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 You are in: Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs > Bureau of Public Affairs > Bureau of Public Affairs: Office of the Historian > Principal Officers of the Department and U.S. Chiefs of Mission > Alphabetical List of Chiefs of Mission and Principal Officials, 1778-2005 

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Aaron, David Laurence (1938- )
Non-career appointee
1993 Representative, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Abbott, John True (1850-1914)
Non-career appointee
1889 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia

Abbott, S.L. (1924- )
Non-career appointee
1984 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lesotho

Abell, Tyler (1932- )
Non-career appointee
1968 Chief of Protocol

Abram, Morris Berthold (1918- )
Non-career appointee
1989 Representative, United Nations European Office, Geneva

Abramowitz, Morton Isaac (1933- )
Foreign Service officer
1978 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand
1985 Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research
1986 Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey
1989 Career Ambassador

Abrams, Elliott (1948- )
Non-career appointee
1981 Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs
1981 Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
1985 Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs

Abshire, David Manker (1926-)
Non-career appointee
1970 Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations
1983 Representative, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels

Acheson, Dean Gooderham, (1893-1971)
Non-career appointee
1941 Assistant Secretary of State (1924-1944)
1944 Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations and International Conferences
1945 Under Secretary of State
1949 Secretary of State

Achilles, Theodore Carter (1905-1986)
Foreign Service officer
1956 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru
1960 Counselor

Ackerman, Ralph H. (1892-1957)
Foreign Service officer
1948 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic

Ackerson, Jr., Garret G. (1904-1992)
Foreign Service officer
1957 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Hungary

Ackley, Hugh Gardner (1915- )
Non-career appointee
1968 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy

Adelman, Kenneth Lee (1946- )
Non-career appointee
1983 Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

Adair, Jr., Charles Wallace (1914- 2006 )
Foreign Service officer
1965 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama
1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay

Adair, Edwin Ross (1907- )
Non-career appointee
1971 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia

Adams, Alvin P. (1942- )
Foreign Service officer
1983 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Djibouti
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti
[1992 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru]
1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru

Adams, Charles (1845-1895)
Non-career appointee
1880 Minister Resident/Consul General, Bolivia

Adams, Charles Francis (1807-1886)
Non-career appointee
1861 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, England

Adams, John (1735-1826)
Non-career appointee
1781 Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands
1785 Minister Plenipotentiary, Great Britain

Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848)
Non-career appointee
1794 Minister Resident, Netherlands
1796 [Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal]
1797 Minister Resident, Prussia
1809 Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia
1815 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom
1817 Secretary of State

Adams, Robert, Jr. (1846-1906)
Non-career appointee
1889 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil

Adams, Samuel Clifford, Jr. (1920- )
Non-career appointee
1968 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Niger

Adams, Weston (1938- )
Non-career appointee
1984 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malawi

Adee, Alvey Augustus (1842-1924)
Non-career appointee
1882 Third Assistant Secretary of State
1886 Second Assistant Secretary of State
1898 Secretary of State ad interim
1924 Assistant Secretary of State (1924-1944)

Adelman, Kenneth Lee (1946-)
Non-career appointee
1983 Director Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

Ageton, Arthur Ainslie (1900-1971
Non-career appointee
1954 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay

Aggrey, Orison Rudolph (1926- )
Foreign Service officer
1973 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, The Gambia and Senegal
1977 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Romania

Ahmad, Sharon Erdkamp (1933- )
Non-career appointee
1982 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, The Gambia]

Akers, Anthony Boyce (1914-1976)
Non-career appointee
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, New Zealand

Akins, James Elmer (1926- )
Foreign Service officer
1973 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia

Albright, Edward (1873-1937)
Non-career appointee
1933 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland
1937 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica]

Albright, Madeleine Korbel (1937- )
Non-career appointee
1993 Representative, United Nations, New York
1997 Secretary of State

Alden, Roger (?-?)
Non-career appointee
1790 Chief Clerk

Aldrich, Winthrop Williams (1885-1974)
Non-career appointee
1953 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Great Britain

Alexander, Donald Herman (1938- )
Non-career appointee
1992 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentary, the Netherlands]

Alexander, Eben (1851-1910)
Non-career appointee
1893 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary/Consul General, Greece, Romania and Serbia

Alexander, Leslie M. (1948- )
Foreign Service officer
1992 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Haiti
1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mauritius and the Comoros
1996 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador

Alger, Jr., Frederick Moulton (1907-1967)
Non-career appointee
1953 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium

Allen, Bernadette Mary (1956- )
2006 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Niger

Allen, George Venable (1903-1970)
Foreign Service officer
1946 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran
1948 Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
1949 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia
1953 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India and Nepal
1955 Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs
1956 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece
1957 Director, United States Information Agency
1966 Director, Foreign Service Institute

Allen, Heman (1779-1852)
Non-career appointee
1823 Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile

Allen, Horace Newton (1858-1932)
Non-career appointee
1897 Minister Resident/Consul General, Korea
1901 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Korea

Alling, Paul Humiston (1896-1949)
Foreign Service officer
1945 Diplomatic Agent/Consul General Morocco
1947 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Syria]
1947 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan

Allison, John Moore (1905-1978)
Foreign Service officer
1952 Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs
1953 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan
1957 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia
1958 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia

Almaguer, Frank (1945- )
Foreign Service officer
1999 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras

Alston, Jr., Philip Henry (1911-1988)
Non-career appointee
1977 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia and Nauru

Amstutz, J. Bruce (1928- )
Foreign Service officer
1979, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim Afghanistan

Anders, William Allison (1933- )
Non-career appointee
1976 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway

Anderson, Chandler Parsons (1866-1936)
Non-career appointee
1912 Counselor

Anderson, David (1937-1997)
Foreign Service officer
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia

