List of ambassadors of Spain to the United States
| Ambassador of Spain to the United States | |
|---|---|
.svg) Coat of Arms of Spain | |
| Ministry of Foreign Affairs | |
| Style | Her Excellency |
| Residence | Foxhall Road NW, Washington D.C |
| Nominator | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Appointer | His Royal Majesty King Felipe VI |
| Formation | May 21, 1785 |
| First holder | Diego de Gardoqui |
| Deputy | Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Spain to the United States |
| Website | https://www.exteriores.gob.es/Embajadas/washington/en/Paginas/index.aspx |
The Ambassador from Spain the United States is Spain's foremost diplomatic representative in the United States, and in charge of the Spain's diplomatic mission in the United States.[1]
History
The ambassador is appointed to the Council of Ministers, they direct the work of all the offices that depend on the Embassy, based in Washington, D.C. Likewise, it informs the Spanish Government about the evolution of events in the United States, negotiates on behalf of Spain, can sign or ratify agreements, observes the development of bilateral relations in all fields and ensures the protection of Spanish interests and its citizens in the United States.
Heads of mission (from 1785)
| Mission Start | Mission End | Name | Title | Appointed By | Accredited Before |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 May 1785 | 3 October 1789 | Diego de Gardoqui | Charge d'Affaires ad interim | Charles III | United States Congress |
| 3 October 1789 | 1 December 1791 | José Ignacio de Viar | Secretary of legation; acted as Charge d'Affaires ad interim | Charles IV | George Washington |
| 1 December 1791 | 3 May 1794 | José Ignacio de Viar José de Jáudenes y Nebot[a] |
Charges d'Affaires ad interim | ||
| 25 April 1796 | 1 August 1796 | José Ignacio de Viar | Secretary of legation; acted as Charge d'Affaires ad interim | ||
| 25 August 1796 | 7 July 1807 | Carlos Martínez de Irujo | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | ||
| 7 July 1807 | 7 October 1809 | Valentin de Foronda | Thomas Jefferson | ||
| 7 October 1809 | 10 May 1819 | Luis de Onís | Ferdinand VII | James Madison | |
| 10 May 1819 | 12 April 1820 | Mateo de la Serna | Charge d'Affaires ad interim | James Monroe | |
| 12 April 1820 | 30 September 1821 | Francisco Dionisio Vives | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | ||
| 30 October 1821 | 31 October 1821 | Francisco Hilario Rivas y Salmon | Secretary of legation; acted as Charge d'Affaires ad interim | ||
| 31 October 1821 | 11 November 1833 | Joaquín de Anduaga | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | ||
| 15 March 1825 | 25 July 1827 | Francisco Hilario Rivas y Salmon | Secretary of legation; acted as Charge d'Affaires ad interim | ||
| 11 November 1833 | 30 June 1835 | Francisco Tacon y Rosique | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | Regency of María Cristina | Andrew Jackson |
| 30 June 1835 | 7 December 1835 | Manuel Tacon | Secretary of legation; acted as Charge d'Affaires ad interim | ||
| 7 December 1835 | 1836 | Ángel Calderón de la Barca y Belgrano | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | ||
| 4 October 1837 | 28 April 1838 | Manuel Tacon | Secretary of legation; acted as Charge d'Affaires ad interim | Martin Van Buren | |
| 26 September 1839 | 2 January 1844 | Pedro Aloantara Argaiz | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | Regency of Baldomero Espartero | |
| 2 January 1844 | 5 August 1844 | Fidencio Beurman | Charge d'Affaires ad interim | Ramón María Narváez | John Tyler (until 1845) James K. Polk (1845–1849) Zachary Taylor (1849–1850) Millard Fillmore (1850–1853) |
| 5 August 1844 | 2 August 1853 | Ángel Calderón de la Barca y Belgrano | Minister resident | ||
| 2 August 1853 | 30 May 1854 | Jose Maria Magallon | Secretary of legation; acted as Charge d'Affaires ad interim | Franklin Pierce | |
| 30 May 1854 | 14 July 1855 | Leopoldo Augusto de cueto | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | Luis José Sartorius | |
| 1 October 1855 | 11 September 1856 | Alfonso Escalante | Baldomero Espartero | ||
| 11 November 1856 | 21 February 1857 | Jose Maria Magallon | Secretary of legation; acted as Charge d'Affaires ad interim | ||
| 21 February 1857 | 7 April 1867 | Gabriel García y Tassura | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | Leopoldo O'Donnell | James Buchanan (until 1861) Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865) Andrew Johnson (from 1865) |
| 7 April 1867 | 15 December 1868 | Facundo Geni | Ramon Maria Narvaez | ||
| 19 March 1869 | 20 March 1872 | Mauricio López Róberts | Francisco Serrano | Ulysses S. Grant | |
| 5 April 1872 | 1 July 1874 | José Polo de Bernabé | Praxedes Mateo Sagasta | ||
