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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by year: 1949

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

*Wiley, John Cooper (1893-1967)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Latvia (1938)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Estonia (1938-1940)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1944-1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1947-1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1948-1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1951-1953)
*Winship, North (1885-1968)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1949)
*Woodward, Stanley (1899-1992)
- Chief of Protocol (1944)
- Chief of Protocol (1946-1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1950-1953)
Acheson, Dean Gooderham (1893-1971)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1941)
- Under Secretary of State (1945-1947)
- Secretary of State (1949-1953)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1945)
*Ackerman, Ralph H. (1892-1957)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1948-1952)
*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)
Anderson, Helen Eugenie (Moore) (1909-1997)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1949-1953)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1962-1964)
Austin, Warren Robinson (1877-1962)
- Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1947-1953)
Baruch, Herman Benjamin (1872-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1945-1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1947-1949)
Bay, Charles Ulrick (1888-1955)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1946-1953)
*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)
*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)
Bowers, Claude Gernade (1878-1958)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1933-1939)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1939-1953)
*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)
*Childs, James Rives (1893-1987)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1946)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1946-1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1949-1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1951-1953)
- Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Morocco (served as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Feb. 1941-Jun 1945.)
*Cochran, Horace Merle (1892-1973)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia (1949-1953)
*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)
Bruce, David Kirkpatrick Este (1898-1977)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1949-1952)
- Under Secretary of State (1952-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1957-1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1961-1969)
- Chief, China (1973-1974)
- U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1974-1976)
Bruce, James (1892-1980)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1947-1949)
*Bursley, Herbert S. (1896-1961)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1947-1950)
Butler, Robert (1897-1955)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1946-1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1948-1951)
*Butrick, Richard Porter (1894-1997)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1948-1949)
- Director General of the Foreign Service (1949-1952)
*Butterworth, William Walton (1903-1975)
- Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1949-1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1950-1953)
- Representative of the U.S.A. to the European Union, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (1961-1962)
- Career Ambassador (1962)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1962-1968)
*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)
*Crocker, Edward Savage (1895-1968)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1948-1952)
*Daniels, Paul Clement (1903-1986)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1947)
- Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American States (Washington) (1948-1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1951-1953)
*Davis, Monnett Bain (1893-1953)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1945-1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1948-1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel (1951-1953)
*Davis, Nathaniel Penistone (1895-1973)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1947-1949)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1949-1951)
*Cole, Felix (1887-1969)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1945-1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1948-1949)
Cowen, Myron Melvin (1898-1965)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1948-1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1949-1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1952-1953)
*Donnelly, Walter Joseph (1896-1970)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1947-1950)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1951-1952)
*DeCourcy, William E. (1894-1981)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1948-1950)
*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)
*Erhardt, John George (1889-1951)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1946-1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1950-1951)
Douglas, Lewis Williams (1894-1974)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1947-1950)
*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)
Dudley, Edward Richard (1911-2005)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1949-1953)
*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)
Fisher, Adrian Sanford (1914-1983)
- Legal Adviser (1949-1953)
*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)
Florman, Irving (1892-?)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1949-1951)
*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)
*Hickerson, John Dewey (1898-1989)
- Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1949-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland (1955-1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1959-1961)
Grady, Henry Francis (1882-1957)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1939-1941)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1947-1948)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1948-1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1950-1951)
Griffis, Stanton (1887-1974)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1947-1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1948-1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1949-1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1951-1952)
Gross, Ernest Arnold (1906-1999)
- Legal Adviser (1947-1949)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1949)
Hoffman, Paul Gray (1891-1974)
- Administrator of the Economic Cooperation Administration (1948-1950)
*Huddle, Jerome Klahr (1891-1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1947-1949)
Jessup, Philip Caryl (1897-1986)
- Ambassador at Large (1949-1953)
*Johnson, Herschel Vespasian (1894-1966)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1941-1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1948-1953)
*Jacobs, Joseph Earle (1893-1971)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1948-1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1955-1957)
Jarman, Pete (1892-1955)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1949-1953)
Kirk, Alan Goodrich (1888-1963)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1946-1949)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1946-1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1949-1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1962-1963)
*Keeley, James Hugh (1895-1985)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Syria (1947-1950)
*Kennan, George Frost (1904-2005)
- Director of the Policy Planning (1947-1949)
- Counselor (1949-1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1961-1963)
Lovett, Robert Abercrombie (1895-1986)
- Under Secretary of State (1947-1949)
*Lynch, Andrew Green (1902-1966)
- Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Libya (1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Somalia (1960-1962)
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)
Maddox, William Percy (1901-1972)
- Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1947-1949)
Marshall, George Catlett (1880-1959)
- Secretary of State (1947-1949)
Marvel, Josiah (1904-1955)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1947-1949)
*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)
McDonald, James Grover (1886-1964)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel (1949-1950)
*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)
McGhee, George Crews (1912-)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1949-1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1951-1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1963-1968)
- Counselor (1961)
- Director of the Policy Planning (1961)
- Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1961-1963)
- Ambassador at Large (1968-1969)
*Lawson, Edward Burnett (1895-1962)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1949-1954)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel (1954-1959)
*Merrell, George Robert (1898-1962)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1947-1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1949-1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1951-1952)
- Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Haiti (no date on record)
Mesta, Perle (Pearl) Reid (Skirvin) (1889-1975)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1949-1953)
Miller, Edward Godfrey (1911-1968)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1949-1952)
*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)
Norton, Garrison (1900-1995)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Transportation and Communication (1947-1949)
*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)
Patterson, Richard Cunningham (1896-1966)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1944-1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1948-1950)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1951-1953)
Perkins, George Walbridge (1895-1960)
- Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1949-1953)
- U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1955-1957)
*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)
*Pinkerton, Lowell Call (1894-1959)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1946)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1946)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1947-1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sudan (1956-1957)
*Plitt, Edwin August (1891-1977)
- Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1947-1951)
*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)
Rusk, David Dean (1909-1994)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State (1949-1950)
- Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1949-1951)
- Secretary of State (1961-1969)
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)
*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, George Price (1892-1966)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1948-1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1949-1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1952-1953)
*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)
Smith, Paul Albert (1901-)
- Representative of the U.S.A. on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (Montreal) (1948-1953)
Stuart, John Leighton (1876-1962)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1946-1949)
*Stabler, Wells (1919-)
- Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Jordan (1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1975-1978)
*Stanton, Edwin Forward (1901-1968)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1947-1953)
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)
*Vincent, John Carter (1900-1972)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1947-1951)
- Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1951-1953)
*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)
*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)
Thorp, Willard Long (1899-1992)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (1946-1952)
*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)
Waynick, Capus Miller (1889-?)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1949-1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1951-1953)
Webb, James Edwin (1906-1992)
- Under Secretary of State (1949-1952)