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List of ambassadors of Colombia to the United States

Representative of Colombia to the United States

Summary

Representative of Colombia to the United States

Field	Value
post	Ambassador
body
Colombia to the
United States
insignia	Logo_Cancillería_de_Colombia_(2024-2026).png
insigniasize	120
image	Daniel_García-Peña.jpg
incumbent	Daniel García-Peña
incumbentsince	15 July 2024
department	Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Embassy of Colombia, Washington, D.C.
style	His or Her Excellency (formal)
Mr. or Madam Ambassador (informal)
residence	Thomas T. Gaff House
seat	Washington, D.C., United States
reports_to	Minister of Foreign Affairs
appointer	President of Colombia
termlength	At the pleasure of the president
inaugural	Manuel Torres
formation	18 June 1822
website	Colombian Embassy – Washington, D.C.

Colombia to the United States Embassy of Colombia, Washington, D.C. Mr. or Madam Ambassador (informal)

The ambassador of Colombia to the United States (known formally as the ambassador of the Republic of Colombia to the United States of America) is the official representative of the president of Colombia and the Colombian government to the United States Federal Government.

The Ambassador is Colombia's foremost diplomatic representative to the United States, and Chief of Mission in Washington, D.C. The Ambassador however, is not the only Colombian diplomat in the United States, the other two being the Permanent Representative of Colombia to the Organization of American States also in Washington, D.C., and the Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations in New York City. The officeholder is charged with representing the interests of the president and government of Colombia, and advancing the accredited countries.

The current ambassador is Daniel García-Peña.

Envoys

Representative	Title	Presentation
of credentials	Termination
of mission	Notes
Manuel Torres	Chargé d'Affaires	June 18, 1822	July 15, 1822	url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalann00lanmgoog	page=614	access-date=2010-08-27	title=Biographical Annals of The Civil Government of The United States: During Its First Century: From Original and Official Sources	first=Lanman	last=Charles	author-link=Charles Lanman	publisher=James Anglim	year=1876	location=Washington, D.C.	oclc=420698}}
José María Salazar	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 10, 1823	June 17, 1828
Alejandro Vélez	Chargé d'Affaires	June 17, 1828	August 17, 1828
Domingo Acosta	Chargé d'Affaires and Consul General	January 2, 1832
Joaquín Acosta	Chargé d'Affaires	July 20, 1842	November 8, 1842
Pedro Alcántara Herrán	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 7, 1847	August 16, 1849
Rafael Rivas	Chargé d'Affaires	August 29, 1849	June 7, 1850
Victoriano de Diego Paredes	Chargé d'Affaires	April 27, 1852	June 20, 1855
Pedro Alcántara Herrán	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 20, 1855	March 3, 1863
Rafael Pombo	Secretary of Legation, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	January 19, 1860	June 4, 1861
José Marcelino Hurtado	Commissioner and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 4, 1861	June 16, 1863
Rafael Pombo	Secretary of Legation, Chargé d'Affaires	June 16, 1863	July 21, 1863
Manuel Murillo Toro	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	July 21, 1863	February 11, 1864
Francisco Párraga	Secretary of Legation, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	February 11, 1864	September 15, 1864
Eustorgio Salgar Moreno	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 9, 1867
Santos Acosta	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	September 20, 1868	May 3, 1870
Enrique Cortés	Secretary of Legation, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	May 3, 1870	August 21, 1870
Santiago Pérez Triana	Minister Resident	August 24, 1870
	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 81, 1871	June 10, 1872
Carlos Martín	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 11, 1872
Felipe Zapata	Non Resident Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	August 6, 1874
Santiago Pérez Triana	Minister Resident	October 27, 1876	April 27, 1877
Justo Arosemena	Minister Resident	October 27, 1879
Ramón Santo Domingo Vila	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	November 15, 1880
José Marcelino Hurtado	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	December 13, 1887		url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/s/cpr/91589.htm	access-date=2010-08-25	date=2006-09-12	title=Diplomatic Representation for Republic of Colombia	publisher=Office of the Chief of Protocol of the United States }}
Julio Rengifo	Minister Resident, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	1894	1898
Clímaco Calderón Reyes	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 1, 1899	1900
Luis Cuervo Márquez	Chargé d'affaires	October 1900
Carlos Martínez Silva	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 2, 1901	March 8, 1902	title=Bulletin of the Pan American Union, Vol. 10	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vJECAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA5-PA482	access-date=2010-08-26	type=Government publication	year=1901	publisher=International Bureau of the American Republics	location=Washington, D.C.	oclc=1761817	page=482}}
José Vicente Concha	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	March 17, 1902	November 28, 1902	title=Monthly bulletin of the Bureau of the American Republics, International Union of American Republics, Vol. 12	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zNlmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA888	access-date=2010-08-26	type=Government publication	year=1902	publisher=International Bureau of the American Republics	location=Washington, D.C.	oclc=4321603	page=888}}
Tomás Herrán y Mosquera	Minister Resident, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	November 28, 1902	September 1, 1904	url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/09/01/101395991.pdf	title=Death List of a Day: Dr. Tomas Herran	journal=The New York Times	format=PDF	access-date=2010-08-27	date=1904-09-01	page=7, "Obituary" section}}
Eduardo Pérez Triana	Minister Resident, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	August 31, 1904
Diego Mendoza Pérez	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 29, 1905	October 18, 1906	title=Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JScTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA245	format=Government publication	access-date=2010-08-27	year=1906	publisher=United States Government Printing Office	location=Washington, D.C.	oclc=45844717	page=245}}
Enrique Cortés	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	October 18, 1906
Francisco de Paula Borda	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	January 25, 1910
Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 31, 1911
Julio Betancourt	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 25, 1912
Carlos Adolfo Urueta	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	June 11, 1917
Carlos Uribe	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	October 15, 1921
Enrique Olaya Herrera	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 23, 1922
José M. Coronado	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	July 2, 1930
Fabio Lozano Torrijos	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	May 20, 1931
Alberto Gonzalez Fernandez	Chargé d'Affaires ad interim	July 31, 1934
Miguel López Pumarejo	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	April 15, 1935