| 1 July 1874 | 15 September 1874 | Luis de Potestad | Charge d'Affaires ad interim | ||
| 15 September 1874 | 14 August 1878 | Antonio Mantilla de los Ríos | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | Juan Zavala de la Puente | |
| 14 August 1878 | 3 February 1879 | Jose Brunetti y Gayeso | Charge d'Affaires ad interim | Rutherford B. Hayes | |
| 3 February 1879 | 2 March 1881 | Felipe Mendes de Vigo y Oserio | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | Antonio Canovas del Castillo | |
| 2 March 1881 | 30 April 1881 | Jose Brunetti y Gayeso | Charge d'Affaires ad interim | James A. Garfield | |
| 30 April 1881 | 29 July 1883 | Francisco Barea del Corral | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | Praxedes Mateo Sagasta | Chester A. Arthur |
| 29 July 1883 | 29 January 1884 | Enrique Dupuy de Lôme | Charge d'Affaires ad interim | ||
| 29 January 1884 | 11 February 1886 | Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | José Posada Herrera | |
| 6 April 1886 | 29 October 1890 | Emilio de Muruaga | Praxedes Mateo Sagasta | Grover Cleveland | |
| 14 November 1890 | 28 November 1891 | Miguel Saurez Guanes | Antonio Canovas del Castillo | ||
| 28 November 1891 | 30 September 1892 | Jose Felipe Sagrario | Charge d'Affaires ad interim | Benjamin Harrison | |
| 30 September 1892 | 31 January 1893 | Enrique Dupuy de Lôme | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | ||
| 2 March 1893 | 16 April 1895 | Emilio de Muruaga | Praxedes Mateo Sagasta | Grover Cleveland | |
| 16 April 1895 | 6 May 1895 | Jose Felipe Sagrario | Charge d'Affaires ad interim | ||
| 6 May 1895 | 11 February 1898 | Enrique Dupuy de Lôme | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | ||
| 11 February 1898 | 20 April 1898 | Juan du Besu | First secretary; Charge d'Affaires ad interim | William McKinley | |
| 20 April 1898 | 25 April 1898 | Luis Polo de Bernabé | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | ||
| Rupture of relations due to the Spanish–American War from May 1898 to May 1899 | |||||
| 3 June 1899 | 22 November 1901 | Jose Brunetti y Gayeso, Duke of Arcos | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | Francisco Silvela | William McKinley |
| 22 November 1901 | 22 July 1902 | Juan Riaño y Gayangos | Charge d'Affaires ad interim | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| 22 July 1902 | 20 March 1905 | Emilio de Ojeda y Perpiñán | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | Praxedes Mateo Sagasta | |
| 11 April 1905 | 30 April 1905 | Manuel Walls y Merino | Charge d'Affaires ad interim | Francisco Silvela | |
| 30 April 1905 | June 1905 | Luis Pastor[2] | |||
| June 1905 | 12 January 1907 | Bernardo Jacinto de Cólogan[b] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | ||
| 13 March 1907 | 19 May 1909 | Ramón Piña y Millet | Antonio Aguilar y Correa | ||
| 24 June 1909 | 19 May 1909 | Luis Pastor [2] | Charge d'Affaires ad interim | Antonio Maura William Howard Taft | |
| 19 May 1909 | 1 February 1910 | Rodrigo de Saavedra y Vinent, 2nd Marquess of Villalobar | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | William Howard Taft | |
| 10 February 1910 | 24 May 1910 | Francisco de Zea Bermudes | Charge d'Affaires ad interim | ||
| 24 May 1910 | 1 December 1913 | Juan Riaño y Gayangos | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | Jose Canalejas | |
| Legation became an embassy on 1 December 1913 [3][4][5][6] | |||||
| 1 December 1913 | 31 July 1926 | Juan Riaño y Gayangos | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Jose Canalejas | Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921) Warren G. Harding (1921–1923) Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929) |
| 23 August 1926 | 21 September 1926 | Mariano de Amoedo y Galarmendi | Charge d'Affaires ad interim | ||
| 21 September 1926 | 11 October 1926 | Eduardo Garcia Comin | Consular of Embassy | ||
| 11 October 1926 | 7 June 1931 | Alejandro Padilla y Bell[7] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Miguel Primo de Rivera | Calvin Coolidge (until 1929) Herbert Hoover (1929–1933) |
| 15 April 1931 | 30 June 1931 | Count de Montefuerte | Charge d'Affaires ad interim | ||
| 30 June 1931 | 23 December 1931 | Salvador de Madariaga | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Niceto Alcalá-Zamora | |
| 10 January 1932 | 8 April 1934 | Juan Francisco de Cárdenas | |||
| 8 April 1934 | 10 September 1936 | Luis Calderón y Martín | Franklin D. Roosevelt | ||
| 11 September 1936 | 20 October 1936 | Enrique de la Casa | Charge d'Affaires ad interim | ||
| 20 October 1936 | March 1939 | Fernando de los Ríos | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | Manuel Azaña | |
