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

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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

Wahba, Marcelle M. (1948- )
Foreign Service officer
2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Arab Emirates

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
1999 Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs

Walker, George H. (1931- )
Non-career appointee
2003 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Hungary

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. (1927-2003)
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 (1922-2003)
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]

Walkley, R. Barrie (1944- )
Foreign Service officer
2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guinea

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 (1912-1998)
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
2000 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina

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 (1920-2001)
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, Diane Edith
Non-career appointment
1998 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Micronesia]
1999 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Micronesia

Watson, Thomas J., Jr. (1914-1993)
Non-career appointee
1979 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Soviet Union

Watt, Linda Ellen (1951- )
Non-career appointment
1998 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Dominican Republic
2002 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama

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

Wayne, Earl Anthony (1950- )
Foreign Service officer
1999 Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs
2006, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina

Waynick, Capus Miller (1889-?)
Non-career appointee
1949 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua
1951 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia

Weathersby, William Henry (1914-2001)
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

Weisberg, Robert (1950- )
2006, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Congo, Republic of

Weiser, Ronald (1945- )
Non-career appointment
2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Slovakia

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

Welch, C. David (1953- )
Foreign Service officer
1998 Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt

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
1998 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Estonia

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 (1926-2001)
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
1997 Chargé d'Affaires, Burma
1998 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia]
1999 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia

Wiggins, James Russell (1903-2000)
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 (1925-1998)
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

Wilgus, Janet (1945- )
2006, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Ethiopia

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
2000 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mozambique

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

Willeford, Pamela P. ( - )
Non-career appointee
2003 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland and Liechtenstein

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 Clint (1961- )
2006, Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues

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

Wills, E. Ashley (1949- )
Foreign Service officer
2000 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka and Maldives

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, Ross L. (1955- )
Foreign Service officer
2000 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Azerbaijan

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
2001 Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation

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

Wood, Michael (1947- )
2006, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden

Wood, Willima Braucher (1950- )
Foreign Service officer
2003 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia

Woodbury, Charles Levi (1820-1898)
Non-career appointee
1853 [Chargé d'Affaires, Bolivia]

Woodcock, Leonard F. (1911-2001)
Non-career appointee
1977 Chief, 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 (1908-2001)
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


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