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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1848
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- John Appleton (1815–1864)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Bolivia (1848–1849)
- Chief Clerk (1848)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1857–1860)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1860–1861)
- Arthur Pendleton Bagby (1794–1858)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1848–1849)
- George Bancroft (1800–1891)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1846–1849)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1867–1871)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1871–1874)
- Seth Barton (1795–1850)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Chile (1847–1849)
- Benjamin A. Bidlack (1804–1849)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Colombia (1845–1849)
- James Buchanan (1791–1868)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1832–1833)
- Secretary of State (1845–1849)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1853–1856)
- Dabney Smith Carr (1802–1854)
- Minister Resident, Turkey (1843–1849)
- 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.)
- Thomas Green Clemson (1807–1888)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Belgium (1844–1851)
- Nathan Clifford (1803–1881)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1848–1849)
- Auguste Genevieve Valentin Davezac (D’Avezac) (1780–1851)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Netherlands (1831–1839)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Netherlands (1845–1850)
- John Wesley Davis (1799–1859)
- Commissioner, China (1848–1850)
- William S. Derrick (?–1852)
- Chief Clerk (1843–1844)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1843)
- Chief Clerk (1845)
- Chief Clerk (1847–1848)
- Chief Clerk (1848–1852)
- Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799–1871)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Texas (1844–1845)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1846–1849)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1848–1849)
- Henry William Ellsworth (1814–1864)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Sweden (1845–1861)
- Robert P. Flenniken (1804–1879)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Denmark (1847–1849)
- William Alexander Harris (1805–1864)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Argentina (1846–1851)
- Elijah Hise (1802–1867)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Guatemala (1848–1849)
- George Washington Hopkins (1804–1861)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Portugal (1847–1849)
- Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll (1789–1872)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1846–1848)
- Van Brugh Livingston (1792–1868)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Ecuador (1848–1849)
- Jacob L. Martin (?–1848)
- Chief Clerk (1840–1841)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1841)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Holy See (1848)
- Daniel Smith McCauley (?–1852)
- Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1848–1852)
- Louis McLane (1786–1857)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1829–1831)
- Secretary of State (1833–1834)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1845–1849)
- Nathaniel Niles Jr. (1791–1869)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Italy (1848–1850)
- John Rowan (1773–1853)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1848–1849)
- Richard Rush (1780–1859)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1817)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1825)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1847–1849)
- Romulus Mitchell Saunders (1791–1867)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1846–1849)
- Benjamin Glover Shields (1808–1850)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Venezuela (1845–1850)
- William Henry Stiles (1808–1865)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Austria (1845–1849)
- David Tod (1805–1868)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1847–1851)