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Ambassador of the Us of America to the Un
Seal of the Department of State
Flag of the United States Ambassador
Incumbent Linda Thomas-Greenfield since Feb 25, 2021
The states Section of Land
Mode	Madam Administrator (informal) Her Excellency (diplomatic)
Fellow member of	National Security Council Cabinet of the United States
Reports to	President of the United states United States Secretary of State
Seat	United nations Headquarters New York Urban center, New York, U.S.
Appointer	President of the The states with Senate advice and consent
Term length	No fixed term At the pleasure of the President of the Usa
Germination	December 21, 1945; 76 years ago  (1945-12-21)
First holder	Edward Stettinius Jr.
Bacon	Executive Schedule, Level 4
Website	usun.usmission.gov

The The states administrator to the Un is the leader of the U.S. delegation, the U.S. Mission to the Un. The position is formally known as the permanent representative of the United states of america to the United nations, with the rank and condition of ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, and representative of the United states of america of America in the United Nations Security Council.

The deputy ambassador assumes the duties of the ambassador in his or her absence. As with all U.s. ambassadors, the administrator to the UN and the deputy ambassador are nominated by the president of the United States and confirmed by the Senate. The ambassador serves at the pleasure of the president, and enjoys total diplomatic immunity.

The U.S. permanent representative is charged with representing the United States on the UN Security Council, and during all plenary meetings of the General Assembly, except when a more senior officer of the United States (such as the secretarial assistant of land or the president of the U.s.) is in omnipresence.

The current ambassador is Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who was nominated by President Joe Biden and confirmed past the Senate on February 23, 2021.

Cabinet status [edit]

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., a leading moderate Republican who lost his seat in the U.s. Senate to John F. Kennedy in the 1952 elections, was appointed administrator to the United Nations in 1953 by Dwight D. Eisenhower in gratitude for the defeated senator's function in the new president'south defeat of conservative leader Robert A. Taft for the 1952 Republican nomination and subsequent service as his campaign manager in the full general election; Eisenhower raised the ambassadorship to Cabinet rank in order to give Guild direct access to him without having to get through the State Department.^[1]

The ambassadorship continued to hold this status through the Reagan administration but was removed from Cabinet rank by George H. W. Bush, who had previously held the position himself. Information technology was restored under the Clinton assistants. It was non a Cabinet-level position nether the George West. Bush-league administration (from 2001 to 2009),^{[ii] [iii]} just was in one case once again elevated under the Obama administration, and initially retained as such by the Trump administration.^[4] Nonetheless, in Dec 2018, it was reported by several news organizations that the Trump assistants would in one case again downgrade the position to non-Cabinet rank.^[v] The position was once more elevated to Cabinet rank in the Biden administration.^[vi]

Former UN ambassador and national security counselor John R. Bolton has publicly opposed the granting of Cabinet-level condition to the role, stating "One, it overstates the role and importance the U.Due north. should take in U.S. strange policy, 2nd, you shouldn't have two secretaries in the same section".

Listing of Ambassadors [edit]

Status

 Denotes Interim U.s. Ambassador to the United Nations

 Denotes United States Ambassador to the Un through Recess Date

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

#	Portrait	Ambassador	Years Served	U.S. President
1		Edward Stettinius Jr.	January 17, 1946 – June 3, 1946		Harry S. Truman
—		Herschel Johnson	June 3, 1946 – Jan 14, 1947 Acting
2		Warren Austin	January fourteen, 1947 – January 22, 1953
					Dwight D. Eisenhower
3		Henry Cabot Social club Jr.	January 26, 1953[7] – September 3, 1960
4		James Jeremiah Wadsworth	September eight, 1960 – January 21, 1961
					John F. Kennedy
5		Adlai Stevenson 2	January 23, 1961 – July 14, 1965
					Lyndon B. Johnson
6		Arthur Goldberg	July 28, 1965 – June 24, 1968
seven		George Brawl	June 26, 1968 – September 25, 1968
eight		James Russell Wiggins	October 7, 1968 – January 20, 1969
ix		Charles W. Yost	Jan 23, 1969 – Feb 25, 1971		Richard Nixon
10		George H. W. Bush	March 1, 1971 – January 18, 1973
eleven		John A. Scali	February 20, 1973 – June 29, 1975
					Gerald Ford
12		Daniel Patrick Moynihan	June 30, 1975 – Feb 2, 1976
13		William Scranton	March 15, 1976 – January xix, 1977
xiv		Andrew Young	January 30, 1977 – September 23, 1979		Jimmy Carter
15		Donald McHenry	September 23, 1979 – Jan twenty, 1981
16		Jeane Kirkpatrick	February 4, 1981 – April 1, 1985		Ronald Reagan
17		Vernon A. Walters	May 22, 1985 – March 15, 1989
					George H. W. Bush
xviii		Thomas R. Pickering	March twenty, 1989 – May 7, 1992
xix		Edward J. Perkins	May 12, 1992 – January 27, 1993
					Bill Clinton
20		Madeleine Albright	January 27, 1993 – Jan 21, 1997
21		Bill Richardson	February 18, 1997 – Baronial eighteen, 1998
—		Peter Burleigh	August eighteen, 1998 – September vii, 1999 Acting
22		Richard Holbrooke	September 7, 1999 – January 20, 2001
—		James B. Cunningham	January twenty, 2001 – September nineteen, 2001 Acting		George W. Bush
23		John Negroponte	September nineteen, 2001 – July 23, 2004
24		John Danforth	July 23, 2004 – Jan xx, 2005
—		Anne Westward. Patterson	January twenty, 2005 – August 2, 2005 Acting
25		John Bolton	August 2, 2005 – December 31, 2006 Recess appointment, not confirmed by the U.Southward. Senate
—		Alejandro Daniel Wolff	December 31, 2006 – April thirty, 2007 Acting
26		Zalmay Khalilzad	April xxx, 2007 – January 22, 2009
					Barack Obama
27		Susan Rice	January 26, 2009 – June xxx, 2013
—		Rosemary DiCarlo	June thirty, 2013 – August five, 2013 Acting
28		Samantha Power	August v, 2013 – Jan 20, 2017
—		Michele J. Sison	January xx, 2017 – January 27, 2017 Acting		Donald Trump
29		Nikki Haley	Jan 27, 2017 – December 31, 2018
—		Jonathan Cohen	January 1, 2019 – September 12, 2019 Interim
xxx		Kelly Craft	September 12, 2019 – January 20, 2021
—		Richard M. Mills Jr.	January 20, 2021 – February 25, 2021 Acting		Joe Biden
31		Linda Thomas-Greenfield	Feb 25, 2021 – present

