Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1801

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Notice posted on January 12, 2024.
Last updated March 14, 2024.

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

John Quincy Adams (1767–1848)
- Minister Resident, Netherlands (1794–1797)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1796)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1797–1801)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1809–1814)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1815–1817)
- Secretary of State (1817–1825)
James Asheton Bayard (1767–1815)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1801)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1815)
David Humphreys (1752–1818)
- Minister Resident, Portugal (1791–1797)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1796–1801)
Rufus King (1755–1827)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1796–1803)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1825–1826)
Levi Lincoln (1749–1820)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1801)
Robert R. Livingston (1746–1813)
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs Under the Continental Congress (1781)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1801–1804)
James Madison (1751–1836)
- Secretary of State (1801–1809)
John Marshall (1755–1835)
- Secretary of State (1800–1801)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1801)
William Vans Murray (1760–1803)
- Minister Resident, Netherlands (1797–1801)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, France (Not commissioned; nomination superseded by a nomination of Murray and two others to serve on a joint commission.)
Charles Pinckney (1757–1824)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1801–1804)
William Loughton Smith (1758–1812)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1797–1801)
Jacob Wagner (?–)
- Chief Clerk (1798–1807)