United States Ambassadors to the United Nations, full title, Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations:


Name Years served Secretary-General(s)
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr 1946 Trygve Lie
Herschel V. Johnson (acting) 1946 - 1947 Trygve Lie
Warren R. Austin 1947 - 1953 Trygve Lie, Dag Hammarskjöld
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr 1953 - 1960 Dag Hammarskjöld
James J. Wadsworth 1960 - 1961 Dag Hammarskjöld
Adlai E. Stevenson 1961 - 1965 U Thant
Arthur J. Goldberg 1965 - 1968 U Thant
George W. Ball 1968 U Thant
James Russell Wiggins 1968 - 1969 U Thant
Charles W. Yost 1969 - 1971 U Thant
George H. W. Bush 1971 - 1973 U Thant, Kurt Waldheim
John A. Scali 1973 - 1975 Kurt Waldheim
Daniel P. Moynihan 1975 - 1976 Kurt Waldheim
William W. Scranton 1976 - 1977 Kurt Waldheim
Andrew Young 1977 - 1979 Kurt Waldheim
Donald McHenry 1979 - 1981 Kurt Waldheim
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick 1981 - 1985 Kurt Waldheim, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Vernon A. Walters 1985 - 1989 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Thomas J. Pickering 1989 - 1992 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Edward J. Perkins 1992 - 1993 Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Madeleine K. Albright 1993 - 1996 Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Bill Richardson 1997 - 1998 Kofi Annan
Richard Holbrooke 1999 - 2001 Kofi Annan
John D. Negroponte 2001 - present Kofi Annan
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