Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by year: 1953
Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.
- Acheson, Dean Gooderham (1893-1971)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1941)
- Under Secretary of State (1945-1947)
- Secretary of State (1949-1953)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1945)
- Aldrich, Winthrop Williams (1885-1974)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1953-1957)
- Alger, Frederick Moulton (1907-1967)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1953-1957)
- *Allen, George Venable (1903-1970)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1946-1948)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1948-1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1949-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1953-1954)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1953-1954)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1955-1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1956-1957)
- Director of the U.S. Information Agency (1957-1960)
- Career Ambassador (1960)
- Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1966-1968)
- *Allison, John Moore (1905-1978)
- Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1952-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1953-1957)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia (1957-1958)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1958-1960)
- Anderson, Helen Eugenie (Moore) (1909-1997)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1949-1953)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1962-1964)
- Andrews, Stanley (1894-?)
- Administrator of the Technical Cooperation Administration (1952-1953)
- Austin, Warren Robinson (1877-1962)
- Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1947-1953)
- Bay, Charles Ulrick (1888-1955)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1946-1953)
- *Beaulac, Willard Leon (1899-1990)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1944-1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1947-1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1951-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1953-1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1956-1960)
- *Bell, John Oscar (1912-)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1916-1965)
- Legal Adviser (2005)
- *Berry, Burton Yost (1901-1985)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1952-1954)
- *Bohlen, Charles Eustis (1904-1974)
- Counselor (1947-1949)
- Counselor (1951-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1953-1957)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1957-1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1962-1968)
- Career Ambassador (1960)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1967-1969)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1969)
- Bowers, Claude Gernade (1878-1958)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1933-1939)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1939-1953)
- Bowie, Robert Richardson (1909-)
- Director of the Policy Planning (1953-1957)
- Director of the Policy Planning (1955-1957)
- Counselor (1966-1968)
- Bowles, Chester Bliss (1901-1986)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1951-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1951-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1963-1969)
- Under Secretary of State (1961)
- Ambassador at Large (1961-1963)
- *Briggs, Ellis Ormsbee (1899-1976)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1944-1945)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1947-1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1949-1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea (1952-1955)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1955-1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1956-1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1959-1962)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
- Career Ambassador (1960)
- Bruce, David Kirkpatrick Este (1898-1977)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1949-1952)
- Under Secretary of State (1952-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1957-1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1961-1969)
- Chief, China (1973-1974)
- U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (1974-1976)
- Buchanan, Wiley Thomas (1914-1986)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1956)
- Chief of Protocol (1957-1961)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1975-1977)
- Bunker, Ellsworth (1894-1984)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1951-1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1952-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1956-1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1956-1961)
- Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American
States (Washington) (1964-1966)
- Ambassador at Large (1966-1967)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Vietnam, South (1967-1973)
- Ambassador at Large (1973-1978)
- Burns, Norman (1905-)
- Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1952-1953)
- *Butterworth, William Walton (1903-1975)
- Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1949-1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1950-1953)
- Representative of the U.S.A. to the European Union, with the rank and
status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (1961-1962)
- Career Ambassador (1962)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1962-1968)
- *Byroade, Henry Alfred (1913-1993)
- Director of the Bureau of German Affairs (1950-1952)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1952-1955)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1955-1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1956-1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1959-1962)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1963-1968)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1969-1973)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1973-1977)
- *Cabot, John Moors (1901-1981)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland (1950-1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1952)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1953-1954)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1954-1957)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1957-1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1959-1961)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1962-1965)
- *Caffery, Jefferson (1886-1974)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1926-1928)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1928-1933)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1934-1937)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1937-1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1944-1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1949-1955)
- Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Greece (no date on record)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1933)
- *Cannon, Cavendish Wells (1895-1962)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1947-1949)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Syria (1950-1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1952-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1953-1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco (1956-1958)
- *Chapin, Selden (1899-1963)
- Director General of the Foreign Service (1946-1947)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1949-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1953-1955)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1955-1958)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1960)
- *Childs, James Rives (1893-1987)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1946)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1946-1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1949-1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1951-1953)
- Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Morocco (served as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Feb. 1941-Jun 1945.)
