Office of the Historian

Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1944

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

  • *Norman Armour (1887–1982)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1932–1933)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1933–1935)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Canada (1935–1938)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1938–1939)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1939–1944)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1944–1945)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1947–1948)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1950–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1954–1955)
  • *Ray Atherton (1883–1960)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Greece (1924)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1937–1939)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1939–1940)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Canada (1943)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1943–1948)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1943)
  • *Willard Leon Beaulac (1899–1990)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1944–1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1947–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1951–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1953–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1956–1960)
  • Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (1895–1971)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1938–1944)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1945–1946)
  • Claude Gernade Bowers (1878–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1933–1939)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1939–1953)
  • Spruille Braden (1894–1978)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1935)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1939–1942)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1941–1945)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1945)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1945–1947)
  • *Ellis Ormsbee Briggs (1899–1976)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1944–1945)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1947–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1949–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea (1952–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1955–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1956–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1959–1962)
    • Career Ambassador (1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
  • *William Carter Burdett (1884–1944)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1943–1944)
  • *Jefferson Caffery (1886–1974)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Greece (1923)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1926–1928)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1928–1933)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1933)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1934–1937)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1937–1944)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1944–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1949–1955)
  • *John Kenneth Caldwell (1881–1982)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Ethiopia (1943)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1943–1945)
  • Francis Patrick Corrigan (1881–1968)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1934–1937)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1937–1939)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1939–1947)
  • *William Dawson Jr. (1885–1972)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1930–1935)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1934–1937)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1937–1939)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1937)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1939–1941)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1941–1946)
    • Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American States (Washington) (1948)
  • Fay Allen Des Portes (1890–1944)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1933–1936)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1936–1943)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1943–1944)
  • *Louis Goethe Dreyfus Jr. (1889–1973)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iran (1939–1943)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1940–1942)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1944–1946)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1946–1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1949–1951)
  • *James Clement Dunn (1890–1979)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Haiti (1924)
    • Chief of Protocol (1928–1930)
    • Chief of Protocol (1933–1935)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for European, Far Eastern, Near Eastern, and African Affairs (1944–1946)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1946–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1952–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1953–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1955–1956)
    • Career Ambassador (1956)
  • William Alfred Eddy (1896–1962)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1944–1946)
  • *Cornelius Van Hemert Engert (1887–1985)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Ethiopia (1936)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Iran (1940)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1942–1945)
  • John Draper Erwin (1883–1983)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1937–1943)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1943–1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1951–1954)
  • *Wesley Frost (1884–1968)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1941–1942)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1942–1944)
  • *Clarence Edward Gauss (1886–1960)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Australia (1940–1941)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1941–1944)
  • David Gray Jr. (1870–1968)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1940–1947)
  • *Winthrop Stephenson Greene (1891–1970)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Luxembourg ()
  • *Joseph Clark Grew (1880–1965)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Austria (1917)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1920–1921)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1921–1924)
    • Under Secretary of State (1924–1927)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1927–1932)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1932–1941)
    • Under Secretary of State (1944–1945)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1945)
  • *Edmund Asbury Gullion (1913–1998)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Finland (1944)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Congo (Kinshasa) (1961–1964)
  • Green Haywood Hackworth (1883–1973)
    • Legal Adviser (1931–1946)
  • William Averell Harriman (1891–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1943–1946)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1946)
    • Director of the Mutual Security Agency (1951–1953)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1961–1963)
    • Ambassador at Large (1961)
    • Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1963–1965)
    • Ambassador at Large (1965–1969)
  • *Leland Harrison (1883–1951)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1922–1924)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1924–1927)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1927–1929)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1929–1930)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1935–1937)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1937–1947)
  • Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes (1882–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1942–1945)
  • *Loy Wesley Henderson (1892–1986)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1943–1945)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1948–1951)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1948–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1951–1954)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1955)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1955–1961)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1955)
    • Career Ambassador (1956)
  • Thomas Holcomb Jr. (1879–1965)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1944–1948)
  • *Julius Cecil Holmes (1899–1968)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1944–1945)
    • Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1955–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1961–1965)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
  • Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck (1883–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1944–1947)
  • Cordell Hull (1871–1955)
    • Secretary of State (1933–1944)
  • Patrick Jay Hurley (1883–1963)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1942)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1944–1945)
  • *Hallett Johnson (1888–1968)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1944–1947)
  • *Herschel Vespasian Johnson II (1894–1966)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1941–1946)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1948–1953)
  • *Nelson Trusler Johnson (1887–1954)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1927–1929)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1929–1935)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1935–1941)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Australia (1941–1945)
