Ambassador of the United States to Honduras
Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent
Laura Farnsworth Dogu
since April 12, 2022
NominatorThe President of the United States
AppointerThe President
with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural holderSolon Borland
as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Formation1850s
WebsiteU.S. Embassy - Tegucigalpa

The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Honduras. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Representative Title Presentation
of credentials		 Termination
of mission		 Appointed by
Solon Borland Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary [1] April 17, 1854 Franklin Pierce
Beverly L. Clarke Minister Resident August 10, 1858 March 17, 1860[2] James Buchanan
James R. Partridge Minister Resident April 25, 1862 November 14, 1862 Abraham Lincoln
Thomas H. Clay Minister Resident April 5, 1864 August 10, 1866
Richard H. Rousseau Minister Resident October 10, 1866 August 10, 1869 Andrew Johnson
Henry Baxter Minister Resident August 10, 1869 June 30, 1873 Ulysses S. Grant
George Williamson[3] Minister Resident February 19, 1874 January 31, 1879
Cornelius A. Logan[3] Minister Resident October 10, 1879 April 15, 1882 Rutherford B. Hayes
Henry C. Hall[3] Minister Resident April 21, 1882 September 26, 1882 Chester A. Arthur
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 26, 1882 May 16, 1889
Lansing B. Mizner[3] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary March 30, 1889 December 31, 1890 Benjamin Harrison
Romualdo Pacheco[3][4] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary April 17, 1891 June 12, 1893
Pierce M. B. Young[4] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 12, 1893 May 23, 1896 Grover Cleveland
Macgrane Coxe[4] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary [1] June 30, 1897
W. Godfrey Hunter[4] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary January 19, 1899 February 2, 1903 William McKinley
Leslie Combs[4] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 22, 1903 February 27, 1907 Theodore Roosevelt
Joseph W. J. Lee[4] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary [1] July 1, 1907
Henry Percival Dodge[5] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary June 17, 1908 February 6, 1909
Philip Marshall Brown Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary February 21, 1909 February 26, 1910
Fenton R. McCreery Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary March 10, 1910 July 2, 1911 William H. Taft
Charles Dunning White Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 9, 1911 November 4, 1913
John Ewing Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary December 26, 1913 January 18, 1918 Woodrow Wilson
T. Sambola Jones Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary October 2, 1918 October 17, 1919[6]
Franklin E. Morales Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary January 18, 1922 March 2, 1925 Warren G. Harding
George T. Summerlin Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary November 21, 1925 December 17, 1929 Calvin Coolidge
Julius Gareché Lay Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary May 31, 1930 March 17, 1935 Herbert Hoover
Leo J. Keena Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary July 19, 1935 May 1, 1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt
John Draper Erwin Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary September 8, 1937 April 27, 1943
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 27, 1943 April 16, 1947
Paul C. Daniels Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary June 23, 1947 October 30, 1947 Harry S. Truman
Herbert S. Bursley Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 15, 1948 December 12, 1950
John Draper Erwin Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary March 14, 1951 February 28, 1954
Whiting Willauer Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary March 5, 1954 March 24, 1958 Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert Newbegin Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 30, 1958 August 3, 1960
Charles R. Burrows Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 3, 1960 June 28, 1965
Joseph J. Jova Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 12, 1965 June 21, 1969 Lyndon B. Johnson
Hewson A. Ryan Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 5, 1969 May 30, 1973 Richard Nixon
Phillip V. Sanchez Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary June 15, 1973 July 17, 1976
Ralph E. Becker Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 27, 1976 August 1, 1977 Gerald Ford
Mari-Luci Jaramillo Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 27, 1977 September 19, 1980 Jimmy Carter
Jack R. Binns Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 10, 1980 October 31, 1981
John D. Negroponte Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 11, 1981 May 30, 1985 Ronald Reagan
John Arthur Ferch Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 22, 1985 July 9, 1986
Everett Ellis Briggs Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 4, 1986 June 15, 1989
Cresencio S. Arcos, Jr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary January 29, 1990 July 1, 1993 George H. W. Bush
William Thornton Pryce Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 21, 1993 August 15, 1996 Bill Clinton
James F. Creagan Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 29, 1996 July 20, 1999
Frank Almaguer Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 25, 1999 September 5, 2002
Larry Leon Palmer Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 8, 2002 May 7, 2005 George W. Bush
Charles A. Ford Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 8, 2005 March 18, 2008
Hugo Llorens Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 19, 2008 July 3, 2011
Lisa Kubiske Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary July 26, 2011 August 2, 2014 Barack Obama
James D. Nealon Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary August 21, 2014 June 11, 2017
Heide B. Fulton Chargé d'Affaires ad interim June 11, 2017 August 30, 2019 Donald Trump
Colleen A. Hoey Chargé d'Affaires ad interim August 30, 2019 April 7, 2022
Laura Farnsworth Dogu Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 12, 2022 Incumbent Joe Biden

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Did not present credentials in Honduras.
  2. ↑ Died at post.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Commissioned to the “Central American States” but accredited individually to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua; resident at Guatemala.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Commissioned to Guatemala and Honduras; Resident at Guatemala.
  5. ↑ Commissioned to Honduras and El Salvador; resident at San Salvador.
  6. ↑ Declared persona non grata on January 1, 1920, did not return to post.
  • "U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Honduras". The Political Graveyard. March 10, 2005. Retrieved September 5, 2007.
  • United States Department of State: Background notes on Honduras
  • Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets. United States Department of State.
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