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This is a list of diplomatic missions in Boston, Massachusetts, United States (and surrounding environs of "Greater" or "Metro-Boston"). These countries have established a resident consular presence to provide diplomatic and trade representation.
Current and former Ambassadors to the United States: Chronological Listing by Country Foreign Embassy Information & Publications - The U.S. Department of State's lists of foreign embassy officers and of foreign consular offices in the United States
The British Consulate-General Boston is an outpost of the British diplomatic mission to the United States serving the six New England states. Originally based in Boston proper, the modern Consulate relocated across the Charles River to the Kendall Square innovation district bordering the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . [ 1 ]
The State Department publishes a monthly list of ambassadors. [3] A listing by country of past chiefs of mission is maintained by the Office of the Historian of the U.S. Department of State, [4] along with the names and appointment dates of past and present ambassadors-at-large [5] and mission to international organizations. [6]
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., a leading moderate Republican who lost his seat in the United States Senate to John F. Kennedy in the 1952 elections, was appointed ambassador to the United Nations in 1953 by Dwight D. Eisenhower in gratitude for the defeated senator's role in the new president's defeat of conservative leader Robert A. Taft for the 1952 Republican nomination and subsequent service as ...
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a highest ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state, or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. [1]
The position of ambassador to the United States is considered to be one of the most important and prestigious posts in His Majesty's Diplomatic Service, along with that of Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The ambassador's main duty is to present British policies to the American government and people ...
The representative has the rank of full ambassador and is appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. The official title of the representative is United States permanent representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with the rank and status of ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary.