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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
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Quainton, Anthony Cecil Eden (1934- )
Foreign Service officer
1976 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Central African Republic
1978 Director,Office for Combatting Terrorism
1982 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua
1984 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Kuwait
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru
1992 Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security
1995 Director General of the Foreign Service
Quinby, William Emory (1835-1908)
Non-career appointee
1893 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands
Quincy, Josiah (1859-1919)
Non-career appointee
1893 Assistant Secretary of State (1853-1924)
Quinlan, Clifford James (1922- )
Foreign Service officer
1972 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Oman
Quinn, Kenneth Michael (1942- )
Foreign Service officer
1995 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia
R
Rabb, Maxwell M. (1910- )
Non-career appointee
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy
Raguet, Condy (1784-1842)
Non-career appointee
1825 Chargé d'Affaires, Brazil
Raiser, Mary (Molly) Millonzi (1942- )
Non-career appointee
1993 Chief of Protocol
Ramer, John Edward (1870-1926)
Non-career appointee
1921 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua
Ramsay, William C. (1943- )
Foreign Service officer
1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Congo
Rand, Sidney Anders (1916- )
Non-career appointee
1979 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway
Randall, Alexander Williams (1819-1872)
Non-career appointee
1861 Minister Resident, Papal States
Randolph, Edmund Jennings (1753-1813)
Non-career appointee
1794 Secretary of State
Randolph, John (1773-1833)
Non-career appointee
1830 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia]
Rankin, Karl Lott (1898-1991)
Foreign Service officer
1950 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, China
1953 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China
1957 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia
Ransom, David M. (1938- )
Foreign Service officer
1994 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bahrain
Ransom, Matthew Whitaker (1826-1904)
Non-career appointee
1895 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico
Raphel, Arnold Lewis (1943-1988)
Foreign Service officer
1987 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan
Raphel, Robin Lynn (1947- )
Foreign Service officer
1993 Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs
1997 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tunisia
Rase, Glen R. (1947- )
Foreign Service officer
1996 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brunei
Rashish, Myer (1924-1995)
Non-career appointee
1981 Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
Raspolic, Elizabeth (1939- )
Foreign Service officer
1995 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Gabon and Sao
Tome/Principe
Ratshesky (Radzkey), Abraham C. (1864-1943)
Non-career appointee
1930 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia
Ravndal, Christian Magelssen (1899-1984)
Foreign Service officer
1947 Director General of the Foreign Service
1949 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay
1951 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary
1956 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia
Rawlings, James Wilson (1929- )
Non-career appointee
1986 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Zimbabwe
Rawls, Nancy Vivian (1926-1985)
Foreign Service officer
1974 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Togo
1979 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ivory Coast
Rawson, David P. (1941-)
Foreign Service officer
1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Rwanda
1996 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mali
Ray, Dixy Lee (1914-1994)
Non-career appointee
1975 Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and
Scientific Affairs
Raymond, Henry Jarvis (1820-1869)
Non-career appointee
1867 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria]
Re, Edward Dominic (1920- )
Non-career appointee
1968 Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs
Read, Benjamin Huger (1925-1993)
Non-career appointee
1963 Executive Secretary
1977 Deputy Under Secretary for Management
1978 Under Secretary for Management
Read, John Meredith, Jr. (1837-1896)
Non-career appointee
1873 Minister Resident, Greece
1876 Chargé d'Affaires, Greece
Reams, Robert Borden (1904-1994)
Foreign Service officer
1941 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Denmark
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dahomey, Niger, and Ivory
Coast
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Upper Volta
Redman, Charles Edgar (1943- )
Foreign Service officer
1987 Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden
1994 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany
Reed, John Hathaway (1921- )
Non-career appointee
1976 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka and Maldives
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka and Maldives
Reed, Joseph Verner, Jr. (1937- ))
Non-career appointee
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco
1989 Chief of Protocol
Reed, Leslie Edgar (1890-1972)
Foreign Service officer
1941 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Greece
Reed, William Bradford (1806-1876)
Non-career appointee
1857 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China
Reich, Otto Juan (1945- )
Non-career appointee
1986 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela
Reid, Ogden Rogers (1925- )
Non-career appointee
1959 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel
Reid, Whitelaw (1837-1912)
Non-career appointee
1889 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France
1905 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Great Britain
Reiner, Herbert, Jr. (1916- )
Foreign Service officer
1961 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Sierra Leone
Reinhardt, George Frederick (1911-1971)
Foreign Service officer
1955 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Vietnam
1957 Counselor
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Arab Republic (see
Egypt)
1960 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy
Reinhardt, John Edward (1920- )
Foreign Service officer
1971 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nigeria
1975 Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
1977 Director, United States Information Agency
1978 Director, International Communications Agency
Reinsch, Paul Samuel (1869-1923)
Non-career appointee
1913 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China
Reischauer, Edwin Oldfather (1910-1990)
Non-career appointee
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan
Remsen, Henry, Jr. (?-?)
