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The 'United States has sent ambassadors to France' since the American Revolution.
This is a complete list of United States ambassadors to France:

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United States Envoys to France

United States Ministers Plenipotentiary to France

United States Ministers to France

United States Ambassadors to France

United States Envoys to France

★ Benjamin Franklin, Arthur Lee, Silas Deane (substituted by John Adams in 1778) 1776-1779

United States Ministers Plenipotentiary to France

★ Benjamin Franklin September 14, 1778 - May 17, 1785

★ Thomas Jefferson March 10, 1785 - September 26 1789

★ William Short April 20, 1790 - May 15, 1792

★ Gouverneur Morris 1792-1794

★ James Monroe 1794-1796

★ Charles Cotesworth Pinckney 1796-1797

★ Robert R. Livingston 1801-1804

★ John Armstrong 1804-1810

★ Joel Barlow 1811-1812

United States Ministers to France

★ William H. Crawford 1813-1815

★ Albert Gallatin 1816-1823 (United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to France)

★ James Brown 1824-1829

★ William Cabell Rives 1829-1832

★ Edward Livingston 1833-1835

★ Lewis Cass 1836-1842

★ William R. King 1844-1846

★ Richard Rush 1847-1849

★ William Cabell Rives 1849-1853

★ John Young Mason 1853-1859

★ Charles J. Faulkner 1860-1861

★ William Lewis Dayton 1861-1864

★ John Bigelow 1865-1866

★ John Adams Dix 1866-1869

★ Elihu B. Washburne 1869-1877

★ Edward Follansbee Noyes 1877-1881

★ Levi Parsons Morton 1881-1885

★ Robert Milligan McLane 1885-1889

★ Whitelaw Reid 1889-1892

★ Thomas Jefferson Coolidge 1892-1893

United States Ambassadors to France

★ James Biddle Eustis 1893-1897

★ Horace Porter 1897-1905

★ Robert Sanderson McCormick 1905-1907

★ Henry White 1907-1909

★ Robert Bacon 1909-1912

★ Myron T. Herrick 1912-1914

★ William Graves Sharp 1914-1919

★ Hugh Campbell Wallace 1919-1921

★ Myron T. Herrick 1921-1929

★ Walter E. Edge 1929-1933

★ Jesse I. Strauss 1933-1936

★ William C. Bullitt 1936-1940

★ William D. Leahy 1941-1942

★ Jefferson Caffery 1944-1949

★ David K. E. Bruce 1949-1952

★ James C. Dunn 1952-1953

★ C. Douglas Dillon 1953-1957

★ Amory Houghton 1957-1961

★ James M. Gavin 1961-1962

★ Charles E. Bohlen 1962-1968

★ Robert S. Shriver, Jr. 1968-1970

★ Arthur K. Watson 1970-1972

★ John N. Irwin, II 1973-1974

★ Kenneth Rush 1974-1977

★ Arthur A. Hartman 1977-1981

★ Evan Griffith Galbraith 1981-1985

★ Joe M. Rodgers 1985-1989

★ Walter Curley 1989-1993

★ Pamela Harriman 1993-1997

★ Felix Rohatyn 1997-2000

★ Howard H. Leach 2001-2005

★ Craig Roberts Stapleton 2005-
Source: Dept. of State