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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1881
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- Charles Adams (1845–1895)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Bolivia (1880–1882)
- James Burrill Angell (1829–1916)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1880–1881)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1897–1898)
- Jehu Baker (1822–1903)
- Minister Resident, Venezuela (1878–1881)
- Minister Resident, Venezuela (1884)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Venezuela (1884–1885)
- John Armour Bingham (1815–1900)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Japan (1873–1885)
- James Birney (1817–1888)
- Minister Resident, Netherlands (1876–1882)
- James Gillespie Blaine (1830–1893)
- Secretary of State (1881)
- Secretary of State (1889–1892)
- Walker Blaine (1855–1890)
- Third Assistant Secretary of State (1881–1882)
- 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)
- George W. Carter (1826–1901)
- Minister Resident, Venezuela (1881–1882)
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy (1812–1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1879–1881)
- James Monroe Stewart Comly (1832–1887)
- Minister Resident, Hawaii (1877–1882)
- 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 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)
- Ernest (Ernst Dichmann) Dichman (?–1885)
- Minister Resident, Colombia (1878–1881)
- William Maxwell Evarts (1818–1901)
- Secretary of State (1877–1881)
- Lucius Fairchild (1831–1896)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1880–1881)
- Elbert Eli Farman (1831–1911)
- Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1876–1881)
- Nicholas Fish (1846–1902)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Switzerland (1877–1881)
- Minister Resident, Belgium (1882–1885)
- 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)
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (1817–1885)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1870)
- Secretary of State (1881–1885)
- Henry Highland Garnet (1815–1882)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1881–1882)
- Hannibal Hamlin (1809–1891)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1881–1882)
- John Milton Hay (1838–1905)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1879–1881)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1897–1898)
- Secretary of State (1898–1905)
- Henry Washington Hilliard (1808–1892)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Belgium (1842–1844)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1877–1881)
- Robert Roberts Hitt (1834–1906)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1881)
- 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 Adam Kasson (1822–1910)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1877–1881)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1884–1885)
- Judson Kilpatrick (1836–1881)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1865–1870)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1881)
- John Mercer Langston (1829–1897)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Haiti (1877–1885)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Dominican Republic (1883–1885)
- 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)
- James Longstreet (1821–1904)
- Minister Resident, Turkey (1880–1881)
- James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1877–1880)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1880–1885)
- George Earl Maney (1826–1901)
- Minister Resident, Colombia (1881–1882)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Bolivia (1882–1883)
- Minister Resident, Paraguay (1889–1891)
- Minister Resident, Uruguay (1889–1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1890–1894)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1890–1894)
- Minister Resident, Ecuador (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
- 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.)
- Philip Hicky Morgan (1825–1900)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1880–1885)
- Levi Parsons Morton (1824–1920)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1881–1885)
- Edward Follansbee Noyes (1832–1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1877–1881)
- Thomas Andrew Osborn (1836–1898)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1877–1881)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1881–1885)
- Thomas Ogden Osborn (1832–1904)
- Minister Resident, Argentina (1874–1884)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Argentina (1884–1885)
- Charles Payson (?–1913)
- Third Assistant Secretary of State (1878–1881)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Denmark (1881–1882)
- William Walter Phelps (1839–1894)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1881–1882)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1889–1893)
- James Osborne Putnam (1818–1903)
- Minister Resident, Belgium (1880–1882)
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk (1830–1893)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Paraguay (1881)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Uruguay (1881)
- Eugene Schuyler (1840–1890)
- Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Romania (1880–1881)
- Chargé d’Affaires and Consul General, Romania (1880–1882)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Greece (1882–1884)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Romania (1882–1884)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Serbia (1882–1884)
- Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1889–1890)
- Assistant Secretary of State (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
- John Henry Smyth (1844–1908)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1878–1881)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1882–1885)
- 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)
- Lewis Wallace (1827–1905)
- Minister Resident, Turkey (1881–1882)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1882–1885)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Paraguay (Not commissioned; nomination to be Chargé d’Affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Uruguay (Not commissioned; nomination to be Chargé d’Affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
- Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1879–1881)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1892–1894)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1897–1902)
- Simon Wolf (1836–1923)
- Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1881–1882)