1864 - Principals and Chiefs Chronological
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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1864
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- Charles Francis Adams (1807–1886)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1861–1868)
- Anson Burlingame (1820–1870)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1861–1867)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1861)
- Allan A. Burton (1820–1878)
- Minister Resident, Colombia (1861–1866)
- Minister Resident, Colombia (1861)
- James Hepburn Campbell (1820–1895)
- Minister Resident, Sweden (1864–1867)
- Minister Resident, Colombia (1866)
- Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810–1903)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1861)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1861–1862)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1863–1869)
- Thomas Hart Clay (1803–1871)
- Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1862–1863)
- Minister Resident, Honduras (1863–1866)
- Thomas Corwin (1794–1865)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1861–1864)
- Elisha Oscar Crosby (1818–1895)
- Minister Resident, Guatemala (1861–1864)
- Erastus Dean Culver (1803–1889)
- Minister Resident, Venezuela (1862–1866)
- William Lewis Dayton (1807–1864)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1861–1864)
- Andrew B. Dickinson (1801–1873)
- Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1861–1863)
- Minister Resident and Extraordinary, Nicaragua (1863–1869)
- George Gilman Fogg (1813–1881)
- Minister Resident, Switzerland (1861–1865)
- Jacob Samils Haldeman (1827–1889)
- Minister Resident, Sweden (1861–1864)
- Charles Hale (1831–1882)
- Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1864–1870)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1872–1873)
- Allen A. Hall (?–1867)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Venezuela (1841–1844)
- Minister Resident, Bolivia (1863–1867)
- Abraham Hanson (1818–1866)
- Commissioner and Consul General, Liberia (1863–1866)
- James E. Harvey (1820–)
- Minister Resident, Portugal (1861–1869)
- Frederick (Friedrich) Hassaurek (1831–1885)
- Minister Resident, Ecuador (1861–1866)
- Norman Buel Judd (1815–1878)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1861–1865)
- William Kellogg (1814–1872)
- Minister Resident, Guatemala (1864)
- Rufus King (1814–1876)
- Minister Resident, Holy See (1861)
- Minister Resident, Holy See (1863–1867)
- Robert Crothers Kirk (1821–1898)
- Minister Resident, Argentina (1862–1866)
- Minister Resident, Argentina (1869–1871)
- Minister Resident, Uruguay (1869–1870)
- Gustavus Koerner (1809–1896)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1862–1864)
- George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882)
- Minister Resident, Turkey (1849–1853)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Italy (1861–1882)
- James McBride (1802–1875)
- Minister Resident, Hawaii (1863–1866)
- Edward Joy Morris (1815–1881)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1850–1853)
- Minister Resident, Turkey (1861–1870)
- John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1861–1867)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1869–1870)
- Thomas Henry Nelson (1824–1896)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1861–1866)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1869–1873)
- James Rudolph Partridge (1823–1884)
- Minister Resident, Honduras (1862)
- Minister Resident, El Salvador (1863–1866)
- Minister Resident, Venezuela (1869–1870)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1871–1877)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1882)
- Minister Resident, Nicaragua (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
- James Shepard Pike (1811–1882)
- Minister Resident, Netherlands (1861–1866)
- Robert Hewson Pruyn (1815–1882)
- Minister Resident, Japan (1861–1865)
- Charles N. Riotte (1814–1887)
- Minister Resident, Costa Rica (1861–1867)
- Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1869–1873)
- Minister Resident, Costa Rica (Not commissioned; nomination tabled by the Senate.)
- Christopher Robinson (1806–1889)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1861–1865)
- Henry Shelton Sanford (1823–1891)
- Minister Resident, Belgium (1861–1869)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Belgium (Nomination of December 17, 1866, rejected by the Senate.)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Belgium (Nomination of March 8, 1867, rejected by the Senate.)
- Minister Resident, Belgium (Not commissioned; nomination not confirmed by the Senate.)
- Minister Resident, Spain (Not commissioned; nomination not confirmed by the Senate.)
- Frederick William Seward (1830–1915)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1861–1869)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1877–1879)
- William Henry Seward (1801–1872)
- Secretary of State (1861–1869)
- William Sydney Thayer (1830–1864)
- Consul General, Egypt (1861–1864)
- Charles Ames Washburn (1822–1889)
- Commissioner, Paraguay (1861–1863)
- Minister Resident, Paraguay (1863–1868)
- James Watson Webb (1802–1884)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Austria (1849–1850)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1861–1869)
- Minister Resident, Turkey (1861)
- Benjamin Franklin Whidden (1813–1896)
- Commissioner and Consul General, Haiti (1862–1865)
- Bradford Ripley Wood (1800–1889)
- Minister Resident, Denmark (1861–1865)