Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by year: 1951

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)
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • Austin, Warren Robinson (1877-1962)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1947-1953)
  • Barrett, Edward Ware (1910-)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1950-1952)
  • 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)
  • Bennett, Henry Garland (1886-1951)
    • Administrator of the Technical Cooperation Administration (1950-1951)
  • *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)
  • Bowles, Chester Bliss (1901-1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1951-1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1951-1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1963-1969)
    • Under Secretary of State (1961)
    • Ambassador at Large (1961-1963)
  • *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)
  • Bunker, Ellsworth (1894-1984)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1951-1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1952-1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1956-1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1956-1961)
    • Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American States (Washington) (1964-1966)
    • Ambassador at Large (1966-1967)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Vietnam, South (1967-1973)
    • Ambassador at Large (1973-1978)
  • 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)
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • 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)
  • *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)
  • 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)
  • *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)
  • Fleming, Philip Bracken (1887-1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1951-1953)
  • Florman, Irving (1892-?)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1949-1951)
  • Foster, William Chapman (1897-1984)
    • Administrator of the Economic Cooperation Administration (1950-1951)
    • Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1961-1968)
  • *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)
  • Garrett, George Angus (1888-1971)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1950-1951)
  • *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)
  • Harriman, William Averell (1891-1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1943-1946)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1946)
    • Director of the Mutual Security Agency (1951-1953)
    • Ambassador at Large (1961)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1961-1963)
    • Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1963-1965)
    • Ambassador at Large (1965-1969)
  • Hawkins, Harry C. (1894-)
    • Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1950-1952)
  • *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)
  • Gifford, Walter Sherman (1885-1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1950-1953)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Humelsine, Carlisle Hubbard (1915-1989)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1950-1953)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1950-1953)
  • Jarman, Pete (1892-1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1949-1953)
  • *Key, David McKendree (1900-1988)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1950-1951)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1953-1955)
  • 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)
  • *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)
  • 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)
  • Matthews, Francis Patrick (1887-1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1951-1952)
  • *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)
  • *Minor, Harold Bronk (1902-1984)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1952-1953)
  • *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)
  • Nitze, Paul Henry (1907-2004)
    • Director of the Policy Planning (1950-1953)
    • Ambassador at Large (1986-1989)
  • O'Dwyer, William (1890-1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1950-1952)
  • 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)
  • Roddan, Edward L. (1899-)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1951-1953)
  • 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)
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • *Stanton, Edwin Forward (1901-1968)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1946)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1947-1953)
  • *Travers, Howard Karl (1893-1976)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1951-1952)
  • *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)
  • *Tewksbury, Howard Hobson (1895-1991)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1950-1952)
  • Thorp, Willard Long (1899-1992)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (1946-1952)
  • *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)
  • Whelan, Thomas Edward (1895-1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1951-1961)