1818 - Principals and Chiefs Chronological
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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1818
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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)
- Daniel Carroll Brent (1770–1841)
- Chief Clerk (1817–1833)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1825)
- George Washington Campbell (1769–1848)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1818–1820)
- George William Erving (1769–1850)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Spain (1810)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1814–1819)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Turkey (Not commissioned, although his nomination was confirmed by the Senate.)
- William Eustis (1753–1825)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1814–1818)
- Alexander Hill Everett (1790–1847)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Netherlands (1818–1824)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1825–1829)
- Commissioner, China (1845–1847)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (Nomination of February 25, 1845, not confirmed by the Senate.)
- Albert Gallatin (1761–1849)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1815–1823)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1826–1827)
- William Pinkney (1764–1822)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1808–1811)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1816–1818)
- Richard Rush (1780–1859)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1817)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1825)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1847–1849)
- Jonathan Russell (1771–1832)
- Chargé d’Affaires, France (1810–1811)
- Chargé d’Affaires, United Kingdom (1811–1812)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1814–1818)
- Thomas Sumter Jr. (1768–1840)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1809–1819)