Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1886

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

• Alvey Augustus Adee (1842–1924)
  • Third Assistant Secretary of State (1882–1886)
  • Second Assistant Secretary of State (1886–1924)
  • Secretary of State ad interim (1898)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1924)
• Rasmus Bjorn Anderson (1846–1936)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Denmark (1885–1889)
• John Edmund Bacon (1830–1897)
  • Chargé d’Affaires, Paraguay (1885–1888)
  • Chargé d’Affaires, Uruguay (1885–1888)
  • Minister Resident, Paraguay (1888)
  • Minister Resident, Uruguay (1888)
• Thomas Francis Bayard (1828–1898)
  • Secretary of State (1885–1889)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1893–1897)
• Isaac Bell Jr. (1846–1889)
  • Minister Resident, Netherlands (1885–1888)
• Charles William Buck (1849–1930)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1885–1889)
• John Cardwell (1837–1893)
  • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1885–1889)
• Jacob T. Child (1832–1905)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Thailand (1886–1891)
• Samuel Sullivan Cox (1824–1889)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1885–1886)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (Not commissioned; nomination rejected by the Senate.)
• Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825–1903)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1885–1888)
• Charles Denby (1830–1904)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1885–1898)
• John Walker Fearn (1832–1899)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Greece (1885–1889)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Serbia (1885–1889)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Romania (1885–1899)
• Henry Cook Hall (1820–1901)
  • Minister Resident, El Salvador (1882–1883)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1882–1889)
  • Minister Resident, Costa Rica (1882)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1882–1889)
  • Minister Resident, Honduras (1882)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1882–1889)
  • Minister Resident, Guatemala (1882)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1882–1889)
  • Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1882)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1882–1889)
• Bayless W. Hanna (1830–1891)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Argentina (1885–1887)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Iran (1885)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1887–1889)
• Moses Aaron Hopkins (1846–1886)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1885–1886)
• Richard Bennet Hubbard (1832–1901)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Japan (1885–1889)
• 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)
• Henry Rootes Jackson (1820–1898)
  • Chargé d’Affaires, Austria (1853–1854)
  • Minister Resident, Austria (1854–1858)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1885–1886)
• Charles Donald Jacob (1838–1898)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1885–1886)
• Thomas Jordan Jarvis (1836–1915)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1885–1888)
• Edward Parke Custis Lewis (1837–1892)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Portugal (1885–1889)
• George Van Ness Lothrop (1817–1897)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1885–1888)
• Rufus Magee (1845–1929)
  • Minister Resident, Sweden (1885–1889)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1888–1889)
• Thomas Courtland Manning (1825–1887)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1886–1887)
• Dabney Herndon Maury (1822–1900)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1886–1889)
• 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)
• George W. Merrill (1837–1914)
  • Minister Resident, Hawaii (1885–1889)
• John Bassett Moore (1860–1947)
  • Third Assistant Secretary of State (1886–1891)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1898)
  • Counselor (1913–1914)
• William Harwar Parker (1826–1896)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Korea (1886)
• George Hunt Pendleton (1825–1889)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1885–1889)
• Edward John Phelps (1822–1900)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1885–1889)
• James Davis Porter (1828–1912)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1885–1887)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1893–1894)
• E. Spencer Pratt (?–)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Iran (1886–1891)
• William Randall Roberts (1830–1897)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1885–1889)
• Charles Lewis Scott (1827–1899)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Venezuela (1885–1888)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1888–1889)
• William A. Seay (1831–1888)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Bolivia (1885–1887)
• John Bernhard Stallo (1823–1900)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Italy (1885–1889)
• John Edgar West Thompson (1860–1918)
  • Chargé d’Affaires, Dominican Republic (1885–1889)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Haiti (1885–1889)
• Lambert Tree (1832–1910)
  • Minister Resident, Belgium (1885–1888)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1888)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1888–1889)
• Boyd Winchester (1836–1923)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Switzerland (1885–1889)
• Frederick Hampden Winston (1830–1904)
  • Minister Resident/Consul General, Iran (1885–1886)