1877 - Principals and Chiefs Chronological
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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1877
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- 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)
- 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)
- James Monroe Stewart Comly (1832–1887)
- Minister Resident, Hawaii (1877–1882)
- 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)
- William Maxwell Evarts (1818–1901)
- Secretary of State (1877–1881)
- Elbert Eli Farman (1831–1911)
- Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1876–1881)
- Hamilton Fish (1808–1893)
- Secretary of State (1869–1877)
- Nicholas Fish (1846–1902)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Switzerland (1877–1881)
- Minister Resident, Belgium (1882–1885)
- 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)
- Henry Washington Hilliard (1808–1892)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Belgium (1842–1844)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1877–1881)
- 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)
- John Adam Kasson (1822–1910)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1877–1881)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1884–1885)
- John Mercer Langston (1829–1897)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Haiti (1877–1885)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Dominican Republic (1883–1885)
- James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1877–1880)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1880–1885)
- 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.)
- Edward Follansbee Noyes (1832–1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1877–1881)
- Thomas Andrew Osborn (1836–1898)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1877–1881)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1881–1885)
- 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)
- Thomas Russell Jr. (1825–1887)
- Minister Resident, Venezuela (1874–1877)
- George Schneider (1823–1905)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Switzerland (1877)
- Frederick William Seward (1830–1915)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1861–1869)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1877–1879)
- George Frederick Seward (1840–1910)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1876–1880)
- John Leavitt Stevens (1820–1895)
- Minister Resident, Paraguay (1870–1873)
- Minister Resident, Uruguay (1870–1873)
- Minister Resident, Sweden (1877–1883)
- Minister Resident, Hawaii (1889–1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hawaii (1890–1893)
- Edwin Wallace Stoughton (1818–1882)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1877–1879)
- 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)
- John Welsh (1805–1886)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1877–1879)
- 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)