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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by year: 1954

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

*Yost, Charles Woodruff (1907-1981)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Laos (1954)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Laos (1955-1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Syria (1957-1958)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco (1958-1961)
- Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1969-1971)
- Chargé d'Affaires, Thailand (1946)
- Career Ambassador (1964)
Willauer, Whiting (1906-1962)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1954-1958)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1958-1961)
*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, Robert Forbes (1908-2001)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1954-1958)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1958-1961)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1961)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1961-1962)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1962-1965)
Ageton, Arthur Ainslie (1900-1971)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1954-1957)
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)
*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)
*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)
Bowie, Robert Richardson (1909-)
- Director of the Policy Planning (1953-1957)
- Director of the Policy Planning (1955-1957)
- Counselor (1966-1968)
*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)
*Coe, Robert Douglas (1902-)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1953-1957)
*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)
*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)
Carpenter, Isaac White (1893-?)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1954-1955)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1955-1957)
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)
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)
*Donovan, William Joseph (1883-1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1953-1954)
*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 for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment (1958-1959)
- Under Secretary of State (1959-1961)
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)
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)
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)
*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)
*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)
*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)
*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)
Guggenheim, M. Robert (1885-1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1953-1954)
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)
Holland, Henry Finch (1912-1962)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1954-1956)
Hoover, Herbert Clark (1903-1969)
- Under Secretary of State (1954-1957)
*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)
*Key, David McKendree (1900-1988)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1950-1951)
- Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1953-1955)
Kemper, James Scott (1886-1981)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1953-1955)
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)
*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)
*McClintock, Robert Mills (1909-1976)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1954-1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1957-1961)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1962-1964)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1970-1975)
McDermott, Michael James (1894-1955)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1953-1954)
*McFall, Jack Kirkham (1905-1990)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1949-1952)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland (1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland (1954-1955)
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)
*Lawson, Edward Burnett (1895-1962)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1949-1954)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel (1954-1959)
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)
*Mills, Sheldon Tibbetts (1904-1988)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1954-1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1956-1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1959-1961)
*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)
*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)
*Muccio, John Joseph (1900-1989)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea (1949-1952)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1954)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1955-1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1959-1961)
*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)
*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)
Peaslee, Amos Jenkins (1887-1969)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1953-1956)
*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)
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)
Saltzman, Charles Eckridge (1903-)
- Assistant Secretaries of State for Occupied Areas (1947-1949)
- Under Secretary of State for Management (1954)
*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)
*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, Walter Bedell (1895-1961)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1946-1948)
- Under Secretary of State (1953-1954)
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)
*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)
Stassen, Harold E. (1907-)
- Director of the Mutual Security Agency (1953)
- Director of the Foreign Operations Administration (1953-1955)
Taft, William Howard (1915-1991)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1953-1957)
Tappin, John Lindsley (1906-1964)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Libya (1954-1958)
*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)
*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)
*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)
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)
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)