Q - Principals and Chiefs Alphabetical
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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Name: Q
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Updates to the Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission database are currently suspended. For information about the Department’s current and recent leadership, we recommend visiting the Department of State homepage’s Biographies of Senior Officials and List of U.S. Ambassadors.
Notice posted on January 12, 2024.
Last
updated March 14, 2024.
Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.
- *Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton (1934–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Central African Republic (1976–1978)
- Director of the Bureau of Counterterrorism (1978–1981)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1982–1984)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Kuwait (1984–1987)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1989–1992)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security (1992–1995)
- Director General of the Foreign Service (1995–1997)
- William Emory Quinby (1835–1908)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1893–1897)
- Josiah Quincy (1859–1919)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1893)
- *Kenneth Michael Quinn (1942–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1995–1999)
- *Maureen E. Quinn (1956–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Qatar (2001–2004)