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There has been a United States Ambassador to France since the American Revolution. Many prominent politicians and statesmen have held the post, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, William H. Crawford, Albert Gallatin, Edward Livingston, Lewis Cass, William R. King, Richard Rush, Elihu B. Washburne, Levi P. Morton, Whitelaw Reid, C. Douglas Dillon, and Sargent Shriver.
This is a complete list of United States ambassadors to France:
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United States Envoys to France
- Benjamin Franklin, Arthur Lee, Silas Deane (substituted by John Adams in 1778) 1776-1779
United States Ministers Plenipotentiary to France
- Benjamin Franklin September 14, 1778 - May 17, 1785
- Thomas Jefferson March 10, 1785 - September 26, 1789
- William Short April 20, 1790 - May 15, 1792
- Gouverneur Morris 1792-1794
- James Monroe 1794-1796
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney 1796-1797
- Robert R. Livingston 1801-1804
- John Armstrong 1804-1810
- Joel Barlow 1811-1812
United States Ministers to France
- William H. Crawford 1813-1815
- Albert Gallatin 1816-1823 (United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to France)
- James Brown 1824-1829
- William Cabell Rives 1829-1832
- Edward Livingston 1833-1835
- Lewis Cass 1836-1842
- William R. King 1844-1846
- Richard Rush 1847-1849
- William Cabell Rives 1849-1853
- John Young Mason 1853-1859
- Charles J. Faulkner 1860-1861
- William Lewis Dayton 1861-1864
- John Bigelow 1865-1866
- John Adams Dix 1866-1869
- Elihu B. Washburne 1869-1877
- Edward Follansbee Noyes 1877-1881
- Levi Parsons Morton 1881-1885
- Robert Milligan McLane 1885-1889
- Whitelaw Reid 1889-1892
- Thomas Jefferson Coolidge 1892-1893
United States Ambassadors to France
- James Biddle Eustis 1893-1897
- Horace Porter 1897-1905
- Robert Sanderson McCormick 1905-1907
- Henry White 1907-1909
- Robert Bacon 1909-1912
- Myron T. Herrick 1912-1914
- William Graves Sharp 1914-1919
- Hugh Campbell Wallace 1919-1921
- Myron T. Herrick 1921-1929
- Walter E. Edge 1929-1933
- Jesse I. Strauss 1933-1936
- William C. Bullitt 1936-1940
- William D. Leahy 1941-1942
- Jefferson Caffery 1944-1949
- David K. E. Bruce 1949-1952
- James C. Dunn 1952-1953
- C. Douglas Dillon 1953-1957
- Amory Houghton 1957-1961
- James M. Gavin 1961-1962
- Charles E. Bohlen 1962-1968
- Robert S. Shriver, Jr. 1968-1970
- Arthur K. Watson 1970-1972
- John N. Irwin, II 1973-1974
- Kenneth Rush 1974-1977
- Arthur A. Hartman 1977-1981
- Evan Griffith Galbraith 1981-1985
- Joe M. Rodgers 1985-1989
- Walter Curley 1989-1993
- Pamela Harriman 1993-1997
- Felix Rohatyn 1997-2000
- Howard H. Leach 2001-2005
- Craig Roberts Stapleton 2005-
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