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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1959

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

  • *Theodore Carter Achilles (1905–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1956–1960)
    • Counselor (1960–1961)
  • *George Venable Allen (1903–1970)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1946–1948)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1948–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1949–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1953–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1953–1954)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1955–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1956–1957)
    • Director of the U.S. Information Agency (1957–1960)
    • Career Ambassador (1960)
    • Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1966–1968)
  • *John Moore Allison (1905–1978)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1952–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1953–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia (1957–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1958–1960)
  • *Jacob Dyneley Beam (1908–1993)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1966–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1969–1973)
  • *Willard Leon Beaulac (1899–1990)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1944–1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1947–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1951–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1953–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1956–1960)
  • Loftus Eugene Becker (1911–1977)
    • Legal Adviser (1957–1959)
  • Andrew Henry Thomas Berding (1902–1989)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1957–1961)
  • *James Lampton Berry (1908–1980)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1958–1959)
  • *Don Carroll Bliss (1897–1978)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1957–1960)
  • *Charles Eustis Bohlen (1904–1974)
    • Counselor (1947–1949)
    • Counselor (1951–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1953–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1957–1959)
    • Career Ambassador (1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1962–1968)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1967–1969)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1969)
  • *James Cowles Hart Bonbright (1903–1993)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1955–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1958–1961)
  • *Philip Wilson Bonsal (1903–1995)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Spain (1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1955–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1957–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1959–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco (1961–1962)
  • *Ellis Ormsbee Briggs (1899–1976)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1944–1945)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1947–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1949–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea (1952–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1955–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1956–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1959–1962)
    • Career Ambassador (1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
  • David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (1898–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1949–1952)
    • Under Secretary of State (1952–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1957–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1961–1969)
    • Chief, China (1973–1974)
    • U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1974–1976)
  • Wiley Thomas Buchanan Jr. (1914–1986)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1953–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1956)
    • Chief of Protocol (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1975–1977)
  • Ellsworth Bunker (1894–1984)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1951–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1952–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1956–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1956–1959)
    • Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American States (Washington) (1964–1966)
    • Ambassador at Large (1966–1967)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Vietnam (1967–1973)
    • Ambassador at Large (1973–1978)
  • William Armistead Moale Burden (1906–1984)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1959–1961)
  • Warren Randolph Burgess (1889–1978)
    • U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1957–1961)
  • *Homer Morrison Byington Jr. (1908–1987)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malaysia (1957–1961)
  • *Henry Alfred Byroade (1913–1993)
    • Director of the Bureau of German Affairs (1950–1952)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1952–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1955–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1956–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1959–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1963–1968)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1969–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1973–1977)
  • *John Moors Cabot (1901–1981)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland (1950–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1952)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1953–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1954–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1957–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1959–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1962–1965)
  • *Vinton Chapin (1900–1982)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1957–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1960)
  • Philip Kingsland Crowe (1908–1976)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1953–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1959–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1969–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1973–1975)
  • *Hugh Smith Cumming Jr. (1900–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia (1953–1957)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (1957–1961)
  • Nelson Binkley David (1906–)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (Montreal) (1957–1968)
  • Clarence Douglas Dillon (1909–2003)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1953–1957)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1957–1958)
    • Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment (1958–1959)
    • Under Secretary of State (1959–1961)
  • *Walter Cecil Dowling (1905–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea (1956–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1959–1963)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1959)
    • Career Ambassador (1962)
  • John Caspar Dreier (1906–1994)
    • Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American States (Washington) (1950–1960)
  • *Gerald Augustin Drew (1903–1970)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1950–1952)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1952–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1954–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1957–1960)
    • Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service (1960–1962)
  • *Everett Francis Drumright (1906–1993)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1958–1962)
  • John Foster Dulles (1888–1959)
    • Secretary of State (1953–1959)
  • *Elbridge Durbrow (1903–1997)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Vietnam (1957–1961)
  • Lane Dwinell (1906–1997)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1959–1961)
  • *Charles Burke Elbrick (1908–1983)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1957–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1958–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1964–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1969–1970)
    • Career Ambassador (1969)
  • Joseph Simpson Farland (1914–2007)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1957–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1960–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1969–1972)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1972–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Fiji (Not commissioned; nomination of October 11, 1973, withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (Not commissioned; nomination of October 11, 1973, withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Samoa (Not commissioned; nomination of October 11, 1973, withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tonga (Not commissioned; nomination on October 11, 1973, withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
  • *Wilson Clark Flake (1906–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ghana (1957–1960)
  • John Clifford Folger (1896–1981)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1957–1959)
  • Paul Frederick Foster (1889–1972)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna) (1959–1961)
  • *Waldemar John Gallman (1899–1980)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1948–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1951–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1954–1958)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1958–1961)
  • *Bernard Anthony Gufler (1903–1973)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Lithuania (1940)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1959–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland (1961–1963)
  • Eric Hill Hager (1918–1973)
    • Legal Adviser (1959–1961)
  • *Raymond Arthur Hare (1901–1994)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1950–1953)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1950–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1953–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1956–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1958–1959)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1959)
    • Career Ambassador (1960)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1960–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1961–1965)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1965–1966)
  • *Julian Fiske Harrington (1901–1984)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1955–1960)
  • *Donald Read Heath (1894–1981)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1947–1950)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1950–1952)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Laos (1950–1954)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, State of Vietnam (1950–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1952–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, State of Vietnam (1952–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1955–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1957–1961)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1957)
  • *Loy Wesley Henderson (1892–1986)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1943–1945)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1948–1951)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1948–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1951–1954)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1955)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1955)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1955–1961)
    • Career Ambassador (1956)
  • Christian Archibald Herter (1895–1966)
    • Under Secretary of State (1957–1959)
    • Secretary of State (1959–1961)
    • U.S. Trade Representative (1962–1966)
  • *John Dewey Hickerson (1898–1989)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1949–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland (1955–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1959–1961)
  • Robert Charles Hill (1917–1978)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1953–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1954–1955)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1956–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1957–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1969–1972)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1973–1977)
  • Harold Boies Hoskins (1895–?)
    • Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1955–1961)
  • Amory Houghton (1899–1981)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1957–1961)
  • Walter Howe (1907–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1958–1961)
  • *John Durnford Jernegan (1911–1981)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1958–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Algeria (1965–1967)
  • *Ural Alexis Johnson (1908–1997)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1953–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1958–1961)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1961–1964)
    • Career Ambassador (1964)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1965–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1966–1969)
    • Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1969–1973)
    • Ambassador at Large (1973–1977)
  • *George Lewis Jones (1907–1971)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tunisia (1956–1959)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1959–1961)
  • *Howard Palfrey Jones (1899–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia (1958–1965)
  • *John Wesley Jones (1907–1998)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Libya (1958–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1962–1969)
  • Richard Lee Jones (1893–1975)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1955–1959)
  • Thorsten Valentine Kalijarvi (1897–1980)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1957–1960)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (1957)
  • *Foy David Kohler (1908–1990)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1959–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1962–1966)
    • Career Ambassador (1964)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1966–1967)
  • James McLellan Langley (1894–1968)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1957–1959)
  • *Edward Burnett Lawson (1895–1962)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1949–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel (1954–1959)
  • Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902–1985)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1953–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Vietnam (1963–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Vietnam (1965–1967)
    • Ambassador at Large (1967–1968)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1968–1969)
    • Personal Representative of the President, Holy See (1977)
  • John Davis Lodge (1903–1985)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1955–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1969–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1983–1985)
  • Ann Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1953–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1959)
  • *Douglas MacArthur II (1909–1997)
    • Counselor (1953–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1956–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1961–1965)
    • Career Ambassador (1964)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1965–1967)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1967–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1969–1972)
  • William Butts Macomber Jr. (1921–2003)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1961–1963)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1967–1969)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1969–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1973–1977)
  • *Lester DeWitt Mallory (1904–1994)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1953–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1958–1959)
  • *Thomas Clifton Mann (1912–1999)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1955–1957)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (1957–1960)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1961–1963)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1963–1965)
    • Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment (1965–1966)
  • *Elbert George Mathews (1910–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1959–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nigeria (1964–1969)
  • *Harrison Freeman Matthews (1899–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1947–1950)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1953–1957)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1953)
    • Career Ambassador (1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1957–1962)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Spain ()
  • *Robert Mills McClintock (1909–1976)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1954–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1962–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1970–1975)
  • *Walter Patrick McConaughy Jr. (1908–2000)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1957–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea (1959–1961)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1962–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1966–1974)
  • Dempster McIntosh (1896–1984)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1953–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1956–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1959–1961)
  • Robert Walter Scott McLeod (1914–1961)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs (1953–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1957–1961)
  • *Livingston Tallmadge Merchant (1903–1976)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1953–1956)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1953–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1956–1958)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1959)
    • Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1959–1961)
    • Career Ambassador (1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1961–1962)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1961)
  • *Raymond Clendenin Miller (1895–1963)
    • Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service (1957–1960)
  • *Sheldon Tibbetts Mills (1904–1988)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1954–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1956–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1959–1961)
  • *James Sayle Moose Jr. (1903–1989)
    • Minister Resident/Foreign Service officer, Saudi Arabia (1943–1944)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Syria (1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Syria (1952–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sudan (1958–1962)
  • John Howard Morrow (1910–2000)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guinea (1959–1961)
    • U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (1961–1963)
  • *John Joseph Muccio (1900–1989)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea (1949–1952)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1954–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1955–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1959–1961)
  • *Robert Daniel Murphy (1894–1978)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1949–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1952–1953)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1953)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1953–1955)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1955–1959)
    • Career Ambassador (1956)
    • Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1959)
  • *Robert Newbegin II (1905–1991)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1958–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1960–1961)
  • *Edward Page Jr. (1905–1965)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1959–1962)
  • *James Graham Parsons (1907–1991)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Laos (1956–1958)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1959–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1961–1967)
  • Frederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson (1903–1983)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland (1969–1973)