| The Embassy was closed in April 1939; the National (Franco) government was recognized on 1 April 1939,[8] and the embassy reopened in May 1939 | |||||
| 3 April 1939 | 6 June 1939 | Juan Francisco de Cárdenas | Charge d'Affaires ad interim | Francisco Franco | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| 6 June 1939 | 1947 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | |||
| 19 August 1946 | 20 September 1949 | German Baraibar | Minister Plenipotentiary; Charge d'Affaires ad interim | Harry S. Truman | |
| 20 September 1949 | 5 January 1951 | Eduardo Propper de Callejón | |||
| 5 January 1951 | 10 August 1954 | José Félix de Lequerica | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | ||
| 2 November 1954 | 7 July 1960 | Jose Maria Areilza, Count of Motrico | Dwight D. Eisenhower | ||
| 4 August 1960 | 5 April 1962 | Mariano Yturralde y Orbegoso | |||
| 1 June 1962 | 13 February 1964 | Antonio Garrigues Díaz-Cañabate | John F. Kennedy | ||
| 21 April 1964 | 19 December 1969 | Alfonso Merry del Val y Alzola, Marquess of Merry del Val | Lyndon B. Johnson | ||
| 19 December 1969 | 4 February 1972 | Santiago Argüelles Armada | Richard Nixon | ||
| 7 March 1972 | 6 May 1974[c] | Ángel Sagaz Zubelzu | Carlos Arias Navarro | ||
| 6 May 1974 | 7 August 1974 | Joaquin Cervino | Minister Counselor; Charge d'Affaires ad interim | Gerald Ford | |
| 7 August 1974 | 8 October 1976 | Jaime Alba Delibes | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | ||
| 8 October 1976 | 8 June 1978 | José Rovira y Sánchez-Herrero | Adolfo Suarez | ||
| 27 July 1978 | 24 July 1982 | Jose Llado y Fernandez-Urrutia | Jimmy Carter | ||
| 20 September 1982 | 16 February 1983 | Nuño Aguirre de Carcer y Lopez de Sagredo | Felipe González | Ronald Reagan | |
| 31 March 1983 | 6 March 1987 | Gabriel Mañueco de Lecea | |||
| 31 March 1987 | 2 March 1990 | Julián Santamaría Ossorio | |||
| 17 April 1990 | 28 June 1996 | Jaime de Ojeda y Eiseley | George H. W. Bush (1989–1993) Bill Clinton (1993–2001) | ||
| 28 August 1996 | 30 June 2000 | Antonio de Oyarzabal | José María Aznar | ||
| 2 August 2000 | 25 June 2004 | Francisco Javier Ruperez Rubio | Bill Clinton (until 2001) George W. Bush (2001–2009) | ||
| 12 August 2004 | 18 July 2008 | Carlos Westendorp | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero | ||
| 21 August 2008 | 13 April 2012 | Jorge Dezcallar de Mazarredo[9] | Barack Obama | ||
| 5 June 2012 | 24 March 2017 | Ramon Gil-Casares Satrustegui | Mariano Rajoy[10] | ||
| 24 March 2017 | 7 September 2018 | Pedro Morenés[11] | Donald Trump (until 2021) Joe Biden (2021–Present) | ||
| 7 September 2018 | 17 January 2024 | Santiago Cabanas | Pedro Sanchez | ||
| 16 January 2024 | Incumbent | Ángeles Moreno Bau | |||
See also
- Spain – United States relations
- Foreign relations of Spain
- List of ambassadors of the United States to Spain
References
- Notes
- ^ Jáudenes began to act independently of Viar between March 5 and 22 August 1794. He gave notice of intended return to Spain 25 April 1796. Viar's services ended 3 May 1794.
- ^ Reportedly never received by President.
- ^ Died in office.
- Sources
- ^ This page includes public domain text from the U.S. State Department.
- ^ a b Downing, Margaret B. (20 June 1909). "This Beautiful Baltimore Girl Is The Hostess Of The Spanish Legation At Washington". The Baltimore Sun. p. 16. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ "WE GRATIFY SPAIN.; Proposed Raising of Our Legation to an Embassy Pleases". The New York Times. 7 June 1913. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ "PLEASED BY EMBASSY PLAN.; King Alfonso Sees in it the Cementing of Spanish-American Amity". The New York Times. 28 June 1913. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ "VOTES FOR MADRID EMBASSY; House Passes the Senate Bill --- T.E. Willard May Be Named". The New York Times. 3 September 1913. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ "Spain to Have an Embassy Here". The New York Times. 7 September 1913. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ "ENVOY WARNS OF IMPOSTOR.; Says Name of Spanish Ambassador's Son Is Used in Frauds". The New York Times. 21 February 1928. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ "U.S. and Spain Name Temporary Envoys Franco Flag Tops Embassy in Washington". The New York Times. 4 April 1939. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
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- ^ "Ramon Gil-Casares, U.S. ambassador. UU. and Gustavo de Aristegui, in India". Heraldo.es. 13 April 2012. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
- ^ Morenés, Pedro (2 July 2017). "Opinion | Catalonia's Secession From Spain". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 May 2024.