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Chiefs of Mission and
Principal Officers
of the Department of State
Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
U
Uhl, Edwin Fuller (1841-1901)
Non-career appointee
1893 Assistant Secretary of State (1853-1924)
1895 Secretary of State ad interim
1896 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany
Underhill, Francis Trelease, Jr. (1921- )
Foreign Service officer
1973 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malaysia
Unger, Leonard Seidman (1917- )
Foreign Service officer
1962 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Laos
1967Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand
1974 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China
Upshur, Abel Parker (1791-1844)
Non-career appointee
1843 Secretary of State ad interim
1843 Secretary of State
Upston, John Edwin (1935- )
Non-career appointee
1985 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Rwanda
Ussery, Michael (1951- )
Non-career appointee
1988 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco
V
Vail, Aaron (1796-1878)
Non-career appointee
1832 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, United Kingdom
1832 Chargé d'Affaires, United Kingdom
1838 Chief Clerk
1840 Chargé d'Affaires, Spain
Vaky, Viron Peter (1925- )
Foreign Service officer
1972 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica
1973 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia
1976 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela
1978 Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs
Valdez, Abelardo Lopez (1942- )
Non-career appointee
1979 Chief of Protocol
Van Alen, James J. (1846-1923)
Non-career appointee
1893 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy]
Van Alen, John Trumbull (?-?)
Non-career appointee
1849 Chargé d'Affaires, Ecuador
Van Buren, Martin (1782-1862)
Non-career appointee
1829 Secretary of State
1831 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom
van Dyke, Henry (1852-1933)
Non-career appointee
1913 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands and
Luxembourg
Van Gorkom, Jerome W. (1917- )
Non-career appointee
1982 Under Secretary for Management
Van Hollen, Christopher (1922- )
Foreign Service officer
1972 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka and Maldives
Van Ness, Cornelius Peter (1782-1852)
Non-career appointee
1829 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain
Van Valkenburgh Robert Bruce (1821-1888)
Non-career appointee
1866 Minister Resident, Japan
Vance, Cyrus Roberts (1917- )
Non-career appointee
1977 Secretary of State
Vance, Sheldon Baird (1917-1995)
Foreign Service officer
1967 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chad
1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Congo
Vanden Heuvel, William J. (1935- )
Non-career appointee
1977 Representative, United Nations European Office, Geneva
Vass, Laurence Coolidge (1909- )
Foreign Service officer
1963 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Kenya
Vaughn, Jack Hood (1920- )
Non-career appointee
1964 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama
1965 Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs
1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia
Veliotes, Nicholas Alexander (1928- )
Foreign Service officer
1978 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan
1981 Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
1983 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt
Venable, William Edward (1804-1857)
Non-career appointee
1857 [Minister Resident, Guatemala]
Vershbow, Alexander Russel (1952- )
Foreign Service officer
1997 Representative, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Vest, George Southall (1918- )
Foreign Service officer
1974 Director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs
1977 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan]
1977 Assistant Secretary for European Affairs
1981 European Commissionerunities, Brussels
1985 Director General of the Foreign Service
1987 Career Ambassador
Viets, Richard Noyes (1930- )
Foreign Service officer
1979 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tanzania
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan
1987 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal]
Villard, Henry Serrano (1900-1996)
Foreign Service officer
1952 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Libya
1958 Representative, United Nations European Office, Geneva
1960 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Federation of Mali]
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Senegal
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mauritania
Vincent, John Carter (1900-1972)
Foreign Service officer
1947 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland
1951 DiplAgent and Consul General, Morocco
Vine, Richard David (1925- )
Foreign Service officer
1979 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland
1982 Director, Bureau of Refugee Programs
Vogelgesang, Sandra Louise (1942- )
Foreign Service officer
1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal
Volpe, John Anthony (1908- )
Non-career appointee
1973 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy
Von Damm, Helene A. (1938- )
Non-career appointee
1983 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria
Vopicka, Charles Joseph (1857-1935)
Non-career appointee
1913 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania, Serbia and
Bulgaria
Vreeland, Frederick (1927- )
Non-career appointee
1990 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (Myanmar)]
1991 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco
Vroom, Peter Dumont (1791-1873)
Non-career appointee
1853 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Prussia
W
Wade, Robert Hirsch Beard (1916- )
Non-career appointee
1964 Representative, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization, Paris
Wadsworth, George, II (1893-1958)
Foreign Service officer
1941 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Italy
1942 Diplomatic Agent and Consul General, Lebanon and Syria
1944 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lebanon and Syria
1946 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq]
1947 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq
1948 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey
1952 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia
1953 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia
1953 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen
Wadsworth, James Jeremiah (1905-1984)
Non-career appointee
1960 Representative, United Nations, New York
Wagner, Jacob (?-?)
