Chiefs of Mission for China
- Edward Everett (1843-)
- Caleb Cushing (1843-1844)
- Caleb Cushing (1843-1844)
- Alexander Hill Everett (1845-1847)
- John Wesley Davis (1848-1850)
- Joseph Blunt (1851-)
- Humphrey Marshall (1852-1854)
- Robert James Walker (1853-)
- Robert Milligan McLane (1853-1854)
- Peter Parker (1855-1857)
- William Bradford Reed (1857-1858)
- John Elliott Ward (1858-1860)
- Anson Burlingame (1861-1867)
- John Ross Browne (1868-1869)
- Frederick Ferdinand Low (1869-1873)
- Benjamin Parke Avery (1874-1875)
- George Frederick Seward (1876-1880)
- James Burrill Angell (1880-1881)
- John Russell Young (1882-1885)
- Charles Denby (1885-1898)
- Henry William Blair (1891-)
- Charles Page Bryan (1897-)
- Edwin Hurd Conger (1898-1905)
- William Woodville Rockhill (1905-1909)
- Charles Richard Crane (1909-)
- William James Calhoun (1909-)
- Paul Samuel Reinsch (1913-1919)
- Charles Richard Crane (1920-1921)
- Jacob Gould Schurman (1921-1925)
- John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1925-1929)
- Nelson Trusler Johnson (1929-)
- Nelson Trusler Johnson (1935-1941)
- Clarence Edward Gauss (1941-1944)
- Patrick Jay Hurley (1944-1945)
- John Leighton Stuart (1946-1949)
- Karl Lott Rankin (1953-1957)
- Everett Francis Drumright (1958-1962)
- Alan Goodrich Kirk (1962-1963)
- Jerauld Wright (1963-1965)
- Walter Patrick McConaughy (1966-1974)
- David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (1973-1974)
- Leonard Seidman Unger (1974-1979)
- George Herbert Walker Bush (1974-1975)
- Thomas Sovereign Gates (1976-)
- Leonard F. Woodcock (1977-)
- Leonard F. Woodcock (1979-)
- Arthur William Hummel (1981-1985)
- Winston Lord (1985-1989)
- James Roderick Lilley (1989-1991)
- J. Stapleton Roy (1991-1995)
- James R. Sasser (1995-1999)
- Joseph W. Prueher (1999-2001)
- Clark T. Randt (2001-2009)
- Jon M. Huntsman (2009-2011)
- Gary Locke (2011-)
- Thomas Ames Rogers Nelson (-)
- William Alanson Howard (-)