1870 - Principals and Chiefs Chronological
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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1870
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- Christopher Columbus Andrews (1829–1922)
- Minister Resident, Denmark (1869)
- Minister Resident, Sweden (1869–1877)
- George Bancroft (1800–1891)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1846–1849)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1867–1871)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1871–1874)
- Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett (1833–1908)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Haiti (1869–1877)
- Henry Baxter (1821–1873)
- Minister Resident, Honduras (1869–1873)
- Jacob Beeson Blair (1821–1901)
- Minister Resident, Costa Rica (1868–1873)
- Henry Taylor Blow (1817–1875)
- Minister Resident, Venezuela (1861)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1869–1870)
- George H. Butler (?–1886)
- Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1870–1872)
- Michael John Cramer (1835–1898)
- Minister Resident, Denmark (1870–1876)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Denmark (1876–1881)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Switzerland (1881–1882)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Switzerland (1882–1885)
- William Cumback (1829–1905)
- Minister Resident, Portugal (1870)
- Andrew Gregg Curtin (1815–1894)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1869–1872)
- John Chandler Bancroft Davis (1822–1907)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1869–1871)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1873–1874)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1874–1877)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1881–1882)
- Charles E. De Long (1832–1876)
- Minister Resident, Japan (1869–1872)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Japan (1870–1873)
- Hugh Boyle Ewing (1826–1905)
- Minister Resident, Netherlands (1866–1870)
- Hamilton Fish (1808–1893)
- Secretary of State (1869–1877)
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (1817–1885)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1870)
- Secretary of State (1881–1885)
- Charles T. Gorham (1812–1901)
- Minister Resident, Netherlands (1870–1875)
- Charles Hale (1831–1882)
- Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1864–1870)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1872–1873)
- Alvin Peterson Hovey (1821–1891)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1865–1870)
- Silas A. Hudson (1815–1896)
- Minister Resident, Guatemala (1869–1872)
- 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)
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (1815–1882)
- Minister Resident, Colombia (1869–1872)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1881)
- John Jay II (1817–1894)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1869–1875)
- Joseph Russell Jones (1823–1909)
- Minister Resident, Belgium (1869–1875)
- Judson Kilpatrick (1836–1881)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1865–1870)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1881)
- Robert Crothers Kirk (1821–1898)
- Minister Resident, Argentina (1862–1866)
- Minister Resident, Uruguay (1869–1870)
- Minister Resident, Argentina (1869–1871)
- Charles Hance Lewis (1816–)
- Minister Resident, Portugal (1870–1875)
- Frederick Ferdinand Low (1828–1894)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1869–1873)
- Isaac Wayne MacVeagh (1833–1917)
- Minister Resident, Turkey (1870–1871)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1893–1897)
- Leopold Markbreit (1842–1909)
- Minister Resident, Bolivia (1869–1873)
- George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882)
- Minister Resident, Turkey (1849–1853)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Italy (1861–1882)
- James W. Mason (?–)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1870)
- Edward Joy Morris (1815–1881)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1850–1853)
- Minister Resident, Turkey (1861–1870)
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton (1823–1877)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1870)
- John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1861–1867)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1869–1870)
- Thomas Henry Nelson (1824–1896)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1861–1866)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1869–1873)
- James Rudolph Partridge (1823–1884)
- Minister Resident, Honduras (1862)
- Minister Resident, El Salvador (1863–1866)
- Minister Resident, Venezuela (1869–1870)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1871–1877)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1882)
- Minister Resident, Nicaragua (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
- Henry Augustus Peirce (1808–1885)
- Minister Resident, Hawaii (1869–1877)
- Charles N. Riotte (1814–1887)
- Minister Resident, Costa Rica (1861–1867)
- Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1869–1873)
- Minister Resident, Costa Rica (Not commissioned; nomination tabled by the Senate.)
- Joseph Pomeroy Root (1826–1885)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1870–1873)
- Minister Resident, Netherlands (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
- Horace Rublee (1829–1896)
- Minister Resident, Switzerland (1869–1876)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Switzerland (1876)
- Robert Cumming Schenck (1809–1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1851–1853)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1870–1876)
- John Seys (1799–1872)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1866–1870)
- Samuel Shellabarger (1817–1896)
- Minister Resident, Portugal (1869–1870)
- Daniel Edgar Sickles (1825–1914)
- Minister Resident, Netherlands (1866)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1869–1874)
- John Leavitt Stevens (1820–1895)
- Minister Resident, Paraguay (1870–1873)
- Minister Resident, Uruguay (1870–1873)
- Minister Resident, Sweden (1877–1883)
- Minister Resident, Hawaii (1889–1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hawaii (1890–1893)
- Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert (1833–1880)
- Minister Resident, El Salvador (1869–1871)
- Charles Keating Tuckerman (1827–1896)
- Minister Resident, Greece (1868–1871)
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne (1816–1887)
- Secretary of State (1869)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1869–1877)
- Edward Rumsey Wing (1845–1874)
- Minister Resident, Ecuador (1869–1874)
- George Helm Yeaman (1829–1908)
- Minister Resident, Denmark (1865–1870)