Ambassadors to the United States
Diplomatic relations between the Empire of Brazil and the United States of America were established in 1824, the same year that the U.S. government recognized Brazilian independence. José Silvestre Rebello, appointed by Emperor Pedro I as the Brazilian Empire's chargé d'affaires in the United States, was received by President James Monroe on May 26, 1824. The United States was one of the first nations to recognize the Brazilian Empire and is the country with which Brazil has maintained the longest and most continuous diplomatic relations. The U.S. Legation in Brazil was established in Rio de Janeiro in 1825.
In 1905, the legation in Washington, established in 1824, became the first Brazilian diplomatic mission to be elevated to the rank of an embassy, headed by Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo as Brazil's first Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States. Also in 1905, the United States elevated its legation in Rio de Janeiro to the rank of embassy, headed by David E. Thompson.
The following table lists the names, positions and dates of exercising the official functions of diplomatic representation of the Government of Brazil to the Government of the United States of America.
| Names | Titles |
Start of Mission | End of Mission | Appointed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| José Silvestre Rebello | Chargé d'Affaires | 05/26/1824 | 08/10/1829 | Pedro I |
| José de Araújo Ribeiro | Chargé d'Affaires | 08/11/1829 | 02/14/1833 | |
| José Francisco de Paula Cavalcante de Albuquerque | Chargé d'Affaires | 12/30/1833 | 07/22/1838 | |
| Ernesto Ferreira França | Minister-Resident | 07/23/1838 | 10/28/1839 | Pedro II |
| Pedro Rodrigues Fernandes Chaves | Chargé d'Affaires | 03/17/1840 | 10/30/1840 | |
| Gaspar José Lisboa | Minister-Resident | 05/29/1841 | 09/11/1845 | |
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 09/12/1845 | 07/08/1847 | ||
| Sergio Teixeira de Macedo | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 03/12/1849 | 06/01/1851 | |
| Francisco Ignácio de Carvalho Moreira | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 09/21/1852 | 07/31/1855 | |
| José Francisco de Paula Cavalcante de Albuquerque | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 05/29/1856 | 08/25/1858 | |
| Miguel Maria Lisboa | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 10/03/1859 | 04/27/1864 | |
| Joaquim Maria Nascentes de Azambuja | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 09/23/1865 | 05/17/1867 | |
| Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 07/05/1867 | 10/13/1870 | |
| Antonio Pedro de Carvalho Borges | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 10/09/1871 | 12/07/1880 | |
| Felippe Lopes Neto | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 10/24/1882 | 08/14/1883 | |
| José Gurgel do Amaral Valente | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | 08/15/1883 | 12/08/1885 | |
| Marcos Antonio de Araújo e Abreu | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 12/09/1885 | 05/16/1888 | |
| José Gurgel do Amaral Valente | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 11/10/1889 | 01/21/1891 | |
| Salvador Furtado de Mendonça Drummond | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 01/22/1891 | 05/17/1898 | Deodoro da Fonseca |
| Joaquim Francisco de Assis do Brasil | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 06/06/1898 | 04/22/1903 | Prudente de Morais |
| Alfredo de Moraes Gomes Ferreira | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim | 12/28/1904 | 05/23/1905 | Francisco Rodrigues Alves |
| Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 05/24/1905 | 01/17/1910† | |
| Domicio da Gama | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 06/16/1911 | 10/22/1918 | Hermes da Fonseca |
| Augusto Cochrane de Alencar | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 05/26/1920 | 03/05/1924 | Epitácio Pessoa |
| Sylvino Gurgel do Amaral | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 06/19/1925 | 04/09/1931 | Artur Bernardes |
| Rinaldo de Lima e Silva | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 04/24/1931 | 05/16/1934 | Getúlio Vargas |
| Oswaldo Aranha | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 10/02/1934 | 12/11/1937 | |
| Mario de Pimentel Brandão | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 04/28/1938 | 01/03/1939 | |
| Carlos Martins Pereira e Souza | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 03/08/1939 | 04/20/1948 | |
| Maurício Nabuco | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 06/01/1948 | 10/28/1951 | Eurico Gaspar Dutra |
| Walther Moreira Salles | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 06/12/1952 | 08/18/1953 | Getúlio Vargas |
| João Carlos Muniz | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 10/20/1953 | 07/12/1956 | |
| Ernani do Amaral Peixoto | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 07/18/1956 | 05/18/1959 | Juscelino Kubitschek |
| Walther Moreira Salles | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 07/23/1959 | 02/16/1961 | |
| Roberto de Oliveira Campos | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 10/18/1961 | 01/17/1964 | João Goulart |
| Juracy Montenegro Magalhães | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 07/09/1964 | 10/06/1965 | Humberto Castello Branco |
| Vasco Tristão Leitão da Cunha | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 02/02/1966 | 06/29/1968 | |
| Mário Gibson Alves Barboza | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 02/21/1969 | 10/17/1969 | Artur da Costa e Silva |
| Mozart Gurgel Valente Junior | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 02/20/1970 | 12/19/1970† | Emílio Garrastazu Médici |
| João Augusto de Araújo Castro | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 05/18/1971 | 12/09/1975† | |
| João Baptista Pinheiro | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 06/10/1976 | 06/09/1979 | Ernesto Geisel |
| Antonio Francisco Azeredo da Silveira | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 07/24/1979 | 08/01/1983 | João Baptista Figueiredo |
| Sergio Corrêa da Costa | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 10/13/1983 | 11/01/1986 | |
| Marcílio Marques Moreira | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 11/23/1986 | 08/24/1991 | José Sarney |
| Rubens Ricupero | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 08/25/1991 | 08/25/1993 | Fernando Collor de Mello |
| Paulo Tarso Flecha de Lima | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 11/12/1993 | 05/26/1999 | Itamar Franco |
| Rubens Antonio Barbosa | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 06/11/1999 | 03/31/2004 | Fernando Henrique Cardoso |
| Roberto Pinto Ferreira Abdenur | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 04/02/2004 | 01/29/2007 | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva |
| Antonio de Aguiar Patriota | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 02/21/2007 | 10/20/2009 | |
| Mauro Luiz Iecker Vieira | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 01/11/2010 | 12/31/2014 | |
| Luiz Alberto Figueiredo | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 05/07/2015 | 09/05/2016 | Dilma Rousseff |
| Sergio Silva do Amaral | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 09/05/2016 | 06/03/2019 | Michel Temer |
| Nestor José Forster Junior | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 10/07/2020** | 03/27/2023 | Jair Bolsonaro |
| Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 06/16/2023 | in office | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva |
** From 07/11/2019 to 10/06/2020, served as Chargé d'Affaires, a.i. In 10/07/2020, was accredited as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
The symbol "†" indicates those who died in the course of their duties as ambassador in Washington.