Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1876

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

• Christopher Columbus Andrews (1829–1922)
  • Minister Resident, Denmark (1869)
  • Minister Resident, Sweden (1869–1877)
• Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett (1833–1908)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Haiti (1869–1877)
• Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822–1893)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1876–1877)
• Richard Beardsley (1838–1876)
  • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1872–1876)
• John Armour Bingham (1815–1900)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Japan (1873–1885)
• James Birney (1817–1888)
  • Minister Resident, Netherlands (1876–1882)
• George Henry Boker (1823–1890)
  • Minister Resident, Turkey (1871–1875)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1875–1878)
• John Lambert Cadwalader (1836–1914)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1874–1877)
• John Curtis Caldwell (1833–1912)
  • Minister Resident, Paraguay (1874–1876)
  • Minister Resident, Uruguay (1874–1876)
  • Chargé d’Affaires, Paraguay (1876–1882)
  • Chargé d’Affaires, Uruguay (1876–1882)
• Michael John Cramer (1835–1898)
  • Minister Resident, Denmark (1870–1876)
  • Chargé d’Affaires, Denmark (1876–1881)
  • Chargé d’Affaires, Switzerland (1881–1882)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Switzerland (1882–1885)
• Caleb Cushing (1800–1879)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1843–1844)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1874–1877)
• John Chandler Bancroft Davis (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)
• Elbert Eli Farman (1831–1911)
  • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1876–1881)
• Hamilton Fish (1808–1893)
  • Secretary of State (1869–1877)
• John Watson Foster (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)
• Richard Gibbs (1819–1894)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1875–1879)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Bolivia (1883–1885)
• William Hunter (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)
• Cornelius Ambrose Logan (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 (1879–1882)
  • Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1879–1882)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1882–1885)
• George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882)
  • Minister Resident, Turkey (1849–1853)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Italy (1861–1882)
• Horace Maynard (1814–1882)
  • Minister Resident, Turkey (1875–1880)
• Ayres Phillips Merrill (1825–1883)
  • Minister Resident, Belgium (1876–1877)
• Benjamin Moran (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.)
• Frederick Morley (1821–1889)
  • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1876)
• Godlove Stein Orth (1817–1882)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1875–1876)
• Thomas Ogden Osborn (1832–1904)
  • Minister Resident, Argentina (1874–1884)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Argentina (1884–1885)
• James Rudolph Partridge (1823–1884)
  • Minister Resident, Honduras (1862)
  • Minister Resident, El Salvador (1863–1866)
  • Minister Resident, Venezuela (1869–1870)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1871–1877)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1882)
  • Minister Resident, Nicaragua (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
• Henry Augustus Peirce (1808–1885)
  • Minister Resident, Hawaii (1869–1877)
• Edwards Pierrepont (1817–1892)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1876–1877)
• John Meredith Read Jr. (1837–1896)
  • Minister Resident, Greece (1873–1877)
  • Chargé d’Affaires, Greece (1876–1879)
• Robert McConnell Reynolds (1826–1885)
  • Minister Resident, Bolivia (1874–1876)
• Horace Rublee (1829–1896)
  • Minister Resident, Switzerland (1869–1876)
  • Chargé d’Affaires, Switzerland (1876)
• Thomas Russell Jr. (1825–1887)
  • Minister Resident, Venezuela (1874–1877)
• Robert Cumming Schenck (1809–1890)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1851–1853)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1870–1876)
• William Lindsay Scruggs (1836–1912)
  • Minister Resident, Colombia (1873–1876)
  • Minister Resident, Colombia (1882–1884)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1884–1885)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1889–1892)
• George Frederick Seward (1840–1910)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1876–1880)
• James Milton Turner (1840–1915)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1871–1878)
• Elihu Benjamin Washburne (1816–1887)
  • Secretary of State (1869)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1869–1877)
• George McWillie Williamson (1829–1882)
  • Minister Resident, Costa Rica (1873–1879)
  • Minister Resident, El Salvador (1873–1879)
  • Minister Resident, Guatemala (1873–1879)
  • Minister Resident, Honduras (1873–1879)
  • Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1873–1879)
• Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Jurgen Wullweber (1833–1877)
  • Minister Resident, Ecuador (1875–1876)