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Baas, Marc Allen (1948- )
Foreign Service officer
1991 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim, Ethiopia
1992 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia

Babbitt, Harriet Coons (1947- )
Non-career appointee
1993 Representative to the Organization of American States

Baber, Ambrose (?-?)
Non-career appointee
1841 Charg? d'Affaires, Sardinia

Bacon, John Edmund (1830-1897)
Non-career appointee
1885 Charg? d'Affaires, Paraguay and Uruguay
1886 Charg? d'Affaires, Paraguay and Uruguay
1888 Minister Resident, Paraguay and Uruguay

Bacon, Robert (1860-1919)
Non-career appointee
1905 Assistant Secretary of State (1853-1924)
1909 Secretary of State
1909 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France

Badeau, Adam (1831-1895)
Non-career appointee
1875 [Minister Resident, Belgium]
1881 [Charg? d'Affaires, Denmark]

Badeau, John Stothoff (1903- )
Non-career appointee
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Arab Republic

Bader, Jeffrey A. (1945- )
Foreign Service officer
1999 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Namibia

Bader, William B. (1931- )
Non-career appointee
1999 Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs

Bading, Gerhard Adolph (1870-1946)
Non-career appointee
1922 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador

Bagby, Arthur Pendleton (1794-1858)
Non-career appointee
1848 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia

Bagley, Elizabeth Frawley (1952- )
Non-career appointee
1994 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal

Bailly-Blanchard Arthur (1855-1925)
Foreign Service officer
1914 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Haiti

Baker, Howard Henry, Jr. (1925- )
Non-career appointee
2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan

Baker, James Addison III (1930- )
Non-career appointee
1989 Secretary of State

Baker, James Marion (1861-1940)
Non-career appointee
1933 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Siam

Baker, Jehu (1822-1903)
Non-career appointee
1878 Minister Resident, Venezuela
1882 Minister Resident, Venezuela
1884 Minister Resident and Consul General, Venezuela

Baker, John Alexander Jr. (1927-1994)
Foreign Service officer
1979 Director, Bureau of Refugee Programs

Baker, Lewis (1832-1899)
Non-career appointee
1893 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua

Baldwin, Charles Franklin (1902-1993)
Foreign Service officer
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malaya

Baldwin, William Woodward (1862-1954)
Non-career appointee
1896 Third Assistant Secretary of State

Ball, David Elliott
Non-career appointee
1961 Administrator, Agency for International Development

Ball, George Wildman (1909-1994)
Non-career appointee
1961 Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
1961 Under Secretary of State
1968 Representative, United Nations, New York

Ball, William Lockhart III (1948- )
Non-career appointee
1985 Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs

Baltimore, Richard L., 3rd (1947- )
Foreign Service officer
2002 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Oman

Bancroft, Edgar Addison (1857-1925)
Non-career appointee
1924 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan

Bancroft, George (1800-1891)
Non-career appointee
1846 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom
1867 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Prussia
1871 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, German Empire

Bandler, Donald Keith (1947- )
Foreign Service officer
1999 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cyprus

Bane, David Morgan (1915- )
Foreign Service officer
1965 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Gabon

Baquet, Charles R., III (1941- )
Foreign Service officer
1991 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Djibouti

Barbour, James (1775-1842)
Non-career appointee
1828 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom

Barbour, Robert E. (1927- )
Foreign Service officer
1984 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Suriname

Barbour, Walworth (1908-1982)
Foreign Service officer
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel

Barclay, Hugh Douglas (1932- )
Non-career appointee
2003 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador

Barkley, Richard Clark (1932- )
Foreign Service officer
1988 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, German Democratic Republic
1991 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey

Barlow, Joel (1754-1812)
Non-career appointee
1811 Minister Plenipotentiary, France

Barnard, Daniel Dewey (1797-1861)
Non-career appointee
1850 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Prussia

Barnebey, Malcolm R. (1927- )
Foreign Service officer
1981 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim, Belize
1983 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belize

Barnes, Douglas M. (1955- )
2004 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim, Costa Rica

Barnes, Harry George Jr. (1926- )
Foreign Service officer
1973 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Romania
1977 Director General of the Foreign Service
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India
1985 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile

Barnes, Marsha E. (1947- )
Non-career appointee
2003 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Suriname

Barnes, Robert Gaylord (1914-1977)
Foreign Service officer
1964 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan

Barnett, Elizabeth (1954- )
Foreign Service officer
1997 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim Malta

*Barnes, Shirley Elizabeth (1938- )
1998 AE/P Madagascar

Barrett, Dennis P. (1936- )
Foreign Service officer
1992 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Madagascar

Barrett, Edward Ware (1910- )
Non-career appointee
1950 Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs

