List of ambassadors of Mexico to the United States
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| Ambassador of Mexico to the United States of America | |
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since 15 February 2021 | |
| Seat | Washington, D.C. |
| Nominator | President of Mexico |
| Inaugural holder | José Manuel Zozaya[1] |
| Formation | 25 September 1822[1] |
| Salary | US$12,114.42 per month[2] |
| Website | embamex |
The ambassador of Mexico to the United States is the highest ranking diplomatic representative of the United Mexican States to the United States of America.
Brief history
[edit]Mexico and the United States have maintained diplomatic relations since 12 December 1822.[1][3] The first Mexican legation was composed by just four members:[4][5]
- José Manuel Zozaya, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, former attorney-in-fact (in Spanish: apoderado legal) of Agustín de Iturbide.
- José Anastasio Torrens, secretary, a former officer in the army of José María Morelos who was a close friend of José Manuel de Herrera and had studied in the United States.
- Francisco de Paula Tamariz, attaché and translator.
- Ignacio de Villaseñor y Cervantes, a Roman Catholic chaplain. According to historian Jorge Flores, this was a curious choice, and he was probably selected simply because they anticipated the lack of religious services in Spanish.[4]
The first street address registered by the group when President James Monroe conferred diplomatic recognition on 12 December 1822[6] was the Strother's Hotel,[7] on Pennsylvania Avenue and 14th street. The hotel, owned by John Tayloe III, was managed by John Strother from 1818 to 1824 and eventually became the Willard Hotel.[8] The legation, however, lacked enough funds to settle in Washington, D.C., and had to rent a property in Philadelphia.[4]
List of diplomatic representatives
[edit]The following list includes every head of the legation recognized by Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs.[1] Since this is an official list, there are some omissions, such as Emeterio de la Garza, Jr., a special representative of Victoriano Huerta who tried to secure recognition for its administration between 1913–1914.[9]
| Name | Rank | Appointment | Credentials | End of mission |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| José Manuel Zozaya | Envoy | 25 September 1822 | 12 December 1822 | 20 May 1823 |
| José Anastasio Torrens | Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 3 May 1823 | — | 31 August 1824 |
| Pablo Obregón | Envoy | 4 August 1824 | 18 November 1824 | 10 September 1828 |
| José María Montoya | Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 10 September 1828 | — | February 1830 |
| José María Tornel | Envoy | 17 November 1829 | 15 December 1829 | 1 June 1831 |
| José María Montoya | Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 6 June 1831 | — | 31 December 1833 |
| Joaquín María del Castillo | Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 1 January 1834 | — | 19 March 1836 |
| Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza | Envoy | 4 January 1836 | 24 March 1836 | 5 November 1836 |
| Joaquín María del Castillo | Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 5 November 1836 | — | 13 October 1837 |
| Francisco Pizarro Martínez | Envoy | 10 May 1837 | 17 October 1837 | 9 February 1840 |
| Joaquín Velázquez de León | Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 3 February 1842 | — | 25 October 1842 |
| Juan Nepomuceno Almonte | Envoy | 20 July 1842 | 22 October 1842 | 6 March 1845 |
| Luis de la Rosa Oteiza | Envoy | 13 September 1848 | 22 December 1848 | 10 January 1852 |
| Manuel Larráinzar | Envoy | 5 March 1852 | 22 May 1852 | 1 July 1853 |
| Juan Nepomuceno Almonte | Envoy | 26 April 1853 | 7 July 1853 | 11 February 1856 |
| Manuel Robles Pezuela | Envoy | 29 November 1855 | 16 April 1856 | 12 July 1858 |
| Gregorio Barandarián | Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 12 July 1858 | — | 26 April 1859 |
| José María Mata | Envoy | 2 March 1858 | 28 April 1859 | 13 August 1860 |
| Matías Romero | Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 10 August 1860 | — | 3 April 1862 |
| Matías Romero | Chargé d'affaires | 3 April 1862 | 26 May 1862 | 7 May 1863 |
| Matías Romero | Envoy | 2 September 1863 | 29 October 1863 | 13 July 1868 |
| Cayetano Romero | Envoy | 16 July 1868 | Unknown | 9 August 1869 |
| Ignacio Mariscal | Envoy | 3 May 1869 | 11 August 1869 | 26 May 1877 |
| José María Mata | Envoy | 25 May 1877 | 1 July 1877 | 23 October 1877 |
| José Tomás de Cuéllar | Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 23 October 1877 | — | 7 May 1878 |
| Manuel María de Zamacona y Murphy | Envoy | 9 April 1878 | 2 May 1878 | 3 March 1882 |
| Matías Romero | Envoy | 15 February 1882 | 7 March 1882 | 30 December 1898 |
| Manuel Azpíroz | Ambassador | 30 January 1899 | 30 March 1899 | 24 March 1905 |
| Federico Gamboa[10] | Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 24 March 1905 | — | 10 November 1905 |
