Ellis Ormsbee Briggs -
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Ellis Ormsbee Briggs (1899–1976)
Career Foreign Service Officer
State of Residence: Maine
State of Residence: Maine
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Dominican Republic)
Appointed: March 21, 1944
Presentation of Credentials: June 3, 1944
Termination of Mission: Left post on January 14, 1945 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Uruguay)
Appointed: July 3, 1947
Presentation of Credentials: August 21, 1947
Termination of Mission: Left post on August 6, 1949 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Czechoslovakia)
Appointed: September 1, 1949
Presentation of Credentials: November 8, 1949
Termination of Mission: Left post on August 27, 1952 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Korea)
Appointed: August 25, 1952
Presentation of Credentials: November 25, 1952
Termination of Mission: Left post on April 12, 1955- Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned on July 28, 1953, after confirmation.
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Peru)
Appointed: March 24, 1955
Presentation of Credentials: March 27, 1955
Termination of Mission: Left post on June 5, 1956 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Brazil)
Appointed: May 29, 1956
Presentation of Credentials: July 24, 1956
Termination of Mission: Left post on May 2, 1959 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Greece)
Appointed: April 8, 1959
Presentation of Credentials: July 15, 1959
Termination of Mission: Left post on February 1, 1962 - Career Ambassador
Appointed: June 24, 1960 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Spain)
- Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.