United States Ambassador to the United Nations

Ambassador of the United States to the United Nations
Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent Susan Rice since January 23 2009
Inaugural holder	Edward Stettinius, Jr. as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Formation	1945
Website	U.S. Mission - UN

The United States Ambassador to the United Nations is the leader of the delegation of the United States, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. It's incumbent is Susan Rice since January 23, 2009.

Ambassadors that served in political positions include Adlai Stevenson, George H.W. Bush, and Madeleine Albright.

United States Ambassadors to the United Nations

#	Image	US Ambassador to UN	Served	U.N. Secretary-General	U.S. President
1		Edward Stettinius, Jr.	1945–1946	Gladwyn Jebb	Harry S. Truman
			1946	Trygve Lie
—		Herschel V. Johnson (acting)	1946–1947
2		Warren Austin	1947–1952
			1953	Dag Hammarskjöld
3		Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.	1953–1960		Dwight D. Eisenhower
4		James Jeremiah Wadsworth	1960–1961
5		Adlai Stevenson	1961		John F. Kennedy
			1961–1963	U Thant
			1963–1965		Lyndon B. Johnson
6		Arthur Goldberg	1965–1968
7		George W. Ball	1968
8		James Russell Wiggins	1968–1969
9		Charles Woodruff Yost	1969–1971		Richard Nixon
10		George H. W. Bush	1971
			1972–1973	Kurt Waldheim
11		John A. Scali	1973–1974
			1974–1975		Gerald Ford
12		Daniel Patrick Moynihan	1975–1976
13		William Scranton	1976–1977
14		Andrew Young	1977–1979		Jimmy Carter
15		Donald McHenry	1979–1981
16		Jeane Kirkpatrick	1981		Ronald Reagan
			1982-1985	Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
17		Vernon A. Walters	1985–1989
18		Thomas R. Pickering	1989–1991		George H. W. Bush
			1992	Boutros Boutros-Ghali
19		Edward J. Perkins	1992–1993
20		Madeleine Albright	1993–1996		Bill Clinton
			1997	Kofi Annan
21		Bill Richardson	1997–1998
—		Peter Burleigh (acting)	1998–1999
22		Richard Holbrooke	1999–2001
—		James B. Cunningham (acting)	2001		George W. Bush
23		John Negroponte	2001–2004
24		John Danforth	2004–2005
—		Anne W. Patterson (acting)	2005
25		John R. Bolton	2005–2006
—		Alejandro Daniel Wolff (acting)	2006
			2007	Ban Ki-moon
26		Zalmay Khalilzad	2007–2009
27		Susan Rice	2009–present		Barack Obama

Other websites

• United States Mission to the United Nations
• Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS)
• U.S. Department of State's listing of U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations