1874 - Principals and Chiefs Chronological
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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1874
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- Christopher Columbus Andrews (1829–1922)
- Minister Resident, Denmark (1869)
- Minister Resident, Sweden (1869–1877)
- Benjamin Parke Avery (1828–1875)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1874–1875)
- 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)
- Richard Beardsley (1838–1876)
- Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1872–1876)
- John Armour Bingham (1815–1900)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Japan (1873–1885)
- George Henry Boker (1823–1890)
- Minister Resident, Turkey (1871–1875)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1875–1878)
- John Lambert Cadwalader (1836–1914)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1874–1877)
- John Curtis Caldwell (1833–1912)
- Minister Resident, Paraguay (1874–1876)
- Minister Resident, Uruguay (1874–1876)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Paraguay (1876–1882)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Uruguay (1876–1882)
- 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)
- John Thomas Croxton (1837–1874)
- Minister Resident, Bolivia (1872–1874)
- Caleb Cushing (1800–1879)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1843–1844)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1874–1877)
- 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)
- Hamilton Fish (1808–1893)
- Secretary of State (1869–1877)
- John Watson Foster (1836–1917)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1873–1880)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1880–1881)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1883–1885)
- Secretary of State (1892–1893)
- Charles T. Gorham (1812–1901)
- Minister Resident, Netherlands (1870–1875)
- 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)
- John Jay II (1817–1894)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1869–1875)
- Marshall Jewell (1825–1883)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1873–1874)
- Joseph Russell Jones (1823–1909)
- Minister Resident, Belgium (1869–1875)
- Charles Hance Lewis (1816–)
- Minister Resident, Portugal (1870–1875)
- Cornelius Ambrose Logan (1832–1899)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1873–1876)
- Minister Resident, Costa Rica (1879–1882)
- Minister Resident, El Salvador (1879–1882)
- Minister Resident, Guatemala (1879–1882)
- Minister Resident, Honduras (1879–1882)
- Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1879–1882)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1882–1885)
- George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882)
- Minister Resident, Turkey (1849–1853)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Italy (1861–1882)
- Benjamin Moran (1820–1886)
- Minister Resident, Portugal (1874–1876)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Portugal (1876–1882)
- Third Assistant Secretary of State (Not commissioned, although his nomination of Jun 22, 1874, had been confirmed by the Senate.)
- Thomas Ogden Osborn (1832–1904)
- Minister Resident, Argentina (1874–1884)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Argentina (1884–1885)
- 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)
- William Anderson Pile (1829–1889)
- Minister Resident, Venezuela (1871–1874)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (Not commissioned; nomination first rejected and then tabled by the Senate.)
- Minister Resident, Venezuela (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
- John Meredith Read Jr. (1837–1896)
- Minister Resident, Greece (1873–1877)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Greece (1876–1879)
- Robert McConnell Reynolds (1826–1885)
- Minister Resident, Bolivia (1874–1876)
- Horace Rublee (1829–1896)
- Minister Resident, Switzerland (1869–1876)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Switzerland (1876)
- Thomas Russell Jr. (1825–1887)
- Minister Resident, Venezuela (1874–1877)
- Robert Cumming Schenck (1809–1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1851–1853)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1870–1876)
- William Lindsay Scruggs (1836–1912)
- Minister Resident, Colombia (1873–1876)
- Minister Resident, Colombia (1882–1884)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1884–1885)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1889–1892)
- Daniel Edgar Sickles (1825–1914)
- Minister Resident, Netherlands (1866)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1869–1874)
- Francis Thomas (1799–1876)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1872–1875)
- James Milton Turner (1840–1915)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1871–1878)
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne (1816–1887)
- Secretary of State (1869)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1869–1877)
- George McWillie Williamson (1829–1882)
- Minister Resident, Costa Rica (1873–1879)
- Minister Resident, El Salvador (1873–1879)
- Minister Resident, Guatemala (1873–1879)
- Minister Resident, Honduras (1873–1879)
- Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1873–1879)
- Edward Rumsey Wing (1845–1874)
- Minister Resident, Ecuador (1869–1874)