Barrett, John (1866-1938)
Non-career appointee
1894 Minister Resident/Consul General, Siam
1903 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Argentina
1904 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama
1905 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia

Barrett, Robert South, IV (1927- )
Foreign Service officer
1977 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim Madagascar and Comoros
1988 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Djibouti

Barringer, Daniel Moreau (1806-1873)
Non-career appointee
1849 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain

Barrow, Washington (1817-1866)
Non-career appointee
1841 Charg? d'Affaires, Portugal

Barrows, Leland Judd (1906-1988)
Foreign Service officer
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cameroon
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Togo

Barry, Robert Louis (1934- )
Foreign Service officer
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria
1992 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia

Barry, William Taylor (1784-1835)
Non-career appointee
1835 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain]

Barshevsky, Charlene (1949- )
Non-career appointee
1997 U.S. Trade Representative

Barth, Norman Edwin (1927- )
Foreign Service officer
1968 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim Lesotho

Bartholomew, Reginald (1936- )
Foreign Service officer
1979 Director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs
1983 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon
1986 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy
1989 Under Secretary for International Security Affairs
1992 Representative, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels
1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy

Bartlett, Frederic Pearson (1909-1970)
Foreign Service officer
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malagasy Republic

Bartlett, Joseph Jackson (1834-1893)
Non-career appointee
1867 Minister Resident, Sweden and Norway

Barton, Seth (1795-1850)
Non-career appointee
1847 Charg? d'Affaires, Chile

Barton, Thomas Pennant (1803-1869)
Non-career appointee
1835 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim France

Baruch, Herman Benjamin (1872-1953)
Non-career appointee
1945 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal
1947 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands

Bash, Edward John (1915-1994)
Non-career appointee
1954 Acting Director, Foreign Service Institute

Basora, Adrian A. (1938- )
Foreign Service officer
1992 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia

Bassett, Ebenezer Don Carlos (1833-1908)
Non-career appointee
1869 Minister Resident/Consul General, Haiti

Batcheller, George Sherman (1837-1908)
Non-career appointee
1890 Minister Resident/Consul General, Portugal

Battle, Lucius Durham (1918- )
Foreign Service officer
1961 Executive Secretary
1962 Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs
1964 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Arab Republic
1967 Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs

Battle, Vincent Martin (1940- )
Foreign Service officer
1994 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim Lebanon
2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon

Battle, William Cullen (1920- )
Non-career appointee
1962 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia

Baxter, Frank (1936- )
2006 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay

Baxter, Henry (1821-1873)
Non-career appointee
1869 Minister Resident, Honduras

Bay, Charles Ulrick (1888-1955)
Non-career appointee
1946 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway

Bayard, James Asheton (1767-1815)
Non-career appointee
1801 [Minister Plenipotentiary, France]
1815 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia]

Bayard, Richard Henry (1796-1868)
Non-career appointee
1850 Charg? d'Affaires, Belgium

Bayard, Thomas Francis (1828-1898)
Non-career appointee
1885 Secretary of State
1893 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Great Britain

Baylies, Francis (1784-1852)
Non-career appointee
1832 Charg? d'Affaires, Buenos Aires

Beach, Arthur Eugene (1907-1973)
Foreign Service officer
1956 Charg? d'Affaires, Sudan

Beale, Edward Fitzgerald (1822-1893)
Non-career appointee
1876 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria-Hungary

Beale, Truxtun (1856-1936)
Non-career appointee
1891 Minister Resident/Consul General, Persia
1892 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece, Romania, and Serbia
1892 Minister Resident/Consul General, [Romania, Serbia (see Yugoslavia)] and Greece
1893 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary/Consul General Romania, Serbia, and Greece]

Beale, Wilson Thomas Moore Jr. (1909-1997)
Foreign Service officer
1965 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jamaica

Beam, Jacob Dyneley (1908-1993)
Foreign Service officer
1957 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland
1966 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia
1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Soviet Union

Bean, Maurice Darrow (1928- )
Foreign Service officer
1977 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma

Beardsley, Richard (1838-1876)
Non-career appointee
1872 Agent/Consul General, Egypt

Beaulac, Willard Leon (1899-1990)
Foreign Service officer
1944 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay
1947 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia
1951 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba
1953 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina]
1953 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile
1956 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina

Beaupre, Arthur Matthias (1853-1919)
Non-career appointee
1903 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia
1904 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Argentina
1908 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands and Luxembourg
1911 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Cuba

Becker, Loftus Eugene (1911- )
Non-career appointee
1957 Legal Adviser

Becker, Ralph Elihu (1907-1994)
Non-career appointee
1976 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras

