Ellis Ormsbee Briggs (1899–1976)

Career Foreign Service Officer
State of Residence: Maine

1. 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
2. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Uruguay)
   Appointed: July 3, 1947
   Presentation of Credentials: August 21, 1947
   Termination of Mission: Left post on August 6, 1949
3. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Czechoslovakia)
   Appointed: September 1, 1949
   Presentation of Credentials: November 8, 1949
   Termination of Mission: Left post on August 27, 1952
4. 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.
5. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Peru)
   Appointed: March 24, 1955
   Presentation of Credentials: March 27, 1955
   Termination of Mission: Left post on June 5, 1956
6. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Brazil)
   Appointed: May 29, 1956
   Presentation of Credentials: July 24, 1956
   Termination of Mission: Left post on May 2, 1959
7. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Greece)
   Appointed: April 8, 1959
   Presentation of Credentials: July 15, 1959
   Termination of Mission: Left post on February 1, 1962
8. Career Ambassador
   Appointed: June 24, 1960
   
9. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Spain)
   
   • Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.