Office of the Historian

Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1897

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)
  • Eben Alexander (1851–1910)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary/Consul General, Greece (1893–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary/Consul General, Romania (1893–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary/Consul General, Serbia (1893–1897)
  • Horace Newton Allen (1858–1932)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Korea (1897–1901)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Korea (1901–1905)
  • James Burrill Angell (1829–1916)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1880–1881)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1897–1898)
  • Lewis Baker (1832–1899)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1893–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1893–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1893–1897)
  • William Woodward Baldwin (1862–1954)
    • Third Assistant Secretary of State (1896–1897)
  • John Barrett (1866–1938)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Thailand (1894–1898)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1903–1904)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1904–1905)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1905–1906)
  • Thomas Francis Bayard (1828–1898)
    • Secretary of State (1885–1889)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1893–1897)
  • Clifton Rodes Breckinridge (1846–1932)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1894–1897)
  • George H. Bridgman (1853–1925)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1897–1902)
  • Charles Page Bryan (1856–1918)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1898–1902)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1902)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1902)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1903–1910)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1909–1911)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1911–1912)
  • William Insco Buchanan (1853–1909)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1894–1899)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1903–1904)
  • Alfred Eliab Buck (1832–1902)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Japan (1897–1902)
  • George William Caruth (1842–1921)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1893–1897)
  • Powell Clayton (1833–1914)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1897–1899)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1898–1905)
  • Edwin Hurd Conger (1843–1907)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1890–1893)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1897–1898)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1898–1905)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1905)
  • Macgrane Coxe (1859–1923)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1896–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1896)
  • Thomas Wilbur Cridler (1850–1914)
    • Third Assistant Secretary of State (1897–1901)
  • William Rufus Day (1849–1923)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1897–1898)
    • Secretary of State (1898)
  • Charles Denby (1830–1904)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1885–1898)
  • William Franklin Draper (1842–1910)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1897–1900)
  • Irving Bedell Dudley (1861–1911)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1897–1907)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1906–1911)
  • Edwin Dun (1848–1931)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Japan (1893–1897)
  • James Biddle Eustis (1834–1899)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1893–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1893)
  • James Stevenson Ewing (1835–1918)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1893–1897)
  • John Walker Fearn (1832–1899)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Greece (1885–1889)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Romania (1885–1899)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Serbia (1885–1889)
  • Thomas Barker Ferguson (1841–1922)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1894–1898)
  • William Rufus Finch (1847–1913)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1897–1905)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1897–1905)
  • Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1847–1930)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Iran (1897–1899)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece (1899–1901)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1899–1901)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Serbia (1899–1901)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1900–1903)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1902–1905)
  • Thomas Skelton Harrison (1837–1919)
    • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1897–1899)
  • Charles Burdett Hart (1851–1930)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1897–1903)
  • John Milton Hay (1838–1905)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1879–1881)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1897–1898)
    • Secretary of State (1898–1905)
  • William Henry Heard (1850–1937)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1895–1898)
  • Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1835–1909)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1897–1898)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1898–1899)
  • Whiteside Godfrey Hunter (1841–1917)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1897–1903)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1897–1903)
  • John G.A. Leishman (1857–1924)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1897–1901)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1900–1906)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1906–1909)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1909–1911)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1911–1913)
  • Francis Butler Loomis (1861–1948)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1897–1901)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1901–1902)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1903–1905)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1905)
  • Isaac Wayne MacVeagh (1833–1917)
    • Minister Resident, Turkey (1870–1871)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1893–1897)
  • Alexander McDonald (1827–1897)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Iran (1893–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iran (1893)
  • James Andrew McKenzie (1840–1904)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1893–1897)
  • William Lawrence Merry (1835–1911)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1897–1907)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1897–1907)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1897–1907)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1907–1908)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1907–1908)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1908–1911)
  • Thomas Moonlight (1833–1899)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1894–1898)
  • Stanford Newel (1839–1907)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1897–1903)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1903–1905)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1903–1905)
  • Richard Olney (1835–1917)
    • Secretary of State (1895–1897)
  • John Lee Peak (1839–1911)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1895–1897)
  • Frederic Courtland Penfield (1855–1922)
    • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1893–1897)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1913–1917)
  • Horace Porter (1837–1921)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1897–1905)
  • William Frank Powell (1848–1920)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Dominican Republic (1897–1904)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1897–1905)
  • William Emory Quinby (1835–1908)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1893–1897)
  • Matthew Whitaker Ransom (1826–1904)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1895–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1895)
  • John Ewing Risley (1840–)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1893–1897)
  • William Woodville Rockhill (1854–1914)
    • Third Assistant Secretary of State (1894–1896)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1896–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary/Consul General, Greece (1897–1898)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary/Consul General, Romania (1897–1898)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary/Consul General, Serbia (1897–1898)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece (1898–1899)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1898–1899)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Serbia (1898–1899)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1905–1909)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1909–1911)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1911–1913)
  • Archibald Johnson Sampson (1839–1921)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1897–1905)
  • Harold Marsh Sewall (1860–1924)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hawaii (1897–1898)
  • John Sherman (1823–1900)
    • Secretary of State (1897–1898)
  • John Mahelm Berry Sill (1831–1901)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Korea (1894–1897)
  • Henry Maxwell Smythe (1844–1932)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Dominican Republic (1893–1897)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Haiti (1893–1897)
  • Bellamy Storer (1847–1922)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1897–1899)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1899–1902)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1902–1906)
  • Edward Henry Strobel (1855–1908)
    • Third Assistant Secretary of State (1893–1894)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1894–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1894)
  • Granville Stuart (1834–1918)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1894–1898)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1894–1898)
  • Laurits Selmer Swenson (1865–1947)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1897–1905)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1909–1911)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Norway (1911–1913)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Norway (1921–1930)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1931–1934)
  • Hannis Taylor (1851–1922)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1893–1897)
  • Alexander Watkins Terrell (1827–1912)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1893–1897)
  • Allen Thomas (1830–1907)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1895–1897)
  • William Widgery Thomas Jr. (1839–1927)
    • Minister Resident, Sweden (1883–1885)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1889–1894)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1897–1905)
  • Thomas Larkin Thompson (1838–1898)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1893–1897)
  • James Davidson Tillman (1841–1916)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1895–1897)
  • Charlemagne Tower (1848–1923)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1897–1899)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1899–1902)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1902–1908)
  • Lawrence Townsend (1860–1954)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1897–1899)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1899–1905)
  • Bartlett Tripp (1842–1911)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1893–1897)
  • Edwin Fuller Uhl (1841–1901)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1893–1896)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1895)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1896–1897)
  • 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)
  • Albert Shelby Willis (1843–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hawaii (1893–1897)
  • Henry Lane Wilson (1856–1932)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1897–1904)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece (1902)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1902)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Serbia (1902)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1905–1909)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1909–1913)
  • Stewart Lyndon Woodford (1835–1913)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1897–1898)