List of ambassadors of Bulgaria to the United States

Ambassador of Bulgaria to the United States
Embassy of Bulgaria in Washington, D.C.
Incumbent
Tihomir Stoytchev[1]
since August 10, 2010
Inaugural holderStefan Panaretov
FormationDecember 22, 1914

The Bulgarian Ambassador to the United States is the official representative of the Government of Bulgaria to the Government of the United States in Washington, D.C. Diplomatic relations between the two countries were established in 1903.[2]

List of representatives

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Diplomatic Agreement Diplomatic Accreditation Ambassador Observations Prime Minister of Bulgaria List of presidents of the United States Term end
December 22, 1914 Legation opened Vasil Radoslavov Woodrow Wilson
December 22, 1914 Stefan Panaretov Vasil Radoslavov Woodrow Wilson
December 16, 1920 Paul Lessinoff Chargé d'affaires Aleksandar Stamboliyski Woodrow Wilson
August 24, 1921 Stefan Panaretov Aleksandar Stamboliyski Warren G. Harding
August 5, 1922 Paul Lessinoff[3] Chargé d'affaires Aleksandar Stamboliyski Warren G. Harding
June 1, 1925 Stephen P. Bisseroff Chargé d'affaires Aleksandar Stamboliyski Calvin Coolidge
December 17, 1925 Simeon Radev Aleksandar Stamboliyski Calvin Coolidge
October 20, 1933 Stoyan Petroff Tchomakoff Chargé d'affaires Nikola Mushanov Franklin D. Roosevelt
May 1, 1936 Dimitri Naoumoff [4] Andrey Toshev Franklin D. Roosevelt
December 13, 1941 Announcement of State of War Georgi Kyoseivanov Franklin D. Roosevelt
November 21, 1947 Legation re-opened as People's Republic of Bulgaria Georgi Dimitrov Harry S. Truman
November 21, 1947 Boyan Athanassov Chargé d'affaires[5] Georgi Dimitrov Harry S. Truman
December 16, 1947 December 29, 1947 Nissim Judasy Mevorah Georgi Dimitrov Harry S. Truman
December 24, 1948 Peter Voutov Chargé d'affaires. On December 12, 1949, Voutov was informed that the United States took a serious view of the persecution of Bulgarian employees of the Legation.[6] Georgi Dimitrov Harry S. Truman
February 20, 1950 Severed relations Valko Chervenkov Harry S. Truman
December 2, 1959 January 15, 1960 Peter G. Voutov Anton Yugov Dwight D. Eisenhower
May 13, 1963 June 1, 1963 Lubomir Dimitrov Popov Todor Zhivkov Lyndon B. Johnson
August 30, 1965 September 1, 1965 Luben Guerassimov Todor Zhivkov Lyndon B. Johnson
November 28, 1966 Legation raised to embassy Todor Zhivkov Lyndon B. Johnson
December 12, 1966 December 14, 1966 Luben Guerassimov Todor Zhivkov Lyndon B. Johnson
October 17, 1972 December 19, 1972 Khristo Delchev Zdravchev Stanko Todorov Richard Nixon
October 14, 1973 Vladimir Velchev Chargé d'affaires Stanko Todorov Richard Nixon
May 10, 1974 June 5, 1974 Lubomir Dimitrov Popov Stanko Todorov Gerald Ford
September 14, 1977 Krassin Himmirsky Chargé d'affaires Stanko Todorov Jimmy Carter
February 8, 1978 February 15, 1978 Konstantin Nicolov Grigorov [7] Stanko Todorov Jimmy Carter
September 17, 1980 November 24, 1980 Stoyan Iliev Zhulev Head of Chemical Fibers and served on Committee of Light Industry (1965-1968)[8] Stanko Todorov Jimmy Carter
September 23, 1988 November 9, 1988 Velichko Filipov Velichkov Georgi Atanasov Ronald Reagan
December 18, 1990 February 19, 1991 Ognian Pishev Andrey Lukanov George H. W. Bush
April 1994 August 11, 1994 Snezhana Botusharova J.D./Ph.D., Deputy Chairperson and Acting Chairperson of the National Parliament Reneta Indzhova Bill Clinton
September 4, 1998 September 10, 1998 Philip Dimitrov Ivan Kostov Bill Clinton
February 13, 2002 February 14, 2002 Elena Poptodorova Simeon Sakskoburggotski George W. Bush
November 5, 2008 December 3, 2008 Latchezar Petkov Sergei Stanishev George W. Bush
August 4, 2010 August 10, 2010 Elena Poptodorova Boyko Borisov Barack Obama
June 27, 2016 Tihomir Stoytchev Ognyan Gerdzhikov Barack Obama

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References

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  1. ^ "BG Embassy". www.bulgaria-embassy.org. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  2. ^ "Relations". www.bulgaria-embassy.org. Archived from the original on 9 October 2006. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  3. ^ "Constant shifts being made in diplomatic corps" (PDF). New York Tribune. 6 August 1922. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  4. ^ Dunn, Landon Alfriend; Ryan, Timothy J. (10 August 2016). Axis Diplomats in American Custody: The Housing of Enemy Representatives and Their Exchange for American Counterparts, 1941–1945. McFarland. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-4766-2539-3.
  5. ^ Robbins, Louise (20 March 2009). The Librarian Spies: Philip and Mary Jane Keeney and Cold War Espionage: Philip and Mary Jane Keeney and Cold War Espionage. ABC-CLIO. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-56720-707-1.
  6. ^ Inter-parliamentary Bulletin: Official Publication of the Bureau of the Inter-parliamentary Union. The Bureau. 1990. p. 289.
  7. ^ Paxton, J. (15 December 2016). The Statesman's Year-Book 1982-83. Springer. p. 251. ISBN 978-0-230-27111-1.
  8. ^ Stoyan Iliev Zhulev
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