US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

US Ambassador to South Korea.

20-May-1883	19-Feb-1885	Lucius H. Foote
12-Jun-1886	03-Sep-1886	William H. Parker
13-Apr-1887	26-May-1890	Hugh A. Dinsmore
26-May-1890	27-Jun-1893	Augustine Heard
30-Apr-1894	13-Sep-1897	John M. B. Sill
13-Sep-1897	09-Jun-1905	Horace N. Allen
26-Jun-1905	17-Nov-1905	Edwin V. Morgan	Japan invades Korea, US legation closes
20-Apr-1949	08-Sep-1952	John J. Muccio
25-Nov-1952	12-Apr-1955	Ellis O. Briggs
12-May-1955	20-Oct-1955	William S. B. Lacy
14-Jul-1956	02-Oct-1959	Walter C. Dowling
17-Dec-1959	12-Apr-1961	Walter P. McConaughy
27-Jun-1961	10-Jul-1964	Samuel D. Berger
14-Aug-1964	10-Jun-1967	Winthrop G. Brown
23-Aug-1967	18-Aug-1971	William J. Porter
10-Oct-1971	19-Aug-1974	Philip C. Habib
18-Sep-1974	21-Jun-1978	Richard L. Sneider
24-Jul-1978	10-Jun-1981	William H. Gleysteen
12-Aug-1981	25-Oct-1986	Richard L. Walker
26-Nov-1986	03-Jan-1989	James Roderick Lilley
27-Sep-1989	27-Feb-1993	Donald P. Gregg
Feb-1993	Nov-1993	Raymond Burghardt	Interim
02-Nov-1993	05-Feb-1996	James T. Laney
Feb-1996	Dec-1997	Richard A. Christenson	Interim
15-Dec-1997	10-Feb-2001	Stephen W. Bosworth
12-Sep-2001	17-Apr-2004	Thomas C. Hubbard
01-Sep-2004	12-Apr-2005	Christopher Hill
17-Oct-2005	--	Alexander Vershbow

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