Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1782

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

  • John Adams (1735–1826)
    • Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1781–1788)
    • Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1785–1788)
  • Charles William Frederic Dumas (1721–1796)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Netherlands (John Adams, before leaving The Hague at the end of his longest period of residence there, presented Charles W.F. Dumas as Charge d'Affaires ad interim. Dumas, although holding no commission from the United States, continued to act in this capacity, except during Adams's later visits to the Netherlands, until 1790.)
  • Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
    • Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1778–1785)
    • Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1782)