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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by year: 1944

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

*White, John Campbell (1884-1967)
- Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1940-1941)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1940-1941)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1943-1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1944-1945)
*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)
*Wilson, Orme (1885-1966)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1944-1946)
Winant, John Gilbert (1889-1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1941-1946)
*Woodward, Stanley (1899-1992)
- Chief of Protocol (1944)
- Chief of Protocol (1946-1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1950-1953)
*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)
*Atherton, Ray (1883-1960)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1937-1939)
- Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Greece (no date on record)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1939)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Canada (1943)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1943)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1943-1948)
*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)
Berle, Adolf Augustus (1895-1971)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1938-1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1945-1946)
Bowers, Claude Gernade (1878-1958)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1933-1939)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1939-1953)
Braden, Spruille (1894-1978)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1935)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1939-1942)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1941-1945)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1945)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1945-1947)
*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)
*Burdett, William Carter (1884-1944)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1943-1944)
*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)
*Caldwell, John Kenneth (1881-1982)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Ethiopia (1943)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1943-1945)
*Dawson, William (1885-1972)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1930-1935)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1934-1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1937-1939)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1939-1941)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1941-1946)
- Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American States (Washington) (1948)
Corrigan, Francis Patrick (1881-1968)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1934-1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1937-1939)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1939-1947)
Des Portes, Fay Allen (1890-1944)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1933-1936)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1936-1943)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1943-1944)
*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)
Eddy, William Alfred (1896-1962)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1944-1946)
*Engert, Cornelius Van Hemert (1887-1985)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Ethiopia (1936)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1942-1945)
- Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Iran (no date on record)
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)
*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)
*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)
*Gauss, Clarence Edward (1886-1960)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Australia (1940-1941)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1941-1944)
*Frost, Wesley (1884-1968)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1941)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1942-1944)
Hackworth, Green Haywood (1883-1973)
- Legal Adviser (1931-1946)
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)
*Harrison, Leland (1883-1951)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1922-1924)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1924-1927)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1927-1929)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1929-1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1935-1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1937-1947)
Hayes, Carlton Joseph Huntley (1882-1964)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1942-1945)
*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)
Gray, David (1870-1968)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1940-1947)
*Grew, Joseph Clark (1880-1965)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1920-1921)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1921-1924)
- Under Secretary of State (1924-1927)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1927-1932)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1932-1941)
- Under Secretary of State (1944-1945)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1945)
Hull, Cordell (1871-1955)
- Secretary of State (1933-1944)
Holcomb, Thomas (1879-1965)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1944-1948)
*Holmes, Julius Cecil (1899-1968)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1944-1945)
- Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1955-1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1961-1965)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
Hornbeck, Stanley Kuhl (1883-1966)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1944-1947)
*Johnson, Hallett (1888-1968)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1944-1947)
*Johnson, Herschel Vespasian (1894-1966)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1941-1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1948-1953)
*Johnson, Nelson Trusler (1887-1954)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1927-1929)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1929-1930)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1935-1941)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Australia (1941-1945)
Hurley, Patrick Jay (1883-1963)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1942)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1944-1945)
*Kirk, Alexander Comstock (1888-1979)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1941-1943)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1941-1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1943)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1944-1946)
*Lane, Arthur Bliss (1894-1956)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1933-1936)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Estonia (1936-1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Latvia (1936-1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lithuania (1936-1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1941-1942)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1942-1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1944-1947)
MacLeish, Archibald (1892-1982)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1944-1945)
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)
Long, Boaz Walton (1876-1962)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1914-1917)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1919-1921)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1936-1938)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1938)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1942-1943)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1943-1945)
Long, Samuel Miller Breckinridge (1881-1958)
- Third Assistant Secretary of State (1917-1920)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1933-1936)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1940-1944)
*Messersmith, George Strausser (1883-1960)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1934)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1934-1937)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1937-1940)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1940-1942)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1941-1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1946-1947)
*Moose, James Sayle (1903-1989)
- Minister Resident/Foreign Service officer, Saudi Arabia (1943-1944)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Syria (1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Syria (1952-1957)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sudan (1958-1962)
*Morris, Leland Burnette (1886-1950)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1942-1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1944-1945)
*Norweb, Raymond Henry (1894-1983)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1936-1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1937)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1940-1943)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1943)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1944-1945)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1945)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1945-1948)
*Osborne, Lithgow (1892-?)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1944-1946)
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)
*Patton, Kenneth Stuart (1882-1960)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1944-1945)
Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich (1908-1979)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1944-1945)
Sawyer, Charles (1887-1979)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1944-1945)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1944-1945)
*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, Gardiner Howland (1893-1965)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1941-1944)
*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)
Stettinius, Edward Reilly (1900-1949)
- Under Secretary of State (1943-1944)
- Secretary of State (1944-1945)
- Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1945-1946)
*Stewart, James Bolton (1882-1969)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1942)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1943-1945)
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)
*Tuck, Somerville Pinkney (1891-1967)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1946-1948)
- Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, France (was serving as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim when France severed diplomatic relations with the U.S., Nov 8, 1942.)
*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)
Walton, Lester Aglar (1882-1965)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1935-1946)
*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)
*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)