| Joaquín D. Cassasús[11] | Ambassador | 8 June 1905 | 15 November 1905 | 21 May 1906 |
| Balbino Dávalos | Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 28 June 1906 | — | 3 March 1907 |
| Enrique C. Creel Cuilty | Ambassador | 14 December 1906 | 2 February 1907 | 25 September 1908 |
| Francisco León de la Barra | Ambassador | 13 November 1908 | 27 February 1909 | 25 March 1911 |
| Manuel María de Zamacona e Inclán | Ambassador | 5 April 1911 | 19 April 1911 | 16 July 1911 |
| Gilberto Crespo y Martínez[12] | Ambassador | 5 June 1911 | 28 July 1911 | 10 April 1912 |
| Manuel Calero y Sierra[13] | Ambassador | 10 April 1912 | 10 May 1912 | 27 December 1912 |
| Manuel Pérez Romero | Confidential agent | 18 June 1913 | — | 30 October 1913 |
| Roberto V. Pesqueira | Confidential agent | 30 October 1913 | — | 24 April 1914 |
| Juan Francisco Urquidi[14] | Confidential agent | 15 May 1914 | — | 29 October 1914 |
| Rafael Zubarán[15] | Confidential agent | 29 October 1914 | — | 17 December 1914 |
| Eliseo Arredondo | Confidential agent | 27 November 1914 | — | 8 December 1915[16] |
| Eliseo Arredondo[17] | Ambassador | 8 December 1915 | 24 February 1916 | 24 February 1917 |
| Ignacio Bonillas | Ambassador | 13 February 1917 | 17 April 1917 | 22 March 1920 |
| Fernando Iglesias Calderón[18] | Ambassador | 9 June 1920 | 19 July 1920 | 31 October 1920 |
| Roberto V. Pesqueira | Confidential agent | 16 October 1920 | — | 25 November 1920 |
| Manuel C. Téllez | Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 25 November 1920 | — | 11 March 1921 |
| Manuel Y. de Negri | Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 11 March 1921 | — | 3 September 1921 |
| Manuel C. Téllez | Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 3 September 1921 | — | 13 December 1924 |
| Manuel C. Téllez | Ambassador | 1 January 1925 | 24 February 1925 | 16 October 1931 |
| José Manuel Puig Casauranc | Ambassador | 9 October 1931 | 9 November 1931 | 3 February 1933 |
| Fernando González Roa | Ambassador | 1 February 1933 | 21 February 1933 | 31 December 1934 |
| Francisco Castillo Nájera | Ambassador | 1 January 1935 | 20 February 1935 | 21 September 1945 |
| Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros | Ambassador | 1 October 1945 | 7 November 1945 | 1 October 1948 |
| Rafael de la Colina Riquelme | Ambassador | 1 December 1948 | 19 January 1949 | 9 February 1953 |
| Manuel Tello Baurraud | Ambassador | 1 December 1952 | 18 March 1953 | 25 November 1958 |
| Antonio Carrillo Flores | Ambassador | 1 December 1958 | 27 January 1959 | 1 December 1964 |
| Hugo B. Margáin | Ambassador | 31 December 1964 | 13 January 1965 | 16 August 1970 |
| Emilio Rabasa Mishkin | Ambassador | 23 September 1970 | 5 November 1970 | 30 November 1970 |
| José Juan de Olloqui | Ambassador | 16 January 1971 | 8 February 1971 | 30 November 1976 |
| Hugo B. Margáin | Ambassador | 29 December 1976 | 13 January 1977 | 28 March 1982 |
| Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor | Ambassador | 16 March 1982 | 12 April 1982 | 30 November 1982 |
| Jorge Espinoza de los Reyes | Ambassador | 23 December 1982 | 7 February 1983* | 15 December 1988 |
| Gustavo Petricioli | Ambassador | 13 December 1988 | 17 January 1989 | 15 January 1993 |
| Jorge Mario Montaño | Ambassador | 10 December 1992 | 14 April 1993 | 2 February 1995 |
| Jesús Silva-Herzog Flores | Ambassador | 28 December 1994 | 20 March 1995 | 30 October 1997 |
| Jesús Federico Reyes Heroles | Ambassador | 1 October 1997 | 12 November 1997 | 30 November 2000 |
| Juan José Bremer | Ambassador | 15 December 2000 | 18 January 2001 | 27 February 2004 |
| Carlos de Icaza | Ambassador | 8 January 2004 | 31 March 2004 | 30- November 2006 |
| Arturo Sarukhán | Ambassador | 1 December 2006 | 27 February 2007 | 10 January 2013 |
| Eduardo Medina Mora | Ambassador | 9 January 2013[19] | 14 January 2013 | 10 March 2015 |
| Alejandro Estivill | Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 10 March 2015 | — | 2 September 2015 |
| Miguel Basáñez Ebergenyi | Ambassador | 2 September 2015 | — | 12 May 2016 |
| Carlos Manuel Sada Solana | Ambassador | 12 May 2016 | — | 23 January 2017 |
| Gerónimo Gutiérrez | Ambassador | 23 January 2017 | 24 April 2017 | 30 November 2018 |
| Martha Bárcena Coqui | Ambassador | 21 December 2018 | 11 January 2019 | 12 February 2021 |
| Esteban Moctezuma Barragán[20] | Ambassador | 15 February 2021[21] | 22 January 2021[22] | Incumbent |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Embajadores de México en Estados Unidos" (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. 27 September 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
- ^ "Portal de Transparencia". Embaja de México en los Estados Unidos (in Spanish). Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ a b "Diplomatic Representation for Mexico (United Mexican States)". United States Department of State. 11 January 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
