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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 territori ...

ambassadors An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or so ...

, 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 den ...

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 the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...

. * Alexander K. Sloan (1931) – ''Chargé d'Affaires'' * Paul Knabenshue (1932–1942) – ''Minister'' * Thomas M. Wilson (1942) – ''Minister'' * Loy W. Henderson (1943–1945) – ''Minister'' * George Wadsworth II (1946–1948) – ''Minister'' * Edward Savage Crocker II (1948) – ''First ambassador'' * Burton Y. Berry (1952–1954) * Waldemar J. Gallman (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 states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 Ju ...

and did not resume them until 1984. The U.S. maintained an interests section starting in 1972, hosted by the

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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.

(1984–1988) – ''Initially Chargé d'Affaires, then full ambassador'' *

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 Columb ...

(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 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. I ...

remained closed until 2000 when it was staffed by Japanese 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. Sh ...

(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. Spec ...

(2005 – March 2007) * Ryan Crocker (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 Chance ...

(April 2009 – August 2010) * James F. Jeffrey (August 2010 – June 2012) * Robert S. Beecroft (September 2012 – June 2014) * Stuart E. Jones (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 (June 2019 – June 2022) * Alina Romanowski (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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