Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1953

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)
• Winthrop Williams Aldrich (1885–1974)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1953–1957)
• Frederick Moulton Alger Jr. (1907–1967)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1953–1957)
• *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)
• *John Moore Allison (1905–1978)
  • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1952–1953)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1953–1957)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia (1957–1958)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1958–1960)
• Helen Eugenie Moore Anderson (1909–1997)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1949–1953)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1962–1964)
• Stanley Andrews (1894–1994)
  • Administrator of the Technical Cooperation Administration (1952–1953)
• Warren Robinson Austin (1877–1962)
  • Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1947–1953)
• 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, Argentina (1953)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1953–1956)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1956–1960)
• *Burton Yost Berry (1901–1985)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1952–1954)
• *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)
• Robert Richardson Bowie (1909–2013)
  • Director of Policy Planning (1953–1957)
  • Director of Policy Planning (1955–1957)
  • Counselor (1966–1968)
• 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)
• Wiley Thomas Buchanan Jr. (1914–1986)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1953–1956)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1956)
  • Chief of Protocol (1957–1961)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1975–1977)
• 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)
• Norman Burns (1905–1994)
  • Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1952–1953)
• *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)
• *Robert Douglas Coe (1902–1985)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1953–1957)
• 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)
• Philip Kingsland Crowe (1908–1976)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1953–1956)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1959–1961)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1969–1973)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1973–1975)
• *Hugh Smith Cumming Jr. (1900–1986)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia (1953–1957)
  • Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (1957–1961)
• *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)
• Roy Tasco Davis (1889–1975)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1921)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1922–1930)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1929–1933)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1953–1957)
• Clarence Douglas Dillon (1909–2003)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1953–1957)
  • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1957–1958)
  • Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment (1958–1959)
  • Under Secretary of State (1959–1961)
• *William Joseph Donovan (1883–1959)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1953–1954)
• William Henry Draper Jr. (1894–1974)
  • U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1953)
• 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)
• Edward Richard Dudley (1911–2005)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1948–1949)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1949–1953)
• Angier Biddle Duke (1915–1995)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1952–1953)
  • Chief of Protocol (1961–1965)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1965–1968)
  • Chief of Protocol (1968)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1968–1969)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco (1979–1981)
• John Foster Dulles (1888–1959)
  • Secretary of State (1953–1959)
• *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 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)
• *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)
• Arthur Gardner (1889–1967)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1953–1957)
• Walter Sherman Gifford (1885–1966)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1950–1953)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1950)
• Joseph Coy Green (1887–1978)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1952)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1952–1953)
• M. Robert Guggenheim (1885–1959)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1953–1954)
• *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)
• *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)
• Horace Augustus Hildreth (1902–1988)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1953–1957)
• Robert Charles Hill (1917–1978)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1953–1954)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1954–1955)
  • Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1956–1957)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1957–1960)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1969–1972)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1973–1977)
• John Chambers Hughes (1891–1971)
  • U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1953–1955)
• 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)
• *Ural Alexis Johnson (1908–1997)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1953–1957)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1958–1961)
  • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1961–1964)
  • Career Ambassador (1964)
  • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1965–1966)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1966–1969)
  • Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1969–1973)
  • Ambassador at Large (1973–1977)
• Harold Armstrong Jones (1897–)
  • Representative of the U.S.A. on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (Montreal) (1953–1956)
• James Scott Kemper (1886–1981)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1953–1955)
• *David McKendree Key II (1900–1988)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1950–1951)
  • Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1953–1955)
• *Edward Burnett Lawson (1895–1962)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1949–1954)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel (1954–1959)
• Harold Francis Linder (1900–1981)
  • Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (1952–1953)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1968–1969)
• Jesse Dwight Locker (1891–1955)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1953–1955)
• Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902–1985)
  • Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1953–1960)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Vietnam (1963–1964)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Vietnam (1965–1967)
  • Ambassador at Large (1967–1968)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1968–1969)
  • Personal Representative of the President, Holy See (1977)
• Donold Bradford Lourie (1899–1990)
  • Under Secretary of State for Management (1953–1954)
• Ann Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1953–1956)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1959)
• *Douglas MacArthur II (1909–1997)
  • Counselor (1953–1956)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1956–1961)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1961–1965)
  • Career Ambassador (1964)
  • Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1965–1967)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1967–1969)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1969–1972)
• 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)
• *Lester DeWitt Mallory (1904–1994)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1953–1958)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1958–1959)
• *Harrison Freeman Matthews (1899–1986)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1947–1950)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1947)
  • Secretary of State ad interim (1953)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1953–1957)
