1800 - Principals and Chiefs Chronological
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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1800
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updated March 14, 2024.
Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.
- John Quincy Adams (1767–1848)
- Minister Resident, Netherlands (1794–1797)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1796)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1797–1801)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1809–1814)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1815–1817)
- Secretary of State (1817–1825)
- David Humphreys (1752–1818)
- Minister Resident, Portugal (1791–1797)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1796–1801)
- Rufus King (1755–1827)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1796–1803)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1825–1826)
- Charles Lee (1758–1815)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1800)
- John Marshall (1755–1835)
- Secretary of State (1800–1801)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1801)
- William Vans Murray (1760–1803)
- Minister Resident, Netherlands (1797–1801)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, France (Not commissioned; nomination superseded by a nomination of Murray and two others to serve on a joint commission.)
- Timothy Pickering (1745–1829)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1795)
- Secretary of State (1795–1800)
- William Loughton Smith (1758–1812)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1797–1801)
- Jacob Wagner (?–)
- Chief Clerk (1798–1807)