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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1957

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

  • *Theodore Carter Achilles (1905–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1956–1960)
    • Counselor (1960–1961)
  • Arthur Ainslie Ageton (1900–1971)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1954–1957)
  • 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)
  • *Jacob Dyneley Beam (1908–1993)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1966–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1969–1973)
  • *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)
  • Loftus Eugene Becker (1911–1977)
    • Legal Adviser (1957–1959)
  • Andrew Henry Thomas Berding (1902–1989)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1957–1961)
  • *Max Waldo Bishop (1908–1994)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1955–1958)
  • *Don Carroll Bliss (1897–1978)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1957–1960)
  • *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)
  • *James Cowles Hart Bonbright (1903–1993)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1955–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1958–1961)
  • *Philip Wilson Bonsal (1903–1995)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Spain (1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1955–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1957–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1959–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco (1961–1962)
  • Robert Richardson Bowie (1909–2013)
    • Director of Policy Planning (1953–1957)
    • Director of Policy Planning (1955–1957)
    • Counselor (1966–1968)
  • *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)
  • Warren Randolph Burgess (1889–1978)
    • U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1957–1961)
  • *Homer Morrison Byington Jr. (1908–1987)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malaysia (1957–1961)
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • Isaac White Carpenter Jr. (1893–1983)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1954–1955)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1955–1957)
  • *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)
  • *Vinton Chapin (1900–1982)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1957–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1960)
  • *Robert Douglas Coe (1902–1985)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1953–1957)
  • James Bryant Conant (1893–1978)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1955–1957)
  • *Hugh Smith Cumming Jr. (1900–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia (1953–1957)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (1957–1961)
  • Nelson Binkley David (1906–)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (Montreal) (1957–1968)
  • 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)
  • *Walter Cecil Dowling (1905–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea (1956–1959)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1959–1963)
    • Career Ambassador (1962)
  • 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)
  • John Foster Dulles (1888–1959)
    • Secretary of State (1953–1959)
  • *Elbridge Durbrow (1903–1997)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Vietnam (1957–1961)
  • *Charles Burke Elbrick (1908–1983)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1957–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1958–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1964–1969)
    • Career Ambassador (1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1969–1970)
  • Joseph Simpson Farland (1914–2007)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1957–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1960–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1969–1972)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1972–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Fiji (Not commissioned; nomination of October 11, 1973, withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (Not commissioned; nomination of October 11, 1973, withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Samoa (Not commissioned; nomination of October 11, 1973, withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tonga (Not commissioned; nomination on October 11, 1973, withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
  • *Wilson Clark Flake (1906–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ghana (1957–1960)
  • John Clifford Folger (1896–1981)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1957–1959)
  • *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)
  • Maxwell Henry Gluck (1899–1984)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1957–1958)
  • *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)
  • *Julian Fiske Harrington (1901–1984)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1955–1960)
  • *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)
  • Christian Archibald Herter (1895–1966)
    • Under Secretary of State (1957–1959)
    • Secretary of State (1959–1961)
    • U.S. Trade Representative (1962–1966)
  • *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 Baker Hollister (1890–1979)
    • Director of the International Cooperation Administration (1955–1957)
  • Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. (1903–1969)
    • Under Secretary of State (1954–1957)
  • Harold Boies Hoskins (1895–)
    • Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1955–1961)
  • Amory Houghton (1899–1981)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1957–1961)
  • *Joseph Earle Jacobs (1893–1971)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1948–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1955–1957)
  • *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)
  • *George Lewis Jones (1907–1971)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tunisia (1956–1959)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1959–1961)
  • Richard Lee Jones (1893–1975)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1955–1959)
  • Thorsten Valentine Kalijarvi (1897–1980)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1957–1960)
  • *Donald Wakeham Lamm (1914–1996)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Ghana (1957)
  • James McLellan Langley (1894–1968)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1957–1959)
  • Arthur Larson (1910–1993)
    • Director of the U.S. Information Agency (1956–1957)
  • *Edward Burnett Lawson (1895–1962)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1949–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel (1954–1959)
  • 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)
  • John Davis Lodge (1903–1985)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1955–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1969–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1983–1985)
  • *Cecil Burton Lyon (1903–1993)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1956–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1964–1967)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Maldives (1965–1967)
  • *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)
