United States Ambassador to the United Nations

Ambassador of the United States to the United Nations
Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent Samantha Power since August 2, 2013
Nominator	Barack Obama
Inaugural holder	Edward Stettinius, Jr. as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Formation	1945
Website	U.S. Mission - UN

The United States Ambassador to the United Nations is the leader of the U.S. delegation, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. The position is more formally known as the "Permanent 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"; it is also known as the U.S. Permanent Representative, or "Perm Rep", to the United Nations.

The U.S. Permanent Representative, currently Samantha Power, is charged with representing the United States on the U.N. Security Council and during almost all plenary meetings of the General Assembly, except in the rare situation in which a more senior officer of the United States (such as the U.S. Secretary of State or the President of the United States) is present. Like all United States ambassadors, he or she must be nominated by the U.S. President and confirmed by the Senate.

Many prominent U.S. politicians and diplomats have held the post, including Madeleine Albright.

Cabinet status 1
Office holders 2
See also 3
Notes 4
External links 5

Cabinet status

The Ambassador to the United Nations is not a member of the

Categories

Permanent Representatives to the United Nations

Africa	Liberia Tanzania

Americas	Barbados Canada Chile Colombia Guyana Honduras Panama United States

Asia	China India Indonesia Iran Israel Pakistan Philippines Sri Lanka Syria

Europe	Albania Croatia Finland France Italy Lithuania Luxembourg Russia Sweden United Kingdom

Oceania	Australia New Zealand

Permanent Observers	Holy See Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Related articles	Current Permanent Representatives UN Members General Assembly Security Council President

Ambassadors of the United States

Current countries	Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bolivia Bosnia-Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burma Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros DR Congo Congo Costa Rica Côte d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gabon The Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Holy See Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa San Marino São Tomé and Príncipe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe

Past countries	Czechoslovakia East Germany Hawaii North Yemen Ottoman Empire Prussia South Vietnam South Yemen Soviet Union Tanganyika Two Sicilies United Arab Republic Texas Yugoslavia

Other places	Interests Section in Havana Curaçao Hong Kong and Macau Jerusalem Taiwan

International organizations	AU APEC ASEAN SAARC CD EU ICAO NATO OAS OECD OPCW OSCE UN UNESCO UNEP UN Food and Agriculture UNVIE UN in Geneva UN Human Rights WTO

Ambassadors-at-large	Counterterrorism Global Women's Issues International Religious Freedom War Crimes Issues Trafficking in Persons

United States Ambassadors to the United Nations

	Stettinius Austin Lodge Wadsworth Stevenson Goldberg Ball Wiggins Yost Bush Scali Moynihan Scranton Young McHenry Kirkpatrick Walters Pickering Perkins Albright Richardson Holbrooke Negroponte Danforth Bolton Khalilzad Rice Power

United States Mission to the United Nations
Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS)
U.S. Department of State's listing of U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations

External links

^ Kelemen, Michele (December 1, 2008). "U.N. Envoy Nominee Rice Known As Smart, Tough". National Public Radio. Retrieved January 21, 2009. The head of the United Nations Foundation, a Washington-based advocacy group, released a statement praising Rice as well as Obama's decision to make the post of U.N. ambassador a Cabinet-level position once again—as it was during the Clinton years.
^ Cooper, Helene (November 20, 2008). "Clinton Decision Holding Up Other Obama Choices". New York Times. Retrieved February 9, 2009. Ms. Rice could get the post of United States ambassador to the United Nations, a cabinet-level position under President Clinton. President Bush downgraded the position when he came into office

Notes

Diplomatic Security Service

#	US Ambassador to UN	Years served	U.N. Secretary-General	U.S. President
1	Edward Stettinius, Jr.	1945–1946	Gladwyn Jebb (acting)	Harry S. Truman
1	Edward Stettinius, Jr.	1946	Trygve Lie
—	Herschel V. Johnson (acting)	1946–1947
2	Warren Austin	1947–1952
2	Warren Austin	1953	Dag Hammarskjöld
3	Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.	January 12, 1953 – September 2, 1960		Dwight D. Eisenhower
4	James Jeremiah Wadsworth	1960–1961		Dwight D. Eisenhower
5	Adlai Stevenson	1961		John F. Kennedy
		1961–1963	U Thant	John F. Kennedy
		1963–1965		Lyndon B. Johnson
6	Arthur Goldberg	1965–1968
7	George W. Ball	June 26, 1968 – September 25, 1968
8	James Russell Wiggins	1968–1969
9	Charles Woodruff Yost	1969–1971		Richard Nixon
10	George H. W. Bush	March 1, 1971 – January 1, 1972
10	George H. W. Bush	January 1, 1972 – January 18, 1973	Kurt Waldheim
11	John A. Scali	1973–1974
11	John A. Scali	1974–1975		Gerald Ford
12	Daniel Patrick Moynihan	1975–1976
13	William Scranton	March 15, 1976 – January 19, 1977
14	Andrew Young	1977–1979		Jimmy Carter
15	Donald McHenry	1979–1981		Jimmy Carter
16	Jeane Kirkpatrick	1981		Ronald Reagan
16	Jeane Kirkpatrick	1982-1985	Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
17	Vernon A. Walters	1985–1989
18	Thomas R. Pickering	1989–1991		George H. W. Bush
18	Thomas R. Pickering	1992	Boutros Boutros-Ghali
19	Edward J. Perkins	1992–1993
20	Madeleine Albright	January 27, 1993 – January 1, 1997		Bill Clinton
20	Madeleine Albright	January 1 - January 21, 1997	Kofi Annan
21	Bill Richardson	February 13, 1997 – August 18, 1998
—	Peter Burleigh (acting)	August 18, 1998 – August 25, 1999
22	Richard Holbrooke	August 25, 1999 – January 20, 2001
—	James B. Cunningham (acting)	January 20, 2001 - September 15, 2001		George W. Bush
23	John Negroponte	September 15, 2001 – July 1, 2004
24	John Danforth	July 1, 2004 – January 20, 2005
—	Anne W. Patterson (acting)	January 20 - August 1, 2005
25	John R. Bolton Recess Appointment Never Confirmed by the U.S. Senate	August 1, 2005 – December 9, 2006
—	Alejandro Daniel Wolff (acting)	December 9, 2006 - January 1, 2007
—	Alejandro Daniel Wolff (acting)	January 1, 2007 - April 17, 2007	Ban Ki-moon
26	Zalmay Khalilzad	April 17, 2007 – January 22, 2009
27	Susan Rice	January 22, 2009 – July 1, 2013		Barack Obama
—	Rosemary DiCarlo (acting)	July 1 - August 1, 2013
28	Samantha Power	August 2, 2013 – present

The following is a chronological list of those who have held the office:

Office holders

has publicly opposed the granting of cabinet-level status to the office, stating "One, it overstates the role and importance the U.N. should have in U.S. foreign policy, second, you shouldn't have two secretaries in the same department". John R. Bolton. Former UN Ambassador Obama administration but was once again elevated under the ^[2][1]

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