Bedinger, Henry (1812-1858)
Non-career appointee
1853 Charg? d'Affaires, Denmark
1854 Minister Resident, Denmark
1856 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark]

Beeman, Josiah Horton (1935-2006 )
Non-career appointee
1994 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, New Zealand and Western Samoa

Beers, Charlotte L. (1935- )
Non-career appointee
2001 Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy

Beers, R(obert) Rand (Brittingham) (1942- )
Non-career appointee
1998 Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs

Belcher, Taylor Garrison (1920-1990)
Foreign Service officer
1964 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cyprus
1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru

Belin, Ferdinand Lammot (1881-1961)
Foreign Service officer
1932 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland

Bell, David Elliott (1919-2000)
Non-career appointee
1961 Administrator Agency for International Development
1963 Administrator Agency for International Development

Bell, Isaac Jr. (1846-1889)
Non-career appointee
1885 Minister Resident, Netherlands

Bell, James Dunbar (1911-1979)
Foreign Service officer
1964 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malaysia

Bell, John Oscar (1912- )
Foreign Service officer
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala

Bellamy, William M. (1950- )
Foreign Service officer
2003 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Kenya

Bellochi, Natale H. (1926- )
Foreign Service officer
1985 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Botswana

Belmont, August (1816-1890)
Non-career appointee
1853 Charg? d'Affaires, Netherlands
1854 Minister Resident, Netherlands
1856 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands]

Belmont, Perry (1851-1947)
Non-career appointee
1888 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain

Benedict, Lawrence Neal (1942- )
Foreign Service officer
1996 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cape Verde

Benjamin, Samuel Greene Wheeler (1837-1914)
Non-career appointee
1883 [Charg? d'Affaires/Consul General, Persia]
1883 Minister Resident/Consul General, Persia

Bennet, Jr., Douglas Joseph (1938- )
Non-career appointee
1977 Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations
1979 Administrator, Agency for International Development
1993 Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs

Bennett, Henry Garland (1886-1951)
Non-career appointee
1950 Administrator, Technical Cooperation Administration

Bennett, John E. (1941- )
Foreign Service officer
1991 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Equatorial Guinea

Bennett, Jr., William Tapley (1917-1994)
Foreign Service officer
1964 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic
1966 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal
1977 Representative, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels
1983 Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs,

Benson, Lucy Wilson Peters (1927- )
Non-career appointee
1977 Under Secretary for Coordinating Security Assistance Programs

Benton, William Burnett (1900-1973)
Non-career appointee
1945 Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs

Berding, Andrew Henry Thomas (1902-1989)
Non-career appointee
1957 Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs

Berger, Samuel David (1911-1980)
Foreign Service officer
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea
1968 Deputy Ambassador, Vietnam

Bergeson, Alf Echols (1924-1995)
Foreign Service officer
1965 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim, Cambodia

Bergold, Harry Earl Jr. (1931-1995)
Foreign Service officer
1980 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Hungary
1984 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua
1988 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco]

Bergus, Donald C. (1920-1998)
Foreign Service officer
1977 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sudan

Berle, Jr., Adolf Augustus (1895-1971)
Non-career appointee
1938 Assistant Secretary of State (1924-1944)
1945 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil

Bernbaum, Maurice Marshall (1910- )
Foreign Service officer
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador
1965 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela

Bernicat, Marcia S. (1953- )
Foreign Service officer
2001 Charge d'Affaires ad interim, Antigua/Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts/Nevis, St. Lucia, Vincent/Grenadines

Bernstein, Herman (1876-1935)
Non-career appointee
1930 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Albania

Bernstein, Stuart A. (1938- )
Non-career appointee
2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark

Bernthal, Frederick M. (1943- )
Non-career appointee
1988 Assistant Secretary for Oceans, International Environment and Scientific Affairs

Berry, Burton Yost (1901-1985)
Foreign Service officer
1952 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq

Berry, Gregory L. (1951- )
2004, Principle Officer USLO, Tripoli
2006, Charge d'Affaires ad interim, Libya

Berry, James Lampton (1908-1980)
Foreign Service officer
1958 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ceylon

Beyer, Gordon Robert (1930- )
Foreign Service officer
1980 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uganda

Biddle, Anthony Joseph Drexel Jr. (1897-1961)
Non-career appointee
1935 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Norway
1937 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland
1940 Deputy Ambassador, France
1941 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium
1941 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands and Norway
1941 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and Greece
1942 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands, Norway, Greece, and Yugoslavia
1943 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia
1943 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg]
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain

Biddle, Thomas (1827-1875)
Non-career appointee
1871 Minister Resident, El Salvador
1875 [Minister Resident, Ecuador]

