Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Name: V

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

  • Aaron Vail (1796–1878)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, United Kingdom (1832–1836)
    • Chief Clerk (1838–1840)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Spain (1840–1842)
  • *Viron Peter Vaky (1925–2012)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1972–1974)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1973–1976)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1976–1978)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1978–1979)
  • Abelardo Lopez Valdez (1942–)
    • Chief of Protocol (1979–1981)
  • Arturo Valenzuela (1944–)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (2009–2011)
  • Rodolphe M. Vallee (1960–)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Slovakia (2005–2007)
  • James J. Van Alen (1846–1923)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1893)
  • John Trumbull Van Alen (?–1857)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Ecuador (1849–1850)
  • Martin Van Buren (1782–1862)
    • Secretary of State (1829–1831)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1831–1832)
  • Henry van Dyke (1852–1933)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1913–1917)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1913–1917)
  • Jerome W. Van Gorkom (1917–1998)
    • Under Secretary of State for Management (1982–1983)
  • *Christopher Van Hollen (1922–2013)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Maldives (1972–1976)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1972–1976)
  • Cornelius Peter Van Ness (1782–1852)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1829–1836)
  • Robert Bruce Van Valkenburgh (1821–1888)
    • Minister Resident, Japan (1866–1869)
  • *Carol van Voorst (1952–)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iceland (2005–2009)
  • Cyrus Roberts Vance (1917–2002)
    • Secretary of State (1977–1980)
  • *Sheldon Baird Vance (1917–1995)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chad (1967–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Congo (Kinshasa) (1969–1974)
  • William J. Vanden Heuvel (1935–)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the European Office of the United Nations (Geneva) (1979)
  • Gaddi Holguin Vasquez (1955–)
    • U.S. Representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture (Rome) (2006–2009)
  • *Laurence Coolidge Vass (1909–)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Kenya ()
  • Jack Hood Vaughn (1920–2012)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1964–1965)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1965–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1969–1970)
  • *Annette T. Veler (?–)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Grenada (1993)
  • *Nicholas Alexander Veliotes (1928–)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1978–1981)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1981–1983)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1983–1986)
  • William Edward Venable (1804–1857)
    • Minister Resident, Guatemala (1857)
  • Richard Rahul Verma (1968–)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (2009–2011)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (2014–2017)
  • *Alexander Russel Vershbow (1952–)
    • U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1997–2001)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (2001–2005)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea (2005–2008)
  • Melanne Verveer (1944–)
    • Ambassador at Large (2009–2013)
  • *George Southall Vest (1918–)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs (1974–1977)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1977–1981)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the European Union, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (1981–1985)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1985–1989)
    • Career Ambassador (1987)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (Nomination withdrawn on May 5, 1977.)
  • *Richard Noyes Viets (1930–)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tanzania (1979–1981)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1981–1984)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (Nomination of September 15, 1987, was not acted upon by the Senate.)
  • *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.)
  • *Sharon Villarosa (1951–)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Timor-Leste (2002)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Burma (2008)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mauritius (2012–2016)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Seychelles (2012–2016)
  • *John Carter Vincent (1900–1972)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1947–1951)
    • Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1951–1953)
  • *Richard David Vine (1925–2008)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1979–1981)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration Affairs (1982)
  • *Sandra Louise Vogelgesang (1942–)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1994–1997)
  • *Kurt D. Volker (1964–)
    • U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (2008–2009)
  • John Anthony Volpe (1908–1994)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1973–1977)
  • Helene A. Von Damm (1938–)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1983–1986)
  • Charles Joseph Vopicka (1857–1935)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1913–1918)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1913–1920)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Serbia (1913–1918)
  • Frederick Vreeland (1927–)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco (1991–1993)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (Nomination not acted upon by the Senate.)
  • Peter Dumont Vroom (1791–1873)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1853–1857)
  • *Peter H. Vrooman (?–)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Rwanda (2018)