATO.

Ambassador Dates served
William H. Draper, Jr. April 8, 1953 – June 13, 1953
John C. Hughes June 12, 1953 – April 20, 1955
George W. Perkins March 14, 1955 – October 12, 1957
W. Randolph Burgess September 21, 1957 – March 23, 1961
Thomas K. Finletter March 2, 1961 – September 2, 1965
Harlan Cleveland September 1, 1965 – June 11, 1969
Robert F. Ellsworth May 13, 1969 – June 30, 1971
David M. Kennedy March 17, 1972 – February 1, 1973
Donald Rumsfeld February 2, 1973 – December 5, 1974
David K. E. Bruce October 17, 1974 – February 12, 1976
Robert Strausz-Hupé March 3, 1976 – April 20, 1977
W. Tapley Bennett, Jr. April 26, 1977 – March 31, 1983
David Abshire July 13, 1983 – January 5, 1987
Alton G. Keel, Jr. March 13, 1987 – June 17, 1989
William Howard Taft IV August 3, 1989 – June 26, 1992
Reginald Bartholomew June 15, 1992 – March 25, 1993
Robert E. Hunter July 1, 1993 – December 31, 1997
Alexander Vershbow November 10, 1997 – July 9, 2001
R. Nicholas Burns August 7, 2001 – March 7, 2005
Victoria Nuland June 20, 2005 – present

William Henry Draper Jr. ... Harlan Cleveland (b. ... Robert Fred Ellsworth (born 1926) was a U.S. diplomat. ... For the American historian, see David M. Kennedy (historian). ... Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932) is the 21st and current United States Secretary of Defense. ... David K. E. Bruce (February 12, 1898 - December 5, 1977) was the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1961 to 1969. ... Robert Strausz-Hupé (25 March 1903 - 24 February 2002) was a U.S. (Austrian-born) diplomat and geopolitician. ... David Manker Abshire (born 1926) was a U.S. administrator and diplomat. ... William Howard Taft IV born on September 13, 1945 in Washington, D.C., is the son of William Howard Taft III and the great-grandson of U.S. President William Howard Taft. ... Alexander Vershbow in 2005. ... Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns is the United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the Department of State’s third ranking official. ... ...

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