Non-career appointee
1798 Chief Clerk
Wagner, Robert Ferdinand, Jr. (1910-1991)
Non-career appointee
1968 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain
1978 Personal Representative, Vatican City
Wailes, Edward Thompson (1903-1969)
Foreign Service officer
1953 Assistant Secretary for Administration
1954 Assistant Secretary for Personnel and Administration
1954 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa
1956 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary]
1958 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia
Walentynowicz, Leonard Frederick (1932- )
Non-career appointee
1974 Administrator, Bureau of Security and Consular Affair
Walker, Edward S., Jr. (1940- )
Foreign Service officer
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Arab Emirates
1994 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt
1997 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel
Walker, Howard Kent (1935- )
Foreign Service officer
1982 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Togo
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Madagascar and Comoros
Walker, Jenonne R. (1934- )
Non-career appointee
1995 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czech Republic
Walker, Julius Waring, Jr. (1927- )
Foreign Service officer
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Upper Volta
Walker, Lannon (1936- )
Foreign Service officer
1985 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Senegal
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nigeria
1995 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cote d'Ivoire
Walker, Richard Louis (1922- )
Non-career appointee
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea
Walker, Robert James (1801-1869)
Non-career appointee
1853 [Commissioner, China]
Walker, William Graham (1935- )
Foreign Service officer
1988 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador
1992 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina]
Wallace, Hugh Campbell (1863-1931)
Non-career appointee
1919 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France
Wallace, Lewis (1827-1905)
Non-career appointee
1881 [Chargé d'Affaires, Paraguay and Uruguay]
1881 Minister Resident, Turkey
1882 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Turkey
Waller, George Platt (1889-1962)
Foreign Service officer
1931 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Luxembourg
1940 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Luxembourg
Wallis, W. Allen (1912- )
Non-career appointee
1982 Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
Walmsley, Walter Newbold Jr. (1904-1973)
Foreign Service officer
1959 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tunisia
Walsh, James Donald (1946- )
Foreign Service officer
1996 Charge d'Affaires ad interim Canada
Walsh, John Patrick (1918- )
Foreign Service officer
1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Kuwait
Walters, David (1917- )
Non-career appointee
1977 Personal Representative, Vatican City
Walters, Vernon A. (1917- )
Non-career appointee
1981 Ambassador at Large
1985 Representative, United Nations, New York
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany
Walton, Lester Aglar (1882-1965)
Non-career appointee
1935 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Liberia
Ward, Angus Ivan (1893-1969)
Foreign Service officer
1952 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan
Ward, George F., Jr. (1945- )
Foreign Service officer
1996 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Namibia
Ward, Jennifer C. (1944- )
Foreign Service officer
1991 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Niger
Ward, John Elliott (1814-1902)
Non-career appointee
1858 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China
Warner, Marvin Leon (1919- )
Non-career appointee
1977 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland
Warnke, Paul Culliton (1920- )
Non-career appointee
1977 Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Warren, Avra Milvin (1893-1957)
Foreign Service officer
1942 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic
1943 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic
1944 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama
1945 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, New Zealand
1947 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland
1949 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan]
1950 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan
1953 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey
Warren, Charles Beecher (1870-1936)
Non-career appointee
1921 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan
1924 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico
Warren, Fitz Henry (1816-1878)
Non-career appointee
1865 Minister Resident, Guatemala
Warren, William Fletcher (1896-1992)
Foreign Service officer
1945 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua
1947 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay
1951 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela
1956 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey
Washburn, Albert Henry (1866-1930)
Non-career appointee
1922 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria
Washburn, Charles Ames (1822-1889)
Non-career appointee
1861 Commissioner, Paraguay
1863 Minister Resident, Paraguay
Washburn, John Davis (1833-1903)
Non-career appointee
1889 Minister Resident/Consul General, Switzerland
1890 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland
Washburne, Elihu Benjamin (1816-1887)
Non-career appointee
1869 Secretary of State
1869 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France
Washington, Ruth V. (1921-1990)
Non-career appointee
1989 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, The Gambia]
Waters, Shelah (?-?)
