The office of United States Ambassador (or formerly Minister/Envoy Extraordinary) to the United Kingdom (known formally as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's) was traditionally, and still is very much so today due to the Special Relationship, the most prestigious position in the United States Foreign Service. The ambassadorship has been held by various notable politicians, including five who would later become presidents: John Adams, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren and James Buchanan. Other prominent politicians to have held the ambassadorship include Rufus King, Richard Rush, Edward Everett, Charles Francis Adams, Sr., Robert T. Lincoln, John W. Davis, Joseph P. Kennedy, Averell Harriman, and Elliot Richardson.
The ambassador and the embassy staff at large work at the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London. The official residence of the Ambassador of the United States of America to the Court of St. James's is Winfield House in Regent's Park.
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Ministers Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James's, 1785-1811
- John Adams (MA) 1785-1788
- Thomas Pinckney (SC) 1792-1796
- Rufus King (NY) 1796-1803
- James Monroe (VA) 1803-1807
- William Pinkney (MD) 1808-1811
- From 1811 to the outbreak of the War of 1812, chargé d'affaires Jonathan Russell was the chief United States officer in London.
Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James's, 1815-1893
- John Quincy Adams (MA) 1815-1817
- Richard Rush (PA) 1818-1825
- Rufus King (NY) 1825-1826
- Albert Gallatin (PA) 1826-1827
- James Barbour (VA) 1828-1829
- Louis McLane (DE) 1829-1831
- Martin Van Buren (NY) 1831-1832
- From 1832 to 1836, Aaron Vail, the American chargé d'affaires, acted as the chief American officer in London.
- Andrew Stevenson (VA) 1836-1841
- Edward Everett (MA) 1841-1845
- Louis McLane (DE) 1845-1846
- George Bancroft (NY) 1846-1849
- Abbott Lawrence (MA) 1849-1852
- Joseph R. Ingersoll (PA) 1852-1853
- James Buchanan (PA) 1853-1856
- George M. Dallas (PA) 1856-1861
- Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (MA) 1861-1868
- Reverdy Johnson (MD) 1868-1869
- John Lothrop Motley (MA) 1869-1870
- Robert C. Schenck (OH) 1871-1876
- Edwards Pierrepont (NY) 1876-1877
- John Welsh (PA) 1877-1879
- James Russell Lowell (MA) 1880-1885
- Edward J. Phelps (VT) 1885-1889
- Robert T. Lincoln (IL) 1889-1893
Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James's, 1893-present
- Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. (DE) 1893-1897
- John Hay (DC) 1897-1898
- Joseph Choate (NY) 1899-1905
- Whitelaw Reid (NY) 1905-1912
- Walter Hines Page (NY) 1913-1918
- John W. Davis (WV) 1918-1921
- George Brinton McClellan Harvey (NJ) 1921-1923
- Frank B. Kellogg (MN) 1924-1925
- Alanson B. Houghton (NY) 1925-1929
- Charles G. Dawes (IL) 1929-1931
- Andrew W. Mellon (PA) 1932-1933
- Robert Worth Bingham (KY) 1933-1937
- Joseph P. Kennedy (MA) 1938-1940
- John G. Winant (NH) 1941-1946
- W. Averell Harriman (NY) 1946
- Lewis W. Douglas (AZ) 1947-1950
- Walter S. Gifford (NY) 1950-1953
- Winthrop W. Aldrich (NY) 1953-1957
- John Hay Whitney (NY) 1957-1961
- David K. E. Bruce (MD) 1961-1969
- Walter H. Annenberg (PA) 1969-1974
- Elliot L. Richardson (MA) 1975-1976
- Anne Legendre Armstrong (TX) 1976-1977
- Kingman Brewster, Jr. (CT) 1977-1981
- John J. Louis, Jr. (IL) 1981-1983
- Charles H. Price II (MO) 1983-1989
- Henry E. Catto, Jr. (TX) 1989-1991
- Raymond G. H. Seitz (TX) 1991-1994
- William J. Crowe, Jr. (VA) 1994-1997
- Philip Lader (SC) 1997-2001
- William S. Farish III (TX) 2001-2004
- Robert H. Tuttle (CA) 2005-2009
- Louis Susman 2009-
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