The

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., ...

has maintained many high level contacts with

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula ...

since the 19th century.

Ottoman Empire

Chargé d'Affaires

* George W. Erving (before 1831) * David Porter (September 13, 1831 – May 23, 1840)

Minister Resident

* David Porter (May 23, 1840 – March 3, 1843) * Dabney Smith Carr (February 29, 1844 – October 20, 1849) *

George Perkins Marsh George Perkins Marsh (March 15, 1801July 23, 1882), an American diplomat and philologist, is considered by some to be America's first environmentalist and by recognizing the irreversible impact of man's actions on the earth, a precursor to the ...

(March 11, 1850 – December 19, 1853) * Carroll Spence (February 9, 1854 – December 12, 1857) * James Williams (May 27, 1858 – May 25, 1861) *

Edward Joy Morris Edward Joy Morris (July 16, 1815December 31, 1881) was a Whig and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Biography Morris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and the Univ ...

(October 22, 1861 – October 25, 1870) *

Wayne MacVeagh Isaac Wayne MacVeagh (April 19, 1833January 11, 1917) was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat. He served as the 36th Attorney General of the United States under the administrations of Presidents James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur ...

(October 25, 1870 – June 10, 1871) * George H. Boker (March 25, 1872 – May 1, 1875) *

Horace Maynard Horace Maynard (August 30, 1814 – May 3, 1882) was an American educator, attorney, politician and diplomat active primarily in the second half of the 19th century. Initially elected to the House of Representatives from Tennessee's 2nd Con ...

(June 12, 1875 – July 15, 1880) *

James Longstreet James Longstreet (January 8, 1821January 2, 1904) was one of the foremost General officers in the Confederate States Army, Confederate generals of the American Civil War and the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his ...

(December 14, 1880 – April 29, 1881) *

Lewis Wallace Lewis Wallace (April 10, 1827February 15, 1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is ...

(September 6, 1881 – September 4, 1882)

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

(September 4, 1882 – May 15, 1885) *

Samuel S. Cox Samuel Sullivan "Sunset" Cox (September 30, 1824 – September 10, 1889) was an American Congressman and diplomat. He represented both Ohio and New York in the United States House of Representatives and served as United States Ambassador to the O ...

(August 25, 1885 – September 14, 1886) *

Oscar S. Straus Oscar Solomon Straus (December 23, 1850 – May 3, 1926) was an American politician and diplomat. He served as United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1906 to 1909, making him the first Jewish United ...

(July 1, 1887 – June 16, 1889) * Solomon Hirsch (December 28, 1889 – June 16, 1892) * David P. Thompson (January 11, 1893 – May 1, 1893) * Alexander W. Terrell (July 7, 1893 – June 15, 1897) *

James Burrill Angell James Burrill Angell (January 7, 1829 – April 1, 1916) was an American educator and diplomat. He is best known for being the longest-serving president of the University of Michigan, from 1871 to 1909. He represented the transition from sma ...

(September 3, 1897 – August 13, 1898) *

(October 15, 1898 – December 20, 1899) * John G. A. Leishman (March 29, 1901 – October 5, 1906)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

* John G. A. Leishman (October 5, 1906 – June 10, 1909) *

(October 4, 1909 – September 3, 1910) *

William Woodville Rockhill William Woodville Rockhill (April 1, 1854 – December 8, 1914) was a United States diplomat, best known as the author of the U.S.'s Open Door Policy for China, the first American to learn to speak Tibetan, and one of the West's leading exper ...

(August 28, 1911 – November 20, 1913) * Henry Morgenthau, Sr. (December 11, 1913 – February 1, 1916) * Abram I. Elkus (October 2, 1916 – April 20, 1917) The Ottoman Empire severed diplomatic relations with the United States on April 20, 1917, after the United States declared war against Germany on April 4, 1917. Normal diplomatic relations were re-established with the Empire's successor state, Turkey, in 1927.

Republic of Turkey

Joseph Grew Joseph Clark Grew (May 27, 1880 – May 25, 1965) was an American career diplomat and Foreign Service officer. He is best known as the ambassador to Japan from 1932 to 1941 and as a high official in the State Department in Washington from 1944 to ...

(October 12, 1927 – March 13, 1932) * Charles Hitchcock Sherrill (May 20, 1932 – March 23, 1933) *

Robert Peet Skinner Robert Peet Skinner (February 24, 1866 – July 1, 1960) was an American diplomat, editor, and publisher. Biography Skinner was born in Massillon, Ohio on February 24, 1866 to August T. Skinner and Cecelia van Rensselaer. At the age of 19, he bec ...

(October 16, 1933 – January 16, 1936) *

John Van Antwerp MacMurray John Van Antwerp MacMurray (October 6, 1881 – September 25, 1960) was an American attorney, author and diplomat best known as one of the leading China experts in the U.S. government. He served as Assistant Secretary of State from November 192 ...