Non-career appointee
1869 [Minister Resident, Ecuador]
Watson, Alexander Fletcher (1939- )
Foreign Service officer
1980 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Bolivia
1986 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru
1992 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil]
1993 Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs
Watson, Arthur Kittredge (1919-1974)
Non-career appointee
1970 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France
Watson, Barbara Mae (1918-1983)
Non-career appointee
1968 Administrator, Bureau of Security and Consular Affair
1977 Administrator, Bureau of Security and Consular Affair
1977 Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs
1980 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malaysia
Watson, Thomas J., Jr. (1914-1993)
Non-career appointee
1979 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Soviet Union
Watterson, Harvey Magee (1811-1891)
Non-career appointee
1844 [Chargé d'Affaires, Buenos Aires]
Watts, Beaufort T. (?-?)
Non-career appointee
1826 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Colombia
1827 Chargé d'Affaires, Colombia
Watts, Henry Miller (1805-1890)
Non-career appointee
1868 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria
Wauchope, Keith Leveret (1941- )
Foreign Service officer
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Gabon and Sao
Tome/Principe
Waugh, Samuel Clark (1890-1970)
Non-career appointee
1953 Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs
1955 Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
Waynick, Capus Miller (1889-?)
Non-career appointee
1949 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua
1951 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia
Weathersby, William Henry (1914- )
Foreign Service officer
1965 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sudan
Weaver, A. Vernon (1922- )
Non-career appointee
1996 Representative, European Union
Webb, James Edwin (1906-1992)
Non-career appointee
1949 Under Secretary of State
Webb, James Watson (1802-1884)
Non-career appointee
1849 Chargé d'Affaires, Austria
1861 [Minister Resident, Turkey]
1861 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil
Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)
Non-career appointee
1841 Secretary of State
1850 Secretary of State
Webster, Daniel Fletcher (1813-1862)
Non-career appointee
1841 Chief Clerk
Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne (1876-1948)
Foreign Service officer
1933 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina
1939 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain
Weil, Leon Jerome (1927- )
Non-career appointee
1984 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal
Weinmann, John Griffin (1928- )
Non-career appointee
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland
1991 Chief of Protocol
Weiss, Seymour (1925-1992)
Non-career appointee
1973 Director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs
1974 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, The Bahamas
Weissman, Marvin (1927- )
Non-career appointee
1977 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica
1980 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia
Weitzel, George Thomas (1873-1936)
Non-career appointee
1911 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua
Weller, John B. (1812-1875)
Non-career appointee
1860 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico
Welles, Benjamin Sumner (1892-1961)
Foreign Service officer
1933 Assistant Secretary of State (1924-1944)
1933 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba
1933 Assistant Secretary of State (1924-1944)
1937 Under Secretary of State
Wells, Hezekiah G. (1812-1885)
Non-career appointee
1861 [Minister Resident, Honduras]
Wells, Melissa Foelsch (1932- )
Foreign Service officer
1976 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cape Verde and
Guinea-Bissau
1987 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mozambique
1991 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Zaire
Welsh, John (1805-1886)
Non-career appointee
1877 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Great Britain
Wendt, E. Allan (1935- )
Foreign Service officer
1992 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim Slovenia
1992 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Slovenia]
1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Slovenia
West, Emanuel J. (?-1830)
Non-career appointee
1829 [Chargé d'Affaires, Peru]
West, John Carl (1922- )
Non-career appointee
1977 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia
Westerfield, Jr. Samuel Zazachilds (1919-1972)
Foreign Service officer
1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Liberia
Weston, James G.
