United States Ambassadors to the United Nations Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
United States Ambasadors to the United Nations, full title, Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations:
| Name | Years served | Secretary-General(s) | President |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward R. Stettinius, Jr | 1946 | Trygve Lie | Harry S. Truman |
| Herschel V. Johnson (acting) | 1946 - 1947 | Trygve Lie | Harry S. Truman |
| Warren R. Austin | 1947 - 1953 | Trygve Lie, Dag Hammarskjöld | Harry S. Truman |
| Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr | 1953 - 1960 | Dag Hammarskjöld | Dwight Eisenhower |
| James J. Wadsworth | 1960 - 1961 | Dag Hammarskjöld | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Adlai Stevenson | 1961 - 1965 | U Thant | John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson |
| Arthur J. Goldberg | 1965 - 1968 | U Thant | Lyndon Johnson |
| George W. Ball | 1968 | U Thant | Lyndon Johnson |
| James Russell Wiggins | 1968 - 1969 | U Thant | Lyndon Johnson |
| Charles W. Yost | 1969 - 1971 | U Thant | Richard Nixon |
| George H. W. Bush | 1971 - 1973 | U Thant, Kurt Waldheim | Richard Nixon |
| John A. Scali | 1973 - 1975 | Kurt Waldheim | Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan | 1975 - 1976 | Kurt Waldheim | Gerald Ford |
| William W. Scranton | 1976 - 1977 | Kurt Waldheim | Gerald Ford |
| Andrew Young | 1977 - 1979 | Kurt Waldheim | Jimmy Carter |
| Donald McHenry | 1979 - 1981 | Kurt Waldheim | Jimmy Carter |
| Jeane Kirkpatrick | 1981 - 1985 | Kurt Waldheim, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar | Ronald Reagan |
| Vernon A. Walters | 1985 - 1989 | Javier Pérez de Cuéllar | Ronald Reagan |
| Thomas J. Pickering | 1989 - 1992 | Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Boutros Boutros-Ghali | George H. W. Bush |
| Edward J. Perkins | 1992 - 1993 | Boutros Boutros-Ghali | George H. W. Bush |
| Madeleine Albright | 1993 - 1997 | Boutros Boutros-Ghali | Bill Clinton |
| Bill Richardson | 1997 - 1998 | Kofi Annan | Bill Clinton |
| Richard Holbrooke | 1999 - 2001 | Kofi Annan | Bill Clinton |
| John D. Negroponte | 2001 - 2004 | Kofi Annan | George W. Bush |
| John Danforth | 2004 - present | Kofi Annan | George W. Bush |