Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by year: 1869

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

• Williams, Alpheus Starkey (1810-1878)
  • Minister Resident, El Salvador (1866-1869)
• Wing, Edward Rumsey (1845-1874)
  • Minister Resident, Ecuador (1869-1874)
• Worthington, Henry Gaither (1828-1909)
  • Minister Resident, Uruguay (1868)
  • Minister Resident, Argentina (1868-1869)
• Andrews, Christopher Columbus (1829-1922)
  • Minister Resident, Denmark (1869)
  • Minister Resident, Sweden (1869-1877)
• Bartlett, Joseph Jackson (1834-1893)
  • Minister Resident, Sweden (1867-1869)
• Bassett, Ebenezer Don Carlos (1833-1908)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Haiti (1869-1877)
• Baxter, Henry (1821-1873)
  • Minister Resident, Honduras (1869-1873)
• Blair, Jacob Beeson (1821-1901)
  • Minister Resident, Costa Rica (1868-1873)
• Blow, Henry Taylor (1817-1875)
  • Minister Resident, Venezuela (1861)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1869-1870)
• Clay, Cassius Marcellus (1810-1903)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1861)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1861-1862)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1863-1869)
• Browne, John Ross (1817-1875)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1868-1869)
• Caldwell, John Watson (1809-1896)
  • Minister Resident, Bolivia (1868-1869)
• Curtin, Andrew Gregg (1815-1894)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1869-1872)
• Davis, John Chandler Bancroft (1822-1907)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1869-1871)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1873-1874)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1874-1877)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1881-1882)
• De Long, Charles E. (?-1876)
  • Minister Resident, Japan (1869)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Japan (1870-1873)
• Dickinson, Andrew B. (?-?)
  • Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1861-1863)
  • Minister Resident and Extraordinary, Nicaragua (1863-1869)
• Dix, John Adams (1798-1879)
  • Minister Resident, Netherlands (1866)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1866-1869)
• Ewing, Hugh Boyle (1826-1905)
  • Minister Resident, Netherlands (1866-1870)
• Dumas, Francis E. (?-?)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1869)
• Fish, Hamilton (1808-1893)
  • Secretary of State (1869-1877)
• Hale, Charles (1831-1882)
  • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1864-1870)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1872-1873)
• Hale, John Parker (1806-1873)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1865-1869)
• Harrington, George (1815-1892)
  • Minister Resident, Switzerland (1865-1869)
• Harvey, James E. (1820-?)
  • Minister Resident, Portugal (1861-1869)
• Hovey, Alvin Peterson (1821-1891)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1865-1870)
• Hudson, Silas A. (1815-1886)
  • Minister Resident, Guatemala (1869-1872)
• Jay, John (1817-1894)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1869-1875)
• Johnson, Reverdy (1796-1876)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1868-1869)
• Jones, Joseph Russell (1823-1909)
  • Minister Resident, Belgium (1869-1875)
• 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)
• Hurlbut, Stephen Augustus (1815-1882)
  • Minister Resident, Colombia (1869-1872)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1881)
• Kilpatrick, Judson (1836-1881)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1865-1870)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1881)
• Kirk, Robert C. (1821-?)
  • Minister Resident, Argentina (1862-1866)
  • Minister Resident, Uruguay (1869-1870)
  • Minister Resident, Argentina (1869-1871)
• Low, Frederick Ferdinand (1828-1894)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1869-1873)
• Markbreit, Leopold (1842-1909)
  • Minister Resident, Bolivia (1869-1873)
• Marsh, George Perkins (1801-1882)
  • Minister Resident, Turkey (1849-1853)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Italy (1861-1882)
• McMahon, Martin Thomas (1838-1906)
  • Minister Resident, Paraguay (1868-1869)
• Morris, Edward Joy (1815-1881)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Two Sicilies (1850-1853)
  • Minister Resident, Turkey (1861-1870)
• Motley, John Lothrop (1814-1877)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1861-1867)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1869-1870)
• Nelson, Thomas Henry (1824-1896)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1861-1866)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1869-1873)
• Nunn, David Alexander (1833-1918)
  • Minister Resident, Ecuador (1869)
• Partridge, James Rudolph (1823-1884)
  • Minister Resident, Honduras (1862)
  • Minister Resident, Nicaragua (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
  • Minister Resident, El Salvador (1863)
  • Minister Resident, Venezuela (1869-1870)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1871-1877)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1882)
• Peirce, Henry Augustus (1808-1885)
  • Minister Resident, Hawaii (1869-1877)
• Rosecrans, William Starke (1819-1898)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1868-1869)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (Not commissioned; nomination tabled by the Senate.)
• Rousseau, Richard Hilaire (1815-1872)
  • Minister Resident, Honduras (1866-1869)
• Rublee, Horace (1829-1896)
  • Minister Resident, Switzerland (1869-1876)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Switzerland (1876)
• Sanford, Henry Shelton (1823-1891)
  • Minister Resident, Belgium (1861-1869)
  • Minister Resident, Belgium (Not commissioned; nomination not confirmed by the Senate.)
  • Minister Resident, Spain (Not commissioned; nomination not confirmed by the Senate.)
• Seward, Frederick William (1830-1915)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1861-1869)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1877-1879)
• Seward, William Henry (1801-1872)
  • Secretary of State (1861-1869)
• Seys, John (?-?)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1866-1870)
• Shellabarger, Samuel (1817-1896)
  • Minister Resident, Portugal (1869-1870)
• Sickles, Daniel Edgar (1825-1914)
  • Minister Resident, Netherlands (1866)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1869)
• Sullivan, Peter John (1821-1883)
  • Minister Resident, Colombia (1867-1869)
• Torbert, Alfred Thomas Archimedes (1833-1880)
  • Minister Resident, El Salvador (1869-1871)
• Tuckerman, Charles Keating (1827-1896)
  • Minister Resident, Greece (1868-1871)
• Van Valkenburgh, Robert Bruce (1821-1888)
  • Minister Resident, Japan (1866-1869)
• Warren, Fitz Henry (1816-1878)
  • Minister Resident, Guatemala (1865-1869)
• Washburne, Elihu Benjamin (1816-1887)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1869)
  • Secretary of State (1869)
• Webb, James Watson (1802-1884)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Austria (1849-1850)
  • Minister Resident, Turkey (1861)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1861-1869)
• Watts, Henry Miller (1805-1890)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1868-1869)
• Yeaman, George Helm (1829-1908)
  • Minister Resident, Denmark (1865-1870)