Foreign Service officer
1991 Chargé 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 Chargé d'Affaires, Sardinia
Bacon, John Edmund (1830-1897)
Non-career appointee
1885 Chargé d'Affaires, Paraguay and Uruguay
1886 Chargé 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 [Chargé 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 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Belize
1983 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belize
Barnes, Douglas M. (1955- )
2004 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé d'Affaires, Chile
Barton, Thomas Pennant (1803-1869)
Non-career appointee
1835 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé d'Affaires, Buenos Aires
Beach, Arthur Eugene (1907-1973)
Foreign Service officer
1956 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 [Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 [Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim Peru
1997 Chargé 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 Chargé d'Affaires, Portugal
Brent, William Jr. (1783-1848)
Non-career appointee
1844 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Mauritania
1984 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, The Gambia
1985 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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 Chargé 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
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