(March 16, 1936 – November 28, 1941) * Laurence A. Steinhardt (March 10, 1942 – April 2, 1945) * Edwin C. Wilson (June 11, 1945 – August 20, 1948) * George Wadsworth (October 1, 1948 – January 2, 1952) * George C. McGhee (January 15, 1952 – June 19, 1953) * Avra M. Warren (September 17, 1953 – February 17, 1956) * Fletcher Warren (June 13, 1956 – November 15, 1960) * Raymond A. Hare (April 5, 1961 – August 27, 1965) * Parker T. Hart (October 11, 1965 – October 3, 1968) * Robert Komer (December 3, 1968 – May 7, 1969) * William J. Handley (July 1, 1969 – April 19, 1973) *

William B. Macomber, Jr. William Butts Macomber Jr. (March 28, 1921 – November 19, 2003) was an American diplomat who served in several positions in the United States Department of State. He was the 12th president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Early life and educ ...

(May 16, 1973 – June 15, 1977) * Ronald I. Spiers (July 12, 1977 – January 11, 1980) * James W. Spain (February 26, 1980 – August 16, 1981) * Robert Strausz-Hupé (September 7, 1981 – May 18, 1989) *

Morton I. Abramowitz Morton Isaac Abramowitz (born January 20, 1933) is an American diplomat and former U.S. State Department official. Starting his overseas career in Taipei, Taiwan after joining the foreign service, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Thailand and T ...

(August 1, 1989 – July 25, 1991) *

Richard Clark Barkley Richard Clark Barkley (December 23, 1932 – January 30, 2015) was a United States diplomat. From December 1988 until October 1990, he was the last United States Ambassador to East Germany. After that, from 1991 to 1994, he was the United States ...

(November 8, 1991 – December 15, 1994) *

Marc Grossman Marc Isaiah Grossman (born September 23, 1951) is an American former diplomat and government official. He served as United States Ambassador to Turkey, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, and Under Secretary of State for Politica ...

(January 3, 1995 – June 1, 1997) * Mark Robert Parris (November 12, 1997 – September 8, 2000) * W. Robert Pearson (September 21, 2000 – July 23, 2003) *

Eric S. Edelman Eric Steven Edelman (born October 27, 1951) is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (2005–2009), U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (2003–2005), U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Finland (1998–2001), and Princip ...

(August 29, 2003 – June 19, 2005) * Ross Wilson (December 8, 2005 – August 9, 2008) * James Franklin Jeffrey (December 3, 2008 – July 31, 2010) * Francis J. Ricciardone (January 28, 2011 – July 8, 2014) * Jess L. Baily (July 9, 2014 – September 8, 2014) *

John R. Bass John Rodney Bass II (born 1964) is an American diplomat, who has served as the Under Secretary of State for Management since December 2021. He was the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2017 to 2020, the United States Ambassador to Tur ...

(October 20, 2014 – October 15, 2017) *

David M. Satterfield David Michael Satterfield (born December 18, 1954) is an American diplomat and U.S. Ambassador, who has served extensively in the Middle East, including the Persian Gulf area, Lebanon, and Iraq. He later served as a Senior Advisor on Iraq for Sec ...

(August 28, 2019 – January 7, 2022) *

Jeff Flake Jeffry Lane Flake (born December 31, 1962) is an American politician and diplomat who is the current U.S Ambassador to Turkey. A member of the Republican Party, Flake served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013 and ...

(January 26, 2022 – present)

Gallery

File:David Porter.jpg, David Porter, Chargé d'Affaires (1831–1839) File:US Attorney General MacVeagh.jpg,

, Minister Resident (1870–1871) File:James Longstreet.jpg,

, Minister Resident (1880–1881) File:SSCox.jpg,

, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (1885–1886) File:James Burrill Angell 1897.jpg,

James B. Angell James Burrill Angell (January 7, 1829 – April 1, 1916) was an American educator and diplomat. He is best known for being the longest-serving president of the University of Michigan, from 1871 to 1909. He represented the transition from sm ...

, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (1897–1898) File:Oscar Solomon Straus 1.jpg,

, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (1909–1910) File:JosephGrew.jpg,

, Ambassador (1927–1932) File:Laurence Steinhardt.jpg, Laurence A. Steinhardt, Ambassador (1941–1945) File:Ross Wilson - ambassador.jpg, Ross Wilson, Ambassador (2005–2008) File:Jeffry L. Flake, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey.jpg,

, current Ambassador (2022–present)

References

United States Department of State: Background notes on Turkey
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External links

United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Turkey

United States Department of State: Turkey

United States Embassy in Ankara

President Benjamin Harrison Appointments: Solomon Hirsch Minister to Turkey
Shapell Manuscript Foundation {{Turkey–United States relations

1831 establishments in the Ottoman Empire