1837 - Principals and Chiefs Chronological
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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1837
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Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.
- Lewis Cass (1782–1866)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1836–1842)
- Secretary of State (1857–1860)
- John Randolph Clay (1808–1885)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Russia (1836–1837)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Peru (1847–1853)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1853–1860)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (Not commissioned; nomination not confirmed by the Senate.)
- George Mifflin Dallas (1792–1864)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1837–1839)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1856–1861)
- Auguste Genevieve Valentin Davezac (D’Avezac) (1780–1851)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Netherlands (1831–1839)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Netherlands (1845–1850)
- Aaron Ogden Dayton (1796–1858)
- Chief Clerk (1836–1838)
- Charles Gerrit De Witt (1789–1839)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Guatemala (1833–1839)
- John Henry Eaton (1790–1856)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1836–1840)
- John Forsyth (1780–1841)
- Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1819–1823)
- Secretary of State (1834–1841)
- William Henry Haywood Jr. (1801–1852)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Belgium (1837)
- Christopher Hughes Jr. (1786–1849)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Sweden (1819–1825)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Netherlands (1825–1830)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Sweden (1830–1841)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Netherlands (1842–1845)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (Nomination of December 11, 1828, tabled by the Senate.)
- William Hunter Jr. (1774–1849)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Brazil (1834–1842)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1841–1843)
- Edward Kavanagh (1795–1844)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Portugal (1835–1841)
- Alcee Louis La Branche (1806–1861)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Texas (1837–1840)
- Samuel Larned (1788–1846)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Chile (1828–1829)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Peru (1828–1837)
- Virgil Maxcy (1785–1844)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Belgium (1837–1842)
- Robert Breckinridge McAfee (1784–1849)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Colombia (1833–1837)
- Richard Pollard (1790–1851)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Chile (1834–1842)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Argentina (Not commissioned; nomination (which had been submitted in error) withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
- David Porter (1780–1843)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Turkey (1831–1840)
- Minister Resident, Turkey (1839–1843)
- James Semple (1798–1866)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Colombia (1837–1842)
- Andrew Stevenson (1784–1857)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1836–1841)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (Nomination of May 20, 1834, rejected by the Senate.)
- James B. Thornton (1801–1838)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Peru (1836–1837)
- Henry Wheaton (1785–1848)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Denmark (1827–1835)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Germany (1835–1837)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1837–1846)
- John Gustavus Adolphus Williamson (1793–1840)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Venezuela (1835–1840)
- Jonathan F. Woodside (1799–1845)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Denmark (1835–1841)