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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1951

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

  • Dean Gooderham Acheson (1893–1971)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1941)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1945)
    • Under Secretary of State (1945–1947)
    • Secretary of State (1949–1953)
  • *Ralph H. Ackerman (1892–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1948–1952)
  • *George Venable Allen (1903–1970)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1946–1948)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1948–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1949–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1953–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1953–1954)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1955–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1956–1957)
    • Director of the U.S. Information Agency (1957–1960)
    • Career Ambassador (1960)
    • Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1966–1968)
  • Helen Eugenie Moore Anderson (1909–1997)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1949–1953)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1962–1964)
  • *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)
  • Warren Robinson Austin (1877–1962)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1947–1953)
  • Edward Ware Barrett (1910–1989)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1950–1952)
  • Charles Ulrick Bay (1888–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1946–1953)
  • *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)
  • Henry Garland Bennett (1886–1951)
    • Administrator of the Technical Cooperation Administration (1950–1951)
  • *Charles Eustis Bohlen (1904–1974)
    • Counselor (1947–1949)
    • Counselor (1951–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1953–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1957–1959)
    • Career Ambassador (1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1962–1968)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1967–1969)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1969)
  • Claude Gernade Bowers (1878–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1933–1939)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1939–1953)
  • Chester Bliss Bowles (1901–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1951–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1951–1953)
    • Ambassador at Large (1961–1963)
    • Under Secretary of State (1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1963–1969)
  • *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.)
  • David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (1898–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1949–1952)
    • Under Secretary of State (1952–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1957–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1961–1969)
    • Chief, China (1973–1974)
    • U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1974–1976)
  • Ellsworth Bunker (1894–1984)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1951–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1952–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1956–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1956–1959)
    • Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American States (Washington) (1964–1966)
    • Ambassador at Large (1966–1967)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Vietnam (1967–1973)
    • Ambassador at Large (1973–1978)
  • Robert Butler (1897–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1946–1948)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1948–1951)
  • *Richard Porter Butrick (1894–1997)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1948–1949)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1949–1952)
  • *William Walton Butterworth (1903–1975)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1949–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1950–1953)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the European Union, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (1961–1962)
    • Career Ambassador (1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1962–1968)
  • *Henry Alfred Byroade (1913–1993)
    • Director of the Bureau of German Affairs (1950–1952)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1952–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1955–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1956–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1959–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1963–1968)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1969–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1973–1977)
  • *John Moors Cabot (1901–1981)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland (1950–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1952)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1953–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1954–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1957–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1959–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1962–1965)
  • *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)
  • *Cavendish Wells Cannon (1895–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1947–1949)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Syria (1950–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1952–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1953–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco (1956–1958)
  • *Selden Chapin (1899–1963)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1946–1947)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1947–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1949–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1953–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1955–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1960)
  • *James Rives Childs (1893–1987)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Morocco (1945)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1946–1949)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1946–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1949–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1951–1953)
  • *Horace Merle Cochran (1892–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia (1949–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1949)
  • Myron Melvin Cowen (1898–1965)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1948–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1949–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1952–1953)
  • *Edward Savage Crocker II (1895–1968)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1948–1952)
  • *Paul Clement Daniels (1903–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1947)
    • Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American States (Washington) (1948–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1951–1953)
  • *Monnett Bain Davis (1893–1953)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1945–1946)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1948–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel (1951–1953)
  • *Nathaniel Penistone Davis (1895–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1947–1949)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1949–1951)
  • *Walter Joseph Donnelly (1896–1970)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1947–1950)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1950–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1951–1952)
  • John Caspar Dreier (1906–1994)
    • Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American States (Washington) (1950–1960)
  • *Gerald Augustin Drew (1903–1970)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1950–1952)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1952–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1954–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1957–1960)
    • Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service (1960–1962)
  • *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)
  • Edward Richard Dudley (1911–2005)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1948–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1949–1953)
  • *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)
  • *John George Erhardt (1889–1951)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1946–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1950–1951)
  • 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)
  • Adrian Sanford Fisher (1914–1983)
    • Legal Adviser (1949–1953)
  • *Joseph Flack (1894–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1946–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1949–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1950–1955)
  • Philip Bracken Fleming (1887–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1951–1953)
  • Irving Florman (1892–1981)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1949–1951)
  • William Chapman Foster (1897–1984)
    • Administrator of the Economic Cooperation Administration (1950–1951)
    • Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1961–1968)
  • *Waldemar John Gallman (1899–1980)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1948–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1951–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1954–1958)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1958–1961)
  • George Angus Garrett (1888–1971)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1947–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1950–1951)
  • Walter Sherman Gifford (1885–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1950–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1950)
  • Henry Francis Grady (1882–1957)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1939–1941)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1947–1948)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1948–1950)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1948)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1950–1951)
  • Stanton Griffis (1887–1974)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1947–1948)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1948–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1949–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1951–1952)
  • *Raymond Arthur Hare (1901–1994)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1950–1953)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1950–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1953–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1956–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1958–1959)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1959)
