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Ronald E. Neuman, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2005 to 2007.

This is a list of United States ambassadors to Afghanistan. Prior to 1948, Afghanistan was not considered important enough to have a full ambassador, so a Minister Plenipotentiary was sent instead. From 1979 to 1989, Afghanistan did not have an official ambassador and was instead served by a lower-ranking chargé d’affaires. From 1981 to 2002, there was no official embassy in Kabul due to internal security problems eventually including the Taliban government.

• William H. Hornibrook (1935–1936) - Minister Plenipotentiary
• Louis G. Dreyfus, Jr. (1940–1942) - Minister Plenipotentiary
• Cornelius Van Hemert Engert (1942–1945) - Minister Plenipotentiary
• Ely E. Palmer (1945–1948) - Minister Plenipotentiary
• Louis G. Dreyfus, Jr. (1949–1951) - First formal ambassador
• George Robert Merrell (1951–1952)
• Angus I. Ward (1952–1956)
• Sheldon T. Mills (1956–1959)
• Henry A. Byroade (1959–1962)
• John M. Steeves (1962–1966)
• Robert G. Neumann (1966–1973)
• Theodore L. Eliot, Jr. (1973–1978)
• Adolph Dubs (1978–1979) - Killed while in office.

Following the death of Mr. Dubs, there were no formal Ambassadors from the United States until after the War in Afghanistan.

• J. Bruce Amstutz (1979–1980) - US Deputy Chief of Mission, then chargé d’affaires
• Hawthorne Q. Mills (1980–1982) - chargé d’affaires
• Archer K. Blood - appointed in 1982, but rejected by Afghanistan government
• Charles F. Dunbar - (1982–1983) - chargé d’affaires
• Edward Hurwitz (1983–1986) - chargé d’affaires
• James Maurice Elaum (1986–??) - chargé d’affaires (–1988?)
• Jon D. Glassman (??–1989) chargé d’affaires (1988?–) - embassy closed after Soviet Union troop withdrawal and descreased stability

The US government also had a chargé d’affaires to the Afgan Northern Alliance government, beginning in 1989.

• Peter Tomsen (1989–1992) - chargé d’affaires to Northern Alliance, new post

Post-war ambassadors:

• James F. Dobbins (2001) - Special US Ambassador to oversee reopening of embassy, not official ambassador
• Ryan C. Crocker (2001-2002) - chargé d’affaires before official ambassador could be chosen
• Robert Finn (2002–2003)
• Zalmay Khalilzad (2003–2005)
• Ronald E. Neumann (2005–2007)
• William B. Wood (2007-present)

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