January 26, 1953[12] – September 3, 1960 4 James Jeremiah Wadsworth September 8, 1960 – January 21, 1961 John Kennedy 5 Adlai Stevenson January 23, 1961 – July 14, 1965 Lyndon B. Johnson 6 Arthur Goldberg July 28, 1965 – June 24, 1968 7 George W. Ball June 26, 1968 – September 25, 1968 8 James Russell Wiggins October 7, 1968 – January 20, 1969 9 Charles Yost January 23, 1969 – February 25, 1971 Richard Nixon 10 George H. W. Bush March 1, 1971 – January 18, 1973 11 John A. Scali February 20, 1973 – June 29, 1975 Gerald Ford 12 Daniel Patrick Moynihan June 30, 1975 – February 2, 1976 13 William Scranton March 15, 1976 – January 19, 1977 14 Andrew Young January 30, 1977 – September 23, 1979 Jimmy Carter 15 Donald McHenry September 23, 1979 – January 20, 1981 16 Jeane Kirkpatrick February 4, 1981 – April 1, 1985 Ronald Reagan 17 Vernon A. Walters May 22, 1985 – March 15, 1989 George H. W. Bush 18 Thomas R. Pickering March 20, 1989 – May 7, 1992 19 Edward J. Perkins May 12, 1992 – January 27, 1993 Bill Clinton 20 Madeleine Albright January 27, 1993 – January 21, 1997 21 Bill Richardson February 18, 1997 – August 18, 1998 — Peter Burleigh August 18, 1998 – September 7, 1999 Acting 22 Richard Holbrooke September 7, 1999 – January 20, 2001 — James B. Cunningham January 20, 2001 – September 19, 2001 Acting George W. Bush 23 John Negroponte September 19, 2001 – June 23, 2004 24 John Danforth July 23, 2004 – January 20, 2005 — Anne W. Patterson January 20, 2005 – August 2, 2005 Acting 25 John R. Bolton August 2, 2005 – December 31, 2006 Recess appointment, not confirmed by the U.S. Senate — Alejandro Daniel Wolff December 31, 2006 – April 30, 2007 Acting 26 Zalmay Khalilzad April 30, 2007 – January 22, 2009 Barack Obama 27 Susan Rice January 26, 2009 – June 30, 2013 — Rosemary DiCarlo June 30, 2013 – August 5, 2013 Acting 28 Samantha Power August 5, 2013 – January 20, 2017 – Michele J. Sison January 20, 2017 – January 27, 2017 Acting Donald Trump 29 Nikki Haley January 27, 2017 – December 31, 2018 – Jonathan Cohen January 1, 2019 – September 12, 2019 Acting 30 Kelly Craft September 12, 2019 – present