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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1894

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

  • Alvey Augustus Adee (1842–1924)
    • Third Assistant Secretary of State (1882–1886)
    • Second Assistant Secretary of State (1886–1924)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1898)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1924)
  • Eben Alexander (1851–1910)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary/Consul General, Greece (1893–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary/Consul General, Romania (1893–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary/Consul General, Serbia (1893–1897)
  • Lewis Baker (1832–1899)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1893–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1893–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1893–1897)
  • John Barrett (1866–1938)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Thailand (1894–1898)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1903–1904)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1904–1905)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1905–1906)
  • Thomas Francis Bayard (1828–1898)
    • Secretary of State (1885–1889)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1893–1897)
  • Clifton Rodes Breckinridge (1846–1932)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1894–1897)
  • James Overton Broadhead (1819–1898)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1893–1895)
  • William Insco Buchanan (1853–1909)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1894–1899)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1903–1904)
  • George William Caruth (1842–1921)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1893–1897)
  • Charles Denby (1830–1904)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1885–1898)
  • Edwin Dun (1848–1931)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Japan (1893–1897)
  • James Biddle Eustis (1834–1899)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1893–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1893)
  • James Stevenson Ewing (1835–1918)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1893–1897)
  • John Walker Fearn (1832–1899)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Greece (1885–1889)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Romania (1885–1899)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Serbia (1885–1889)
  • Thomas Barker Ferguson (1841–1922)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1894–1898)
  • Isaac Pusey Gray (1828–1895)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1893–1894)
  • Walter Quintin Gresham (1832–1895)
    • Secretary of State (1893–1895)
  • Seneca Haselton (1848–1921)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1894–1895)
  • Isaac Wayne MacVeagh (1833–1917)
    • Minister Resident, Turkey (1870–1871)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1893–1897)
  • George Earl Maney (1826–1901)
    • Minister Resident, Colombia (1881–1882)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Bolivia (1882–1883)
    • Minister Resident, Paraguay (1889–1891)
    • Minister Resident, Uruguay (1889–1890)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1890–1894)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1890–1894)
    • Minister Resident, Ecuador (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
  • Alexander McDonald (1827–1897)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Iran (1893–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iran (1893)
  • James Andrew McKenzie (1840–1904)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1893–1897)
  • Luther Franklin McKinney (1841–1922)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1893–1896)
  • Thomas Moonlight (1833–1899)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1894–1898)
  • Frank Charles Partridge (1861–1943)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1893–1894)
  • Frederic Courtland Penfield (1855–1922)
    • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1893–1897)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1913–1917)
  • James Davis Porter (1828–1912)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1885–1887)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1893–1894)
  • William Potter (1852–1926)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Italy (1892–1894)
  • William Emory Quinby (1835–1908)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1893–1897)
  • John Ewing Risley (1840–?)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1893–1897)
  • William Woodville Rockhill (1854–1914)
    • Third Assistant Secretary of State (1894–1896)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1896–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary/Consul General, Greece (1897–1898)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary/Consul General, Romania (1897–1898)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary/Consul General, Serbia (1897–1898)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece (1898–1899)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1898–1899)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Serbia (1898–1899)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1905–1909)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1909–1911)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1911–1913)
  • Theodore Runyon (1822–1896)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1893)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1893–1896)
  • John Mahelm Berry Sill (1831–1901)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Korea (1894–1897)
  • Henry Maxwell Smythe (1844–1932)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Dominican Republic (1893–1897)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Haiti (1893–1897)
  • Edward Henry Strobel (1855–1908)
    • Third Assistant Secretary of State (1893–1894)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1894–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1894)
  • Granville Stuart (1834–1918)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1894–1898)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1894–1898)
  • Hannis Taylor (1851–1922)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1893–1897)
  • Alexander Watkins Terrell (1827–1912)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1893–1897)
  • William Widgery Thomas Jr. (1839–1927)
    • Minister Resident, Sweden (1883–1885)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1889–1894)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1897–1905)
  • Thomas Larkin Thompson (1838–1898)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1893–1897)
  • Bartlett Tripp (1842–1911)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1893–1897)
  • Edwin Fuller Uhl (1841–1901)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1893–1896)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1895)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1896–1897)
  • Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1879–1881)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1892–1894)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1897–1902)
  • Albert Shelby Willis (1843–1897)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hawaii (1893–1897)
  • Pierce Manning Butler Young (1836–1896)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1893–1896)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1893–1896)