- *Cochran, Horace Merle (1892-1973)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia (1949-1953)
- *Coe, Robert Douglas (1902-)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1953-1957)
- Cowen, Myron Melvin (1898-1965)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1948-1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1949-1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1952-1953)
- Crowe, Philip Kingsland (1908-1976)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1953-1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1959-1961)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1969-1973)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1973-1975)
- *Cumming, Hugh Smith (1900-1986)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia (1953-1957)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (1957-1961)
- *Daniels, Paul Clement (1903-1986)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1947)
- Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American
States (Washington) (1948-1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1951-1953)
- *Davis, Monnett Bain (1893-1953)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1945-1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1948-1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel (1951-1953)
- Davis, Roy Tasco (1889-1975)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1921)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1922-1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1929-1933)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1953-1957)
- *Dillery, Carl Edward (1930-)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Kiribati (1884-1987)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Fiji (1984-1987)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tonga (1984-1987)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tuvalu (1984-1987)
- Dillon, Clarence Douglas (1909-2003)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1953-1957)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1957-1958)
- Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural
Affairs (1958-1959)
- Under Secretary of State (1959-1961)
- *Donovan, William Joseph (1883-1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1953-1954)
- Draper, William Henry (1894-1974)
- U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (1953)
- Dreier, John Caspar (1906-1994)
- Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American
States (Washington) (1950-1960)
- *Drew, Gerald Augustin (1903-1970)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1950-1952)
- Director General of the Foreign Service (1952-1954)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1954-1957)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1957-1960)
- Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service (1960-1962)
- Dudley, Edward Richard (1911-)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1949-1953)
- Duke, Angier Biddle (1915-1995)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1952-1953)
- Chief of Protocol (1961-1965)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1965-1968)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1968-1969)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco (1979-1981)
- Chief of Protocol (1968)
- Dulles, John Foster (1888-1959)
- Secretary of State (1953-1959)
- *Dunn, James Clement (1890-1979)
- Chief of Protocol (1928-1930)
- Chief of Protocol (1933-1935)
- Assistant Secretary of State for European, Far Eastern, Near Eastern,
and African Affairs (1944-1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1946-1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1952-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1953-1955)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1955-1956)
- Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Haiti (no date on record)
- Career Ambassador (1956)
- Erwin, John Draper (1883-?)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1937)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1943-1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1951-1954)
- Fisher, Adrian Sanford (1914-1983)
- Legal Adviser (1949-1953)
- *Flack, Joseph (1894-1955)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1946-1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1949-1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1950-1955)
- Fleming, Philip Bracken (1887-1955)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1951-1953)
- *Gallman, Waldemar John (1899-1980)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1951-1954)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1954)
- Director General of the Foreign Service (1958-1961)
- Gardner, Arthur (1889-1967)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1953-1957)
- Gifford, Walter Sherman (1885-1966)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1950-1953)
- Green, Joseph Coy (1887-1978)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1952-1953)
- Guggenheim, M. Robert (1885-1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1953-1954)
- *Hare, Raymond Arthur (1901-1994)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1950-1953)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1950-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1953-1954)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1958-1959)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1959)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1960-1961)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1961-1965)
- Career Ambassador (1960)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1965-1966)
- Harriman, William Averell (1891-1986)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1943-1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1946)
- Director of the Mutual Security Agency (1951-1953)
- Ambassador at Large (1961)
- Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1961-1963)
- Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1963-1965)
- Ambassador at Large (1965-1969)
- *Heath, Donald Read (1894-1981)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1947-1950)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1950)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Laos (1950-1954)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Vietnam, South (1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1952-1954)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Vietnam, South (1952-1954)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1955-1958)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1957-1961)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1957)
- *Henderson, Loy Wesley (1892-1986)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1943-1945)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1948)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1948-1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1951-1954)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1955)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1955)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1955-1961)
- Career Ambassador (1956)
- *Hickerson, John Dewey (1898-1989)
- Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1949-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland (1955-1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1959-1961)
- Hildreth, Horace Augustus (1902-1988)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1953)
- Hill, Robert Charles (1917-1978)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1953-1954)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1954-1955)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1956-1957)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1957-1960)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1969-1972)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1973-1977)
- Hughes, John Chambers (1891-1971)
- U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (1953-1955)
- Humelsine, Carlisle Hubbard (1915-1989)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1950-1953)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1950-1953)
- Jarman, Pete (1892-1955)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1949-1953)
- Jessup, Philip Caryl (1897-1986)
- Ambassador at Large (1949-1953)
- *Johnson, Herschel Vespasian (1894-1966)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1941-1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1948-1953)
- *Johnson, Ural Alexis (1908-1997)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1953-1957)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1958-1961)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1961-1964)
- Deputy Ambassador, Vietnam, South (arrived at Saigon on Jun 28, 1964, as the first of a series of Deputy Ambassadors
to Vietnam. The Deputy Ambassadors and their periods of service in Vietnam are: U.
