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Chiefs of Mission for Iran

  • Lowell Bruce Laingen (-)
  • Bayless W. Hanna (1885-)
  • Frederick Hampden Winston (1885-1886)
  • E. Spencer Pratt (1886-1891)
  • Truxtun Beale (1891-1892)
  • Watson Robertson Sperry (1892-1893)
  • Alexander McDonald (1893-)
  • Alexander McDonald (1893-1897)
  • Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1897-1899)
  • William Paine Lord (1899-)
  • Herbert Wolcott Bowen (1899-1901)
  • Lloyd Carpenter Griscom (1901-1902)
  • Richmond Pearson (1902-1907)
  • John Brinkerhoff Jackson (1907-1909)
  • Charles Wells Russell (1909-1914)
  • John Lawrence Caldwell (1914-)
  • Joseph Saul Kornfeld (1921-1924)
  • Hoffman Philip (1925-1928)
  • Charles Calmer Hart (1929-1933)
  • William Harrison Hornibrook (1933-1936)
  • Cornelius Van Hemert Engert (1937-1940)
  • Louis Goethe Dreyfus (1939-1943)
  • Leland Burnette Morris (1944-1945)
  • Wallace Smith Murray (1945-1946)
  • George Venable Allen (1946-1948)
  • John Cooper Wiley (1948-1950)
  • Henry Francis Grady (1950-1951)
  • Loy Wesley Henderson (1951-1954)
  • Selden Chapin (1955-1958)
  • Edward Thompson Wailes (1958-1961)
  • Julius Cecil Holmes (1961-1965)
  • Armin Henry Meyer (1965-1969)
  • Douglas MacArthur (1969-1972)
  • Joseph Simpson Farland (1972-1973)
  • Richard McGarrah Helms (1973-1976)
  • William Healy Sullivan (1977-1979)
  • Walter Leon Cutler (1979-)
  • Henry Harris Jessup (-)
  • Gordon Phelps Merriam (-)
  • Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin (-)
  • Julius Cecil Holmes (-)

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