  • Walter Christian Ploeser (1907–1993)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1957–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1970–1972)
  • *Karl Lott Rankin (1898–1991)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, China (1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1953–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1957–1961)
  • *Christian Magelssen Ravndal (1899–1984)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1947–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1949–1951)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1951–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1956–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1960–1961)
  • Ogden Rogers Reid (1925–)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel (1959–1961)
  • *George Frederick Reinhardt (1911–1971)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Vietnam (1955–1957)
    • Counselor (1957–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1960–1961)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1960–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1961–1968)
  • *James Williams Riddleberger (1904–1982)
    • Director of the Bureau of German Affairs (1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1953–1958)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1958–1959)
    • Director of the International Cooperation Administration (1959–1961)
    • Career Ambassador (1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1962–1967)
  • *Robert Watland Rinden (1914–)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Guinea ()
  • Walter Spencer Robertson (1893–1970)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1953–1959)
  • *William Manning Rountree (1917–1995)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1956–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1959–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sudan (1962–1965)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1965–1970)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1970–1973)
  • *Roy Richard Rubottom Jr. (1912–2010)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1957–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1960–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1960)
  • *Francis Henry Russell (1904–1989)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1957–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ghana (1960–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tunisia (1962–1969)
  • *Joseph Charles Satterthwaite (1900–1990)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1949–1953)
    • Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1953–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1955–1957)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1957–1958)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1958–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1961–1965)
  • *Walter Kenneth Scott (1915–1977)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1958–1959)
  • *William Joseph Sebald (1901–1980)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1952–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1957–1961)
  • Edson Oliver Sessions (1902–1987)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland (1959–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1968–1970)
  • Earl Edward Tailer Smith (1903–1991)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1957–1959)
  • Gerard Coad Smith (1914–1994)
    • Director of Policy Planning (1957–1961)
    • Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1969–1973)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna) (1977–1980)
    • Ambassador at Large (1977–1980)
  • *Horace Harrison Smith (1905–1976)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Laos (1958–1960)
  • James Hopkins Smith Jr. (1909–1982)
    • Director of the International Cooperation Administration (1957–1959)
  • *William Pennell Snow (1907–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1959–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1961–1967)
  • *Edward John Sparks (1897–1976)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1951–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1955–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1958–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1961–1962)
  • *Henry Endicott Stebbins (1905–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1959–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uganda (1966–1969)
  • Harry Farnum Stimpson Jr. (1913–2005)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1959–1961)
  • *Carl Walther Strom (1899–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1956–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1959–1961)
    • Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1961–1962)
  • Henry Junior Taylor (1902–1984)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1957–1961)
  • *Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr. (1904–1972)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1952–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1957–1962)
    • Career Ambassador (1960)
    • Ambassador at Large (1962–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1966–1969)
  • *William Cattell Trimble (1907–1996)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1959–1962)
  • *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.)
  • *Edward Thompson Wailes (1903–1969)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1953–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1954–1956)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1958–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1961–1962)
  • *Walter Newbold Walmsley Jr. (1904–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tunisia (1959–1962)
  • *William Fletcher Warren (1896–1992)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1945–1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1947–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1951–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1956–1960)
  • *Clifton Reginald Wharton (1899–1990)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1958–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1961–1964)
  • Thomas Edward Whelan (1895–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1951–1961)
  • John Hay Whitney (1904–1982)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1957–1961)
  • Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth (1891–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1958–1960)
  • Francis Orlando Wilcox (1908–1985)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1955–1961)
  • Whiting Willauer (1906–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1954–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1958–1961)
  • *Frances Elizabeth Willis (1899–1983)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1953–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1961–1964)
    • Career Ambassador (1962)
  • *Robert Forbes Woodward (1908–2001)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1954–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1958–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1961)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1961–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1962–1965)
  • *Charles Woodruff Yost (1907–1981)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Thailand (1946)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Laos (1954–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Laos (1955–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Syria (1957–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco (1958–1961)
    • Career Ambassador (1964)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1969–1971)
  • Philip Young (1910–1987)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1957–1960)
  • James David Zellerbach (1892–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1956–1960)