The United States ambassador to Bulgaria () is the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary from the United States to Bulgaria.

Ambassadors Diplomatic agent

Name Appointed Presented credentials End of term Charles M. Dickinson April 24, 1901 Appointed terminated, June 30, 1903 John Brinkerhoff Jackson June 5, 1903 September 19, 1903 Recommissioned to a different combination of countries John Brinkerhoff Jackson March 8, 1905 Presented recall, June 4, 1907 Horace G. Knowles July 1, 1907 August 21, 1907 Left Bucharest, February 4, 1909 Huntington Wilson December 17, 1908 January 11, 1909 Spencer F. Eddy January 11, 1909 John R. Carter September 25, 1909 October 24, 1911 October 24, 1911

Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary

Name Career Appointed Presented credentials End of term John R. Carter June 24, 1910 John Brinkerhoff Jackson August 12, 1911 February 1, 1912 Presented recall, October 18, 1913 Lewis Einstein Foreign Service officer October 1915 June 1916 Charles J. Vopicka Non-career appointee September 11, 1913 December 26, 1913 Relieved of active functions pertaining to Legation Sofia, December 17, 1918 Charles S. Wilson Foreign Service officer October 8, 1921 December 5, 1921 Presented recall, October 4, 1928 H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld Foreign Service officer July 17, 1928 Henry Wharton Shoemaker Non-career appointee January 22, 1930 March 28, 1930 Left post, August 2, 1933 Frederick A. Sterling Foreign Service officer September 1, 1933 April 3, 1934 Left post, June 30, 1936 Ray Atherton Foreign Service officer July 13, 1937 October 21, 1937 Left post, July 5, 1939 George H. Earle III Non-career appointee February 14, 1940 April 2, 1940 Bulgaria declared war on the U.S. on the 13 December 1941 Donald R. Heath Foreign Service officer September 30, 1947 November 8, 1947 Declared persona non grata by Government of Bulgaria, January 19, 1950 Edward Page, Jr. Foreign Service officer November 23, 1959 March 14, 1960 Left post, May 25, 1962 Eugenie Anderson Non-career appointee May 28, 1962 August 3, 1962 Left post, December 6, 1964 Nathaniel Davis Foreign Service officer May 6, 1965 June 4, 1965 Left post, May 20, 1966 John M. McSweeney Foreign Service officer September 16, 1966 October 26, 1966 Promoted to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary

Name Career Appointed Presented credentials End of term John M. McSweeney Foreign Service officer April 5, 1967 April 19, 1967 Left post, May 29, 1970 Horace G. Torbert, Jr. Foreign Service officer October 6, 1970 November 4, 1970 Left post, January 23, 1973 Martin F. Herz Foreign Service officer February 28, 1974 April 3, 1974 Left post, August 6, 1977 Raymond L. Garthoff Foreign Service officer July 29, 1977 September 16, 1977 Left post, October 9, 1979 Jack Richard Perry Foreign Service officer September 20, 1979 October 17, 1979 Left post, September 27, 1981 Robert L. Barry Foreign Service officer November 25, 1981 December 8, 1981 July 12, 1984 Melvyn Levitsky Foreign Service officer September 21, 1984 November 13, 1984 Left post, February 6, 1987 Sol Polansky Foreign Service officer June 15, 1987 September 4, 1987 Left post, August 17, 1990 Hugh Kenneth Hill Foreign Service officer August 6, 1990 September 18, 1990 Left post, September 5, 1993 William Dale Montgomery Foreign Service officer October 8, 1993 October 27, 1993 Left post, January 17, 1996 Avis T. Bohlen Foreign Service officer July 2, 1996 September 5, 1996 Left post August 13, 1999 Richard Monroe Miles Foreign Service officer August 9, 1999 September 8, 1999 Left post February 28, 2002 James W. Pardew Foreign Service officer April 1, 2002 May 13, 2002 Left post, July 30, 2005 John Beyrle Foreign Service officer July 9, 2005 September 8, 2005 April 28, 2008 Nancy McEldowney Foreign Service officer May 2, 2008 August 26, 2008 July 30, 2009 James B. Warlick, Jr. Foreign Service officer December 24, 2009 January 19, 2010 September 14, 2012 Marcie Berman Ries Foreign Service officer May 24, 2012 October 1, 2012 July 28, 2015 Eric S. RubinAmbassador Rubin U.S. Embassy, Bulgaria, accessed May 6, 2016 Foreign Service officer December 9, 2015 January 27, 2016 July 9, 2019 Herro Mustafa Foreign Service officer September 29, 2019 October 18, 2019 March 1, 2023 Kenneth H. Merten Foreign Service officer December 13, 2022 April 7, 2023 January 29, 2025

References

See also Bulgaria - United States relations Foreign relations of Bulgaria Ambassadors of the United States Bulgarian Ambassador to the United States

References United States Department of State: Background notes on Bulgaria

External links United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Bulgaria United States Department of State: Bulgaria United States Embassy in Sofia