Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by year: 1860

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

• Wright, Joseph Albert (1810-1867)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1857-1861)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1865-1867)
• Williams, James (1796-1869)
  • Minister Resident, Turkey (1858-1861)
• Angel, Benjamin Franklin (1815-1894)
  • Minister Resident, Sweden (1857-1861)
• Appleton, John (1815-1864)
  • Chief Clerk (1848)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Bolivia (1848-1849)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1857-1860)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1860-1861)
• Bigler, John (1805-1871)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1857-1861)
• Black, Jeremiah Sullivan (1810-1883)
  • Secretary of State (1860-1861)
• Borden, James Wallace (1810-?)
  • Commissioner, Hawaii (1858-1861)
• Clarke, Beverly Leonidas (1809-1860)
  • Minister Resident, Guatemala (1858-1860)
  • Minister Resident, Honduras (1858-1860)
• Buchanan, James M. (1803-1876)
  • Minister Resident, Denmark (1858-1861)
• Buckalew, Charles Rollin (1821-1899)
  • Minister Resident, Ecuador (1858-1861)
• Cass, Lewis (1782-1866)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1836-1842)
  • Secretary of State (1857-1860)
• Cushman, John Franklin (?-1862)
  • Minister Resident, Argentina (1859-1861)
• Dallas, George Mifflin (1792-1864)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1837-1839)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1856-1861)
• De Leon, Edwin (1818-1891)
  • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1853-1861)
• Dimitry, Alexander (1805-1883)
  • Minister Resident, Costa Rica (1859-1861)
  • Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1859-1861)
• Ellsworth, Henry William (1814-1864)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Sweden (1845-1861)
• Fair, Elisha Young (1809-1886)
  • Minister Resident, Belgium (1858-1861)
• Faulkner, Charles James (1806-1884)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1860-1861)
• Fay, Theodore Sedgwick (1807-1898)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1853-1861)
• Harris, Townsend (1804-1878)
  • Minister Resident, Japan (1859-1862)
• Jones, George Wallace (1804-1896)
  • Minister Resident, Colombia (1859-1861)
• Jones, Jehu Glancy (1811-1878)
  • Minister Resident, Austria (1858)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1858-1861)
• Hunter, William (1805-1886)
  • Chief Clerk (1852-1855)
  • Secretary of State ad interim (1853)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1855)
  • Secretary of State ad interim (1860)
  • Second Assistant Secretary of State (1866-1886)
• McLane, Robert Milligan (1815-1898)
  • Commissioner, China (1853-1854)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1859-1860)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1885-1889)
• Meade, Richard Kidder (1803-1862)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Italy (1853)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1857-1861)
• Morgan, George Washington (1820-1893)
  • Minister Resident, Portugal (1858-1861)
• Murphy, Henry Cruse (1810-1882)
  • Minister Resident, Netherlands (1857-1861)
• Pickens, Francis Wilkinson (1805-1869)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1858-1860)
• Preston, William (1861-1887)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1858-1861)
• Smith, John Cotton (1810-1879)
  • Minister Resident, Bolivia (1858-1861)
• Stockton, John Potter (1826-1900)
  • Minister Resident, Holy See (1858-1861)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (Not commissioned; nomination rejected by the Senate.)
• Trescot, William Henry (1822-1898)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1860)
• Turpin, Edward A. (?-?)
  • Minister Resident, Venezuela (1858-1861)
• Ward, John Elliott (1814-1902)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1858-1860)
• Weller, John B. (1812-1875)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1860-1861)