Alexis Johnson (Jun 1964-Sep 1965)...)
- Career Ambassador (1964)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1965-1966)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1966-1969)
- Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1969-1973)
- Ambassador at Large (1973-1977)
- Jones, Harold Armstrong (1897-)
- Representative of the U.S.A. on the Council of the International Civil
Aviation Organization (Montreal) (1953-1956)
- Kemper, James Scott (1886-1981)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1953-1955)
- *Key, David McKendree (1900-1988)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1950-1951)
- Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1953-1955)
- *Lawson, Edward Burnett (1895-1962)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1949-1954)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel (1954-1959)
- Linder, Harold Francis (1900-1981)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business
Affairs (1952-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1968-1969)
- Locker, Jesse Dwight (1891-1955)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1953-1955)
- Lodge, Henry Cabot (1902-1985)
- Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1953-1960)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Vietnam, South (1963-1964)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Vietnam, South (1965-1967)
- Ambassador at Large (1967-1968)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1968-1969)
- Lourie, Donold Bradford (1899-1990)
- Under Secretary of State for Management (1953-1954)
- Luce, Ann Clare (Boothe) (1903-1987)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1953-1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1959)
- *MacArthur, Douglas (1909-1997)
- Counselor (1953-1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1956-1961)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1961-1965)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1967-1969)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1969-1972)
- Career Ambassador (1964)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1965-1967)
- MacVeagh, Lincoln (1890-1972)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece (1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1941-1942)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1942-1943)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1943-1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1943)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1948-1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1952-1953)
- *Mallory, Lester DeWitt (1904-1994)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1953-1958)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1958-1959)
- *Matthews, Harrison Freeman (1899-1986)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1947-1950)
- Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Spain (The Embassy had meanwhile been re-established in Spain on Apr 13, 1939, when H.
Freeman Matthews had been received at Burgos as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim.)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1953-1957)
- Career Ambassador (1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1957-1962)
- McCardle, Carl Wesley (1904-1972)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1953-1957)
- McDermott, Michael James (1894-1955)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1953-1954)
- McGhee, George Crews (1912-)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1949-1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1951-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1963-1968)
- Counselor (1961)
- Director of the Policy Planning (1961)
- Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1961-1963)
- Ambassador at Large (1968-1969)
- McIntosh, Dempster (1896-)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1953-1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1956-1957)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1959-1961)
- McLeod, Robert Walter Scott (1914-1961)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs (1953-1957)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1957-1961)
- *Merchant, Livingston Tallmadge (1903-1976)
- Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1953-1956)
- Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1953-1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1956-1958)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1961-1962)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1959)
- Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1959-1961)
- Career Ambassador (1960)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1961)
- Mesta, Perle (Pearl) Reid (Skirvin) (1889-1975)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1949-1953)
- *Minor, Harold Bronk (1902-1984)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1952-1953)
- *Moose, James Sayle (1903-1989)
- Minister Resident/Foreign Service officer, Saudi Arabia (1943-1944)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Syria (1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Syria (1952-1957)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sudan (1958-1962)
- Morton, Thruston Ballard (1907-1982)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1953-1956)
- *Murphy, Robert Daniel (1894-1978)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1949-1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1952-1953)
- Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1953)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1953-1955)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1955-1959)
- Career Ambassador (1956)
- Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1959)
- Nitze, Paul Henry (1907-)
- Director of the Policy Planning (1950-1953)
- Ambassador at Large (1986-1989)
- *Nufer, Albert Frank (1894-1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1947-1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1952-1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1956)
- Patterson, Richard Cunningham (1896-1966)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1944-1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1948-1950)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1951-1953)
- Peaslee, Amos Jenkins (1887-1969)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1953-1956)
- Perkins, George Walbridge (1895-1960)
- Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1949-1953)
- U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (1955-1957)
- *Peurifoy, John Emil (1907-1955)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1947-1950)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1949-1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1950-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1953-1954)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1954-1955)
- Pheiffer, William Townsend (1898-1986)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1953-1957)
- Phelps, Phelps (1897-)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1952-1953)
- Phleger, Herman (1890-)
- Legal Adviser (1953-1957)
- *Rankin, Karl Lott (1898-1991)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1953-1957)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1957-1961)
- *Ravndal, Christian Magelssen (1899-1984)
- Director General of the Foreign Service (1947-1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1949-1951)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1951-1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1956-1960)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czech Republic (1960-1961)
- *Riddleberger, James Williams (1904-1982)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1953-1958)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1957)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1958-1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1962-1967)
- Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1956)
