List of ambassadors of the United States to Turkey
The United States has maintained many high level contacts with Turkey since the 19th century.
Ottoman Empire
Chargé d'Affaires
Minister Resident
- David Porter
- Dabney Smith Carr
- George Perkins Marsh
- Carroll Spence
- James Williams
- Edward Joy Morris
- Wayne MacVeagh
- George H. Boker
- Horace Maynard
- James Longstreet
- Lewis Wallace
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- Lewis Wallace
- Samuel S. Cox
- Oscar S. Straus
- Solomon Hirsch
- David P. Thompson
- Alexander W. Terrell
- James Burrill Angell
- Oscar S. Straus
- John G. A. Leishman
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
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
- Charles Hitchcock Sherrill
- Robert Peet Skinner
- John Van Antwerp MacMurray
- Laurence A. Steinhardt
- Edwin C. Wilson
- George Wadsworth
- George C. McGhee
- Avra M. Warren
- Fletcher Warren
- Raymond A. Hare
- Parker T. Hart
- Robert Komer
- William J. Handley
- William B. Macomber Jr.
- Ronald I. Spiers
- James W. Spain
- Robert Strausz-Hupé
- Morton I. Abramowitz
- Richard Clark Barkley
- Marc Grossman
- Mark Robert Parris
- W. Robert Pearson
- Eric S. Edelman
- Ross Wilson
- James Franklin Jeffrey
- Francis J. Ricciardone
- Jess L. Baily
- John R. Bass
- David M. Satterfield
- Jeff Flake
- Michael B. Goldman
- Tom Barrack