Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1884

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

  • Alvey Augustus Adee (1842–1924)
    • Third Assistant Secretary of State (1882–1886)
    • Second Assistant Secretary of State (1886–1924)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1898)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1924)
  • William Waldorf Astor (1848–1919)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Italy (1882–1885)
  • Jehu Baker (1822–1903)
    • Minister Resident, Venezuela (1878–1881)
    • Minister Resident, Venezuela (1884)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Venezuela (1884–1885)
  • Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin (1837–1914)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Iran (1883–1885)
    • Chargé d’Affaires and Consul General, Iran (1883)
  • John Armour Bingham (1815–1900)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Japan (1873–1885)
  • Michael John Cramer (1835–1898)
    • Minister Resident, Denmark (1870–1876)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Denmark (1876–1881)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Switzerland (1881–1882)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Switzerland (1882–1885)
  • Rollin Mallory Daggett (1831–1901)
    • Minister Resident, Hawaii (1882–1885)
  • John Davis (1851–1902)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1882–1885)
  • William Lewis Dayton Jr. (1839–1897)
    • Minister Resident, Netherlands (1882–1885)
  • Nicholas Fish (1846–1902)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Switzerland (1877–1881)
    • Minister Resident, Belgium (1882–1885)
  • Lucius Harwood Foote (1826–1913)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Korea (1883–1885)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Korea (1884)
  • John Watson Foster (1836–1917)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1873–1880)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1880–1881)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1883–1885)
    • Secretary of State (1892–1893)
  • John Morgan Francis (1823–1897)
    • Minister Resident, Greece (1871–1873)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Portugal (1882–1884)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Portugal (1882)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1884–1885)
  • Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (1817–1885)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1870)
    • Secretary of State (1881–1885)
  • Richard Gibbs (1819–1894)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1875–1879)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Bolivia (1883–1885)
  • John Acoming Halderman Jr. (1838–1908)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Thailand (1882–1885)
  • Henry Cook Hall (1820–1901)
    • Minister Resident, El Salvador (1882–1883)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1882–1889)
    • Minister Resident, Costa Rica (1882)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1882–1889)
    • Minister Resident, Honduras (1882)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1882–1889)
    • Minister Resident, Guatemala (1882)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1882–1889)
    • Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1882)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1882–1889)
  • Wickham Hoffman (1821–1900)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Denmark (1883–1885)
  • William Henry Hunt (1823–1884)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1882–1884)
  • William Hunter (1805–1886)
    • Chief Clerk (1852–1855)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1853)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1855)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1860)
    • Second Assistant Secretary of State (1866–1886)
  • John Adam Kasson (1822–1910)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1877–1881)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1884–1885)
  • John Mercer Langston (1829–1897)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Haiti (1877–1885)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Dominican Republic (1883–1885)
  • Cornelius Ambrose Logan (1832–1899)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1873–1876)
    • Minister Resident, El Salvador (1879–1882)
    • Minister Resident, Costa Rica (1879–1882)
    • Minister Resident, Honduras (1879–1882)
    • Minister Resident, Guatemala (1879–1882)
    • Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1879–1882)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1882–1885)
  • James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1877–1880)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1880–1885)
  • Philip Hicky Morgan (1825–1900)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1880–1885)
  • Levi Parsons Morton (1824–1920)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1881–1885)
  • Thomas Andrew Osborn (1836–1898)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1877–1881)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1881–1885)
  • Thomas Ogden Osborn (1832–1904)
    • Minister Resident, Argentina (1874–1884)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Argentina (1884–1885)
  • Seth Ledyard Phelps (1824–1885)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1883–1885)
  • George Potwin Pomeroy (1837–1887)
    • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1882–1884)
  • Lewis Richmond (1824–1894)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Portugal (1884–1885)
  • Aaron Augustus Sargent (1827–1887)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1882–1884)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (Not commissioned although nomination was confirmed by the Senate.)
  • Eugene Schuyler (1840–1890)
    • Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Romania (1880–1881)
    • Chargé d’Affaires and Consul General, Romania (1880–1882)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Greece (1882–1884)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Serbia (1882–1884)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Romania (1882–1884)
    • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1889–1890)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
  • William Lindsay Scruggs (1836–1912)
    • Minister Resident, Colombia (1873–1876)
    • Minister Resident, Colombia (1882–1884)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1884–1885)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1889–1892)
  • John Henry Smyth (1844–1908)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1878–1881)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1882–1885)
  • Alphonso Taft (1810–1891)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1882–1884)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1884–1885)
  • William Widgery Thomas Jr. (1839–1927)
    • Minister Resident, Sweden (1883–1885)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1889–1894)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1897–1905)
  • Lewis Wallace (1827–1905)
    • Minister Resident, Turkey (1881–1882)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1882–1885)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Paraguay (Not commissioned; nomination to be Chargé d’Affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Uruguay (Not commissioned; nomination to be Chargé d’Affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
  • William Williams (1821–1896)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Paraguay (1882–1885)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Uruguay (1882–1885)
  • John Russell Young (1840–1899)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1882–1885)