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Ambassador of the United States to the United Nations
Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent Kelly Craft since September 12, 2019
Nominator	Donald Trump
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. Its incumbent is Kelly Craft since September 12, 2019.

Ambassadors that served in political positions include Adlai Stevenson, George H.W. Bush, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Madeleine Albright, John R. Bolton, Susan Rice and Nikki Haley.

United States Ambassadors to the United Nations

#	Image	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
				Trygve Lie
—		Herschel V. Johnson Acting	1946–1947
2		Warren Austin	January 14, 1947 – January 22, 1953
				Dag Hammarskjöld
3		Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.	January 12, 1953 – September 2, 1960		Dwight D. Eisenhower
4		James Jeremiah Wadsworth	September 8, 1960 – January 21, 1961
5		Adlai Stevenson II	January, 1961 — July 14, 1965		John F. Kennedy
				U Thant
					Lyndon B. Johnson
6		Arthur Goldberg	1965–1968
7		George W. Ball	June 26, 1968 – September 25, 1968
8		James Russell Wiggins	October 7, 1968 – January 20, 1969
9		Charles Yost	1969–1971		Richard Nixon
10		George H. W. Bush	March 1, 1971 – January 18, 1973
				Kurt Waldheim
11		John A. Scali	February 20, 1973 – June 29, 1975
					Gerald Ford
12		Daniel Patrick Moynihan	June 30, 1975 – February 2, 1976
13		William Scranton	March 15, 1976 – January 19, 1977
14		Andrew Young	January 30, 1977 – September 23, 1979		Jimmy Carter
15		Donald McHenry	September 23, 1979 – January 20, 1981
16		Jeane Kirkpatrick	February 4, 1981 – April 1, 1985		Ronald Reagan
				Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
17		Vernon A. Walters	1985–1989
18		Thomas R. Pickering	1989–1992		George H. W. Bush
				Boutros Boutros-Ghali
19		Edward J. Perkins	May 12, 1992 – January 27, 1993
					Bill Clinton
20		Madeleine Albright	January 27, 1993 – January 21, 1997
21		Bill Richardson	February 13, 1997 – August 18, 1998	Kofi Annan
—		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 – 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 – January 20, 2017
				António Guterres
–		Michele J. Sison Acting	January 20, 2017 – January 24, 2017		Donald Trump
29		Nikki Haley	January 24, 2017 – December 31, 2018
–		Jonathan Cohen (Acting)	January 1, 2019 – August 14, 2019
30		Kelly Craft	September 12, 2019