    • Career Ambassador (1960)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1960–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1961–1965)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1965–1966)
  • 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)
    • Ambassador at Large (1961)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1961–1963)
    • Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1963–1965)
    • Ambassador at Large (1965–1969)
  • Harry C. Hawkins (1894–1983)
    • Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1950–1952)
  • *Donald Read Heath (1894–1981)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1947–1950)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1950–1952)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Laos (1950–1954)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, State of Vietnam (1950–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1952–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, State of Vietnam (1952–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1955–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1957–1961)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1957)
  • *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)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1955)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1955)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1955–1961)
    • Career Ambassador (1956)
  • *John Dewey Hickerson (1898–1989)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1949–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland (1955–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1959–1961)
  • Carlisle Hubbard Humelsine (1915–1989)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1950–1953)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1950–1953)
  • Pete Jarman (1892–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1949–1953)
  • Philip Caryl Jessup (1897–1986)
    • Ambassador at Large (1949–1953)
  • *Herschel Vespasian Johnson II (1894–1966)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1941–1946)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1948–1953)
  • *George Frost Kennan (1904–2005)
    • Director of Policy Planning (1947–1949)
    • Counselor (1949–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1961–1963)
  • *David McKendree Key II (1900–1988)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1950–1951)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1953–1955)
  • Alan Goodrich Kirk (1888–1963)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1946–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1946–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1949–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1962–1963)
  • *Edward Burnett Lawson (1895–1962)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1949–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel (1954–1959)
  • *Andrew Green Lynch (1902–1966)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Somalia (1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Somalia (1960–1962)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Libya ()
  • 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)
  • Francis Patrick Matthews (1887–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1951–1952)
  • *Jack Kirkham McFall (1905–1990)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1949–1952)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland (1952–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland (1954–1955)
  • George Crews McGhee (1912–2005)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1949–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1951–1953)
    • Counselor (1961)
    • Director of Policy Planning (1961)
    • Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1961–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1963–1968)
    • Ambassador at Large (1968–1969)
  • *George Robert Merrell (1898–1962)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Haiti (1926)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1947–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1949–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1951–1952)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, India ()
  • Perle (Pearl) Reid Skirvin Mesta (1889–1975)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1949–1953)
  • Edward Godfrey Miller Jr. (1911–1968)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1949–1952)
  • *Harold Bronk Minor (1902–1984)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1951–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1952–1953)
  • *John Joseph Muccio (1900–1989)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea (1949–1952)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1954–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1955–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1959–1961)
  • *Robert Daniel Murphy (1894–1978)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1949–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1952–1953)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1953)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1953–1955)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1955–1959)
    • Career Ambassador (1956)
    • Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1959)
  • Paul Henry Nitze (1907–2004)
    • Director of Policy Planning (1950–1953)
    • Ambassador at Large (1986–1989)
  • William O’Dwyer (1890–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1950–1952)
  • 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)
  • George Walbridge Perkins (1895–1960)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1949–1953)
    • U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1955–1957)
  • *John Emil Peurifoy (1907–1955)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1947–1950)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1949–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1950–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1953–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1954–1955)
  • *Lowell Call Pinkerton (1894–1959)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1946)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1946)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1947–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sudan (1956–1957)
  • *Edwin August Plitt (1891–1977)
    • Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1947–1951)
  • *Christian Magelssen Ravndal (1899–1984)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1947–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1949–1951)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1951–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1956–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1960–1961)
  • Edward L. Roddan (1899–1989)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1951–1953)
  • David Dean Rusk (1909–1994)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1949–1951)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State (1949–1950)
    • Secretary of State (1961–1969)
  • *Joseph Charles Satterthwaite (1900–1990)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1949–1953)
    • Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1953–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1955–1957)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1957–1958)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1958–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1961–1965)
  • *Rudolf Emil Schoenfeld (1895–1981)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Luxembourg (1944)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Belgium (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 (Schoenfeld established the Legation near the Government of the Netherlands in the United Kingdom.)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Norway ()
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Belgium (Served as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim near the Government of Belgium established in England.)
  • *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)
  • *George Price Shaw (1892–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1948–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1949–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1952–1953)
  • *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)
  • Paul Albert Smith (1901–1978)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (Montreal) (1948–1953)
  • *Edward John Sparks (1897–1976)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1951–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1955–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1958–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1961–1962)
  • *Edwin Forward Stanton (1901–1968)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1946–1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1947–1953)
  • *Howard Hobson Tewksbury (1895–1991)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1950–1952)
  • Willard Long Thorp (1899–1992)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (1946–1952)
  • *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)
  • *Howard Karl Travers (1893–1976)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1951–1952)
  • *John Carter Vincent (1900–1972)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1947–1951)
    • Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1951–1953)
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • *William Fletcher Warren (1896–1992)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1945–1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1947–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1951–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1956–1960)
  • Capus Miller Waynick (1889–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1949–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1951–1953)
  • James Edwin Webb (1906–1992)
    • Under Secretary of State (1949–1952)
  • Thomas Edward Whelan (1895–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1951–1961)
  • *John Cooper Wiley (1893–1967)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Estonia (1938–1940)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Latvia (1938–1940)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Austria (1938)
    • 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)
  • *Stanley Woodward (1899–1992)
    • Chief of Protocol (1944)
    • Chief of Protocol (1946–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1950–1953)