Non-career appointee
1789 Chief Clerk
1790 Chief Clerk
Renchard, George Willmot (1907-1982)
Foreign Service officer
1968 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burundi
Rencher, Abraham (1798-1883)
Non-career appointee
1843 Chargé d'Affaires, Portugal
Render, Arlene (1943- )
Foreign Service officer
1990 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, The Gambia
1996 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Zambia
Rentschler, James Malone (1933- )
Foreign Service officer
1982 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malta
1986 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guinea]
Replogle, Luther Irvin (1902-1981)
Non-career appointee
1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iceland
Rey, Nicholas Andrew (1938- )
Non-career appointee
1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland
Reynolds, Robert McConnell (1826-1885)
Non-career appointee
1874 Minister Resident, Bolivia
Rhetts, Charles Edward (1910-1971)
Non-career appointee
1962 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Liberia
Rhodes, Albert (1840-?)
Non-career appointee
1866 Chargé d'Affaires, Netherlands
Rhodes, J. Steven (1951- )
Non-career appointee
1990 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Zimbabwe
Rice, Charles Allen Thorndike (1851-1889)
Non-career appointee
1889 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia]
Rice, John Stanley (1899-1985)
Non-career appointee
1961 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands
Rice, Susan (1964- )
Non-career appointee
1997 Assistant Secretary for African Affairs
Rice, Walter Lyman (1903- )
Non-career appointee
1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia
Rich, Rogert G., Jr. (1930- )
Non-career appointee
1987 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belize
Richards, Arthur Lincoln (1907-1991)
Foreign Service officer
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia
Richardson, William Blaine (Bill) (1947- )
Non-career appointee
Representative, United Nations
Richardson, Elliot Lee (1920- )
Non-career appointee
1969 Under Secretary of State
1975 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Great Britain (see United
Kingdom)
1977 Ambassador at Large
Richardson, John, Jr. (1921- )
Non-career appointee
1969 Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs
Richmond, Lewis (1824-1894)
Non-career appointee
1884 Minister Resident/Consul General, Portugal
Riddle, John Wallace (1864-1941)
Foreign Service officer
1903 Agent and Consul General, Egypt
1905 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania and Serbia
1906 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia
1921 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina
Riddleberger, James Williams (1904-1982)
Foreign Service officer
1953 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia
1956 [Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs]
1957 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece]
1958 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece
1962 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria
Ridgway, Rozanne Lejeanne (1935- )
Foreign Service officer
1977 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland
1980 Counselor
1982 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, German Democratic
Republic
1985 Assistant Secretary for European and Canadian Affairs
Rigamer, Elmore (1940- )
Foreign Service officer
1994 Director, Office of Medical Services
Rimestad, Idar D. (1916- )
Foreign Service officer
1967 Deputy Under Secretary for Administration
1969 Representative, United Nations European Office, Geneva
Rinden, Robert Watland (1914- )
Foreign Service officer
1959 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Guinea
Riotte, Charles N. (?-?)
Non-career appointee
1861 Minister Resident, Costa Rica
1869 [Minister Resident, Costa Rica]
1869 Minister Resident, Nicaragua
Risley, John Ewing (1840-?)
