1780 - Principals and Chiefs Chronological
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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1780
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Notice posted on January 12, 2024.
Last
updated March 14, 2024.
Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.
- Francis Dana (1743–1811)
- Minister, Russia (1780)
- Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1778–1785)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1782)