1824 - Principals and Chiefs Chronological
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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1824
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updated March 14, 2024.
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)
- Heman Allen (1779–1852)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1823–1827)
- Richard Clough Anderson (1788–1826)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1823–1826)
- Daniel Carroll Brent (1770–1841)
- Chief Clerk (1817–1833)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1825)
- James Brown (1766–1835)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1823–1829)
- Henry Dearborn Sr. (1751–1829)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1822–1824)
- Ninian Edwards (1775–1833)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (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.)
- 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)
- Hugh Nelson (1768–1836)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1823–1825)
- Caesar Augustus Rodney (1772–1824)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1823–1824)
- 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)