List of Deputy Ambassadors [edit]

The Us Deputy Ambassador to the Un serves as the 2nd about senior American diplomat before the Un General Associates and the Security Council in New York and carries the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. In the absence of the Administrator, the Deputy serves in his or her identify.

This is an incomplete list of Usa Deputy Ambassadors to the Un. At various times, this office has besides been known as the Deputy Delegate to the United Nations, Deputy Representative to the United Nations, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and chargé d'affaires of the U.S. Mission to the United nations.

• Ernest A. Gross - October 11, 1949 – 1953
• James J. Wadsworth^† February 28, 1953 – 1960
• Charles W. Yost^† - Feb 13, 1961 – 1966
• William B. Buffum - January 1967 – 1970
• W. Tapley Bennett Jr. - 1971 – 1977
• James F. Leonard - 1977 – 1979
• Kenneth 50. Adelman - confirmed July 29, 1981 – 1983
• José S. Sorzano - confirmed July 26, 1983 – 1985
• Herbert S. Okun - confirmed Oct ane, 1985 (following a recess date) – 1989
• Alexander F. Watson - confirmed August iv, 1989 – 1992
• Edward S. Walker Jr. - confirmed October 8, 1992 – 1993
• Skip Gnehm - April 1994 – August 1997
• A. Peter Burleigh - August 1997 – Dec 1999
• James B. Cunningham - December 12, 1999 – July 2004
• Anne W. Patterson - August 2004 – August 2005
• Alejandro Daniel Wolff - November 2005 – June 2010
• Rosemary DiCarlo - July viii, 2010 – c. November 1, 2014
• Michele J. Sison - December 7, 2014 – February 21, 2018
• Kelley Eckels Currie (acting) - February 21, 2018 – June 8, 2018
• Jonathan Cohen - June 8, 2018 – November 17, 2019
• Richard Thousand. Mills Jr. - November 9, 2020 – present

^†These Deputy Ambassadors subsequently served as full U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations position (run into above).

Run across also [edit]

• Diplomatic Security Service
• Residence of the U.s. Ambassador to the United nations

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Hubbard, James P. (2011). The U.s. and the Finish of British Colonial Dominion in Africa, 1941–1968. Jefferson City, NC: McFarland & Company. p. 172. ISBN978-0-7864-5952-0.
2. ^ Kelemen, Michele (December ane, 2008). "U.N. Envoy Nominee Rice Known As Smart, Tough". National Public Radio. Retrieved Jan 21, 2009. The head of the United Nations Foundation, a Washington-based advocacy grouping, released a statement praising Rice too every bit Obama's decision to brand the post of U.Due north. ambassador a Chiffonier-level position once more – equally it was during the Clinton years.
3. ^ Cooper, Helene (November 20, 2008). "Clinton Decision Holding Upwards Other Obama Choices". New York Times . Retrieved February 9, 2009. Ms. Rice could become the postal service of United states administrator to the United Nations, a chiffonier-level position under President Clinton. President Bush downgraded the position when he came into office
4. ^ Walker, Hunter. "President Trump announces his total Cabinet roster." Yahoo News. 2017-02-07. Retrieved 2017-02-08.
5. ^ Kristen Welker; Geoff Bennett; Daniel Barnes (December 7, 2018). "U.N. ambassador to no longer exist Cabinet-level position". NBC News. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
6. ^ Kirby, Jen (November 23, 2020). "Biden announces veteran diplomat Linda Thomas-Greenfield as UN administrator option". Vocalization.
7. ^ Chesly Manly (January 27, 1953). "Order Asks FBI to Screen All U.S. Aids [sic] on U.Northward." Chicago Tribune. Chicago Tribune Press Service. Archived from the original on March 19, 2017. Retrieved March eighteen, 2017.

External links [edit]

• Official website

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