Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by year: 1876

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

• Andrews, Christopher Columbus (1829-1922)
  • Minister Resident, Denmark (1869)
  • Minister Resident, Sweden (1869-1877)
• Bassett, Ebenezer Don Carlos (1833-1908)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Haiti (1869-1877)
• Beale, Edward Fitzgerald (1822-1893)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1876-1877)
• Beardsley, Richard (1838-1876)
  • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1872-1876)
• Bingham, John Armour (1815-1900)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Japan (1873-1885)
• Birney, James (1817-1888)
  • Minister Resident, Netherlands (1876-1882)
• Boker, George Henry (1823-1890)
  • Minister Resident, Turkey (1871-1875)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1875-1878)
• Cadwalader, John Lambert (1836-1914)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1874-1877)
• Caldwell, John Curtis (1833-1912)
  • Minister Resident, Paraguay (1874)
  • Minister Resident, Uruguay (1874)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Paraguay (1876-1882)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Uruguay (1876-1882)
• 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)
• Cramer, Michael John (1835-1898)
  • Minister Resident, Denmark (1870-1876)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Denmark (1876-1881)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Switzerland (1881)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Switzerland (1882-1885)
• Farman, Elbert Eli (1831-1911)
  • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1876-1881)
• Fish, Hamilton (1808-1893)
  • Secretary of State (1869-1877)
• Foster, John Watson (1836-1917)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1873-1880)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1880-1881)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1883-1885)
  • Secretary of State (1892-1893)
• Gibbs, Richard (1819-1894)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1875-1879)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Bolivia (1883-1885)
• 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)
• Marsh, George Perkins (1801-1882)
  • Minister Resident, Turkey (1849-1853)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Italy (1861-1882)
• Logan, Cornelius Ambrose (1832-1899)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1873-1876)
  • Minister Resident, Costa Rica (1879-1882)
  • Minister Resident, El Salvador (1879-1882)
  • Minister Resident, Guatemala (1879-1882)
  • Minister Resident, Honduras (1879)
  • Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1879)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1882-1885)
• Merrill, Ayres Phillips (?-1882)
  • Minister Resident, Belgium (1876)
• Moran, Benjamin (1820-1886)
  • Minister Resident, Portugal (1874-1876)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Portugal (1876-1882)
  • Third Assistant Secretary of State (Not commissioned, although his nomination of Jun 22, 1874, had been confirmed by the Senate.)
• Morley, Frederick (1821-1889)
  • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1876)
• Orth, Godlove Stein (1817-1882)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1875-1876)
• 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)
• Pierrepont, Edwards (1817-1892)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1876-1877)
• Read, John Meredith (1837-1896)
  • Minister Resident, Greece (1873-1877)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Greece (1876-1877)
• Reynolds, Robert McConnell (1826-1885)
  • Minister Resident, Bolivia (1874-1876)
• Rublee, Horace (1829-1896)
  • Minister Resident, Switzerland (1869-1876)
  • Chargé d'Affaires, Switzerland (1876)
• Schenck, Robert Cumming (1809-1890)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1851-1853)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1870-1876)
• Scruggs, William Lindsay (1836-1912)
  • Minister Resident, Colombia (1873-1876)
  • Minister Resident, Colombia (1882)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1884-1885)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1889-1892)
• Seward, George Frederick (1840-1910)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1876-1880)
• Turner, James Milton (1840-1915)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1871-1878)
• Wullweber, Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Jurgen (1833-1877)
  • Minister Resident, Ecuador (1875-1876)