Representatives of the U.S.A. to the United Nations
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The Chief of Mission has the title of Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and Representative of the U.S.A. in the Security Council of the United Nations. The U.S. Mission to the United Nations was formally established with that title, by E.O. 9844 of April 28, 1947.
- Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. (1946)
- Warren Robinson Austin (1947–1953)
- Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1953–1960)
- James Jeremiah Wadsworth (1960–1961)
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (1961–1965)
- Arthur Joseph Goldberg (1965–1968)
- George Wildman Ball (1968)
- James Russell Wiggins (1968–1969)
- Charles Woodruff Yost (1969–1971)
- George Herbert Walker Bush (1971–1973)
- John Alfred Scali (1973–1975)
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1975–1976)
- William Warren Scranton (1976–1977)
- Andrew Jackson Young (1977–1979)
- Donald F. McHenry (1979–1981)
- Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick (1981–1985)
- Vernon A. Walters (1985–1989)
- Thomas Reeve Pickering (1989–1992)
- Edward Joseph Perkins (1992–1993)
- Madeleine Korbel Albright (1993–1997)
- William Blaine (Bill) Richardson (1997–1998)
- Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (1999–2001)
- John Dimitri Negroponte (2001–2004)
- John Claggett Danforth (2004–2005)
- John R. Bolton (2005–2006)
- Zalmay Khalilzad (2007–2009)
- Susan Rice (2009–2013)
- Samantha Power (2013–2017)
- Nikki R. Haley (2017–2018)
- Kelly Knight Craft (2019)