United States Ambassador to Argentina

Ambassador of the United States to Argentina
Embajador de los Estados Unidos en Argentina

Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent
Noah Bryson Mamet
since December 10, 2014
Residence Bosch Palace
Nominator Barack Obama
Inaugural holder Caesar A. Rodney
as Minister Plenipotentiary
Formation December 27, 1823
Website U.S. Embassy - Buenos Aires

The United States Ambassador to Argentina is the official representative of the President of the United States to the head of state of Argentina.

Argentina had declared its independence from Spain in 1816 and there followed a series of revolutionary wars until 1861 when the nation was united. The United States recognized the government of Buenos Aires, the predecessor to Argentina, on January 27, 1823. Caesar Augustus Rodney was appointed as American Minister Plenipotentiary to Buenos Aires. Between 1854 and 1866, U.S. ambassadors were commissioned to the Argentine Confederation. Since 1867, ambassadors have been commissioned to the Argentine Republic.[1]

Diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Argentina were interrupted but not severed in June 1944 when the U.S. government recalled its ambassador in a dispute with the newly appointed dictator Edelmiro Julián Farrell. The U.S. government believed that Farrell was not committed to the defense of the Western Hemisphere against the Axis powers. Normal relations were resumed with the appointment of a new ambassador in April 1945 when Argentina declared war against Germany.[1]

The official residence of the U.S. Ambassador in Buenos Aires is the Bosch Palace, listed on the State Department's Register of Culturally Significant Property.[2]

Ambassadors and chiefs of mission

U.S. diplomatic terms

Career FSO
After 1915, The United States Department of State began classifying ambassadors as career Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) for those who have served in the Foreign Service for a specified amount of time.

Political appointee
A person who is not a career foreign service officer, but is appointed by the president (often as a reward to political friends).

Appointed
The date that the ambassador took the oath of office; also known as “commissioning”. It follows confirmation of a presidential appointment by the Senate, or a Congressional-recess appointment by the president. In the case of a recess appointment, the ambassador requires subsequent confirmation by the Senate.

Presented credentials
The date that the ambassador presented his letter of credence to the head of state or appropriate authority of the receiving nation. At this time the ambassador officially becomes the representative of his country. This would normally occur a short time after the ambassador’s arrival on station. The host nation may reject the ambassador by not receiving the ambassador’s letter, but this occurs only rarely.

Terminated mission
Usually the date that the ambassador left the country. In some cases a letter of recall is presented, ending the ambassador’s commission, either as a means of diplomatic protest or because the diplomat is being reassigned elsewhere and replaced by another envoy.

Chargé d'affaires
The person in charge of the business of the embassy when there is no ambassador commissioned to the host country. See chargé d'affaires.

Ad interim
Latin phrase meaning "for the time being", "in the meantime". See ad interim.
Bosch Palace, the residence of the U.S. Ambassador

Note: Beginning with Minister Peden, the office was upgraded to Minister Resident

Note: Minister Peden resided at Buenos Aires until about May 1, 1857, when he closed the Legation at that city and moved to Paraná, the capital of the Argentine Confederation. The U.S. Legation to the Argentine Confederation remained there until February 25, 1862, when Ambassador Palmer returned it to Buenos Aires, following reunification of the country.

Note: Ambassador Palmer moved the U.S. Legation back from Paraná to Buenos Aires in 1862.

Note: In 1887, during Hanna’s term, the office was upgraded to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, which required a new appointment for Hanna.

Note: In 1914 the office of Envoy was upgraded to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Note: Normal relations between the U.S. and Argentina were interrupted Feb 24, 1944; the U.S. did not recognize the new government of Argentina and recalled Ambassador Armour on June 27, 1944. Relations were restored when the U.S. recognized the Farrell government on April 19, 1945.

Note: The name of the chargé d'affaires a.i. or other chief of mission who served in the interim between Ambassadors Armour and Braden is not recorded.

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Argentina". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2011-07-16.
  2. ↑ "Register of Culturally Significant Property" (pdf). United States Department of State. Retrieved 2011-07-16.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Commissioned to the Republic of Buenos Aires.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Commissioned to the Argentine Confederation.
  5. ↑ Bissel was appointed to the post of Chargé d'Affaires on May 24, 1853, during a recess of the Senate, but declined the appointment.
  6. ↑ Lamar was commissioned during a recess of the Senate but did not serve under this appointment.
  7. ↑ Beginning with Ambassador Asboth in 1866, all U.S. ambassadors were commissioned to the Argentine Republic.
  8. 1 2 3 Between 1867 and 1870, the U.S. Ambassador to Argentina was concurrently commissioned to Uruguay, while resident in Buenos Aires.
  9. ↑ White was commissioned during a recess of the Senate but declined reappointment during the next Congress.
  10. ↑ Osborn was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on July 7, 1884.
  11. ↑ Hanna was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on December 15, 1881.
  12. ↑ Pitkin was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on January 9, 1890.
  13. ↑ Lord was commissioned during a recess of the Senate and recommissioned after confirmation on December 14, 1899.
  14. ↑ Barrett was commissioned during a recess of the Senateand recommissioned after confirmation November 16, 1903.
  15. ↑ Wilson took the oath of office on January 11, 1909 but did not proceed to post. Instead, he was appointed as Assistant Secretary of State.
  16. ↑ Carter was appointed to the office on August 12, 1911 but did not serve under this appointment.
  17. ↑ President Eisenhower nominated Beaulac July 17, 1953 to be Ambassador to Argentina, but the nomination was withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it. Beaulac was instead given a recess appointment as Ambassador to Chile. He was again nominated for the ambassadorship to Argentina in 1956.
  18. ↑ Rubottom was commissioned during a recess of the Senate on July 29, 1960 but he declined the appointment.
  19. ↑ President Clinton nominated Nemazee to the post on January 6, 1999, but the nomination was returned without action on August 5, 1999.

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References

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