File:Senor Don Julio Rengifo and his wife Regina Barbour.jpg|Senor Don Julio Rengifo and his wife Regina Barbour

Ambassadors

Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary	Appointed	Presentation
of credentials
Miguel López Pumarejo	October 10, 1938	October 28, 1938
Gabriel Turbay Abunader	November 7, 1939	November 14, 1939
Alberto Vargas Nariño	September 29, 1942
Alberto Lleras Camargo	April 22, 1943	May 6, 1943
Gabriel Turbay Abunader	December 30, 1943	January 17, 1944
Carlos Sánz de Santamaría	August 28, 1945	September 12, 1945
Gonzalo Restrepo Jaramillo	February 19, 1947	February 25, 1947
Eduardo Zuleta Ángel	September 21, 1949	September 26, 1949
Cipriano Restrepo Jaramillo	May 22, 1951	June 5, 1951
Eduardo Zuleta Ángel	August 3, 1953	November 10, 1955
Francisco J. Urrutia Holguín	November 10, 1955	November 14, 1955
José Gutiérrez Gómez	September 6, 1957	October 10, 1957
Carlos Sánz de Santamaría	March 16, 1960	April 1, 1960
Eduardo Uribe Botero	June 28, 1963	July 24, 1963
Hernán Echavarría Olózaga (es)	January 10, 1967	January 13, 1967
Misael Pastrana Borrero	January 8, 1969	January 17, 1969
Douglas Botero Boshel	January 7, 1970	February 3, 1970
Rodrigo Escobar Navia	December 31, 1974
Julio César Turbay Ayala	April 29, 1975	April 29, 1975
Alfonso Dávila Ortiz	August 18, 1976
Virgilio Barco Vargas	June 7, 1977	June 24, 1977
Jorge Mario Eastman Robledo	November 6, 1980	December 11, 1980
	May 27, 1981
Fernando Gaviria Cadavid	July 28, 1981	September 21, 1981
Jorge Salazar	February 8, 1983
Álvaro Gómez Hurtado	March 9, 1983	April 7, 1985
	December 17, 1985	January 15, 1986
Francisco Posada de La Peña	February 28, 1986	March 11, 1986
Víctor Mosquera Chaux	November 12, 1987	December 21, 1987
Jaime García Parra	December 14, 1990	February 19, 1991
Gabriel Silva Luján	August 18, 1993	October 1, 1993
Carlos Lleras de la Fuente	August 9, 1994	October 25, 1994
Juan Carlos Esguerra Portocarrero	January 23, 1997	February 11, 1997
Luis Alberto Moreno Mejía	September 29, 1998	October 27, 1998
Andrés Pastrana Arango	November 9, 2005	December 2, 2005
Carolina Barco Isakson	September 7, 2006	September 12, 2006
Gabriel Silva Luján	August 7, 2010	October 4, 2010
Carlos Alfredo Urrutia Valenzuela	September 5, 2012	September 19, 2012
Luis Carlos Villegas	November 13, 2013	December 3, 2013
Juan Carlos Pinzón	July 29, 2015	August 3, 2015
Camilo Reyes Rodríguez	May 22, 2018
Francisco Santos Calderón	September 4, 2018	September 17, 2018
Luis Gilberto Murillo	September 8, 2022	May 21, 2024
Daniel García-Peña Jaramillo	July 15, 2024	incumbent

References

Charles, Lanman. (1876). "Biographical Annals of The Civil Government of The United States: During Its First Century: From Original and Official Sources". James Anglim.
(2006-09-12). "Diplomatic Representation for Republic of Colombia". Office of the [[Chief of Protocol of the United States]] .
(1901). "Bulletin of the Pan American Union, Vol. 10". [[Organization of American States.
(1902-03-09). "Dr. Silva's Departure: Retiring Minister from Colombia Bids Mr. Roosevelt Good-bye.". [[The New York Times]].
(1902). "Monthly bulletin of the Bureau of the American Republics, International Union of American Republics, Vol. 12". [[Organization of American States.
(1960). "La Política Internacional de Colombia". Editorial Iqueima.
(1904-09-01). "Death List of a Day: Dr. Tomas Herran". [[The New York Times]].
(1906). "Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States". [[United States Government Printing Office]].
(1906). "Monthly bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics, International Union of American Republics, Vol. 23". [[Organization of American States.

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