- ^ a b c Flores D., Jorge (1972). "Apuntes para una historia de la diplomacia mexicana: La obra prima, 1810-1824". Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México (in Spanish). 4. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas: 9–62. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
- ^ Eugenio Cortés y Azúa: Primer jefe de las fuerzas navales del México independiente (PDF) (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Secretaría de Marina-Armada de México and Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de las Revoluciones de México. 2013. p. 106. ISBN 978-607-9276-30-0. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 October 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
En la legación mexicana también estuvo Francisco de Paula Tamariz, el coronel José Anastasio Torrens e Ignacio de Villaseñor y Cervantes, quienes fungieron como oficial de legación e intérprete, secretario y capellán, respectivamente
- ^ Smith, Joseph (2005). The United States and Latin America: A History of American Diplomacy, 1776-2000. New York City, N.Y., U.S.A.: Routledge. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-134-24532-1. OCLC 56591163. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ Congressional Directory, for the Second Session of the 17th Congress of the United States. Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1822. p. 40. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ Kamole, Laura Croghan (2007). Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700-1860. Charlottesville, VA, USA: University of Virginia Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-8139-2637-7. OCLC 495411501. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ "Senor Emeterio de la Garza, Jr., Writes for The Times of the Difficulties Confronting the Present Administration and Gives a Graphic Picture of Mexico City's Days of Tragedy". The New York Times. 29 June 1913. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
- ^ Clark de Lara, Belem; Speckman, Elisa (2005). La república de las letras: Galería de escritores (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. p. 493. ISBN 978-970-32-1088-6.
- ^ Tello Díaz, Carlos (2013). El exilio: Un relato de familia [The Exile: A Family Story] (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Penguin Random House, Grupo Editorial México. pp. 113–114. ISBN 9786073117968. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
- ^ Camacho Navarro, Enrique (July–October 2008). "Gilberto Crespo y Martínez, un operador de la diplomacia de México en la Cuba republicana (1902-1906)" (PDF). Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior (in Spanish) (84). Mexico City, Mexico: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores: 93–120. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ Katz, Friedrich (1998). The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press. pp. 672–673. ISBN 978-0-8047-3046-4. OCLC 162431539. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ Fabela, Isidro (16 December 2013). Historia diplomática de la Revolución mexicana (1912-1917) (in Spanish). Vol. 2. Mexico City, Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-607-16-1504-6. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ Fabela, Isidro (2013). Documentos históricos de la Revolución mexicana: Revolución y régimen constitucionalista, II: La intervención norteamericana en Veracruz (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica. pp. 85–86. ISBN 978-607-16-1505-3. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ Lerner Sigal, Victoria (2001). "Una derrota diplomática crucial. La lucha villista por el reconocimiento norteamericano". Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México (in Spanish). 22 (022). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas: 83–114. doi:10.22201/iih.24485004e.2001.022.3049. ISSN 0185-2620. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ "Eliseo Arredondo Dead. Ex-Mexican Ambassador to United States Was Caranza's Cousin". The New York Times. October 18, 1923. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
- ^ Castro Martínez, Pedro Fernando (1998). Adolfo de la Huerta: la integridad como arma de la revolución (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Siglo XXI. pp. 70–72. ISBN 968-23-2148-4. OCLC 253440079. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ O'Reilly, Andrew (9 January 2013). "Mexico Appoints Eduardo Medina-Mora as Ambassador to US". Fox News. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ Rodriguez Garcia, Arturo (December 16, 2020). "AMLO nombra a Moctezuma Barragán como embajador de México en EU". proceso.com.mx (in Spanish). Proceso. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
- ^ "Esteban Moctezuma toma protesta como nuevo embajador de México en EU". milenio.com (in Mexican Spanish). Milenio Digital. February 16, 2021. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
- ^ "EU da luz verde a Esteban Moctezuma como embajador de México". milenio.com (in Mexican Spanish). Milenio Digital. January 22, 2021. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
