US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

US Ambassador to mainland China. See also US Ambassador to Taiwan, US Consul General in Hong Kong.

12-Jun-1844	27-Aug-1844	Caleb Cushing
26-Oct-1846	28-Jun-1847	Alexander H. Everett	Died at post
06-Oct-1848	25-May-1850	John W. Davis
May-1850	Jul-1853	Peter Parker	Interim
04-Jul-1853	27-Jan-1854	Humphrey Marshall
03-Nov-1854	12-Dec-1854	Robert M. McLane
15-Jul-1856	25-Aug-1857	Peter Parker
03-May-1858	11-Nov-1858	William B. Reed
10-Aug-1859	15-Dec-1860	John E. Ward
20-Aug-1862	21-Nov-1867	Anson Burlingame
29-Sep-1868	05-Jul-1869	J. Ross Browne
27-Apr-1870	24-Jul-1873	Frederick F. Low
29-Nov-1874	08-Nov-1875	Benjamin P. Avery	Died at post
24-Apr-1876	16-Aug-1880	George F. Seward
16-Aug-1880	04-Oct-1881	James B. Angell
17-Aug-1882	07-Apr-1885	John Russell Young
01-Oct-1885	08-Jul-1898	Charles Denby
08-Jul-1898	04-Apr-1905	Edwin H. Conger
17-Jun-1905	01-Jun-1909	William Woodville Rockhill
21-Apr-1910	16-Feb-1913	William James Calhoun	Normal relations interrupted 12-Feb-1912
15-Nov-1913	15-Sep-1919	Paul S. Reinsch
12-Jun-1920	02-Jul-1921	Charles R. Crane
12-Sep-1921	15-Apr-1925	Jacob Gould Schurman
15-Jul-1925	22-Nov-1929	John Van A. MacMurray
01-Feb-1930	14-May-1941	Nelson T. Johnson
26-May-1941	14-Nov-1944	Clarence E. Gauss
08-Jan-1945	22-Sep-1945	Patrick J. Hurley
19-Jul-1946	02-Aug-1949	J. Leighton Stuart
1950	1979	See US Ambassador to Taiwan
14-May-1973	25-Sep-1974	David K. E. Bruce	Diplomatic Liaison at Beijing
21-Oct-1974	07-Dec-1975	George H.W. Bush	Diplomatic Liaison
06-May-1976	07-Mar-1979	Thomas S. Gates	Diplomatic Liaison; Relations established 1-Jan-1979; Liaison office became an Embassy 1-Mar-1979
07-Mar-1979	13-Feb-1981	Leonard Woodcock
24-Sep-1981	24-Sep-1985	Arthur W. Hummel, Jr.
19-Nov-1985	23-Apr-1989	Winston Lord
08-May-1989	10-May-1991	James Roderick Lilley
20-Aug-1991	17-Jun-1995	J. Stapleton Roy
14-Feb-1996	01-Jul-1999	Jim Sasser
15-Dec-1999	01-May-2001	Joseph W. Prueher
28-Jul-2001	20-Jan-2009	Clark T. Randt
11-Aug-2009	30-Apr-2011	Jon Huntsman, Jr.
01-Aug-2011	--	Gary Locke

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