List of ambassadors of the United States to Panama
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{{Infobox Political post
| post = Ambassador
| body = the United States to Panama
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| insignia = US Department of State official seal.svg
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| insigniacaption = Seal of the United States Department of State
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| incumbent = John Barrett
Chargé d'affaires
| incumbentsince = January 20, 2025
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| nominator = The President of the United States
| appointer = The President
| appointer_qualified = with Senate advice and consent
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| inaugural = William Insco Buchanan
(as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
| formation = December 17, 1903
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| website = [https://pa.usembassy.gov/ U.S. Embassy - Panama City]
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The United States has maintained diplomatic relations with Panama since its separation from Colombia in 1903. The rank of the U.S. chief of mission to Panama was originally Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, but it was upgraded to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in 1939.
Normal diplomatic relations between the United States and Panama have been interrupted only once, from January 10 to April 3, 1964, in the aftermath of the Martyrs' Day riots over sovereignty.
List of ambassadors
The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Panama. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
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! Representative ! Title ! Presentation ! Termination ! Appointed by |
| William I. Buchanan
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryBuchanan presented credentials as “Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary on special mission” in December 1903; he received new credentials as “Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary” only a few days before he was to leave Panama and apparently did not present them. He ceased to act “on special mission,” however, and conducted business in the capacity of “Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary” until his departure. | align=center | December 17, 1903 | align=center | February 2, 1904 | rowspan=4 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| John Barrett
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | align=center | July 22, 1904 | align=center | May 13, 1905 |
| Charles E. Magoon
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | align=center | August 7, 1905 | align=center | September 25, 1906 |
| Herbert G. Squiers
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | align=center | November 8, 1906 | align=center | August 3, 1909 |
| R. S. Reynolds Hitt
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | align=center | March 26, 1910 | align=center | July 19, 1910 | rowspan=3 | William H. Taft |
| Thomas C. Dawson
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | align=center | September 24, 1910 | align=center | December 1, 1910 |
| Henry Percival Dodge
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | align=center | November 9, 1911 | align=center | June 10, 1913 |
| William Jennings Price
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | align=center | October 11, 1913 | align=center | December 28, 1921 |
| John Glover South
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | align=center | December 28, 1921 | align=center | January 5, 1930 |
| Roy T. Davis
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | align=center | March 14, 1930 | align=center | September 20, 1933 |
| Antonio C. Gonzalez
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | align=center | October 11, 1933 | align=center | January 9, 1935 | rowspan=6 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| George T. Summerlin
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | align=center | March 8, 1935 | align=center | July 7, 1937 |
| Frank P. Corrigan
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | align=center | September 2, 1937 | align=center | June 14, 1939 |
| William Dawson
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | July 14, 1939 | align=center | April 21, 1941 |
| Edwin C. Wilson
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | May 23, 1941 | align=center | September 23, 1943 |
| Avra M. Warren
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | June 22, 1944 | align=center | January 5, 1945 |
| Frank T. Hines
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | November 1, 1945 | align=center | February 20, 1948 | rowspan=3 | Harry S. Truman |
| Monnett B. Davis
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | May 28, 1948 | align=center | January 24, 1951 |
| John C. Wiley
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | July 25, 1951 | align=center | November 27, 1953 |
| Selden Chapin
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | January 22, 1954 | align=center | May 29, 1955 | rowspan=3 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Julian F. Harrington
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | August 30, 1955 | align=center | July 14, 1960 |
| Joseph S. Farland
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | August 29, 1960 | align=center | August 31, 1963 |
| Wallace W. Stuart
| Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | align=center | September 1963 | align=center | January 10, 1964 | rowspan=4 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Henry L. Taylor
| Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | align=center | April 3, 1964 | align=center | May 6, 1964 |
| Jack Hood Vaughn
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | May 6, 1964 | align=center | February 27, 1965 |
| Charles W. Adair, Jr.
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | May 13, 1965 | align=center | September 6, 1969 |
| Robert M. Sayre
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | October 31, 1969 | align=center | March 14, 1974 | rowspan=2 | Richard Nixon |
| William J. Jorden
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | April 17, 1974 | align=center | August 25, 1978 |
| Ambler Hodges Moss, Jr.
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | October 6, 1978 | align=center | July 15, 1982 |
| Everett Ellis Briggs
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | October 29, 1982 | align=center | February 24, 1986 | rowspan=2 | Ronald Reagan |
| Arthur H. Davis, Jr.
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | April 4, 1986 | align=center | January 3, 1990 |
| Deane Roesch Hinton
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | January 9, 1990 | align=center | February 12, 1994 |
| Oliver P. Garza
| Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | align=center | February 12, 1994 | align=center | November 7, 1995 | rowspan=3 | Bill Clinton |
| William J. Hughes
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | November 7, 1995 | align=center | October 13, 1998 |
| Simon Ferro
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | February 26, 1999 | align=center | March 1, 2001 |
| Linda Ellen Watt
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | December 17, 2002 | align=center | June 3, 2005 | rowspan="3" | George W. Bush |
| William A. Eaton
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align=center | September 9, 2005 | align=center | July 5, 2008{{cite web | url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/eaton-william-a | title=William A. Eaton - People - Department History - Office of the Historian }} |
| Barbara J. Stephenson
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align="center"|August 6, 2008{{cite web | url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/stephenson-barbara-jean | title=Barbara Jean Stephenson - People - Department History - Office of the Historian }} | align="center"|July 14, 2010 |
| Phyllis M. Powers{{Cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/powers-phyllis-marie|title = Phyllis Marie Powers - People - Department History - Office of the Historian}}
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align="center"|August 8, 2010 | align="center"|April 3, 2012 | rowspan="4"|Barack Obama |
| John Law{{cite web| url = http://panama.usembassy.gov/dcm.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110115192659/http://panama.usembassy.gov/dcm.html| archive-date = 2011-01-15| title = Embassy of the United States Panama - Deputy Chief of Mission}}
| Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | align="center"|April 3, 2012 | align="center"|May 15, 2012 |
| Jonathan D. Farrar{{Cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/farrar-jonathan-d|title = Jonathan D. Farrar - People - Department History - Office of the Historian}}
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align="center"|May 15, 2012 | align="center"|June 5, 2015 |
| John D. Feeley{{cite web| url = http://panama.usembassy.gov/ambassador.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080306201905/http://panama.usembassy.gov/ambassador.html| archive-date = 2008-03-06| title = Ambassador}}
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align="center"| December 9, 2015 | align="center"| March 9, 2018 |
| Roxanne Cabral
| Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | align="center"| March 9, 2018 | align="center"| January 16, 2020 | rowspan="2"|Donald Trump |
| Philip Laidlaw
| Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | align="center" | January 16, 2020 | align="center" | August 1, 2020 |
| Stewart Tuttle
| Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | align="center" | August 1, 2020 | align="center" | November 21, 2022 | Donald Trump |
| Mari Carmen Aponte
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | align="center" | November 21, 2022 | align="center" | January 20, 2025 |
See also
References
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- [https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2030.htm United States Department of State: Background notes on Panama]
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External links
- [https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/chiefsofmission/panama United States Department: Chiefs of Mission for Panama]
- [https://2009-2017.state.gov/p/wha/ci/pm/ United States Department of State: Panama]
- [https://pa.usembassy.gov/ United States Embassy in Panama]
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