Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by year: 1785
Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.
- Adams, John (1735-1826)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1781-1788)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1785-1788)
- Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1778-1785)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1782)
- Jay, John (1745-1829)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1779)
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs Under the Continental Congress (1784-1789)
- Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1785)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1787-1789)
- Secretary of State (1789-1793)