Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1822

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

  • John Quincy Adams (1767–1848)
    • Minister Resident, Netherlands (1794–1797)
    • Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1796)
    • Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1797–1801)
    • Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1809–1814)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1815–1817)
    • Secretary of State (1817–1825)
  • Daniel Carroll Brent (1770–1841)
    • Chief Clerk (1817–1833)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1825)
  • Henry Dearborn Sr. (1751–1829)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1822–1824)
  • Alexander Hill Everett (1790–1847)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Netherlands (1818–1824)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1825–1829)
    • Commissioner, China (1845–1847)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (Nomination of February 25, 1845, not confirmed by the Senate.)
  • John Forsyth (1780–1841)
    • Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1819–1823)
    • Secretary of State (1834–1841)
  • Albert Gallatin (1761–1849)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1815–1823)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1826–1827)
  • Christopher Hughes Jr. (1786–1849)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Sweden (1819–1825)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Netherlands (1825–1830)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Sweden (1830–1841)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Netherlands (1842–1845)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (Nomination of December 11, 1828, tabled by the Senate.)
  • Henry Middleton (1770–1846)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1820–1830)
  • Richard Rush (1780–1859)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1817)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1825)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1847–1849)