Anderson, G. Norman (1932- )
Foreign Service officer
1986 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sudan

Anderson, George Whelan, Jr. (1906- )
Non-career appointee
1963 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal

Anderson, Helen Eugenie (Moore) (1909-1997)
Non-career appointee
1949 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark
1962 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria

Anderson, J. Brady (1945- )
Non-career appointee
1994 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tanzania
1999 Administrator Agency for International Development

Anderson, John Alexander (1834-1892)
Non-career appointee
1891 Agent/Consul General, Egypt

Anderson, Larz (1866-1937)
Non-career appointee
1911 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Belgium
1912 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan

Anderson, Rasmus Bjorn (1846-1936)
Non-career appointee
1885 Minister Resident/Consul General, Denmark

Anderson, Richard Clough (1788-1826)
Non-career appointee
1823 Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia

Anderson, Robert (1922-1996)
Foreign Service officer
1972 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dahomey
1976 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco
1982 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic

Anderson, Stanton Dean (1940- )
Non-career appointee
1974 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica]

Anderson, Thomas H., Jr. (1946)
Non-career appointee
1984 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, St Christopher/Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Anderson, Thomas Henry (1848-1916)
Non-career appointee
1889 Minister Resident/Consul General, Bolivia
1890 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia

Andrews, Christopher Columbus (1829-1922)
Non-career appointee
1869 [Minister Resident, Denmark]
1869 Minister Resident, Sweden and Norway

Andrews, David (1942- )
Non-career appointee
1997 Legal Adviser

Andrews, George Roberts (1932- )
Foreign Service officer
1983 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mauritius

Andrews, Stanley (1894- ?)
Non-career appointee
1952 Administrator Technical Cooperation Administration

Angel, Benjamin Franklin (1815-1894)
1857 Minister Resident, Sweden and Norway

Angell, James Burrill (1829-1916)
1880 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China
1897 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Turkey

Annenberg, Leonore (1918- )
Non-career appointee
1981 Chief of Protocol

Annenberg, Walter H. (1908-2002)
Non-career appointee
1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Great Britain (see United Kingdom)

Appleton, John (1815-1864)
Non-career appointee
1848 Chief Clerk
1848 Chargé d'Affaires, Bolivia
1857 Assistant Secretary of State (1853-1924)
1860 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (see Soviet Union)

Aponte, Mari Carmen (1946- )
Non-career appointee
1998 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic]

Appleton, John James (1792-1864)
Non-career appointee
1820 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim Portugal
1821 [Chargé d'Affaires, Portugal]
1826 Chargé d'Affaires, Sweden and Norway

Aranda, Jr., Thomas (1934- )
Non-career appointee
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay

Arcos, Cresencio S., Jr. (1943- )
Foreign Service officer
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras

Argyros, George L., Sr. (1937- )
Non-career appointee
2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain and Andorra

Armacost, Michael Hayden (1937- )
Foreign Service officer
1982 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines
1984 Under Secretary for Political Affairs
1989 Acting Secretary of State
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan

Armitage, Richard Lee (1945- )
Non-career appointee
1989 [Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs]
2001 Deputy Secretary of State

Armour, Norman (1887-1982)
Foreign Service officer
1932 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Haiti
1933 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Haiti
1935 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Canada
1938 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile
1939 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina
1944 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain
1947 Assistant Secretary for Political Affairs
1950 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela
1954 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala

Armstrong, Anne Legendre (1927- )
Non-career appointee
1976 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Great Britain

Armstrong, David (1836-1918)
Non-career appointee
1869 [Chargé d'Affaires, Papal States]

Armstrong, John (1755-1843)
Non-career appointee
1804 Minister Plenipotentiary, France

Armstrong, Willis Coburn (1912-1998)
Non-career appointee
1972 Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs

Arnall, Roland (1939- )
2006 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands

Arnold, Daryl (1924- )
Non-career appointee
1987 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Singapore

Arnold, Frank Dundore (1881-?)
Non-career appointee
1918 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim El Salvador

Arnold, Olney (1861-1916)
Non-career appointee
1913 Agent/Consul General, Egypt

Aronson, Bernard William (1946- )
Non-career appointee
1989 Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs

Asboth, Alexander (1811-1868)
Non-career appointee
1866 Minister Resident, Argentina
1867 Minister Resident, Uruguay

Asencio, Diego Cortes (1931- )
Foreign Service officer
1977 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia
1980 Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs
1983 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil

Ashby, Christopher C. (1946- )
Non-career appointee
1997 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay

Askew, Reubin O'Donovan (1928- )
Non-career appointee
1979 Special Representative for Trade Negotiations

Astor, William Waldorf (1848-1919)
Non-career appointee
1882 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Italy

Atherton, Ray (1883-1960)
Foreign Service officer
1923 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim Greece
1937 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria
1939 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark
1943 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Canada and Luxembourg
1943 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada

Atherton, Alfred Leroy, Jr. (1921-2002)
Foreign Service officer
1974 Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
1978 Ambassador at Large
1979 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt
1981 Career Ambassador
1983 Director General of the Foreign Service

Attwood, William Hollingsworth (1919-1989)
Non-career appointee
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guinea
1964 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Kenya

Atwood, John Brian (1942- )
Non-career appointee
1979 Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations
1993 Under Secretary for Management
1993 Administrator, Agency for International Development

Austad, Marcus Jacob (Mark Evans) (1917-1988)
Non-career appointee
1975 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway

Austin, Roy L. (1939- )
Non-career appointee
2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Trinidad and Tobago

Austin, Warren Robinson (1877-1962)
Non-career appointee
1947 Representative, United Nations, New York

Avery, Benjamin Parke (1828-1875)
Non-career appointee
1874 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China


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