Bidlack, Benjamin A., (1804-1849)
Non-career appointee
1845 Charg? d'Affaires, New Granada

Bierman, Everett E. (1924- )
Foreign Service officer
1986 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
1987 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Vanuatu

Bigelow, John (1817-1911)
Non-career appointee
1865 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France

Bigler, John (1805-1871)
Non-career appointee
1857 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile

Bindenagel, James D. (1949- )
Foreign Service officer
1996 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim Germany

Bingham, John Armour (1815-1900)
Non-career appointee
1873 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Japan

Bingham, Robert Worth (1871-1937)
Non-career appointee
1933 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Great Britain

Binns, Jack Robert (1933- )
Foreign Service officer
1980 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras

Birch, Thomas Howard (1875-1929)
Non-career appointee
1913 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal

Birney, James (1817-1888)
Non-career appointee
1876 Minister Resident, Netherlands

Bish, Milan D. (1929-2001)
Non-career appointee
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Bishop, Clyde (1942- )
2006, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Marshall Islands

Bishop, James Keough (1938- )
Foreign Service officer
1979 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Niger
1987 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Liberia
1990 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Somalia

Bishop, Max Waldo (1908-1994)
Foreign Service officer
1955 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand

Bissell, William Henry (1811-1860)
Non-career appointee
1853 [Charg? d'Affaires, Buenos Aires]

Black, J. Cofer (1950- )
Non-career appointee
Coordinator for Combating Terrorism

Black, Jeremiah Sullivan (1810-1883)
Non-career appointee
1860 Secretary of State

Black, Shirley Jane Temple (1928- )
Non-career appointee
1974 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ghana
1976 Chief of Protocol
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia

Blacken, John Dale (1930- )
Foreign Service officer
1986 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guinea-Bissau

Blackford, Peggy (1942- )
Foreign Service officer
1995 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guinea-Bissau

Blackford, William Matthews (1801-1864)
Non-career appointee
1842 Charg? d'Affaires, New Granada (under Colombia)

Blackwill, Robert D. (1939- )
Non-career appointee
2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India

Blaine, James Gillespie (1830-1893)
Non-career appointee
1881 Secretary of State
1889 Secretary of State

Blaine, Walker (1855-1890)
Non-career appointee
1881 Third Assistant Secretary of State

Blair, Francis Preston Jr. (1821-1875)
Non-career appointee
1867 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria]

Blair, Henry William (1834-1920)
Non-career appointee
1891 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China]

Blair, Jacob Beeson (1821-1901)
Non-career appointee
1868 Minister Resident, Costa Rica

Blair, William McCormick Jr. (1916- )
Non-career appointee
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark
1964 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines

Blake, James Joseph (1922- )
Foreign Service officer
1976 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iceland

Blake, Maxwell (1877-1959)
Foreign Service officer
1912 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim, Morocco
1917 Agent/Consul General, Morocco
1925 Diplomatic Agent/Consul General Morocco

Blake, Robert Orris (1921- )
Foreign Service officer
1970 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mali

Blake, Robert Orris, Jr. (1957- )
2006, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,  Sri Lanka & Maldives

Blanchard, James J. (1942- )
Non-career appointee
1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada

Blancke, Wilton Wendell (1908-1971)
Foreign Service officer
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Congo
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Central African Republic, Chad, and Gabon

Blane, John Propst (1929- )
Foreign Service officer
1982 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim Chad
1982 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Rwanda
1985 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chad

Blaney, John William (1948- )
Foreign Service officer
2002 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Liberia

Blankenship, J. Richard (1949- )
Non-career appointee
2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bahamas

Blaschke, Brent E. (1953- )
Foreign Service officer
1995 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim Seychelles

Blatchford, Richard Milford (1798-1875)
Non-career appointee
1862 Minister Resident, Papal States (under Holy See)

Bleecker, Harmanus (1779-1849)
Non-career appointee
1839 Charg? d'Affaires, Netherlands

Blinken, Alan John (1937- )
Non-career appointee
1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium

Blinken, Donald M. (1925- )
Non-career appointee
1994 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Hungary

Bliss, Don Carroll (1897-1978)
Foreign Service officer
1957 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia

Bliss, Donald T. (1941- )
2006, Representative ICAO

Bliss, Robert Woods (1875-1962)
Foreign Service officer
1921 Third Assistant Secretary of State
1923 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden
1927 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina

Bloch, Julia Chang (1942- )
Non-career appointee
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal

Blood, Archer Kent (1923- )
Foreign Service officer
1980 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim, India

Bloomfield, Lincoln P. (1952- )
Non-career appointee
2001 Assistant Secretary for Political/Military Affairs

Bloomfield, Richard Joseph (1927- )
Foreign Service officer
1976 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador
1978 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal

Blount, James Henderson (1837-1903)
Non-career appointee
1893 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hawaii

Blow, Henry Taylor (1817-1875)
Non-career appointee
1861 [Minister Resident, Venezuela]
1869 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil

Bloxham, William Dunnington (1835-1911)
Non-career appointee
1885 [Minister Resident and Consul General, Bolivia]

Blunt, Joseph (1792-1860)
Non-career appointee
1851 [Commissioner, China]

Boal, Pierre de Lagarde (1895-1966)
Foreign Service officer
1941 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua
1942 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia

Bodde, William Jr. (1931- )
Foreign Service officer
1980 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Kiribati
1990 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Marshall Islands

Bodine, Barbara K. (1948- )
Foreign Service officer
1997 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yemen

Boehm, Richard Wood (1926- )
Foreign Service officer
1984 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cyprus
1988 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Oman

Boeker, Paul Harold (1938-2003)
Foreign Service officer
1977 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia
1980 Director, Foreign Service Institute
1984 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan

Boggs, Corinne Clairborne (1916- )
Non-career appointment
1997 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Holy See

Bogosian, Richard Wayne (1937- )
Foreign Service officer
1985 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Niger
1990 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chad

Bohlen, Avis T. (1940- )
Foreign Service officer
1996 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria
1999 Assistant Secretary for Arms Control

Bohlen, Charles Eustis (1904-1974)
Foreign Service officer
1947 Counselor
1951 Counselor
1953 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Soviet Union
1957 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines
1962 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France
1967 Deputy Under Secretary for Political Affairs
1969 Secretary of State ad interim

Bohlen, E.U. Curtis (1927- )
Non-career appointee
1990 Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs

Boker, George Henry (1823-1890)
Non-career appointee
1871 Minister Resident, Turkey
1875 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia

Bolen, David Benjamin (1923- )
Foreign Service officer
1974 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland
1977 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, German Democratic Republic

Bolton, John R. (1948- )
Non-career appointee
1989 Assistant Secretary International Organization Affairs
2001 Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs

Bonbright, James Cowles Hart (1903-1993)
Foreign Service officer
1955 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal
1958 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden

Bond, Clifford George (1938- )
Foreign Service officer
2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bosnia/Herzegovina

Bonsal, Philip Wilson (1903-1995)
Foreign Service officer
1946 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim, Spain
1955 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia
1957 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia
1959 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco

Boonstra, Clarence A. (1914- 2006 )
Foreign Service officer
1967 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica

Booth, Ralph Harman (1873-1931)
Non-career appointee
1930 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark

Borden, James Wallace (1810-?)
Non-career appointee
1858 Commissioner, Hawaii

Borg, C. Arthur (1926- )
Foreign Service officer
1976 Executive Secretary

Borg, Parker W. (1939- )
Foreign Service officer
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mali
1991 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma
1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iceland

Borland, Solon (1808-1864)
Non-career appointee
1853 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Central America

Bost, Eric M. (1953- )
2006, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa

Boster, Davis Eugene (1920- )
Foreign Service officer
1974 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bangladesh
1976 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala

Boswell, Eric J. (1945- )
Foreign Service officer
1992 [Director, Office of Foreign Missions]
1993 Director, Office of Foreign Missions
1995 Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security

Bosworth, Stephen Warren (1939- )
Foreign Service officer
1979 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tunisia
1983 Chairman, Policy Planning Council
1984 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines
1997 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea

Bouchard, Donald J. (1937- )
Foreign Service officer
1985 Assistant Secretary of State for Administration

Boucher, Richard A. (1951- )
Foreign Service officer
1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cyprus
1996 Consul General, Hong Kong
2000 [Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs]
2001 Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
2006 Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs

Boudurant, Amy L. (1951- )
Non-career appointee
1997 Representative, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Boulware, William (?-?)
Non-career appointee
1841 Charg? d'Affaires, Two Sicilies

Boutell, Henry Sherman (1856-1926)
Non-career appointee
1911 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal]
1911 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland

Bow, Frank Townsend (1901-1972)
Non-career appointee
1972 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama]

Bowdler, William Garton (1924- )
Foreign Service officer
1968 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador
1971 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala
1975 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa
1978 Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research
1979 Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs

Bowdoin, James III (1752-1811)
Non-career appointee
1804 [Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain]

Bowen, Herbert Wolcott (1856-1927)
Non-career appointee
1899 Minister Resident/Consul General, Persia
1901 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Persia
1901 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela

Bowers, Charles R. (1940- )
Foreign Service officer
1991 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia

Bowers, Claude Gernade (1878-1958)
Non-career appointee
1933 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain
1939 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile

Bowie, Robert Richardson (1909- )
Non-career appointee
1953 Director, Policy Planning Council
1955 Assistant Secretary for Policy Planning
1966 Counselor

Bowles, Chester Bliss (1901-1986)
Non-career appointee
1951 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India and Nepal
1961 Under Secretary of State
1961 Ambassador at Large
1963 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India

Bowlin, James Butler (1804-1874)
Non-career appointee
1854 Minister Resident, New Granada
1856 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, New Granada]

Boyatt, Thomas David (1933- )
Foreign Service officer
1978 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Upper Volta
1980 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia

Boyce, Ralph Leo (1952- )
Foreign Service officer
2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia

Boyd, Sempronius Hamilton (1828-1894)
Non-career appointee
1890 Minister Resident/Consul General, Siam

Boyle, Robert Patrick (1913- )
Non-career appointee
1968 Representative, International Civil Aviation Organization, Montreal

Braddock, Daniel McCoy (1906-1980)
Foreign Service officer
1961 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim Cuba

Braden, Spruille (1894-1978)
Non-career appointee
1938 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia]
1939 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia
1941 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba
1945 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina
1945 Assistant Secretary for American Republic Affairs

Bradford, William G. ( 1925- )
Foreign Service officer
1976 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chad

Bradley, William O'Connell (1847-1914)
Non-career appointee
1889 [Minister Resident/Consul General, Korea]

Bradtke, Robert Anthony (1949- )
2006, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Croatia

Bragg, Edward Stuyvesant (1827-1912)
Non-career appointee
1888 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico

Bramante, A. Donald (1930- )
Foreign Service officer
1990 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim, The Gambia

Brauer, Stephen (1945- )
Non-career appointee
2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium

Bray, Charles William 3rd (1933- 2006 )
Foreign Service officer
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Senegal
1987 Director, Foreign Service Institute

Brayshaw, Charles H. (1942- )
Foreign Service officer
1992 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim Peru
1997 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim Mexico

Brazeal, Aurelia Erskine (1943- )
Foreign Service officer
1990 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Micronesia
1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Kenya
2002 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia

Breckinridge, Clifton Rodes (1846-1932)
Non-career appointee
1894 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia

Breckinridge, John Cabell (1821-1875)
Non-career appointee
1855 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain]

Brement, Marshall (1932- )
Foreign Service officer
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iceland

Bremer, L. Paul III (1941- )
Foreign Service officer
1981 Executive Secretary
1983 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands
1986 Ambassador at Large for Counter-Terrorism

Brennan, Martin George (1949- )
Foreign Service officer
1999 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uganda
2002 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Zambia

Brent, Daniel Carroll (1770-1841)
Non-career appointee
1817 Chief Clerk
1825 Secretary of State ad interim

Brent, Thomas Ludwell Lee (1784-1847)
Non-career appointee
1825 Charg? d'Affaires, Portugal

Brent, William Jr. (1783-1848)
Non-career appointee
1844 Charg? d'Affaires, Buenos Aires

Brentano, Theodore (1854-1940)
Non-career appointee
1922 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary

Brewer, William Dodd (1922- )
Foreign Service officer
1970 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mauritius
1973 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sudan

Brewster, Kingman Jr. (1919-1988)
Non-career appointee
1977 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Great Britain (see United Kingdom)

Brewster, Robert Charles (1921- )
Foreign Service officer
1973 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador
1979 Inspector General of the Foreign Service

Bridges, Peter Scott (1932- )
Foreign Service officer
1984 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Somalia

Bridgewater, Pamela E. (1947- )
Foreign Service officer
2000 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Benin

Bridgman, George H. (1853-1925)
Non-career appointee
1897 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia

Briggs, Ellis Ormsbee (1899-1976)
Foreign Service officer
1944 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic
1947 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay
1949 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia
1952 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea
1955 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru
1956 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil
1959 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece
1962 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain]

Briggs, Everett Ellis (1934- )
Foreign Service officer
1982 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama
1986 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal

Brill, Kenneth C. (1947- )
Foreign Service officer
1994 Executive Secretary
1996 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cyprus
2001 Representative to United Nations at Vienna and IAEA

Brinker, Nancy Goodman (1946- )
Non-career appointee
2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Hungary

Britton, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1925- )
Non-career appointee
1974 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Barbados and Grenada

Broadhead, James Overton (1819-1898)
Non-career appointee
1893 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland

Brock, William Emerson III (1930- )
Non-career appointee
1981 United States Trade Representative

Brodie, Edward Everett (1876-1939)
Non-career appointee
1921 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Siam
1930 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland

Brown, Aaron Switzer (1913-1969)
Foreign Service officer
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua

