Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by year: 1942

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

• *Wilson, Edwin Carleton (1893-1972)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1939-1941)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1941-1943)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1945-1948)
• *Wilson, Thomas Murray (1881-1967)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Iraq (1942-1943)
• Winant, John Gilbert (1889-1947)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1941-1946)
• *Armour, Norman (1887-1982)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1932-1933)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1933-1935)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Canada (1935-1938)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1938-1939)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1939-1944)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1944-1945)
  • Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1947-1948)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1950-1951)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1954-1955)
• *Bell, John Oscar (1912-)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1916-1965)
  • Legal Adviser (2005)
• Berle, Adolf Augustus (1895-1971)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1938-1944)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1945-1946)
• Biddle, Anthony Joseph Drexel (1897-1961)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Norway (1935-1937)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1937-1943)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1941-1943)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1941)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1941)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1941)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece (1941)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Norway (1941)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1942-1943)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1942-1943)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1942-1943)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1942-1943)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1943)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1943)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1961)
• *Boal, Pierre de Lagarde (1895-1966)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1941-1942)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1942)
• Bowers, Claude Gernade (1878-1958)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1933-1939)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1939-1953)
• Braden, Spruille (1894-1978)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1935)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1939-1942)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1941-1945)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1945)
  • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1945-1947)
• *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)
• *Dawson, William (1885-1972)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1930-1935)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1934-1937)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1937)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1937-1939)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1939-1941)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1941-1946)
  • Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American States (Washington) (1948)
• Corrigan, Francis Patrick (1881-1968)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1934-1937)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1937-1939)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1939-1947)
• Des Portes, Fay Allen (1890-1944)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1933-1936)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1936-1943)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1943-1944)
• *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)
• *Engert, Cornelius Van Hemert (1887-1985)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Ethiopia (1936)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1942-1945)
  • Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Iran (no date on record)
• *Dreyfus, Louis Goethe (1889-1973)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iran (1939-1943)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1940-1942)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1944)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1946-1947)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1949-1951)
• *Gauss, Clarence Edward (1886-1960)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Australia (1940-1941)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1941-1944)
• Fish, Bert (1875-1943)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1933-1941)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1939-1941)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1941-1943)
• *Frazer, Robert (1878-1947)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1937-1942)
• *Frost, Wesley (1884-1968)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1941)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1942-1944)
• Hackworth, Green Haywood (1883-1973)
  • Legal Adviser (1931-1946)
• *Harrison, Leland (1883-1951)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1922-1924)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1924-1927)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1927-1929)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1929-1930)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1935-1937)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1937-1947)
• Hayes, Carlton Joseph Huntley (1882-1964)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1942-1945)
• Gray, David (1870-1968)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1940-1947)
• Hull, Cordell (1871-1955)
  • Secretary of State (1933-1944)
• *Johnson, Herschel Vespasian (1894-1966)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1941-1946)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1948-1953)
• *Johnson, Nelson Trusler (1887-1954)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1927-1929)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1929-1930)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1935-1941)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Australia (1941-1945)
• Hurley, Patrick Jay (1883-1963)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1942)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1944-1945)
• *Kirk, Alexander Comstock (1888-1979)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1941-1943)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1941-1944)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1943)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1944-1946)
• *Knabenshue, Paul (1883-1942)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Iraq (1932-1933)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Iraq (1933-1942)
• *Lane, Arthur Bliss (1894-1956)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1933-1936)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Estonia (1936-1937)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Latvia (1936-1937)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lithuania (1936-1937)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1937)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1941-1942)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1942-1944)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1944-1947)
• *Keena, Leo John (1878-1967)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1935-1937)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1937-1942)
• 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)
• Leahy, William Daniel (1875-1959)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1940-1942)
• Long, Boaz Walton (1876-1962)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1914-1917)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1919-1921)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1936-1938)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1938)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1942-1943)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1943-1945)
• Long, Samuel Miller Breckinridge (1881-1958)
  • Third Assistant Secretary of State (1917-1920)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1933-1936)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1940-1944)
• *Moffat, Jay Pierrepont (1896-1943)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Canada (1940-1943)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1941-1943)
• *Messersmith, George Strausser (1883-1960)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1934)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1934-1937)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1937-1940)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1940-1942)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1941-1946)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1946-1947)
• *Morris, Leland Burnette (1886-1950)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1942-1944)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1944-1945)
• *Norweb, Raymond Henry (1894-1983)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1936-1937)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1937)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1940-1943)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1943)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1944-1945)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1945)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1945-1948)
• *Schoenfeld, Hans Frederick Arthur (1889-1952)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1928)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1929)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1931-1937)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland (1937-1942)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1945-1947)
• *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)
• *Shaw, Gardiner Howland (1893-1965)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1941-1944)
• *Stewart, James Bolton (1882-1969)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1942)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1943-1945)
• Standley, William Harrison (1872-1963)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1942-1943)
• Steinhardt, Laurence Adolph (1892-1950)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1933-1937)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1937-1939)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1939-1941)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1942-1945)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1944-1948)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1948-1950)
• *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)
• Walton, Lester Aglar (1882-1965)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1935-1946)
• *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)
• *Thurston, Walter Clarence (1894-1974)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1942-1943)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1943-1944)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1944-1946)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1946-1950)
• *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)
• *Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne (1876-1948)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1933-1938)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1939-1942)
• *Welles, Benjamin Sumner (1892-1961)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1933)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1933-1937)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1933)
  • Under Secretary of State (1937-1943)