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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1850
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Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.
- Daniel Dewey Barnard (1797–1861)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1850–1853)
- Daniel Moreau Barringer (1806–1873)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1849–1853)
- Richard Henry Bayard (1796–1868)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Belgium (1850–1853)
- Neill Smith Brown (1810–1886)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1850–1853)
- Lewis Cass Jr. (1814–1878)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Holy See (1849–1854)
- Minister Resident, Holy See (1854–1858)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Holy See (Nomination of February 25, 1856, withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it. Nominated to the Pontifical States.)
- James Brown Clay (1817–1864)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Portugal (1849–1850)
- John Randolph Clay (1808–1885)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Russia (1836–1837)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Peru (1847–1853)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1853–1860)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (Not commissioned; nomination not confirmed by the Senate.)
- John Middleton Clayton (1796–1856)
- Secretary of State (1849–1850)
- Thomas Green Clemson (1807–1888)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Belgium (1844–1851)
- Courtland Cushing (1809–1856)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Ecuador (1850–1853)
- Auguste Genevieve Valentin Davezac (D’Avezac) (1780–1851)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Netherlands (1831–1839)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Netherlands (1845–1850)
- John Wesley Davis (1799–1859)
- Commissioner, China (1848–1850)
- William S. Derrick (?–1852)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1843)
- Chief Clerk (1843–1844)
- Chief Clerk (1845)
- Chief Clerk (1847–1848)
- Chief Clerk (1848–1852)
- Henry William Ellsworth (1814–1864)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Sweden (1845–1861)
- George Folsom (1802–1869)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Netherlands (1850–1853)
- Thomas Moses Foote (1808–1858)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Colombia (1849–1850)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Austria (1852–1853)
- Walter Forward (1783–1852)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Denmark (1849–1851)
- Charles Brickett Haddock (1796–1861)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Portugal (1850–1854)
- Edward A. Hannegan (1807–1859)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1849–1850)
- William Alexander Harris (1805–1864)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Argentina (1846–1851)
- William Burnet Kinney (1799–1880)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Italy (1850–1853)
- Abbott Lawrence (1792–1855)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1849–1852)
- Robert Perkins Letcher (1788–1861)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1849–1852)
- George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882)
- Minister Resident, Turkey (1849–1853)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Italy (1861–1882)
- Daniel Smith McCauley (?–1852)
- Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1848–1852)
- Alexander Keith McClung (1812–1855)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Bolivia (1849–1851)
- Charles Johnson McCurdy (1797–1891)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Austria (1850–1852)
- Edward Joy Morris (1815–1881)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1850–1853)
- Minister Resident, Turkey (1861–1870)
- Nathaniel Niles Jr. (1791–1869)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Italy (1848–1850)
- Balie Peyton (1803–1878)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1849–1853)
- William Cabell Rives (1792–1868)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1829–1832)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1849–1853)
- Francis Schroeder (1814–1886)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Sweden (1849–1854)
- Minister Resident, Sweden (1854–1857)
- Benjamin Glover Shields (1808–1850)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Venezuela (1845–1850)
- Isaac Nevitt Steele (1809–1891)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Venezuela (1849–1853)
- David Tod (1805–1868)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1847–1851)
- John Trumbull Van Alen (?–1857)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Ecuador (1849–1850)
- James Watson Webb (1802–1884)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Austria (1849–1850)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1861–1869)
- Minister Resident, Turkey (1861)
- Daniel Webster (1782–1852)
- Secretary of State (1841–1843)
- Secretary of State (1850–1852)