Brown, Ben Hill Jr. (1914-1989)
Foreign Service officer
1964 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Liberia

Brown, Ethan Allen (1776-1852)
Non-career appointee
1830 Charg? d'Affaires, Brazil

Brown, Gayleatha Beatrice (1947- )
2006, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Benin

Brown, Gordon S. (1936- )
Foreign Service officer
1991 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mauritania

Brown, James (1766-1835)
Non-career appointee
1823 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France

Brown, Keith Lapham (1925- )
Non-career appointee
1982 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lesotho
1988 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark

Brown, Kenneth Lee (1936- )
Foreign Service officer
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Congo
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cote d'Ivoire

Brown, Kent N. (1944- )
Foreign Service officer
1992 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Georgia

Brown, Lewis Dean (1920-2001)
Foreign Service officer
1967 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Senegal and The Gambia
1970 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan
1973 Deputy Under Secretary for Management

Brown, Lyons, Jr. (1936- )
Non-career appointee
2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria

Brown, Neill Smith (1810-1886)
Non-career appointee
1850 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia

Brown, Philip Marshall (1875-1966)
Non-career appointee
1908 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras

Brown, Richard C. (1939- )
Foreign Service officer
1990 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay

Brown, Robert Lyle (1920- )
Foreign Service officer
1981 Inspector General of the Foreign Service

Brown, William Andreas (1930- )
Foreign Service officer
1985 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand
1988 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel

Brown, Winthrop Gilman (1907-1987 )
Foreign Service officer
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Laos
1964 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea

Browne, H. Monroe (1917- )
Non-career appointee
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, New Zealand and Western Samoa

Browne, John Ross (1817-1875)
Non-career appointee
1868 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China

Brownfield, William R. (1952- )
Foreign Service officer
2002 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile

Browning, Steven A. (1949- )
Foreign Service officer
2003 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malawi
2006, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uganda

Brubeck, William H. (1920- )
Non-career appointee
1962 Executive Secretary

Bruce, David Kirkpatrick Este (1898-1977)
Non-career appointee
1949 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France
1952 Under Secretary of State
1957 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Great Britain
1973 United States Liaison Office, Peking
1974 Representative, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels

Bruce, James (1892-1980)
Non-career appointee
1947 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina

Bruno, George Charles (1942- )
Non-career appointee
1994 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belize

Bryan, Charles Page (1856-1918)
Non-career appointee
1897 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China]
1898 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil
1902 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland]
1903 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal
1909 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Belgium
1911 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan

Bryan, John Alexander (?-?)
Non-career appointee
1844 Charg? d'Affaires, Peru

Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925)
Non-career appointee
1913 Secretary of State

Bryce, Lloyd Stephens (1850-1917)
Non-career appointee
1911 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands and Luxembourg

Brynn, Edward P. (1942- )
Foreign Service officer
1982 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim, Mauritania
1984 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim, The Gambia
1985 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim, Comoros
1990 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burkina Faso
1995 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ghana

Buchanan, James (1791-1868)
Non-career appointee
1832 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia
1845 Secretary of State
1853 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom

Buchanan, James M. (1803-1876)
Non-career appointee
1858 Minister Resident, Denmark

Buchanan, Wiley Thomas Jr. (1914-1986)
Non-career appointee
1953 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg
1956 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg
1957 Chief of Protocol
1975 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria

Buchanan, William Insco (1853-1909)
Non-career appointee
1894 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Argentina
1903 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama

Buck, Alfred Eliab (1832-1902)
Non-career appointee
1897 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Japan

Buck, Charles William (1849-1930)
Non-career appointee
1885 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru

Buckalew, Charles Rollin (1821-1899)
Non-career appointee
1858 Minister Resident, Ecuador

Buckley, James Lane (1923- )
Non-career appointee
1981 Under Secretary for Coordinating Security Assistance Programs
1982 Counselor

Buckner, George Washington (1855-?)
Non-career appointee
1913 Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia

Buffum, William Burnside (1921-)
Foreign Service officer
1970 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon
1973 Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs

Bullen, Roland Wentworth (1944- )
Foreign Service officer
2001 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim Antigua/Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts/Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent/Grenadines
2003 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guyana

Bullington, James Richard (1940- )
Foreign Service officer
1980 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim, Benin
1983 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burundi

Bullitt, William Christian (1891-1967)
Non-career appointee
1933 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Soviet Union
1936 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France

Bundy, Harvey Hollister (1888-1963)
Non-career appointee
1931 Assistant Secretary of State (1924-1944)

