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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1796
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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)
- David Humphreys (1752–1818)
- Minister Resident, Portugal (1791–1797)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1796–1801)
- Rufus King (1755–1827)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1796–1803)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1825–1826)
- James Monroe (1758–1831)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1794–1796)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1803–1807)
- Secretary of State (1811–1814)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1814–1815)
- Secretary of State (1815–1817)
- Timothy Pickering (1745–1829)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1795)
- Secretary of State (1795–1800)
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746–1825)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1796)
- Thomas Pinckney (1750–1828)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1792–1796)
- George Taylor Jr. (?–?)
- Chief Clerk (1792–1798)