Foreign Service officer
1997 Charge d'Affaires ad interim 1997
Wharton, Clifton Reginald, (1899-1990)
Foreign Service officer
1958 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway
Wharton, Clifton Reginald, Jr. (1926- )
Non-career appointee
1993 Deputy Secretary of State
Wharton, William Fisher (1847-1919)
Non-career appointee
1889 Assistant Secretary of State (1853-1924)
1892 Secretary of State ad interim
1893 Secretary of State ad interim
Wheaton, Henry (1785-1848)
Non-career appointee
1827 Chargé d'Affaires, Denmark
1835 Chargé d'Affaires, Prussia
1837 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Prussia (see
Germany)
Wheeler, George Post (1869-1956)
Foreign Service officer
1929 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Paraguay
1933 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Albania
Wheeler, John H. (1806-1882)
Non-career appointee
1854 Minister Resident, Nicaragua
Wheelock, John Topping (1925-1981)
Foreign Service officer
1973 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Qatar
Whelan, Thomas Edward (1895-1977)
Non-career appointee
1951 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua
Whidden, Benjamin F. (?-?)
Non-career appointee
1862 Commissioner/Consul General, Haiti
White, Andrew Dickson (1832-1918)
Non-career appointee
1879 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany
1892 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia
1897 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany
White, Charles Dunning (1868-1954)
Non-career appointee
1911 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras
White, Francis (1892-1961)
Foreign Service officer
1927 Assistant Secretary of State (1924-1944)
1933 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia
1953 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico
1957 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden
White, Henry (1850-1927)
Non-career appointee
1905 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy
1906 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France
White, John Campbell (1884-1967)
Foreign Service officer
1940 Diplomatic Agent and Consul General Morocco
1940 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Haiti
1943 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti
1944 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru
White, Julius (1816-1890)
Non-career appointee
1872 Minister Resident, Argentina
White, Katharine (Elkus) (1906- )
Non-career appointee
1964 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark
White, Philo (1796-1874)
Non-career appointee
1853 Chargé d'Affaires, Ecuador
1854 Minister Resident, Ecuador
1856 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador]
White, Robert Edward (1926- )
Foreign Service officer
1977 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay
1980 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador
Whitehead, John C. (1922- )
Non-career appointee
1985 Deputy Secretary of State
Whitehouse, Charles Sheldon (1926- )
Foreign Service officer
1972 Deputy Ambassador, Vietnam
1973 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Laos
1975 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand
Whitehouse, Sheldon (1883-1965)
Foreign Service officer
1929 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala
1933 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia
Whitlock, Brand (1869-1934)
Non-career appointee
1913 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Belgium
1919 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium
Whitney, John Hay (1904-1982)
Non-career appointee
1957 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Great Britain
Whittlesey, Faith Ryan (1939- )
Non-career appointee
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland
1985 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland
Wick, Charles Z. (1917- )
Non-career appointee
1981 Director, International Communication Agency
1982 Director, United States Information Agency
Wickersham, James Pyle (1825-1891)
Non-career appointee
1882 Chargé d'Affaires, Denmark
1882 Minister Resident/Consul General, Denmark
Wickliffe, Robert, Jr. (?-1850)
Non-career appointee
1843 Chargé d'Affaires, Sardinia
Wiedemann, Kent M. (1946- )
Foreign Service officer
Chargé d'Affaires, Burma
Wiggins, James Russell (1903- )
Non-career appointee
1968 Representative, United Nations, New York
Wigglesworth, Richard Bowditch (1891-1960)
Non-career appointee
1958 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada
Wilcox, Francis Orlando (1908-1985)
Non-career appointee
1955 Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs
Wilcox, Philip C., Jr. (1937- )
Foreign Service officer
1994 Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism
Wiley, John Cooper (1893-1967)
Foreign Service officer
1938 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Austria
1938 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Latvia and Estonia
1944 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia
1947 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal
1948 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran
1951 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama
Wiley, Marshall Wayne (1925- )
Foreign Service officer
