Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1932

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*Norman Armour (1887–1982)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1932–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1933–1935)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Canada (1935–1938)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1938–1939)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1939–1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1944–1945)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1947–1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1950–1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1954–1955)
*Ferdinand Lammot Belin (1881–1961)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1932–1933)
Herman Bernstein (1876–1935)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Albania (1930–1933)
*Maxwell Blake (1877–1959)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Morocco (1917)
- Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1917–1922)
- Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1925–1940)
*Robert Woods Bliss (1875–1962)
- Third Assistant Secretary of State (1921–1923)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1923–1927)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1927–1933)
Edward Everett Brodie (1876–1939)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1921–1925)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland (1930–1933)
Harvey Hollister Bundy (1888–1963)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1931–1933)
*Jefferson Caffery (1886–1974)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Greece (1923)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1926–1928)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1928–1933)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1933)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1934–1937)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1937–1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1944–1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1949–1955)
Wilbur John Carr (1870–1942)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1924–1933)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1933–1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1937–1939)
William Richards Castle Jr. (1878–1963)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1927–1929)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1929–1930)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1930–1931)
- Under Secretary of State (1931–1933)
Joshua Reuben Clark Jr. (1871–1961)
- Under Secretary of State (1928–1929)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1930–1933)
Frederick William Backus Coleman (1874–1947)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Estonia (1922–1931)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Latvia (1922–1931)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lithuania (1922–1931)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1931–1933)
William Smith Culbertson (1884–1966)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1925–1928)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1928–1933)
Roy Tasco Davis (1889–1975)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1921)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1922–1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1929–1933)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1953–1957)
*William Dawson Jr. (1885–1972)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1930–1935)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1934–1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1937–1939)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1937)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1939–1941)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1941–1946)
- Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American States (Washington) (1948)
*Fred Morris Dearing (1879–1963)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1921–1922)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1922–1930)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1930–1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1937–1938)
*Charles Christopher Eberhardt (1871–1965)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1925–1929)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1930–1933)
Walter Evans Edge (1873–1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1929–1933)
Edward Francis Feely (1880–1964)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1930–1933)
William Cameron Forbes (1870–1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1930–1932)
John Work Garrett (1872–1942)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1910–1911)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1911–1913)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1917–1919)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1917–1919)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1929–1933)
*Hugh Simons Gibson (1883–1954)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Poland (1919–1924)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1924–1927)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1927–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1927–1933)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1933–1936)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1937–1938)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1937–1938)
*Joseph Clark Grew (1880–1965)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Austria (1917)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1920–1921)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1921–1924)
- Under Secretary of State (1924–1927)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1927–1932)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1932–1941)
- Under Secretary of State (1944–1945)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1945)
Harry Frank Guggenheim (1890–1971)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1929–1933)
Green Haywood Hackworth (1883–1973)
- Legal Adviser (1931–1946)
*Matthew Elting Hanna (1873–1936)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1929–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1933–1936)
Charles Calmer Hart (1878–1956)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Albania (1925–1928)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Albania (1929)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iran (1929–1933)
William Marion Jardine (1874–1955)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1930–1933)
*Nelson Trusler Johnson (1887–1954)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1927–1929)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1929–1935)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1935–1941)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Australia (1941–1945)
David E. Kaufman (1883–1962)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1928–1929)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1930–1933)
*Paul Knabenshue (1883–1942)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Iraq (1932–1933)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Iraq (1933–1942)
*Irwin Boyle Laughlin (1871–1941)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece (1924–1926)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1929–1933)
*Julius Gareche Lay (1872–1939)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1929–1935)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1934)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1935–1937)
Hanford MacNider (1889–1968)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Canada (1930–1932)
Andrew William Mellon (1855–1937)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1932–1933)
John Motley Morehead (1870–1965)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1930–1933)
Edwin Vernon Morgan (1865–1934)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1905–1910)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Korea (1905)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1909–1911)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1909–1911)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1911–1912)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1912–1933)
*Dana Gardner Munro (1892–1990)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1930–1932)
Hoffman Philip (1872–1951)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Ethiopia (1908–1910)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1917–1922)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1922–1925)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iran (1925–1928)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Norway (1930–1935)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1935–1937)
John Dyneley Prince (1868–1945)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1921–1926)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1926–1932)
Abraham C. Ratshesky (Radzkey) (1864–1943)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1930–1932)
*Warren Delano Robbins (1885–1935)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1928–1931)
- Chief of Protocol (1931–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Canada (1933–1935)
James Grafton Rogers (1883–1971)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1931–1933)
Nicholas Roosevelt (1893–1982)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1930–1933)
Frederic Mosley Sackett (1868–1941)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1930–1933)
*Hans Frederick Arthur Schoenfeld (1889–1952)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1928)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1929)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1931–1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland (1937–1942)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1945–1947)
Charles Hitchcock Sherrill (1867–1936)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1909–1910)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1932–1933)
Henry Wharton Shoemaker (1882–1958)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1930–1933)
*Robert Peet Skinner (1866–1960)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece (1926–1932)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Estonia (1931–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Latvia (1931–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lithuania (1931–1933)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1933–1936)
*Alexander Kilgore Sloan (1882–1944)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Iraq (1931–1932)
John Glover South (1873–1940)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1921–1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1929–1933)
*Addison E. Southard (1884–1970)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Ethiopia (1927–1934)
*Frederick Augustine Sterling (1876–1957)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1927–1934)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1933–1936)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Estonia (1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Latvia (1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1938–1941)
Henry Lewis Stimson (1867–1950)
- Secretary of State (1929–1933)
Gilchrist Baker Stockton (1890–1972)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1930–1933)
*George Thomas Summerlin (1872–1947)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Mexico (1924)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1925–1929)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1929–1935)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1934)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1935–1937)
- Chief of Protocol (1937)
Laurits Selmer Swenson (1865–1947)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1897–1905)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1909–1911)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Norway (1911–1913)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Norway (1921–1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1931–1934)
*Ralph James Totten (1877–1949)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, South Africa (1929–1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1930–1937)
*George Post Wheeler (1869–1956)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1929–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Albania (1933–1934)
*Francis White (1892–1961)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1927–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1933)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1953–1957)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1957–1958)
*Sheldon Whitehouse (1883–1965)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1929–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1933–1934)
John North Willys (1873–1935)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1930–1932)
*Charles Stetson Wilson (1873–1947)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Bulgaria (1921)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1921–1928)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1928–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1933–1937)
*Hugh Robert Wilson (1885–1946)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1927–1937)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1937–1938)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1938)
*Joshua Butler Wright (1877–1939)
- Third Assistant Secretary of State (1923–1924)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1924–1927)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1927–1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1930–1934)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1934–1937)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1937–1939)