Non-career appointee
1893 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark
Ritch, John B. III (1943- )
Non-career appointee
1993 Representative, United Nations Office, Vienna
Rivero, Horacio (1910- )
Non-career appointee
1972 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain
Rives, George Lockhart (1849-1917)
Non-career appointee
1887 Assistant Secretary of State (1853-1924)
Rives, Lloyd Michael (1921- )
Foreign Service officer
1965 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Congo
1969 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Cambodia
Rives, William Cabell (1792-1868)
Non-career appointee
1829 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France
1849 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France
Rivkin, William Robert (1919-1967)
Non-career appointee
1962 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg
1966 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Senegal and The Gambia
Robb, Hampton (1895-1956)
Non-career appointee
1935 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Paraguay]
Robbins, Warren Delano (1885-1935)
Foreign Service officer
1928 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador
1933 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Canada
Roberts, George B., Jr. (1930- )
Foreign Service officer
1977 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Laos
1979 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guyana
Roberts, Owen W. (1924- )
Foreign Service officer
1980 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Ethiopia
1982 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, The Gambia
1984 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Togo
Roberts, William Randall (1830-1897)
Non-career appointee
1885 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile
Robertson, Walter Spencer (1893-1970)
Non-career appointee
1953 Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs
Robins, David Snyder (1940- )
Foreign Service officer
1993 Charge d'Affaires ad interim Bahrain
Robinson, Charles Wesley (1919- )
Non-career appointee
1974 Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
1976 Deputy Secretary of State
Robinson, Christopher (1806-1889)
Non-career appointee
1861 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru
Robinson, Davis Rowland (1940- )
Non-career appointee
1981 Legal Adviser
Robinson, Paul Heron, Jr. (1930- )
Non-career appointee
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada
Robl, Terri Louise (1957- )
Foreign Service officer
1996 Charge d'Affaires ad interim Djibouti
Rochester, William Beatty (1789-1838)
Non-career appointee
1827 [Chargé d'Affaires, Central America]
Rochwarger, Leonard (1925- )
Non-career appointee
1987 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Fiji, Kiribati, Tonga,
and Tuvalu
Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich (1908-1979)
Non-career appointee
1944 Assistant Secretary for American Republic Affairs
Rockhill, William Woodville (1854-1914)
Non-career appointee
1894 Third Assistant Secretary of State
1896 Assistant Secretary of State (1853-1924)
1897 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary/Consul General, Greece,
Romania, and Serbia
1898 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece, Romania, and
Serbia
1905 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China
1909 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia
1911 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey
Rockwell, Stuart Wesson (1917- )
Foreign Service officer
1970 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco
Roddan, Edward L. (1899- )
Non-career appointee
1951 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay
Rodgers, Joe M. (1933- )
Non-career appointee
1985 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France
Rodman, Peter Warren (1943- )
Non-career appointee
1984 Chairman, Policy Planning Council
Rodney, Caesar Augustus (1772-1824)
Non-career appointee
1823 Minister Plenipotentiary, Buenos Aires
Rogers, Hezekiah Gold (1811-1882)
Non-career appointee
1840 Chargé d'Affaires, Sardinia
Rogers, James Grafton (1883-?)
Non-career appointee
1931 Assistant Secretary of State (1924-1944)
Rogers, John F. W. (1956- )
Non-career appointee
1991 Under Secretary for Management
Rogers, Stephen H. (1930- )
Foreign Service officer
1990 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Swaziland
Rogers, William Dill (1927- )
Non-career appointee
1974 Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs
1976 Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
Rogers, William Pierce (1913- )
Non-career appointee
1969 Secretary of State
Rohatyn, Felix (1929- )
Non-career appointee
1997 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France
Rogich, Sigmund, A. (1944- )
Non-career appointee
1992 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iceland
Rolvaag, Karl Fritjof (1913- )
Non-career appointee
1967 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iceland
Romero, Peter F. (1949- )
Foreign Service officer
1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador
Rondon, Fernando Enrique (1936- )
Foreign Service officer
1980 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Madagascar
1982 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Comoros
1985 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador
Roosevelt, Nicholas (1893-1982)
Non-career appointee
1930 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary
Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell (1829-1906)
Non-career appointee
1888 Minister Resident, Netherlands
1888 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands
Roosevelt, Selwa (1929- )
Non-career appointee
1982 Chief of Protocol
Root, Elihu (1845-1937)
Non-career appointee
1905 Secretary of State
Root, John Frick (1918-1988)
Foreign Service officer
1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ivory Coast
Root, Joseph Pomeroy (1826-1885)
Non-career appointee
1870 [Minister Resident, Netherlands]
1870 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile
Roper, Daniel Calhoun (1867-1943)
Non-career appointee
1939 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Canada
Rosapepe, James Carew (1951- )
Non-career appointee
1997 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Romania
Rosecrans, William Starke (1819-1898)
Non-career appointee
1868 [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain]
1868 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico
Rosenthal, James D. (1932- )
Foreign Service officer
1983 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guinea
Roskens, Ronald William (1932- )
Non-career appointee
1990 Administrator, Agency for International Development
Ross, Christopher W.S. (1943- )
Foreign Service officer
