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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1791
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Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.
- William Carmichael Jr. (?–1795)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Spain (1790–1794)
- David Humphreys (1752–1818)
- Minister Resident, Portugal (1791–1797)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1796–1801)
- Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1785–1789)
- Secretary of State (1789–1793)
- Henry Remsen Jr. (1762–1843)
- Chief Clerk (1789)
- Chief Clerk (1790–1792)
- William Short (1759–1849)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1790–1792)
- Minister Resident, Netherlands (1792)
- Minister Resident, Spain (1794–1795)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1808)