  • Career Ambassador (1956)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1957–1962)
  • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Spain ()
• Carl Wesley McCardle (1904–1972)
  • Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1953–1957)
• Michael James McDermott (1894–1955)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1953–1954)
• *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)
• Dempster McIntosh (1896–1984)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1953–1956)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1956–1957)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1959–1961)
• Robert Walter Scott McLeod (1914–1961)
  • Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs (1953–1957)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1957–1961)
• *Livingston Tallmadge Merchant (1903–1976)
  • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1953–1956)
  • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1953–1959)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1956–1958)
  • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1959)
  • Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1959–1961)
  • Career Ambassador (1960)
  • Secretary of State ad interim (1961)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1961–1962)
• Perle (Pearl) Reid Skirvin Mesta (1889–1975)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1949–1953)
• *Harold Bronk Minor (1902–1984)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1951–1952)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1952–1953)
• *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)
• Thruston Ballard Morton (1907–1982)
  • Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1953–1956)
• *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)
• *Albert Frank Nufer (1894–1956)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1947–1949)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1952–1956)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1956)
• 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)
• Amos Jenkins Peaslee II (1887–1969)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1953–1956)
• 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)
• William Townsend Pheiffer (1898–1986)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1953–1957)
• Phelps Phelps (1897–1981)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1952–1953)
• Herman Phleger (1890–1984)
  • Legal Adviser (1953–1957)
• *Karl Lott Rankin (1898–1991)
  • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, China (1953)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1953–1957)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1957–1961)
• *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)
• *James Williams Riddleberger (1904–1982)
  • Director of the Bureau of German Affairs (1952)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1953–1958)
  • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1956)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1957)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1958–1959)
  • Director of the International Cooperation Administration (1959–1961)
  • Career Ambassador (1960)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1962–1967)
• Walter Spencer Robertson (1893–1970)
  • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1953–1959)
• Edward L. Roddan (1899–1989)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1951–1953)
• Howland Hill Sargeant (1911–1984)
  • Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1952–1953)
• *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 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, Belgium (Schoenfeld established the Legation near the Government of the Netherlands in the United Kingdom.)
  • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Norway ()
• *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)
• *William Joseph Sebald (1901–1980)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1952–1954)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1957–1961)
• *Harold Shantz (1894–1967)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1952–1955)
• *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)
• Joseph Simonson (1904–1985)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1953–1957)
• Paul Albert Smith (1901–1978)
  • Representative of the U.S.A. on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (Montreal) (1948–1953)
• Walter Bedell Smith (1895–1961)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1946–1948)
  • Under Secretary of State (1953–1954)
• *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)
• Raymond Ames Spruance (1886–1969)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1952–1955)
• *Edwin Forward Stanton (1901–1968)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1946–1947)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1947–1953)
• Harold E. Stassen (1907–2001)
  • Director of the Foreign Operations Administration (1953–1955)
  • Director of the Mutual Security Agency (1953)
• Theodore Cuyler Streibert (1899–1987)
  • Director of the U.S. Information Agency (1953–1956)
• Lester Corrin Strong (1892–1966)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1953–1957)
• R. Douglas Stuart (1886–1975)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1953–1956)
• William Howard Taft III (1915–1991)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1953–1957)
• *Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr. (1904–1972)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1952–1957)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1957–1962)
  • Career Ambassador (1960)
  • Ambassador at Large (1962–1966)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1966–1969)
• *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)
• *Henry Serrano Villard (1900–1996)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Libya (1952–1954)
  • Representative of the U.S.A. to the European Office of the United Nations (Geneva) (1958–1960)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mauritania (1960–1961)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Senegal (1960–1961)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mali (Commissioned to the Federation of Mali (capital at Dakar). Took oath of office, but the Federation of Mali was dissolved before Villard proceeded to post. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned on August 27, 1960, after confirmation.)
• *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)
• *Edward Thompson Wailes (1903–1969)
  • Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1953–1954)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1954–1956)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1956)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1958–1961)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1961–1962)
• *Angus Ivan Ward (1893–1969)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1952–1956)
• *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)
• Samuel Clark Waugh (1890–1970)
  • Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (1953–1955)
  • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1955)
• Capus Miller Waynick (1889–1986)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1949–1951)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1951–1953)
• Thomas Edward Whelan (1895–1977)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1951–1961)
• *Francis White (1892–1961)
  • Assistant Secretary of State (1927–1933)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1933)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1953–1957)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1957–1958)
• *John Cooper Wiley (1893–1967)
  • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Austria (1938)
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Estonia (1938–1940)
  • 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)
• *Frances Elizabeth Willis (1899–1983)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1953–1957)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1957–1961)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1961–1964)
  • Career Ambassador (1962)
• *Stanley Woodward (1899–1992)
  • Chief of Protocol (1944)
  • Chief of Protocol (1946–1950)
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1950–1953)