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| Ambassador of the United States to the United Nations | |
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| 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 delegation of the United States, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. It's incumbent is Samantha Power since August 1, 2013.
Ambassadors that served in political positions include Adlai Stevenson, George H.W. Bush, and Madeleine Albright.
| # | Image | US Ambassador to UN | Served | U.N. Secretary-General | U.S. President |
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| 1 |  |
Edward Stettinius, Jr. | 1945–1946 | Gladwyn Jebb | Harry S. Truman |
| 1946 | Trygve Lie | ||||
| — |  |
Herschel V. Johnson (acting) |
1946–1947 | ||
| 2 |  |
Warren Austin | 1947–1952 | ||
| 1953 | Dag Hammarskjöld | ||||
| 3 |  |
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. | 1953–1960 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
| 4 | |
James Jeremiah Wadsworth | 1960–1961 | ||
| 5 |  |
Adlai Stevenson | 1961 | John F. Kennedy | |
| 1961–1963 | U Thant | ||||
| 1963–1965 | Lyndon B. Johnson | ||||
| 6 |  |
Arthur Goldberg | 1965–1968 | ||
| 7 | |
George W. Ball | 1968 | ||
| 8 |  |
James Russell Wiggins | 1968–1969 | ||
| 9 | |
Charles Woodruff Yost | 1969–1971 | Richard Nixon | |
| 10 |  |
George H. W. Bush | 1971 | ||
| 1972–1973 | Kurt Waldheim | ||||
| 11 | |
John A. Scali | 1973–1974 | ||
| 1974–1975 | Gerald Ford | ||||
| 12 |  |
Daniel Patrick Moynihan | 1975–1976 | ||
| 13 | William Scranton | 1976–1977 | |||
| 14 |  |
Andrew Young | 1977–1979 | Jimmy Carter | |
| 15 | |
Donald McHenry | 1979–1981 | ||
| 16 |  |
Jeane Kirkpatrick | 1981 | Ronald Reagan | |
| 1982-1985 | Javier Pérez de Cuéllar | ||||
| 17 |  |
Vernon A. Walters | 1985–1989 | ||
| 18 |  |
Thomas R. Pickering | 1989–1991 | George H. W. Bush | |
| 1992 | Boutros Boutros-Ghali | ||||
| 19 |  |
Edward J. Perkins | 1992–1993 | ||
| 20 |  |
Madeleine Albright | 1993–1996 | Bill Clinton | |
| 1997 | Kofi Annan | ||||
| 21 |  |
Bill Richardson | 1997–1998 | ||
| — |  |
Peter Burleigh (acting) |
1998–1999 | ||
| 22 |  |
Richard Holbrooke | 1999–2001 | ||
| — |  |
James B. Cunningham (acting) |
2001 | George W. Bush | |
| 23 |  |
John Negroponte | 2001–2004 | ||
| 24 |  |
John Danforth | 2004–2005 | ||
| — |  |
Anne W. Patterson (acting) | 2005 | ||
| 25 |  |
John R. Bolton | 2005–2006 | ||
| — |  |
Alejandro Daniel Wolff (acting) | 2006 | ||
| 2007 | Ban Ki-moon | ||||
| 26 |  |
Zalmay Khalilzad | 2007–2009 | ||
| 27 |  |
Susan Rice | 2009–2013 | Barack Obama | |
| − |  |
Rosemary DiCarlo (acting) | 2013 | ||
| 28 |  |
Samantha Power | 2013−present |
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