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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 primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

ambassadors, or lower-ranking heads of a

diplomatic mission A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually deno ...

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

. * Alexander K. Sloan (1931) – ''Chargé d'Affaires'' *

Paul Knabenshue Paul Knabenshue (1883 – February 1, 1942) was an American career foreign service officer. Knabenshue was the United States Consul at Beirut, Syria (1919–1928) and Consul General at Jerusalem. He was also Minister Resident/Consul General to Ira ...

(1932–1942) – ''Minister'' * Thomas M. Wilson (1942) – ''Minister'' *

Loy W. Henderson Loy Wesley Henderson (June 28, 1892 – March 24, 1986) was a United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat. Background Loy Wesley Henderson was born on June 28, 1892, in Rogers, Arkansas, to a poor Methodist preacher. He attended college ...

(1943–1945) – ''Minister'' *

George Wadsworth II George Wadsworth II (April 3, 1893 – March 5, 1958) was a United States diplomat, specializing in the Middle East. Life Wadsworth was born in Buffalo, New York and received a degree in chemical engineering from Union College in Schenectady ...

(1946–1948) – ''Minister'' * Edward Savage Crocker II (1948) – ''First ambassador'' *

Burton Y. Berry Burton Yost Berry (August 31, 1901 – August 22, 1985) was an American diplomat and art collector. Born in Fowler, Indiana, Berry studied at Indiana University. In 1928 he joined the United States Foreign Service. Berry served as Vice-Consul to ...

(1952–1954) *

Waldemar J. Gallman Waldemar John Gallman (April 27, 1899 Wellsville, New York – June 28, 1980) was an American Career Foreign Service Officer who served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Poland (1948–1950), South Africa (1951–1954) (Commission ...

(1954–1958) * John D. Jernegan (1958–1962) * Robert C. Strong (1963–1967) * Enoch S. Duncan (1967) – ''Chargé d'Affaires'' The United States broke off full ties with Iraq over the

Six-Day War The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab world, Arab states (primarily United Arab Republic, Egypt, S ...

and did not resume them until 1984. The U.S. maintained an

interests section A protecting power is a country that represents another sovereign state in a country where it lacks its own diplomatic representation. It is common for protecting powers to be appointed when two countries break off diplomatic relations with e ...

starting in 1972, hosted by the Belgian embassy. *

David George Newton David George Newton (November 13, 1935 – 2016) was the United States Ambassador to Iraq under Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1988, and to Yemen under Bill Clinton from 1994 to 1997.April Glaspie April Catherine Glaspie (born April 26, 1942) is an American former diplomat and senior member of the Foreign Service, best known for her role in the events leading up to the Gulf War. Early life Glaspie was born in Vancouver, British Columbi ...

(1988–1990) *

Joseph C. Wilson Joseph Charles Wilson IV (November 6, 1949 – September 27, 2019) was an American diplomat who was best known for his 2002 trip to Niger to investigate allegations that Saddam Hussein was attempting to purchase yellowcake uranium; his ''New Y ...

(1990–1991) – ''Chargé d'Affaires until

First Gulf War The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition's efforts against Iraq were carried out in two key phases: ...

'' The American embassy in

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

remained closed until 2000 when it was staffed by

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

ese diplomats working in proxy with the U.S. No new Ambassador or Chargé d'Affaires was appointed until after the Second Gulf War. However the U.S. Interests Section was opened at the Polish embassy in January, 1991. The Polish embassy represented interests of the U.S. until July 13, 2004. * Krzysztof Biernacki (1991–2004) – the Director of the U.S. Interests Section at the Polish embassy in Baghdad, Polish diplomat *

John Negroponte John Dimitri Negroponte (; born July 21, 1939) is an American diplomat. He is currently a James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is a former J.B. and Maurice C. Sha ...

(2004–2005) – ''First post- Second Gulf War ambassador'' *

Zalmay Khalilzad Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad ( ps, ځلمی خلیل زاد, prs, زلمی خلیل‌زاد; born March 22, 1951) is an Afghan-American diplomat and foreign policy expert. Khalilzad was appointed by President Donald J. Trump to serve as U.S. Specia ...

(2005 – March 2007) *

Ryan Crocker Ryan Clark Crocker (born June 19, 1949) is an American retired diplomat who served as a career ambassador within the United States Foreign Service and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has served as United States Ambassador to ...

(March 2007 – March 2009) Ambassador

Patricia A. Butenis Patricia Agatha Butenis (born 1953) is an American diplomat. In 2014 she retired with the rank of Career Minister. Early life and education Butenis was born in New Jersey in 1953 to Charles P. and Haifa Butenis (née Michalezka). The eldest of ...

is Chargé d'Affaires, a.i. *

Christopher R. Hill Christopher Robert Hill (born August 10, 1952) is an American diplomat who is United States Ambassador to Serbia. Previously, he was professor at George W. Ball adjunct Columbia University in the City of New York, the Chief Advisor to the Chancel ...

(April 2009 – August 2010) *

James F. Jeffrey James Franklin Jeffrey (born February 8, 1946) is an American diplomat who served most recently as the United States Special Representative for Syria Engagement and the Special Envoy to the International military intervention against ISIL. He ha ...

(August 2010 – June 2012) *

Robert S. Beecroft Robert Stephen "Steve" Beecroft (born 1957) is an American diplomat and attorney. He served as United States Ambassador to Egypt from December 2014 to June 2017. He previously served as United States Ambassador to Iraq and United States Ambassado ...

(September 2012 – June 2014) *

Stuart E. Jones Stuart E. Jones (born 1959) is an American diplomat. He previously served as the United States Ambassador to Iraq from 2014 to 2016, and as the United States Ambassador to Jordan from July 21, 2011, to July 28, 2014.

(June 2014 – 2016) *

Douglas Silliman Douglas Alan Silliman (born 1960) is the president of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington and a former American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Kuwait (2014-16) and Iraq (2016-19). Early life and education Silli ...

(2016 – February 2019) * Joey R. Hood (February – June 2019) - ''Chargé d'Affaires'' *

Matthew H. Tueller Matthew Heywood Tueller (born 1957) is an American diplomat who formerly served as the United States Ambassador to Iraq. A career United States Foreign Service officer, he served as the United States Ambassador to Kuwait and Yemen as well. Ear ...

(June 2019 – June 2022) *

Alina Romanowski Alina L. Romanowski (born September 26, 1955) is an American career diplomat who has served as the List of ambassadors of the United States to Iraq, United States Ambassador to Iraq since June 2022. She previously served as the List of ambassador ...

(June 2022 – present)

References

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

United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Iraq

United States Department of State: Iraq

United States Embassy in Baghdad
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