Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1786

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

  • John Adams (1735–1826)
    • Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1781–1788)
    • Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1785–1788)
  • John Jay (1745–1829)
    • Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1779)
    • Secretary of Foreign Affairs Under the Continental Congress (1784–1789)
  • Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
    • Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1785–1789)
    • Secretary of State (1789–1793)