Office of the Historian

Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1882

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

  • Charles Adams (1845–1895)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Bolivia (1880–1882)
  • Alvey Augustus Adee (1842–1924)
    • Third Assistant Secretary of State (1882–1886)
    • Second Assistant Secretary of State (1886–1924)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1898)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1924)
  • William Waldorf Astor (1848–1919)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Italy (1882–1885)
  • Jehu Baker (1822–1903)
    • Minister Resident, Venezuela (1878–1881)
    • Minister Resident, Venezuela (1884)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Venezuela (1884–1885)
  • John Armour Bingham (1815–1900)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Japan (1873–1885)
  • James Birney (1817–1888)
    • Minister Resident, Netherlands (1876–1882)
  • Walker Blaine (1855–1890)
    • Third Assistant Secretary of State (1881–1882)
  • 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)
  • George W. Carter (1826–1901)
    • Minister Resident, Venezuela (1881–1882)
  • 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)
  • Rollin Mallory Daggett (1831–1901)
    • Minister Resident, Hawaii (1882–1885)
  • John Davis (1851–1902)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1882–1885)
  • 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 Lewis Dayton Jr. (1839–1897)
    • Minister Resident, Netherlands (1882–1885)
  • Nicholas Fish (1846–1902)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Switzerland (1877–1881)
    • Minister Resident, Belgium (1882–1885)
  • John Morgan Francis (1823–1897)
    • Minister Resident, Greece (1871–1873)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Portugal (1882–1884)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Portugal (1882)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1884–1885)
  • Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (1817–1885)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1870)
    • Secretary of State (1881–1885)
  • Henry Highland Garnet (1815–1882)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1881–1882)
  • John Acoming Halderman Jr. (1838–1908)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Thailand (1882–1885)
  • Henry Cook Hall (1820–1901)
    • Minister Resident, Costa Rica (1882)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1882–1889)
    • Minister Resident, El Salvador (1882–1883)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1882–1889)
    • Minister Resident, Guatemala (1882)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1882–1889)
    • Minister Resident, Honduras (1882)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1882–1889)
    • Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1882)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1882–1889)
  • Hannibal Hamlin (1809–1891)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1881–1882)
  • William Henry Hunt (1823–1884)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1882–1884)
  • 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 Mercer Langston (1829–1897)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Haiti (1877–1885)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Dominican Republic (1883–1885)
  • 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)
  • James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1877–1880)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1880–1885)
  • George Earl Maney (1826–1901)
    • Minister Resident, Colombia (1881–1882)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Bolivia (1882–1883)
    • Minister Resident, Paraguay (1889–1891)
    • Minister Resident, Uruguay (1889–1890)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1890–1894)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1890–1894)
    • Minister Resident, Ecuador (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
  • George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882)
    • Minister Resident, Turkey (1849–1853)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Italy (1861–1882)
  • 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.)
  • Philip Hicky Morgan (1825–1900)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1880–1885)
  • Levi Parsons Morton (1824–1920)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1881–1885)
  • 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.)
  • Charles Payson (?–1913)
    • Third Assistant Secretary of State (1878–1881)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Denmark (1881–1882)
  • William Walter Phelps (1839–1894)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1881–1882)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1889–1893)
  • George Potwin Pomeroy (1837–1887)
    • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1882–1884)
  • James Osborne Putnam (1818–1903)
    • Minister Resident, Belgium (1880–1882)
  • Aaron Augustus Sargent (1827–1887)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1882–1884)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (Not commissioned although nomination was confirmed by the Senate.)
  • Eugene Schuyler (1840–1890)
    • Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Romania (1880–1881)
    • Chargé d’Affaires and Consul General, Romania (1880–1882)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Greece (1882–1884)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Romania (1882–1884)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Serbia (1882–1884)
    • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1889–1890)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
  • 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)
  • John Henry Smyth (1844–1908)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1878–1881)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1882–1885)
  • 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)
  • Alphonso Taft (1810–1891)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1882–1884)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1884–1885)
  • Lewis Wallace (1827–1905)
    • Minister Resident, Turkey (1881–1882)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1882–1885)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Paraguay (Not commissioned; nomination to be Chargé d’Affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Uruguay (Not commissioned; nomination to be Chargé d’Affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
  • James Pyle Wickersham (1825–1891)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Denmark (1882)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Denmark (1882)
  • William Williams (1821–1896)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Paraguay (1882–1885)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Uruguay (1882–1885)
  • Simon Wolf (1836–1923)
    • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1881–1882)
  • John Russell Young (1840–1899)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1882–1885)