The United States has sent ambassadors to France since the American Revolution.

This is a complete list of United States ambassadors to France:

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-

Source: Dept. of State