List of ambassadors of the United States to Costa Rica information
Ambassador of the United States to Costa Rica
Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent Cynthia Telles since March 11, 2022
Nominator
The President of the United States
Appointer
The President with Senate advice and consent
Inaugural holder
Solon Borland as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Website
U.S. Embassy - San Jose
The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Costa Rica. On February 16, 2022, Cynthia Telles was sworn in as the 60th ambassador to the Republic of Costa Rica.
Representative
Title
Presentation of credentials
Termination of mission
Appointed by
Solon Borland[1]
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
[2]
April 17, 1854
Franklin Pierce
Mirabeau B. Lamar[1]
Minister Resident
September 14, 1858
May 20, 1859
James Buchanan
Alexander Dimitry[1]
September 29, 1859
April 27, 1861
Charles N. Riotte
August 29, 1861
January 18, 1867
Abraham Lincoln
Albert G. Lawrence
January 18, 1867
June 24, 1868
Andrew Johnson
Jacob B. Blair
October 6, 1868
June 30, 1873
George Williamson[3]
August 13, 1873
January 31, 1879
Ulysses S. Grant
Cornelius A. Logan[3]
December 25, 1879
April 17, 1882
Rutherford B. Hayes
Henry Cook Hall[3][4]
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
November 22, 1882
May 16, 1889
Chester A. Arthur
Lansing B. Mizner[3]
August 30, 1889
December 31, 1890
Benjamin Harrison
Romualdo Pacheco[3]
May 7, 1891
October 31, 1891
Richard Cutts Shannon[5]
October 31, 1891
April 30, 1893
Lewis Baker[5]
May 20, 1893
December 9, 1897
Grover Cleveland
William L. Merry[6]
January 15, 1898
March 4, 1911
William McKinley
Lewis Einstein
November 3, 1911
December 29, 1911
William H. Taft
Edward J. Hale
August 29, 1913
April 19, 1917[7]
Woodrow Wilson
Stewart Johnson
Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
April 19, 1917
December 5, 1918
John F. Martin, Jr.
October 15, 1920
January 1921
Walter C. Thurston
January 1921
March 1922
Warren G. Harding
Roy T. Davis
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
March 14, 1922
January 4, 1930
Charles C. Eberhardt
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
March 14, 1930
September 24, 1933
Herbert Hoover
Leo R. Sack
October 16, 1933
January 10, 1937
Franklin D. Roosevelt
William H. Hornibrook
September 2, 1937
September 1, 1941
Arthur Bliss Lane
October 27, 1941
March 17, 1942
Robert M. Scotten
March 31, 1942
April 20, 1943
Fay Allen Des Portes
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
May 20, 1943
September 11, 1944
Hallett Johnson
February 14, 1945
May 16, 1947
Walter J. Donnelly
June 27, 1947
October 15, 1947
Harry S. Truman
Nathaniel Penistone Davis
January 31, 1948
June 8, 1949
Joseph Flack
August 13, 1949
September 21, 1950
Philip Bracken Fleming
November 20, 1951
August 7, 1953
Robert C. Hill
November 4, 1953
September 10, 1954
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert F. Woodward
December 3, 1954
March 15, 1958
Whiting Willauer
May 5, 1958
April 17, 1961
Raymond Telles
May 22, 1961
February 19, 1967
John F. Kennedy
Clarence A. Boonstra
March 8, 1967
August 11, 1969
Lyndon B. Johnson
Walter C. Ploeser
April 27, 1970
April 13, 1972
Richard Nixon
Viron P. Vaky
October 17, 1972
February 9, 1974
Terence A. Todman
March 17, 1975
January 24, 1977
Gerald Ford
Marvin Weissman
June 28, 1977
March 22, 1980
Jimmy Carter
Francis J. McNeil
July 8, 1980
June 27, 1983
Curtin Winsor, Jr.
July 14, 1983
February 18, 1985
Ronald Reagan
Lewis Arthur Tambs
August 1, 1985
January 1, 1987
Deane Roesch Hinton
November 17, 1987
January 4, 1990
Luis Guinot, Jr.
August 27, 1991
March 1, 1993
George H. W. Bush
Robert O. Homme
Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
March 1, 1993
July 1993
Bill Clinton
Donald Harrington
July 1993
August 1993
Joseph Becelia
August 1993
October 21, 1994
Peter Jon de Vos
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
October 21, 1994
October 14, 1997
Thomas J. Dodd, Jr.
November 26, 1997
March 1, 2001
John J. Danilovich
October 10, 2001
June 1, 2004
George W. Bush
Mark Langdale
November 8, 2005
July 31, 2007
Peter M. Brennan
Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
August 1, 2007
May 5, 2008
Peter Cianchette
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
May 5, 2008
June 19, 2009
Anne S. Andrew
December 29, 2009
June 12, 2013
Barack Obama
S. Fitzgerald Haney
June 28, 2015
July 15, 2017
Sharon Day
September 25, 2017
January 20, 2021
Donald Trump
Cynthia Telles
March 11, 2022
Present
Joe Biden
^ abcCommissioned to Central America; resident at Managua.
^Borland did not present credentials in Costa Rica
^ abcdeCommissioned to "the Central American States" but accredited individually to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua; resident at Guatemala.
^Hall was appointed first as Minister Resident on April 17, 1882, and then promoted to “Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary” on July 13, 1882; he presented both sets of credentials the same day, November 22, 1882.
^ abAlso accredited to El Salvador and Nicaragua; resident at Managua.
^Originally accredited to Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua; after December 12, 1907, only to Costa Rica and Nicaragua; after July 1, 1908, only Costa Rica. Resident at San José.
^Normal relations interrupted, January 27, 1917.
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