Name: Lincoln MacVeagh
State of Residency: Connecticut
Non-career appointee
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 8, 1941
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 30, 1941
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jun 27, 1942
Name: Leland B. Morris
State of Residency: Pennsylvania
Foreign Service officer
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 13, 1942
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 7, 1942
Termination of Mission: Relinquished charge, May 10, 1944
Name: Louis G. Dreyfus, Jr.
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Mar 21, 1944
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 14, 1944
Termination of Mission: Reaccredited when Iceland became a republic; presented new credentials Aug 10, 1944; left post, Oct 21, 1946
Name: Richard P. Butrick
State of Residency: New York
Foreign Service officer
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Feb 26, 1948
Presentation of Credentials: Apr 29, 1948
Termination of Mission: Left post, Aug 10, 1949
Name: Edward B. Lawson
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 22, 1949
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 22, 1949
Termination of Mission: Left post, May 29, 1954
Name: John J. Muccio
State of Residency: Rhode Island
Foreign Service officer
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 23, 1954
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 12, 1954
Termination of Mission: Promoted to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Name: John J. Muccio
State of Residency: Rhode Island
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 19, 1955
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 3, 1955
Termination of Mission: Left post, Dec 16, 1959
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Jan 25, 1956.
Name: Tyler Thompson
State of Residency: Maine
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jan 27, 1960
Presentation of Credentials: Feb 19, 1960
Termination of Mission: Left post, Apr 16, 1961
Name: James K. Penfield
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Apr 27, 1961
Presentation of Credentials: May 24, 1961
Termination of Mission: Left Iceland, Mar 16, 1967
Name: Karl F. Rolvaag
State of Residency: Minnesota
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Apr 5, 1967
Presentation of Credentials: May 9, 1967
Termination of Mission: Left post, Mar 27, 1969
Name: Luther I. Replogle
State of Residency: Illinois
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 8, 1969
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 12, 1969
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jun 15, 1972
Name: Frederick Irving
State of Residency: Rhode Island
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 11, 1972
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 11, 1972
Termination of Mission: Left post, Apr 21, 1976
Name: James J. Blake
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 1, 1976
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 8, 1976
Termination of Mission: Left post, Sep 29, 1978
Name: Richard A. Ericson, Jr.
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 12, 1978
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 21, 1978
Termination of Mission: Left post, Aug 15, 1981
Name: Marshall Brement
State of Residency: Arizona
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 27, 1981
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 16, 1981
Termination of Mission: Left post, Aug 1, 1985
Name: Nicholas Ruwe
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 12, 1985
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 21, 1985
Termination of Mission: Left post, Oct. 7, 1989
Name: Charles Elvan Cobb, Jr.
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 10, 1989
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 8, 1989
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jan 10, 1992
Name: Sigmund A. Rogich
State of Residency: Nevada
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 11, 1992
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 4, 1992
Termination of Mission: Left post, Oct 14, 1993
Name: Parker W. Borg
State of Residency: Minnesota
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 8, 1993
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 24, 1993
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jul 13, 1996
Name: Day O. Mount
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 11, 1996
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 3, 1996
Termination of Mission: Left post Aug 12, 1999
Name: Barbara J. Griffiths
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 9, 1999
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 29, 1999
Termination of Mission: Left post Jul 29, 2002
Name: James Irvin Gadsden
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 3, 2002
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 9, 2002
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jul 14, 2005
Name: Carol Van Voorst
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 22, 2006
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 26, 2006
Termination of Mission:
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