  • *Alexander Comstock Kirk (1888–1979)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Germany (1940)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1941–1944)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1941–1943)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1943)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1944–1946)
  • *Arthur Bliss Lane (1894–1956)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1933–1936)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Estonia (1936–1937)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Latvia (1936–1937)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lithuania (1936–1937)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1937–1941)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1941–1942)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1942–1944)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1944–1947)
  • Boaz Walton Long (1876–1962)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1914–1917)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1919–1921)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1936–1938)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1938–1942)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1942–1943)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1943–1945)
  • Samuel Miller Breckinridge Long (1881–1958)
    • Third Assistant Secretary of State (1917–1920)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1933–1936)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1940–1944)
  • Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1944–1945)
  • Lincoln MacVeagh (1890–1972)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece (1933–1941)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1941–1942)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1942–1943)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1943–1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1943–1944)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1948–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1952–1953)
  • *Ernest de Wael Mayer (1903–1968)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Belgium ()
  • *George Strausser Messersmith (1883–1960)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1934–1937)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1934)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1937–1940)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1940–1942)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1941–1946)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1946–1947)
  • *James Sayle Moose Jr. (1903–1989)
    • Minister Resident/Foreign Service officer, Saudi Arabia (1943–1944)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Syria (1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Syria (1952–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sudan (1958–1962)
  • *Leland Burnette Morris (1886–1950)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Germany (1941)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1942–1944)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1944–1945)
  • *Raymond Henry Norweb (1894–1983)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1936–1937)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1937–1940)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1940–1943)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1943–1944)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1944–1945)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1945–1948)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1945)
  • *Lithgow Osborne (1892–1980)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1944–1946)
  • Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr. (1896–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1944–1946)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1948–1950)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1951–1953)
  • *Kenneth Stuart Patton (1882–1960)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1944–1945)
  • Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908–1979)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1944–1945)
  • Charles Sawyer (1887–1979)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1944–1945)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1944–1945)
  • *Rudolf Emil Schoenfeld (1895–1981)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Belgium (1944)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Luxembourg (1944)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Poland (1945)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1947–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1951–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1953–1955)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Belgium (Served as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim near the Government of Belgium established in England.)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Norway ()
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Belgium (Schoenfeld established the Legation near the Government of the Netherlands in the United Kingdom.)
  • *Robert McGregor Scotten (1891–1968)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1940–1942)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1942–1943)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1943–1947)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1947–1948)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1948–1955)
  • *Gardiner Howland Shaw (1893–1965)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1941–1944)
  • *John Farr Simmons (1892–1968)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1944–1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1947–1950)
    • Chief of Protocol (1950–1957)
  • Laurence Adolph Steinhardt (1892–1950)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1933–1937)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1937–1939)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1939–1941)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1942–1945)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1944–1948)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1948–1950)
  • Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. (1900–1949)
    • Under Secretary of State (1943–1944)
    • Secretary of State (1944–1945)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1945–1946)
  • *James Bolton Stewart (1882–1969)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1942–1943)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1943–1945)
  • Myron Charles Taylor (1874–1959)
    • Personal Representative of the President, Holy See (1950)
  • *Walter Clarence Thurston (1894–1974)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Costa Rica (1922)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1942–1943)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1943–1944)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1944–1946)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1946–1950)
  • *Harold Hilgard Tittmann Jr. (1893–1980)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Holy See (1944)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1946–1948)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1948–1955)
  • *Somerville Pinkney Tuck Jr. (1891–1967)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, France (1942)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1944–1946)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1946–1948)
  • *George Wadsworth II (1893–1958)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Italy (1941)
    • Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Lebanon (1942–1944)
    • Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Syria (1942–1944)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1944–1947)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Syria (1944–1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1946)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1947–1948)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1948–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1952–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1953–1958)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1953–1958)
  • Lester Aglar Walton (1882–1965)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1935–1946)
  • *Avra Milvin Warren (1893–1957)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1942–1943)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1943–1944)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1944–1945)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1945–1947)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland (1947–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1950–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1953–1956)
  • *John Campbell White (1884–1967)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1940–1943)
    • Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1940–1941)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1943–1944)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1944–1945)
  • *John Cooper Wiley (1893–1967)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Estonia (1938–1940)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Austria (1938)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Latvia (1938–1940)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1944–1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1947–1948)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1948–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1951–1953)
  • *Orme Wilson Jr. (1885–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1944–1946)
  • John Gilbert Winant (1889–1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1941–1946)
  • *Stanley Woodward (1899–1992)
    • Chief of Protocol (1944)
    • Chief of Protocol (1946–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1950–1953)