State of Residency: Florida
Non-career appointee
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 7, 1939
Presentation of Credentials: Feb 4, 1940
Termination of Mission: Left Cairo Feb 28, 1941
Note: Also accredited to Egypt; resident at Cairo.
Note: After Fish had withdrawn but before Kirk presented credentials as non-resident Minister, the Legation in Jidda was established on May 1, 1942, with James S. Moose, Jr., as Charg? d'Affaires ad interim.
Name: Alexander C. Kirk
State of Residency: Illinois
Foreign Service officer
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Feb 21, 1941
Presentation of Credentials: May 11, 1942
Termination of Mission: Superseded Jul 18, 1943
Note: Also accredited to Egypt and to the Government of Greece established in Egypt; resident at Cairo.
Name: James S. Moose, Jr.
State of Residency: Arkansas
Foreign Service officer
Title: Minister Resident/Foreign Service officer
Appointment: Jun 4, 1943
Presentation of Credentials: Jul 18, 1943
Termination of Mission: Left post Aug 18, 1944
Name: William A. Eddy
State of Residency: New Hampshire
Non-career appointee
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 12, 1944
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 23, 1944
Termination of Mission: Left post May 28, 1946
Name: J. Rives Childs
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Apr 27, 1946
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 29, 1946
Termination of Mission: Promoted to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Note: Also accredited to Yemen; resident at Jidda.
Name: J. Rives Childs
State of Residency: Virginia
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Mar 2, 1949
Presentation of Credentials: Mar 18, 1949
Termination of Mission: Left post Jul 21, 1950
Note: Also accredited to Yemen; resident at Jidda.
Name: Raymond A. Hare
State of Residency: Iowa
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 20, 1950
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 24, 1950
Termination of Mission: Left post Jul 8, 1953
Note: Also accredited to Yemen; resident at Jidda.
Name: George Wadsworth
State of Residency: New York
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 21, 1953
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 9, 1954
Termination of Mission: Left post Jan 1, 1958
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Jan 26, 1954.
Note: Also accredited to Yemen; resident at Jidda.
Name: Donald R. Heath
State of Residency: Kansas
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Nov 27, 1957
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 9, 1958
Termination of Mission: Left post, Apr 18, 1961
Note: Also commissioned to Yemen, but did not present credentials in that country. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Jan 27, 1958.
Name: Parker T. Hart
State of Residency: Illinois
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Apr 6, 1961
Presentation of Credentials: Jul 22, 1961
Termination of Mission: Left post, May 29, 1965
Note: Also commissioned to Kuwait and Yemen; resident at Jidda.
Name: William J. Porter
State of Residency: Massachusetts
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Note: Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.
Name: Hermann F. Eilts
State of Residency: Pennsylvania
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 20, 1965
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 15, 1966
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jul 23, 1970
Name: Nicholas G. Thacher
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 8, 1970
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 22, 1970
Termination of Mission: Left post, Sep 19, 1973
Name: James E. Akins
State of Residency: Ohio
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Sep 20, 1973
Presentation of Credentials: Nov 7, 1973
Termination of Mission: Left post, Feb 10, 1975
Name: William J. Porter
State of Residency: Massachusetts
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Dec 22, 1975
Presentation of Credentials: Feb 21, 1976
Termination of Mission: Left post, May 27, 1977
Name: John C. West
State of Residency: South Carolina
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 8, 1977
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 29, 1977
Termination of Mission: Left post, Mar 21, 1981
Name: Robert Gerhard Neumann
State of Residency: California
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: May 20, 1981
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 22, 1981
Termination of Mission: Left post, Jul 16, 1981
Name: Richard W. Murphy
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 19, 1981
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 29, 1981
Termination of Mission: Left post, Aug 21, 1983
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Sep 29, 1981.
Name: Walter Leon Cutler
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Feb 10, 1984
Presentation of Credentials: Mar 31, 1984
Termination of Mission: Left post Jun 22, 1987
Note: On Sep 26, 1984, the U.S. Liaison Office in Riyadh was raised to the rank of Embassy while the Embassy in Jidda (now Jeddah) became a Consulate General.
Name: Hume Alexander Horan
State of Residency: New Jersey
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 2, 1987
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 22, 1987
Termination of Mission: Left post Apr 22, 1988
Name: Walter Leon Cutler
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 15, 1988
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 17, 1988
Termination of Mission: Left post Apr 30, 1989
Name: Chas. W. Freeman, Jr.
State of Residency: Rhode Island
Foreign Service officer
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jun 15, 1989
Presentation of Credentials: Jan 14, 1990
Termination of Mission: Left post Aug 13, 1992
Name: John Frank Bookout, Jr.
State of Residency: Texas
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Note: Nomination of Jun 3, 1992 was not acted on by the Senate.
Note: C. David Welch served as Charg? d'Affaires ad interim Aug 1992?Aug 1994.
Name: Raymond Edwin Mabus, Jr.
State of Residency: Mississippi
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Jul 5, 1994
Presentation of Credentials: Aug 1, 1994
Termination of Mission: Left post Apr 25, 1996
Name: Wyche Fowler, Jr.
State of Residency: Georgia
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Aug 9, 1996
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 14, 1996
Termination of Mission: Left post Mar 1, 2001
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Oct 31, 1997.
Name: Robert W. Jordan
State of Residency: Texas
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Oct 5, 2001
Presentation of Credentials: Jun 30, 2002
Termination of Mission: Left post Oct 13, 2003
Name: James C. Oberwetter
State of Residency: Texas
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Dec 11, 2003
Presentation of Credentials: Oct 10, 2004
Termination of Mission: Left post, Mar 31, 2007
Name: Ford M. Fraker
State of Residency: Massachusetts
Non-career appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointment: Mar 30, 2007
Presentation of Credentials: Sep 2, 2007
Termination of Mission:
Note: Had presented his credentials to the Foreign Minister, May 5, 2007.
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