Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by year: 1887

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

• Winchester, Boyd (1836-1923)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Switzerland (1885-1889)
• Adee, Alvey Augustus (1842-1924)
  • Third Assistant Secretary of State (1882-1886)
  • Second Assistant Secretary of State (1886-1924)
  • Secretary of State ad interim (1898)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1924)
• Anderson, Rasmus Bjorn (1846-1936)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Denmark (1885-1889)
• Bacon, John Edmund (1830-1897)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Paraguay (1885)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Uruguay (1885)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Uruguay (1886-1888)
  • Minister Resident, Paraguay (1888)
• Bayard, Thomas Francis (1828-1898)
  • Secretary of State (1885-1889)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1893-1897)
• Bell, Isaac (1846-1889)
  • Minister Resident, Netherlands (1885-1888)
• Child, Jacob T. (?-?)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Thailand (1886-1891)
• Buck, Charles William (1849-1930)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1885-1889)
• Cardwell, John (?-?)
  • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1885-1889)
• Carlisle, Samuel S. (?-?)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Bolivia (1887-1889)
• Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe (1825-1903)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1885-1888)
• Denby, Charles (1830-1904)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1885-1898)
• *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)
• Dinsmore, Hugh Anderson (1850-1930)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Korea (1887-1890)
• Fearn, John Walker (1832-1899)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Yugoslavia (1885-1889)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Greece (1885-1889)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Romania (1885-1899)
• Hall, Henry Cook (1820-1901)
  • Minister Resident, Costa Rica (1882)
  • Minister Resident, El Salvador (1882)
  • Minister Resident, Guatemala (1882)
  • Minister Resident, Honduras (1882)
  • Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1882)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1882-1889)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1882-1889)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1882-1889)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1882-1889)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1882-1889)
• Hanna, Bayless W. (1830-1891)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Iran (1885)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Argentina (1885)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1887-1889)
• Hubbard, Richard Bennet (1832-1901)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Japan (1885-1889)
• Jarvis, Thomas Jordan (1836-1915)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1885-1888)
• Lothrop, George Van Ness (1817-1897)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1885-1888)
• Manning, Thomas Courtland (1825-1887)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1886-1887)
• Maury, Dabney Herndon (1822-1900)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1886-1889)
• 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)
• Lawton, Alexander Robert (1818-1896)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1887-1889)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
• Lewis, Edward Parke Custis (1837-1892)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Portugal (1885-1889)
• Merrill, George W. (1837-?)
  • Minister Resident, Hawaii (1885-1889)
• Moore, John Bassett (1860-1947)
  • Third Assistant Secretary of State (1886-1891)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1898)
  • Counselor (1913-1914)
• Pendleton, George Hunt (1825-1889)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1885-1889)
• Phelps, Edward John (1822-1900)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1885-1889)
• Porter, James Davis (1828-1912)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1885-1887)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1893-1894)
• Pratt, E. Spencer (?-?)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Iran (1886-1891)
• Rives, George Lockhart (1849-1917)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1887-1889)
• Roberts, William Randall (1830-1897)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1885-1889)
• Seay, William A. (1831-?)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Bolivia (1885-1887)
• Straus, Oscar Solomon (1850-1926)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1887-1889)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1898-1899)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1909-1910)
• Stallo, John Bernhard (1823-1900)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Italy (1885-1889)
• Taylor, Charles Henry James (1857-1898)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Lesotho (1887)
• Thompson, John E. W. (1855-?)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Dominican Republic (1885)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Haiti (1885-1889)
• *Thompson, W. Kenneth (1939-)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Dominican Republic (1885)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Haiti (1885-1889)