1975 Principal Officer, United States Interests Section, Iraq
1978 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Oman
Wilgis, Herbert E., Jr. (1935- )
Foreign Service officer
1983 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Poland
Wilkey, Malcolm Richard (1918- )
Non-career appointee
1985 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay
Wilkins, C. Howard, Jr. (1939- )
Non-career appointee
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands
Wilkins, Fraser (1908-1989)
Foreign Service officer
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cyprus
1964 Inspector General of the Foreign Service
Wilkins, William (1779-1865)
Non-career appointee
1834 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia
Wilkinson, Sharon P. (1947- )
Foreign Service officer
1996 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burkina Faso
Wilkowski, Jean Mary (1919- )
Foreign Service officer
1972 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Zambia
Willard, Joseph Edward (1865-1924)
Non-career appointee
1913 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain]
1913 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain
Willauer, Whiting (1906-1962)
Non-career appointee
1954 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras
1958 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica
Williams, Albert Norman (1935- )
Foreign Service officer
1969 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Equatorial Guinea
Williams, Alpheus Starkey (1810-1878)
Non-career appointee
1866 Minister Resident, El Salvador
Williams, Franklin Hall (1917-1990)
Non-career appointee
1965 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ghana
Williams, George Fred (1852-1932)
Non-career appointee
1913 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece and
Montenegro
Williams, George Washington (1849-1891
Non-career appointee
1885 [Minister Resident/Consul General, Haiti]
Williams, Gerhard Mennen (1911-1988)
Non-career appointee
1961 Assistant Secretary for African Affairs
1968 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines
Williams, James (1796-1869)
Non-career appointee
1858 Minister Resident, Turkey
Williams, John (1778-1837)
Non-career appointee
1825 Chargé d'Affaires, Central America
Williams, Murat Willis (1914-1994)
Foreign Service officer
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador
Williams, Richard Llewellen (1929- )
Foreign Service officer
1988 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mongolian People's
Republic
Williams, Sidney (1942- )
Non-career appointee
1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bahamas
Williams, William (1821-1896)
Non-career appointee
1882 Chargé d'Affaires, Paraguay and Uruguay
Williams-Bridgers, Jacquelyn W. (1956- )
Non-career appointee
1995 Inspector General
Williamson, Edwin D. (1939- )
Non-career appointee
1990 Legal Adviser
Williamson, George McWillie (1829-?)
Non-career appointee
1873 Minister Resident, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and
Nicaragua
Williamson, John Gustavus Adolphus (1793-1840)
Non-career appointee
1835 Chargé d'Affaires, Venezuela
Williamson, Larry C. (1930- )
Foreign Service officer
1984 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Gabon and Sao Tome and
Principe
Williamson, Richard Salisbury (1949- )
Non-career appointee
1983 Representative, United Nations Office, Vienna
1987 [Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs]
1988 Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs
Willis, Albert Shelby (1843-1897)
Non-career appointee
1893 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hawaii
Willis, Frances Elizabeth (1899-1983)
Foreign Service officer
1953 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland
1957 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ceylon
1962 Career Ambassador
Willys, John North (1873-1935)
Non-career appointee
1930 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland
Wilson, Charles Stetson (1873-1947)
Foreign Service officer
1919 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Bulgaria
1921 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria
1928 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania
1933 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia
Wilson, Edwin Carleton (1893-1972)
Foreign Service officer
1939 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay
1941 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama
1945 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey
Wilson, Henry Lane (1856-1932)
Non-career appointee
1897 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile
1902 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece, Romania and
Serbia]
1905 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Belgium
1909 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico
Wilson, Hugh Robert (1885-1946)
Foreign Service officer
1927 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland
1937 Assistant Secretary of State, 1924-1944
1938 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany
Wilson, Huntington (Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson) (1875-1946)
Non-career appointee
1906 Third Assistant Secretary of State
1908 [Diplomatic Agent, Bulgaria]