Bundy, William Putnam (1917-2000)
Non-career appointee
1964 Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs
1966 Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Bunker, Ellsworth (1894-1984)
Non-career appointee
1951 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina
1952 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy
1956 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India and Nepal
1964 Representative, Organization of American States, Washington
1966 Ambassador at Large
1967 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Vietnam
1973 Ambassador at Large

Burden, William Armistead Moale (1906-1984)
Non-career appointee
1959 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium

Burdett, William Carter (1884-1944)
Foreign Service officer
1943 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, New Zealand

Burdett, William Carter Jr. (1918-1995)
Foreign Service officer
1970 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malawi

Burgess, Carter Lane (1916- )
Non-career appointee
1968 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina

Burgess, Warren Randolph (1889-1978)
Non-career appointee
1957 Representative, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels

Burghardt, Raymond F., Jr. (1945- )
Foreign Service officer
2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Vietnam

Burke, John Richard (1924-1993)
Foreign Service officer
1977 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guyana

Burleigh, Albert Peter (1942- )
Foreign Service officer
1991 Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism
1995 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka and Maldives
1998 Acting Representative United Nations
1999 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines and Palau

Burlingame, Anson (1820-1870)
Non-career appointee
1861 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria]
1861 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China

Burnham, Christopher Bancroft (1956- )
Non-career appointee
2002 Assistant Secretary of State for Resource Management and Chief Financial Officer

Burns, Arthur Frank (1904-1987)
Non-career appointee
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany

Burns, Findley Jr. (1917- )
Foreign Service officer
1966 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan
1970 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador

Burns, John Howard (1913- )
Foreign Service officer
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Central African Republic
1965 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tanzania
1969 Director General of the Foreign Service

Burns, Norman (1905- )
Non-career appointee
1952 Director, Foreign Service Institute

Burns, R. Nicholas (1956- )
Foreign Service officer
1997 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece
2001 Representative to NATO

Burns, William F. (1932- )
Non-career appointee
1988 Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

Burns, William Joseph (1956- )
Foreign Service officer
1996 Executive Secretary
1998 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan
2001 Assistant Secretary for New Eastern Affairs

Burroughs, John Andrew Jr. (1936- )
Non-career appointee
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malawi
1988 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uganda

Burrows, Charles Robert (1910-1986)
Foreign Service officer
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras

Bursley, Herbert S. (1896-1961)
Foreign Service officer
1947 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras

Burt, Richard R. (1947- )
Non-career appointee
1981 Director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs
1983 Assistant Secretary for European Affairs
1985 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany

Burton, Allan A. (?-?)
Non-career appointee
1861 Minister Resident, New Granada

Busby, Morris Dempson (1938- )
Non-career appointee
1989 Corrdinator for Counter-Terrorism
1991 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia

Bush, Frederick Morris (1949- )
Non-career appointee
1989 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg]

Bush, George Herbert Walker (1924- )
Non-career appointee
1971 Representative, United Nations, New York
1974 Representative, United States Liaison Office, Peking

Bushnell, Prudence (1946- )
Foreign Service officer
1996 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Kenya
1999 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala

Butenis, Patricia A. (1953- )
2006, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bangladesh

Butler, Anthony (?-?)
Non-career appointee
1829 Charg? d'Affaires, Mexico

Butler, Charles Frederick (1933- )
Non-career appointee
1969 Representative, International Civil Aviation Organization, Montreal

Butler, George H. (?-?)
Non-career appointee
1870 Agent/Consul General, Egypt

Butler, George Howland, (1894-1967)
Foreign Service officer
1946 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic

Butler, Lawrence E. (1953- )
Foreign Service officer
2002 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of

Butler, Robert (1897-1955)
Non-career appointee
1946 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia
1948 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba

Butrick, Richard Porter (1894-1997)
Foreign Service officer
1948 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland
1949 Director General of the Foreign Service

Butterworth, William Walton (1903-1975)
Foreign Service officer
1949 Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs
1950 Assistant Secretary for Japanese Affairs
1950Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden
1959 Representative, European Communities, Brussels
1962 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada

Byington, Homer Morrison Jr. (1908-1987)
Foreign Service officer
1957 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malaya

Byrne, Patricia Mary (1925- )
Foreign Service officer
1976 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mali
1979 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma

Byrne, Thomas Ryan (1923- )
Foreign Service officer
1973 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway
1976 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia

Byrnes, James Francis (1879-1972)
Non-career appointee
1945 Secretary of State

Byrnes, Paul J. (1926- )
Foreign Service officer
1981 Charg? d'Affaires ad interim, Antigua and Barbuda

Byroade, Henry Alfred (1913-1993)
Foreign Service officer
1950 Director of the Bureau of German Affairs
1952 Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs
1955 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt
1956 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa
1959 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan
1963 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma
1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines
1973 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan