[4] The first envoy was Wells Stabler, who served as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim until Gerald A.

[5] Following the raising of the Legation Amman, the original diplomatic office, to embassy status in 1952, subsequent envoys have held the title of Ambassador.

In 1954, American architect Paul Rudolph was commissioned by the Department of State to design a new embassy in Amman.

[7] The current chancery began construction in 1988, at a cost of $50 million, and was opened on July 4, 1992, Independence Day in the United States.

[1] After the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983, retired Admiral Bobby Ray Inman requested the building be reinforced and heavily guarded.