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)