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List of ambassadors of the United States to India

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Field	Value
post	Ambassador
body	the United States of America to the Republic of India
insignia	Seal of the United States Department of State.svg
insigniasize	120
insigniacaption	Seal of the United States Department of State
department	Department of State
image	Sergio Gor, official portrait (2025).jpg
incumbent	Sergio Gor
incumbentsince	January 14, 2026
appointer	The president
appointer_qualified	with the advice and consent of the Senate
inaugural	George R. Merrell
(as Chargé d'affaires ad interim)
formation	November 1, 1946
website
flag	Flag of a United States ambassador.svg
flagcaption	Flag of a United States ambassador

(as Chargé d'affaires ad interim)

The United States of America ambassador to the Republic of India is the chief diplomatic representative of United States in India. The U.S. ambassador's office is situated at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.

On October 7, 2025, Sergio Gor was confirmed as ambassador by the Senate.

Chiefs of mission to India

U.S. ambassadors to the Dominion of India (1947–1950)

President George Washington, on November 19, 1792, nominated Benjamin Joy of Newbury Port as the first American Consul to Calcutta (present-day Kolkata) and later commissioned Joy to that office on November 21, 1792.

Name	Status	Title	Appointment	Credentials
presented	Termination
of mission	Notes
Henry F. Grady	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 10, 1947	July 1, 1947	Left post, June 22, 1948	Accredited also to Nepal; resident at New Delhi.
Loy W. Henderson	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 14, 1948	November 19, 1948	Re-accredited when India became a republic; presented new credentials February 24, 1950	Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on March 2, 1949. Also accredited to Nepal; resident at New Delhi.

U.S. ambassadors to the Republic of India (1950–present)

Ambassador [[Richard Verma]] meeting with [[Maneka Gandhi]] in 2015

Name	Status	Title	Appointment	Credentials
presented	Termination
of mission	Notes
Loy W. Henderson	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary		February 24, 1950	September 21, 1951	Reaccredited when India became a republic; presented new credentials Feb 24, 1950; left post Sep 21, 1951; commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Mar 2, 1949. Also accredited to Nepal; resident at New Delhi.
Chester Bowles	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 10, 1951	November 1, 1951	Left post, Mar 23, 1953	Also accredited to Nepal; resident at New Delhi.
George V. Allen	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 11, 1953	May 4, 1953	Left post, November 30, 1954	Also accredited to Nepal; resident at New Delhi.
John Sherman Cooper	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 4, 1955	April 9, 1955	Left post, April 23, 1956	Also accredited to Nepal; resident at New Delhi.
Ellsworth Bunker	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 28, 1956	March 4, 1957	Left India, March 23, 1961	Also accredited to Nepal; resident at New Delhi. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 25, 1957.
John Kenneth Galbraith	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 29, 1961	April 18, 1961	Left post, Jul 12, 1963
Chester Bowles	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 3, 1963	July 19, 1963	Left post, April 21, 1969
Kenneth B. Keating	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	May 1, 1969	July 2, 1969	Left post, July 26, 1972
Daniel P. Moynihan	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 8, 1973	February 28, 1973	Left post, January 7, 1975
William B. Saxbe	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 3, 1975	March 8, 1975	Left post, November 20, 1976
Robert F. Goheen	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 26, 1977	May 26, 1977	Left post, December 10, 1980
Harry G. Barnes Jr.	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 1, 1981	November 17, 1981	Left post, June 27, 1985
John Gunther Dean	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	August 2, 1985	September 6, 1985	Left post November 7, 1988
John R. Hubbard	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 22, 1988	December 27, 1988	Left post November 15, 1989	Commissioned during a recess of the Senate.
William Clark Jr.	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 10, 1989	December 22, 1989	Left post, July 2, 1992
Thomas R. Pickering	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	April 6, 1992	August 14, 1992	Left post, March 23, 1993	Kenneth Brill served as Chargé d'affaires ad interim, March 1993 – August 1994.
Frank G. Wisner	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	June 9, 1994	August 2, 1994	Left post, July 12, 1997
Richard Frank Celeste	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 10, 1997	November 28, 1997	Left post April 25, 2001
Robert Blackwill	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 12, 2001	September 14, 2001	Left post July 31, 2003
David Campbell Mulford	Non-career officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 12, 2003	February 23, 2004	Left post January 15, 2009
Peter Burleigh	url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/burleigh-albert-peter	title=Albert Peter Burleigh - People - Department History - Office of the Historian	website=history.state.gov	accessdate=20 May 2023}}	Chargé d'affaires	January 15, 2009	August 11, 2009
Tim Roemer	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	July 23, 2009	August 11, 2009	Left post June 30, 2011
Peter Burleigh	Foreign Service officer	Chargé d'affaires	July 1, 2011		April 19, 2012
Nancy Jo Powell	Foreign Service officer	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	February 7, 2012	April 19, 2012	May 21, 2014
Kathleen Stephens	Foreign Service officer
(interim)	Chargé d'affaires	May 22, 2014	June 6, 2014	January 16, 2015	Assumed position after resignation of Nancy Jo Powell.
Richard Verma	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 12, 2014	January 16, 2015	January 20, 2017	First U.S. Ambassador to India of Indian origin.
MaryKay Carlson	Foreign Service officer
(interim)	Chargé d'affaires	January 20, 2017		November 15, 2017	Assumed office after Ambassador Richard Verma demitted office following President Trump's inauguration on January 20.
Kenneth Juster	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	November 3, 2017	November 23, 2017	January 20, 2021
Donald Heflin	Foreign Service officer
(interim)	Chargé d'affaires	January 20, 2021		April 30, 2021	Minister-Counselor for Consular Affairs.
Daniel Bennett Smith	Foreign Service officer
(interim)	Chargé d'affaires	April 30, 2021		June 29, 2021
Atul Keshap	Foreign Service officer
(interim)	Chargé d'affaires	June 29, 2021		September 9, 2021
Patricia A. Lacina	Foreign Service officer
(interim)	Chargé d'affaires	September 9, 2021		October 24, 2022
A. Elizabeth Jones	Foreign Service officer
(interim)	Chargé d'affaires	October 24, 2022		April 11, 2023
Eric Garcetti	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	March 15, 2023	May 11, 2023	January 20, 2025	In July 2021, Joe Biden nominated Garcetti. When the nomination expired in 2023, Biden once again nominated Garcetti.
Jorgan K. Andrews	Foreign Service officer
(interim)	Chargé d'affaires	January 20, 2025		October 11, 2025
Sergio Gor	Non-career appointee	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	October 7, 2025	January 14, 2026	Incumbent

Notes

References

United States Department of State: Background notes on India

Sources

Brands, H. W. Inside the Cold War: Loy Henderson and the Rise of the American Empire 1918-1961 (1991) pp 196–230; Loy Henderson was US Ambassador, 1948–51

Primary sources

, US ambassador 1951-53 and 1963–69
Galbraith, John K. Ambassador's journal: a personal account of the Kennedy years (1969) online, he was US ambassador to India 1961-63
U.S. Department of State. * Foreign Relations of the United States* (FRUS), many volumes of primary sources; the complete texts of these large books are all online. See Guide to FRUS. For example, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XI, South Asia Crisis, 1971 was published in 2005 and is online here. The most recent volumes are Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–7, Documents on South Asia, 1969–1972 (2005) online here and Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–8, Documents on South Asia, 1973–1976 (2007) online here. Included are the most important cables sent by the ambassador to Washington.

References

Carney, Jordain. (October 7, 2025). "Senate confirms largest bloc yet of Trump nominees". [[Politico]].
"U.S. Consulate General Kolkata".
"David Campbell Mulford - People - Department History - Office of the Historian".
"Albert Peter Burleigh - People - Department History - Office of the Historian".
"Obama names ambassador nominees".
(6 June 2014). "United States Chargé d'Affaires, Ambassador Kathleen Stephens, Arrives in New Delhi".
(10 December 2014). "Rich Verma confirmed as US ambassador to India - Hindustan Times".
"Appointment of Ambassador Daniel Smith as Chargé d'Affaires at Embassy New Delhi".
"Appointment of Ambassador Atul Keshap as Chargé d'Affaires at Embassy New Delhi".
(29 June 2021). "Seasoned South Asia diplomat Atul Keshap appointed next U.S. Chargé D'affaires in India". The Hindu.
"Patricia Lacina assumes office as Chargé d'Affaires at US Embassy". Outlook India.
"Appointment of Ambassador Elizabeth Jones as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at Embassy New Delhi".

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