About the Embassy
History
Benjamin Franklin - Photo Department of State
The U.S. Embassy in Paris was America’s first diplomatic mission, and some of our "founding fathers" such as Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were among our first envoys to France.
U.S. Representatives and Ambassadors in France
Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Arthur Lee 1776-1779
Benjamin Franklin 1779-1785
Thomas Jefferson 1785-1789
Gouverneur Morris 1792-1794
James Monroe 1794-1796
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney 1796-1797
Robert R. Livingston 1801-1804
Gal. John Armstrong 1804-1810
Joel Barlow 1811-1812
William Harris Crawford 1813-1815
Albert Gallatin 1816-1823
James Brown 1824-1829
William Cabell Rives 1829-1832
Edward Livingston 1833-1835
Gal. Lewis Cass 1836-1842
William R.King 1844-1846
Richard Rush 1847-1849
William Cabell Rives 1849-1853
John Young Mason 1853-1859
Charles James Faulkner 1860-1861
William Lewis Dayton 1861-1864
John Bigelow 1865-1866
Gal. John A.Dix 1866-1869
Elihu B.Washburne 1869-1877
Gal.Edward Follansbee Noyes 1877-1881
Levi Parsons Morton 1881-1885
Robert Milligan McLane 1885-1889
Whitelaw Reid 1889-1892
Thomas Jefferson Coolidge 1892-1893
Ambassadors
James Biddle Eustis 1893-1897
Gal. Horace Porter 1897-1905
Robert Sanderson McCormick 1905-1907
Henry White 1907-1909
Robert Bacon 1909-1912
Myron T.Herrick 1912-1914
William Graves Sharp 1914-1919
Hugh Campbell Wallace 1919-1921
Myron T.Herrick 1921-1929
Walter E.Edge 1929-1933
Jesse I.Straus 1933-1936
William C.Bullitt 1936-1940
William D.Leahy 1941-1942
Jefferson Caffery 1944-1949
David K.E.Bruce 1949-1952
James C.Dunn 1952-1953
C.Douglas Dillon 1953-1957
Amory Houghton 1957-1961
Gal. James M.Gavin 1961-1962
Charles E.Bohlen 1962-1968
Robert S.Shriver, Jr. 1968-1970
Arthur K.Watson 1970-1972
John N.Irwin, II 1973-1974
Kenneth Rush 1974-1977
Arthur H.Hartman 1977-1981
Evan Griffith Galbraith 1981-1985
Joe M.Rodgers 1985-1989
Walter Curley 1989-1993
Pamela Harriman 1993-1997
Felix Rohatyn 1997-2000
Howard H. Leach 2000-2005
Craig Roberts Stapleton 2005-2008
Charles H. Rivkin 2009-
More Information
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Commemorating 150 Years of Foreign Relations :The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions.
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A history of the official American presence in France, PDF 355 kb.
- Office of the Historian, Department of State The Office of the Historian is responsible, under law, for the preparation and publication of the official historical documentary record of U.S. foreign policy in the Foreign Relations of the United States series. It researches and writes historical studies on aspects of U.S. diplomacy for use by policymakers in the Department and in other agencies as well for public information.