Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by year: 1861

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

• Adams, Charles Francis (1807-1886)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1861-1868)
• Angel, Benjamin Franklin (1815-1894)
  • Minister Resident, Sweden (1857-1861)
• Appleton, John (1815-1864)
  • Chief Clerk (1848)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Bolivia (1848-1849)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1857-1860)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1860-1861)
• Bigler, John (1805-1871)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1857-1861)
• Black, Jeremiah Sullivan (1810-1883)
  • Secretary of State (1860-1861)
• Blow, Henry Taylor (1817-1875)
  • Minister Resident, Venezuela (1861)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1869-1870)
• Borden, James Wallace (1810-?)
  • Commissioner, Hawaii (1858-1861)
• Buchanan, James M. (1803-1876)
  • Minister Resident, Denmark (1858-1861)
• Buckalew, Charles Rollin (1821-1899)
  • Minister Resident, Ecuador (1858-1861)
• Burlingame, Anson (1820-1870)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1861)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1861-1867)
• Burton, Allan A. (?-?)
  • Minister Resident, Colombia (1861)
  • Minister Resident, Colombia (1861-1864)
• Cartter, David Kellogg (1812-1887)
  • Minister Resident, Bolivia (1861)
• Clay, Cassius Marcellus (1810-1903)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1861)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1861-1862)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1863-1869)
• Corwin, Thomas (1794-1865)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1861-1864)
• Crosby, Elisha Oscar (1818-1895)
  • Minister Resident, Guatemala (1861-1864)
• Cushman, John Franklin (?-1862)
  • Minister Resident, Argentina (1859-1861)
• Dallas, George Mifflin (1792-1864)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1837-1839)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1856-1861)
• Dayton, William Lewis (1807-1864)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1861-1864)
• De Leon, Edwin (1818-1891)
  • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1853-1861)
• Dickinson, Andrew B. (?-?)
  • Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1861-1863)
  • Minister Resident and Extraordinary, Nicaragua (1863-1869)
• Dimitry, Alexander (1805-1883)
  • Minister Resident, Costa Rica (1859-1861)
  • Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1859-1861)
• Dryer, Thomas Jefferson (1808-1879)
  • Commissioner, Hawaii (1861-1863)
• Ellsworth, Henry William (1814-1864)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Sweden (1845-1861)
• Fair, Elisha Young (1809-1886)
  • Minister Resident, Belgium (1858-1861)
• Faulkner, Charles James (1806-1884)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1860-1861)
• Fay, Theodore Sedgwick (1807-1898)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1853-1861)
• Fogg, George Gilman (1813-1881)
  • Minister Resident, Switzerland (1861-1865)
• Haldeman, Jacob Samils (1827-1889)
  • Minister Resident, Sweden (1861-1864)
• Harris, Townsend (1804-1878)
  • Minister Resident, Japan (1859-1862)
• Harvey, James E. (1820-?)
  • Minister Resident, Portugal (1861-1869)
• Hassaurek, Frederick (Friedrich) (1831-1885)
  • Minister Resident, Ecuador (1861-1866)
• Howard, Jacob Merritt (1805-1871)
  • Minister Resident, Honduras (1861)
• Jones, George Wallace (1804-1896)
  • Minister Resident, Colombia (1859-1861)
• Jones, Jehu Glancy (1811-1878)
  • Minister Resident, Austria (1858)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1858-1861)
• Judd, Norman Buel (1815-1878)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1861-1865)
• King, Rufus (1814-1876)
  • Minister Resident, Holy See (1861)
  • Minister Resident, Holy See (1863-1867)
• Marsh, George Perkins (1801-1882)
  • Minister Resident, Turkey (1849-1853)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Italy (1861-1882)
• Meade, Richard Kidder (1803-1862)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Italy (1853)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1857-1861)
• Morgan, George Washington (1820-1893)
  • Minister Resident, Portugal (1858-1861)
• Morris, Edward Joy (1815-1881)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Two Sicilies (1850-1853)
  • Minister Resident, Turkey (1861-1870)
• Motley, John Lothrop (1814-1877)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1861-1867)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1869-1870)
• Murphy, Henry Cruse (1810-1882)
  • Minister Resident, Netherlands (1857-1861)
• Nelson, Thomas Henry (1824-1896)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1861-1866)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1869-1873)
• Palmer, Robert M. (1820-1862)
  • Minister Resident, Argentina (1861-1862)
• Pike, James Shepard (1811-1882)
  • Minister Resident, Netherlands (1861-1866)
• Preston, William (1861-1887)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1858-1861)
• Pruyn, Robert Hewson (1815-1882)
  • Minister Resident, Japan (1861-1865)
• Randall, Alexander Williams (1819-1872)
  • Minister Resident, Holy See (1861-1862)
• Riotte, Charles N. (?-?)
  • Minister Resident, Costa Rica (1861-1867)
  • Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1861-1867)
  • Minister Resident, Costa Rica (Not commissioned; nomination tabled by the Senate.)
• Robinson, Christopher (1806-1889)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1861-1862)
• Sanford, Henry Shelton (1823-1891)
  • Minister Resident, Belgium (1861-1869)
  • Minister Resident, Belgium (Not commissioned; nomination not confirmed by the Senate.)
  • Minister Resident, Spain (Not commissioned; nomination not confirmed by the Senate.)
• Schurz, Carl (1829-1906)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1861)
• Seward, Frederick William (1830-1915)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1861-1869)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1877-1879)
• Seward, William Henry (1801-1872)
  • Secretary of State (1861-1869)
• Smith, John Cotton (1810-1879)
  • Minister Resident, Bolivia (1858-1861)
• Stockton, John Potter (1826-1900)
  • Minister Resident, Holy See (1858-1861)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (Not commissioned; nomination rejected by the Senate.)
• Turpin, Edward A. (?-?)
  • Minister Resident, Venezuela (1858-1861)
• Washburn, Charles Ames (1822-1889)
  • Commissioner, Paraguay (1861)
  • Minister Resident, Paraguay (1863-1868)
• Webb, James Watson (1802-1884)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Austria (1849-1850)
  • Minister Resident, Turkey (1861)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1861-1869)
• Weller, John B. (1812-1875)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1860-1861)
• Wells, Hezekiah G. (1812-1885)
  • Minister Resident, Honduras (1861)
• Williams, James (1796-1869)
  • Minister Resident, Turkey (1858-1861)
• Wood, Bradford Ripley (1800-1889)
  • Minister Resident, Denmark (1861-1865)
• Wright, Joseph Albert (1810-1867)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1857-1861)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1865-1867)