1908 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania and Serbia]
1909 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Argentina]
1909 Assistant Secretary of State (1853-1924)
Wilson, James (1825-1867)
Non-career appointee
1866 Minister Resident, Venezuela
Wilson, James Morrison Jr. (1918- )
Foreign Service officer
1976 Coordinator for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
Wilson, Joseph Charles, IV (1949- )
Foreign Service officer
1990 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim Iraq
1992 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Gabon and Sao
Tome/Principe
Wilson, Orme, Jr. (1885-1966)
Foreign Service officer
1944 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti
Wilson, Thomas Murray (1881-1967)
Foreign Service officer
1942 Minister Resident/Consul General, Iraq
Wilson, William A. (1914- )
Non-career appointee
1981 Personal Representative, Vatican City
1984 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Holy See
Winant, John Gilbert (1889-1947)
Non-career appointee
1941 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Great Britain (see United
Kingdom)
Winchester, Boyd (1836-1923)
Non-career appointee
1885 Minister Resident/Consul General, Switzerland
Wine, James Wilmer (1918-1990)
Non-career appointee
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg
1962 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ivory Coast
Wing, Edward Rumsey (1845-1874)
Non-career appointee
1869 Minister Resident, Ecuador
Winn, Philip D. (1925- )
Non-career appointee
1988 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland
Winship, North (1885-1968)
Foreign Service officer
1948 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, South Africa
1949 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa
Winsor, Curtin, Jr. (1939- )
Non-career appointee
1983 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica
Winston, Frederick Hampden (1830-1904)
Non-career appointee
1885 Minister Resident/Consul General, Persia
Winter, Andrew J. (1946- )
Foreign Service officer
1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, The Gambia
Winton, David Judson (1897-?)
Non-career appointee
1941 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, New Zealand]
Wirth, Timothy Endicott (1939- )
Non-career appointee
1993 Counselor
1994 Under Secretary for Global Affairs
Wise, Henry Alexander (1806-1876)
Non-career appointee
1843 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France]
1844 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil
Wisner, Frank G., II (1938- )
Foreign Service officer
1979 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Zambia
1986 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egyypt
1991 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines
1992 Under Secretary for International Security Affairs
1993 Acting Secretary of State
1994 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India
Withers, Charles Dudley (1916- )
Foreign Service officer
1963 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Rwanda
Witman, William, II (1914-1978)
Foreign Service officer
1964 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Togo
Wolcott, Roger (1847-1900)
Non-career appointee
1900 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy]
Wolf, John Stern (1948- )
Foreign Service officer
1992 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malaysia
Wolf, Milton Albert (1924- )
Non-career appointee
1977 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria
Wolf, Simon (1836-1923)
1881 Agent and Consul General, Egypt
Wolfowitz, Paul Dundes (1943- )
Non-career appointee
1981 Director, Policy Planning Staff
1982 Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
1986 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia
Wolle, William Down (1928- )
Foreign Service officer
1974 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Oman
1979 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Arab Emirates
Wood, Bradford Ripley (1800-1889)
Non-career appointee
1861 Minister Resident, Denmark
Wood, Chalmers Benedict (1917-1991)
Foreign Service officer
1972 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, New Zealand
Woodbury, Charles Levi (1820-1898)
Non-career appointee
1853 [Chargé d'Affaires, Bolivia]
Woodcock, Leonard F. (1911- )
Non-career appointee
1977 United States Liaison Office, Peking
1979 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China
Woodford, Stewart Lyndon (1835-1913)
Non-career appointee
1897 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain
Woodruff, Arthur H. (1928- )
Foreign Service officer
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Central African Republic
Woods, Cyrus E. (1861-1938)
Non-career appointee
1912 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal
1921 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain
1923 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan
Woods, M. Alan (1946-1989)
Non-career appointee
1987 Administrator, Agency for International Development
Woodside, Jonathan F. (1799-1845)
Non-career appointee
1835 Chargé d'Affaires, Denmark
Woodward, Robert Forbes (1908- )
Foreign Service officer
1954 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica
1958 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile
1961 Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs
1962 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain
Woodward, Stanley (1899-1992)
Foreign Service officer
1946 Chief of Protocol
1950 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada
Worthington, Henry Gaither (1828-1909)
Non-career appointee
1868 Minister Resident, Argentina
1868 Minister Resident, Uruguay
Wriggins, William Howard (1918- )
Non-career appointee
1977 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka and Maldives
Wright, Jerauld (1898-1995)
Non-career appointee
1963 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China
Wright, Joseph Albert (1810-1867)
Non-career appointee
1857 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Prussia
1865 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Prussia
Wright, Joshua Butler (1877-1939)
Foreign Service officer
1923 Third Assistant Secretary of State
1924 Assistant Secretary of State (1924-1944)
1927 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary
1930 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay
1934 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia
1937 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba
Wright, Luke Edward (1846-1922)
Non-career appointee
1906 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan
Wright, Thomas Kenneth (1908- )
Foreign Service officer
1957 Chargé d'Affaires, Malaya
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mali
Wright, William Marshall (1926- )
Foreign Service officer
1973 Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations
Wrobleski, Ann Barbara (1952- )
Non-career appointee
1986 Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics Matters
Wullweber, Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Jurgen (1833-1877)
Non-career appointee
1875 Minister Resident, Ecuador
Wygant, Michael Gordon (1936- )
Foreign Service officer
1987 Representative, Micronesia
Y
Yalowitz, Kenneth Spencer (1941- )
Foreign Service officer
1994 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belarus
Yancey, Benjamin Cudworth (1817-1891)
Non-career appointee
1858 Minister Resident, Argentina
Yates, John Melvin (1939- )
Foreign Service officer
1983 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cape Verde
1993 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Zaire
1995 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Benin
Yeaman, George Helm (1829-1908)
Non-career appointee
1865 Minister Resident, Denmark
Yeutter, Clayton Keith (1930- )
Non-career appointee
1985 United States Trade Representative
Ylitalo, John Raymond (1916-1987)
Foreign Service officer
1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay
Yost, Charles Woodruff (1907-1981)
Foreign Service officer
1945 Chargé d'Affaires, Siam
1954 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Laos
1955 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Laos
1957 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Syria
1958 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco
1964 Career Ambassador
1969 Representative, United Nations, New York
Yost, Robert Lloyd (1922-1990)
Foreign Service officer
1972 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burundi
1978 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic
Young, Andrew Jackson (1932- )
Non-career appointee
1977 Representative, United Nations, New York
Young, Evan Erastus (1878-1946)
Non-career appointee
1911 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador
1925 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic
1929 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia]
Young, John Russell (1840-1899)
Non-career appointee
1882 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China
Young, Johnny (1940- )
Foreign Service officer
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sierra Leone
1994 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Togo
1997 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bahrain
Young, Kenneth Todd, Jr. (1916-1972)
Non-career appointee
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand
Young, Philip (1910-1987)
Non-career appointee
1957 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands
Young, Pierce Manning Butler (1836-1896)
Non-career appointee
1893 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala and
Honduras
Z
Zakhem, Sam H. (1935- )
Non-career appointee
1986 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bahrain
Zappala, Joseph (1933- )
Non-career appointee
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain
Zellerbach, James David (1892-1963)
Non-career appointee
1956 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy
Zimmermann, Warren (1934- )
Foreign Service officer
1988 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia
1992 Director, Bureau of Refugee Programs
Zoellick, Robert B. (1953- )
Non-career appointee
1989 Counselor
1991 Under Secretary for Economic and Agricultural Affairs
Zurhellen, Joseph Owen, Jr. (1920-1990)
Foreign Service officer
1976 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Suriname
Zweifel, David Eugene (1934- )
Foreign Service officer
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yemen Arab Republic