  • William Butts Macomber Jr. (1921–2003)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1961–1963)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1967–1969)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1969–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1973–1977)
  • *Lester DeWitt Mallory (1904–1994)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1953–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1958–1959)
  • *Thomas Clifton Mann (1912–1999)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1955–1957)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (1957–1960)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1961–1963)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1963–1965)
    • Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment (1965–1966)
  • *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)
  • *Robert Mills McClintock (1909–1976)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1954–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1962–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1970–1975)
  • *Walter Patrick McConaughy Jr. (1908–2000)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1957–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea (1959–1961)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1962–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1966–1974)
  • 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 Moody McKinney (1910–2001)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna) (1957–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1961–1963)
  • 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)
  • *Raymond Clendenin Miller (1895–1963)
    • Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service (1957–1960)
  • *Sheldon Tibbetts Mills (1904–1988)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1954–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1956–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1959–1961)
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • Roderic L. O’Connor (1921–1982)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs (1957–1958)
  • *James Graham Parsons (1907–1991)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Laos (1956–1958)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1959–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1961–1967)
  • *Jefferson Patterson (1891–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1956–1958)
  • 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)
  • Frederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson (1903–1983)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland (1969–1973)
  • William Townsend Pheiffer (1898–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1953–1957)
  • Herman Phleger (1890–1984)
    • Legal Adviser (1953–1957)
  • *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)
  • Walter Christian Ploeser (1907–1993)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1957–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1970–1972)
  • *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)
  • *George Frederick Reinhardt (1911–1971)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Vietnam (1955–1957)
    • Counselor (1957–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1960–1961)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1960–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1961–1968)
  • *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)
  • *William Manning Rountree (1917–1995)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1956–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1959–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sudan (1962–1965)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1965–1970)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1970–1973)
  • *Roy Richard Rubottom Jr. (1912–2010)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1957–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1960–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1960)
  • *Francis Henry Russell (1904–1989)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1957–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ghana (1960–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tunisia (1962–1969)
  • *Peter Rutter (1915–1989)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Ghana (1957)
  • *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)
  • *William Joseph Sebald (1901–1980)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1952–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1957–1961)
  • *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)
  • Earl Edward Tailer Smith (1903–1991)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1957–1959)
  • Gerard Coad Smith (1914–1994)
    • Director of Policy Planning (1957–1961)
    • Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1969–1973)
    • Ambassador at Large (1977–1980)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna) (1977–1980)
  • James Hopkins Smith Jr. (1909–1982)
    • Director of the International Cooperation Administration (1957–1959)
  • *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)
  • *Carl Walther Strom (1899–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1956–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1959–1961)
    • Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1961–1962)
  • Lester Corrin Strong (1892–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1953–1957)
  • William Howard Taft III (1915–1991)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1953–1957)
  • John Lindsley Tappin (1906–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Libya (1954–1958)
  • Henry Junior Taylor (1902–1984)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1957–1961)
  • Robert Helyer Thayer (1901–1984)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1955–1957)
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • 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 Hay Whitney (1904–1982)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1957–1961)
  • Francis Orlando Wilcox (1908–1985)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1955–1961)
  • Whiting Willauer (1906–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1954–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1958–1961)
  • *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)
  • *Robert Forbes Woodward (1908–2001)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1954–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1958–1961)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1961–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1962–1965)
  • *Thomas Kenneth Wright (1908–1998)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Malaysia (1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mali (1960–1961)
  • *Charles Woodruff Yost (1907–1981)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Thailand (1946)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Laos (1954–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Laos (1955–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Syria (1957–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco (1958–1961)
    • Career Ambassador (1964)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1969–1971)
  • Philip Young (1910–1987)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1957–1960)
  • James David Zellerbach (1892–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1956–1960)