1860 - Principals and Chiefs Chronological
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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1860
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Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.
- Benjamin Franklin Angel (1815–1894)
- Minister Resident, Sweden (1857–1861)
- John Appleton (1815–1864)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Bolivia (1848–1849)
- Chief Clerk (1848)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1857–1860)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1860–1861)
- John Bigler (1805–1871)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1857–1861)
- Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1810–1883)
- Secretary of State (1860–1861)
- James Wallace Borden (1810–1882)
- Commissioner, Hawaii (1858–1861)
- James M. Buchanan (1803–1876)
- Minister Resident, Denmark (1858–1861)
- Charles Rollin Buckalew (1821–1899)
- Minister Resident, Ecuador (1858–1861)
- Lewis Cass (1782–1866)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1836–1842)
- Secretary of State (1857–1860)
- Joseph Ripley Chandler (1792–1880)
- Minister Resident, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1858–1860)
- Beverly Leonidas Clarke (1809–1860)
- Minister Resident, Honduras (1858–1860)
- Minister Resident, Guatemala (1858–1860)
- 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 Franklin Cushman (?–1862)
- Minister Resident, Argentina (1859–1861)
- George Mifflin Dallas (1792–1864)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1837–1839)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1856–1861)
- John Moncure Daniel (1825–1865)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Italy (1853–1854)
- Minister Resident, Italy (1854–1861)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Italy (Nomination of February 25, 1856, withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
- Edwin De Leon (1818–1891)
- Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1853–1861)
- Alexander Dimitry (1805–1883)
- Minister Resident, Costa Rica (1859–1861)
- Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1859–1861)
- Henry William Ellsworth (1814–1864)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Sweden (1845–1861)
- Elisha Young Fair (1809–1886)
- Minister Resident, Belgium (1858–1861)
- Charles James Faulkner (1806–1884)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1860–1861)
- Theodore Sedgwick Fay (1807–1898)
- Minister Resident, Switzerland (1853–1861)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (Nomination of February 25, 1856, withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
- Townsend Harris (1804–1878)
- Minister Resident, Japan (1859–1862)
- 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)
- George Wallace Jones (1804–1896)
- Minister Resident, Colombia (1859–1861)
- Jehu Glancy Jones (1811–1878)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1858–1861)
- Minister Resident, Austria (1858)
- Robert Milligan McLane (1815–1898)
- Commissioner, China (1853–1854)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1859–1860)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1885–1889)
- Richard Kidder Meade (1803–1862)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Italy (1853)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1857–1861)
- George Washington Morgan (1820–1893)
- Minister Resident, Portugal (1858–1861)
- Henry Cruse Murphy (1810–1882)
- Minister Resident, Netherlands (1857–1861)
- Francis Wilkinson Pickens (1805–1869)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1858–1860)
- William Preston (1861–1887)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1858–1861)
- John Cotton Smith II (1810–1879)
- Minister Resident, Bolivia (1858–1861)
- John Potter Stockton (1826–1900)
- Minister Resident, Holy See (1858–1861)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (Not commissioned; nomination rejected by the Senate.)
- William Henry Trescot (1822–1898)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1860)
- Edward A. Turpin (1804–1880)
- Minister Resident, Venezuela (1858–1861)
- John Elliott Ward (1814–1902)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1858–1860)
- John B. Weller (1812–1875)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1860–1861)
- James Williams (1796–1869)
- Minister Resident, Turkey (1858–1861)
- Joseph Albert Wright (1810–1867)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1857–1861)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1865–1867)