- Director of the International Cooperation Administration (1959-1961)
- Director of the Bureau of German Affairs (1952)
- Career Ambassador (1960)
- Robertson, Walter Spencer (1893-1970)
- Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1953-1959)
- Roddan, Edward L. (1899-)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1951-1953)
- Sargeant, Howland Hill (1911-1984)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1952-1953)
- *Satterthwaite, Joseph Charles (1900-1990)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1949-1953)
- Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1953-1955)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1955-1957)
- Director General of the Foreign Service (1957-1958)
- Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1958-1961)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1961)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1961-1965)
- *Schoenfeld, Rudolf Emil (1895-1981)
- Chargé d'Affaires, Luxembourg (1944)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1951-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1953-1955)
- *Scotten, Robert McGregor (1891-1968)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1940-1942)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1942-1943)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1943-1947)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1947-1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1948-1955)
- *Sebald, William Joseph (1901-1980)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1952-1954)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1957-1961)
- *Shantz, Harold (1894-1967)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1952-1955)
- *Shaw, George Price (1892-1966)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1948-1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1949-1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1952-1953)
- *Simmons, John Farr (1892-1968)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1944-1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1947-1950)
- Chief of Protocol (1950-1957)
- Simonson, Joseph (1904-1985)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1953-1957)
- Smith, Paul Albert (1901-)
- Representative of the U.S.A. on the Council of the International Civil
Aviation Organization (Montreal) (1948-1953)
- Smith, Walter Bedell (1895-1961)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1946-1948)
- Under Secretary of State (1953-1954)
- *Sparks, Edward John (1897-1976)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1951-1954)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1955-1958)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1958-1961)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1961-1962)
- Spruance, Raymond Ames (1886-1969)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1952-1955)
- *Stanton, Edwin Forward (1901-1968)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1947-1953)
- Stassen, Harold E. (1907-)
- Director of the Mutual Security Agency (1953)
- Director of the Foreign Operations Administration (1953-1955)
- Streibert, Theodore Cuyler (1899-1987)
- Director of the U.S. Information Agency (1953-1956)
- Strong, Lester Corrin (1892-1966)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1953-1957)
- Stuart, R. Douglas (1886-1975)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1953-1956)
- Taft, William Howard (1915-1991)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1953-1957)
- *Thompson, Llewellyn E. (1904-1972)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1952-1957)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1957-1962)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1966-1969)
- Career Ambassador (1960)
- Ambassador at Large (1962-1966)
- *Tittmann, Harold Hilgard (1893-1980)
- Chargé d'Affaires, Holy See (1941-1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1946-1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1948-1955)
- *Villard, Henry Serrano (1900-1996)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Libya (1952-1954)
- Representative of the U.S.A. to the European Office of the United
Nations (Geneva) (1958-1960)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mali (1960)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Senegal (1960-1961)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mauritania (1960-1961)
- *Vincent, John Carter (1900-1972)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1947-1951)
- Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1951-1953)
- *Wadsworth, George (1893-1958)
- Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Lebanon (1942)
- Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Italy (Note: George Wadsworth was serving as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim when Italy
declared war on the United States, Dec 11, 1941. )
- Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Syria (1942)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1944-1947)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Syria (1944-1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1947-1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1948-1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1952-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1953-1958)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1953-1958)
- *Wailes, Edward Thompson (1903-1969)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1953-1954)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1954-1956)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1958-1961)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1961-1962)
- *Ward, Angus Ivan (1893-1969)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1952-1956)
- *Warren, Avra Milvin (1893-1957)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1942)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1943-1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1944-1945)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1945-1947)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland (1947-1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1950-1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1953-1956)
- *Warren, William Fletcher (1896-1992)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1945-1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1947-1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1951-1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1956-1960)
- Waugh, Samuel Clark (1890-1970)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business
Affairs (1953-1955)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1955)
- Waynick, Capus Miller (1889-?)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1949-1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1951-1953)
- Whelan, Thomas Edward (1895-1977)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1951-1961)
- *White, Francis (1892-1961)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1927-1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1933)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1953-1957)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1957-1958)
- *Wiley, John Cooper (1893-1967)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Latvia (1938)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Estonia (1938-1940)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1944-1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1947-1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1948-1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1951-1953)
- *Willis, Frances Elizabeth (1899-1983)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1953-1957)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1957-1961)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1961-1964)
- Career Ambassador (1962)
- *Woodward, Stanley (1899-1992)
- Chief of Protocol (1944)
- Chief of Protocol (1946-1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1950-1953)