1986 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Algeria
1991 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Syria
Ross, Claude George Anthony (1917- )
Foreign Service officer
1963 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Central African Republic
1967 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti
1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tanzania
Ross, Dennis B. (1948- )
Non-career appointee
1989 Director, Policy Planning Staff
Rostow, Eugene Victor Debs (1913- )
Non-career appointee
1966 Under Secretary for Political Affairs
1981 Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Rostow, Walt Whitman (1916- )
Non-career appointee
1961 Counselor
1961 Chairman, Policy Planning Council
Roth, Stanley Owen (1954- )
Non-career appointee
1997 Assistant Secretary for European and Canadian Affairs
Roth, William Matson (1916- )
Non-career appointee
1962 Special Representative for Trade Negotiations
Rountree, William Manning (1917-1995)
Foreign Service officer
1956 Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs
1958 Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
1959 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan
1962 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sudan
1965 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa
1970 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil
Rousseau, Richard Hilaire (1815-1872)
Non-career appointee
1866 Minister Resident, Honduras
Rowan, Carl Thomas (1925- )
Non-career appointee
1963 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland
1964 Director, United States Information Agency
Rowan, John (1773-1853)
Non-career appointee
1848 Chargé d'Affaires, Two Sicilies
Rowell, Edward Morgan (1931- )
Foreign Service officer
1985 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia
1988 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal
1990 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg
Roy, J. Stapleton (1935- )
Foreign Service officer
1984 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Singapore
1989 Executive Secretary
1991 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China
1995 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia
Rubin, James P. (1960- )
Non-career appointee
1997 Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
Rublee, Horace (1829-1896)
Non-career appointee
1869 Minister Resident, Switzerland
1876 Chargé d'Affaires, Switzerland
Rubottom, Roy Richard, Jr., (1912- )
Foreign Service officer
1957 Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina
Ruddy, Francis Stephen (1937- )
Non-career appointee
1984 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Equatorial Guinea
Rugh, William Arthur (1936- )
Foreign Service officer
1984 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yemen Arab Republic
1992 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Arab Emirates
Rumsfeld, Donald Henry (1932- )
Non-career appointee
1973 Representative, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels
Runyon, Theodore (1822-1896)
Non-career appointee
1893 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany
1893 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany
Ruppe, Loret Miller (1936- 1996)
Non-career appointee
1989 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway
Rush, Kenneth (1910-1994)
Non-career appointee
1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany
1973 Deputy Secretary of State
1973 Secretary of State ad interim
1974 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France
Rush, Richard (1780-1859)
Non-career appointee
1817 Secretary of State ad interim
1817 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom
1847 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France
Rusk, David Dean (1909-1994)
Non-career appointee
1949 Deputy Under Secretary of State
1949 Assistant Secretary for United Nations Affairs
1950 Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs
1961 Secretary of State
Rusk, Jeremiah McLain (1830-1893)
Non-career appointee
1881 [Chargé d'Affaires, Paraguay and Uruguay]
Russell, Alexander L. (?-?)
Non-career appointee
1869 [Minister Resident, Ecuador]
Russell, Charles Wells (1856-1927)
Non-career appointee
1909 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Persia
Russell, Donald Stuart (1906- )
Non-career appointee
1945 Assistant Secretary for Administration
Russell, Francis Henry (1904-1989)
Foreign Service officer
1957 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, New Zealand
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ghana
1962 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tunisia
Russell, Fred Jesse (1916- )
Non-career appointee
1971 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark
Russell, Jonathan (1771-1832)
Non-career appointee
1810 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, France
1810 Chargé d'Affaires, France
1811 Chargé d'Affaires, United Kingdom
1814 Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden and Norway
Russell, Theodore E. (1936- )
Foreign Service officer
1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Slovakia
Russell, Thomas, Jr. (1825-1887)
Non-career appointee
1874 Minister Resident, Venezuela
Russell, William Worthington (1859-1944)
Non-career appointee
1904 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia
1905 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela
1910 Minister Resident/Consul General, Dominican Republic
1915 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic
1925 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Siam
Russo, Paul A. (1943- )
Non-career appointee
1986 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Barbados, Dominica, St.
Lucia, St. Vincent/Grenadines, Antigua/Barbuda, and St. Christopher/Nevis.
Rutledge, John (1739-1800)
Non-career appointee
1785 [Minister Plenipotentiary, United Netherlands]
Rutter, Peter (1915-1989)
Foreign Service officer
1957 Chargé d'Affaires, Ghana
Ruwe, L. Nicholas (1933-1990)
Non-career appointee
1985 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iceland
Ryan, Hewson Anthony (1922-1991)
Foreign Service officer
1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras
Ryan, Mary A. (1940- )
Non-career appointee
1984 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mali
1993 Assistant Secretary for Consular Affaris
Ryan, Robert J., Jr. (1939- )
Foreign Service officer
1984 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mali
Ryan, Robert Joseph (1914- )
Foreign Service officer
1964 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Niger
Ryan, Thomas (1837-1914)
Non-career appointee
1889 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico
Ryerson, William Edwin (1936- )
Foreign Service officer
1991 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Albania