L’Ambassade des États-Unis d’Amérique en France fut la première mission diplomatique de notre jeune nation lorsque la monarchie française reconnut notre indépendance le 6 février 1778. Nos pères fondateurs Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson et James Madison furent parmi nos premiers émissaires en France.

• Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
  Minister Plenipotentiary (March 23, 1779-May 17, 1785)
• Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
  Minister Plenipotentiary (May 17, 1785)
• Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
  Minister Plenipotentiary (October 12, 1787-September 26, 1789)
• William Short (1759-1849)
  Minister Plenipotentiary (June 14, 1790-May 15, 1792)
• Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816)
  Minister Plenipotentiary (June 3, 1792-April 9, 1794)
• James Monroe (1758-1831)
  Minister Plenipotentiary (August 15, 1794-December 9, 1796)
• Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746-1825)
  Minister Plenipotentiary (September 9, 1796)
• James Asheton Bayard (1767-1815)
  Minister Plenipotentiary (February 19, 1801)
• Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813)
  Minister Plenipotentiary (December 6, 1801-November 18, 1804)
• John Armstrong (1755-1843)
  Minister Plenipotentiary (November 18, 1804-September 14, 1810)
• Jonathan Russell (1771-1832)
  Chargé d’Affaires (November 5, 1810-November 17, 1811)
• Joel Barlow (1754-1812)
  Minister Plenipotentiary (November 17, 1811)
• William Harris Crawford (1772-1834)
  Minister Plenipotentiary (December 14, 1813)
• Albert Gallatin (1761-1849)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (July 16, 1816-May 16, 1823)
• James Brown (1766-1835)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (April 13, 1824-June 28, 1829)
• William Cabell Rives (1792-1868)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (October 25, 1829)
• Levett Harris (?-?)
  Chargé d’Affaires (April 20, 1833-September 30, 1833)
• Edward Livingston (1764-1836)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (September 30, 1833-April 29, 1835)
• Lewis Cass (1782-1866)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (December 1, 1836-November 12, 1842)
• William Rufus de Vane King (1786-1853)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (July 1, 1844-September 15, 1846)
• Richard Rush (1780-1859)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (July 31, 1847)
• William Cabell Rives (1792-1868)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (November 8, 1849)
• John Young Mason (1799-1859)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (January 22, 1854-October 3, 1859)
• Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (March 4, 1860-May 12, 1861)
• William Lewis Dayton (1807-1864)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (May 19, 1861-December 1, 1864)
• John Bigelow (1817-1911)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (April 23, 1865-December 23, 1866)
• John Adams Dix (1798-1879)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (December 23, 1866-May 23, 1869)
• Elihu Benjamin Washburne (1816-1887)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (March 23, 1869)
• Edward Follansbee Noyes (1832-1890)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (September 5, 1877-August 5, 1881)
• Levi Parsons Morton (1824-1920)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (August 5, 1881-May 14, 1885)
• Robert Milligan McLane (1815-1898)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (May 14, 1885-May 20, 1889)
• Whitelaw Reid (1837-1912)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (May 21, 1889-March 25, 1892)
• Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (1831-1920)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (June 10, 1892-May 4, 1893)
• James Biddle Eustis (1834-1899)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (March 20, 1893-)
• James Biddle Eustis (1834-1899)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (May 6, 1893-May 24, 1897)
• Horace Porter (1837-1921)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (May 26, 1897-May 2, 1905)
• Robert Sanderson McCormick (1849-1919)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (May 2, 1905-March 2, 1907)
• Henry White (1850-1927)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (March 23, 1907-November 3, 1909)
• Robert Bacon (1860-1919)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (December 31, 1909-April 19, 1912)
• Myron Timothy Herrick (1854-1929)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (April 29, 1912-November 28, 1914)
• William Graves Sharp (1859-1922)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (December 4, 1914-April 14, 1919)
• Hugh Campbell Wallace (1863-1931)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (April 22, 1919-July 5, 1921)
• Myron Timothy Herrick (1854-1929)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (July 15, 1921-March 31, 1929)
• Walter Evans Edge (1873-1956)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (December 18, 1929-April 13, 1933)
• Jesse Isidor Straus (1872-1936)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (June 8, 1933-August 5, 1936)
• William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (October 13, 1936-July 11, 1940)
• William Daniel Leahy (1875-1959)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (January 8, 1941-May 1, 1942)
• Jefferson Caffery (1886-1974)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (December 30, 1944-May 13, 1949)
• David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (1898-1977)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (May 17, 1949-March 10, 1952)
• James Clement Dunn (1890-1979)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (March 27, 1952-March 2, 1953)
• Clarence Douglas Dillon (1909-2003)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (March 13, 1953-January 28, 1957)
• Amory Houghton (1899-1981)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (April 17, 1957-January 19, 1961)
• James Maurice Gavin (1907-1990)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (March 21, 1961-September 26, 1962)
• Charles Eustis Bohlen (1904-1974)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (October 27, 1962-February 9, 1968)
• Robert Sargent Shriver (1915-2011)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (May 25, 1968-March 25, 1970)
• Arthur Kittredge Watson (1919-1974)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (May 6, 1970-October 30, 1972)
• John Nichol Irwin (1913-2000)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (March 23, 1973-October 20, 1974)
• Kenneth Rush (1910-1994)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (November 21, 1974-March 14, 1977)
• Arthur Adair Hartman (1926-)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (July 7, 1977-October 14, 1981)
• Evan Griffith Galbraith (1928-2008)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (December 2, 1981-July 15, 1985)
• Joe M. Rodgers (1933-2008)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (September 20, 1985-January 8, 1989)
• Walter Joseph Patrick Curley (1922-)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (July 6, 1989-February 11, 1993)
• Pamela C. Harriman (1920-1997)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (June 30, 1993-February 5, 1997)
• Felix Rohatyn (1929-)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (September 11, 1997-December 7, 2000)
• Howard H. Leach (1930-)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (September 4, 2001-April 16, 2005)
• Craig Roberts Stapleton (1945-)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (July 25, 2005-January 29, 2009)
• Charles H. Rivkin (1962-)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (October 2, 2009- November 19, 2013)
• Jane D. Hartley
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (October 15, 2014 – January 19, 2017)
• Jamie D.McCourt
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (December 18, 2017 – )

• Somerville Pinkney Tuck (1891-1967)
  Chargé d’Affaires ad interim
• Thomas Pennant Barton (1803-1869)
  Chargé d’Affaires ad interim
• Charles Jared Ingersoll (1782-1862)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
• William Vans Murray (1760-1803)
  Minister Plenipotentiary
• Henry Alexander Wise (1806-1876)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary