Korea

Name: Lucius H. Foote
State of Residency: California
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Feb 27, 1883
Presentation of Credentials: May 20, 1883
Termination of Mission: Left post, Feb 19, 1885

Name: Lucius H. Foote
State of Residency: California
Title: Minister Resident/Consul General
Appointment: Jul 7, 1884
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Jan 28, 1885, but declined appointment when the grade of the mission was lowered.

Name: William H. Parker
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Title: Minister Resident/Consul General
Appointment: Feb 19, 1886
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 12, 1886
Termination of Mission: Left Korea, Sep 3, 1886

Name: Hugh A. Dinsmore
State of Residency: Arkansas
Title: Minister Resident/Consul General
Appointment: Jan 12, 1887
Presentation of Credentials: Apr 13, 1887
Termination of Mission: Presented recall, May 26, 1890

Name: William O. Bradley
State of Residency: Kentucky
Title: Minister Resident/Consul General
Appointment: Mar 30, 1889
Note: Declined appointment.

Name: Augustine Heard
State of Residency: Massachusetts
Title: Minister Resident/Consul General
Appointment: Jan 30, 1890
Presentation of Credentials: May 26, 1890
Termination of Mission: Presented recall, Jun 27, 1893

Name: John M.B. Sill
State of Residency: Michigan
Title: Minister Resident/Consul General
Appointment: Jan 12, 1894
Presentation of Credentials: Apr 30, 1894
Termination of Mission: Presented recall, Sep 13, 1897

Name: Horace N. Allen
State of Residency: Ohio
Title: Minister Resident/Consul General
Appointment: Jul 17, 1897
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 13, 1897
Termination of Mission: Promoted to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

Name: Horace N. Allen
State of Residency: Ohio
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 17, 1901
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 1, 1901
Termination of Mission: Left Korea, Jun 9, 1905
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Dec 10, 1901.

Name: Edwin V. Morgan
State of Residency: New York
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Mar 18, 1905
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 26, 1905
Termination of Mission: Japan assumed direction of Korean foreign relations, Nov 17, 1905
Note: Morgan closed the Legation, Nov 28, 1905, and left Korea, Dec 8, 1905

Name: John J. Muccio
State of Residency: Rhode Island
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Apr 7, 1949
Presentation of Credentials: Apr 20, 1949
Termination of Mission: Left Korea, Sep 8, 1952

Name: Ellis O. Briggs
State of Residency: Maine
Foreign Service office
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 25, 1952
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 25, 1952
Termination of Mission: Left post, Apr 12, 1955
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Jul 28, 1953.

Name: William S.B. Lacy
State of Residency: Virginia
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Mar 24, 1955
Presentation of Credentials: May 12, 1955
Termination of Mission: Left post, Oct 20, 1955

Name: Walter C. Dowling
State of Residency: Georgia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 29, 1956
Presentation of Credentials: Jul 14, 1956
Termination of Mission: Left post, Oct 2, 1959

Name: Walter P. McConaughy
State of Residency: Alabama
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 5, 1959
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 17, 1959
Termination of Mission: Left post, Apr 12, 1961
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Jan 21, 1960.

Name: Samuel D. Berger
State of Residency: New York
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 12, 1961
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 27, 1961
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jul 10, 1964

Name: Winthrop G. Brown
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 31, 1964
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 14, 1964
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jun 10, 1967

Name: William J. Porter
State of Residency: Massachusetts
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 9, 1967
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 23, 1967
Termination of Mission: Left post, Aug 18, 1971

Name: Philip C. Habib
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 30, 1971
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 10, 1971
Termination of Mission: Left post, Aug 19, 1974

Name: Richard L. Sneider
State of Residency: New York
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 23, 1974
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 18, 1974
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jun 21, 1978

Name: William H. Gleysteen, Jr.
State of Residency: Pennsylvania
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 27, 1978
Presentation of Credentials: Jul 24, 1978
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jun 10, 1981

Name: Richard L. Walker
State of Residency: South Carolina
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 18, 1981
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 12, 1981
Termination of Mission: Left post, Oct 25 1986

Name: James Roderick Lilley
State of Residency: Maryland
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 16, 1986
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 26, 1986
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jan 3, 1989

Name: Donald Phinney Gregg
State of Residency: Maryland
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 14, 1989
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 27, 1989
Termination of Mission: Left post, Feb 27, 1993

Name: James T. Laney
State of Residency: Georgia
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 15, 1993
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 2, 1993
Termination of Mission: Left post, Feb 5, 1996

Note:  Richard A. Christenson served as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Feb 1996-Dec 1997.

Name: Steven W. Bosworth
State of Residency: Conneticut
Non-career appointee (former Foreign Service officer)
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 24, 1997
Presentation of Credentials: Dec 15, 1997
Termination of Mission: Left post Feb 10, 2001

Name: Thomas C. Hubbard
State of Residency: Tennessee
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 3, 2001
Presentation of Credentials: Sept 12, 2001
Termination of Mission:  Left post, Apr. 17, 2004

Name: Christopher R. Hill
State of Residency: Rhode Island
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 12 2004
Presentation of Credentials: Sept 1, 2004
Termination of Mission:  Left post, Apr 12, 2005

Name: Alexander R. Vershbow
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 12, 2005
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 17, 2005
Termination of Mission: