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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1889
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- John True Abbott (1850–1914)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1889–1893)
- Robert Adams Jr. (1846–1906)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1889–1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1890)
- 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)
- Rasmus Bjorn Anderson (1846–1936)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Denmark (1885–1889)
- Thomas Henry Anderson (1848–1916)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Bolivia (1889–1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1890–1892)
- Thomas Francis Bayard (1828–1898)
- Secretary of State (1885–1889)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1893–1897)
- Perry Belmont (1851–1947)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1888–1889)
- James Gillespie Blaine (1830–1893)
- Secretary of State (1881)
- Secretary of State (1889–1892)
- William O’Connell Bradley (1847–1914)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Korea (1889)
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg (1827–1912)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1888–1889)
- Charles William Buck (1849–1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1885–1889)
- John Cardwell (1837–1893)
- Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1885–1889)
- Samuel Stewart Carlisle (1836–1907)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Bolivia (1887–1889)
- Clark Ezra Carr (1836–1919)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Denmark (1889–1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1890–1893)
- Jacob T. Child (1832–1905)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Thailand (1886–1891)
- Charles Denby (1830–1904)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1885–1898)
- Hugh Anderson Dinsmore (1850–1930)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Korea (1887–1890)
- Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey Douglass (1818–1895)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Dominican Republic (1889–1891)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Haiti (1889–1891)
- Patrick Egan (1841–1919)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1889–1893)
- John Alfred Enander (1842–1910)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Denmark (1889)
- John Walker Fearn (1832–1899)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Greece (1885–1889)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Romania (1885–1899)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Serbia (1885–1889)
- Frederick Dent Grant (1850–1912)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1889–1893)
- Henry Cook Hall (1820–1901)
- Minister Resident, Costa Rica (1882)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1882–1889)
- Minister Resident, El Salvador (1882–1883)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1882–1889)
- Minister Resident, Guatemala (1882)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1882–1889)
- Minister Resident, Honduras (1882)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1882–1889)
- Minister Resident, Nicaragua (1882)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1882–1889)
- Bayless W. Hanna (1830–1891)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Iran (1885)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Argentina (1885–1887)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1887–1889)
- John Hicks (1847–1917)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1889–1893)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1905–1909)
- Solomon Hirsch (1839–1902)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1889–1892)
- Richard Bennet Hubbard (1832–1901)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Japan (1885–1889)
- Alexander Robert Lawton (1818–1896)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1887–1889)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
- Edward Parke Custis Lewis (1837–1892)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Portugal (1885–1889)
- Robert Todd Lincoln (1843–1926)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1889–1893)
- George Bailey Loring (1817–1891)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Portugal (1889–1890)
- Rufus Magee (1845–1929)
- Minister Resident, Sweden (1885–1889)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1888–1889)
- George Earl Maney (1826–1901)
- Minister Resident, Colombia (1881–1882)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Bolivia (1882–1883)
- Minister Resident, Paraguay (1889–1891)
- Minister Resident, Uruguay (1889–1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1890–1894)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1890–1894)
- Minister Resident, Ecuador (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
- Dabney Herndon Maury (1822–1900)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1886–1889)
- Robert Milligan McLane (1815–1898)
- Commissioner, China (1853–1854)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1859–1860)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1885–1889)
- George W. Merrill (1837–1914)
- Minister Resident, Hawaii (1885–1889)
- Lansing Bond Mizner (1825–1893)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1889–1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1889–1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1889–1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1889)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1889–1890)
- John Bassett Moore (1860–1947)
- Third Assistant Secretary of State (1886–1891)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1898)
- Counselor (1913–1914)
- Thomas Witherell Palmer (1830–1913)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1889–1890)
- John Gibson Parkhurst (1824–1906)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1888–1889)
- George Hunt Pendleton (1825–1889)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1885–1889)
- Edward John Phelps (1822–1900)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1885–1889)
- William Walter Phelps (1839–1894)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1881–1882)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1889–1893)
- John Robert Graham Pitkin (1841–1901)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1889–1893)
- Albert Gallatin Porter (1824–1897)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Italy (1889–1892)
- E. Spencer Pratt (?–)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Iran (1886–1891)
- Whitelaw Reid (1837–1912)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1889–1892)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1905–1912)
- Charles Allen Thorndike Rice (1851–1889)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1889)
- George Lockhart Rives (1849–1917)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1887–1889)
- William Randall Roberts (1830–1897)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1885–1889)
- Robert Barnwell Roosevelt (1829–1906)
- Minister Resident, Netherlands (1888)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1888–1889)
- Thomas Ryan (1837–1914)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1889–1893)
- 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, Romania (1882–1884)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Serbia (1882–1884)
- Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1889–1890)
- Assistant Secretary of State (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
- Charles Lewis Scott (1827–1899)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Venezuela (1885–1888)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1888–1889)
- 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)
- Ezekiel Ezra Smith (1852–1933)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1888–1890)
- Archibald Loudon Snowden (1837–1912)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Greece (1889–1891)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Romania (1889–1892)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Serbia (1889–1892)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece (1891–1892)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1891–1892)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Serbia (1891)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1892–1893)
- John Bernhard Stallo (1823–1900)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Italy (1885–1889)
- John Leavitt Stevens (1820–1895)
- Minister Resident, Paraguay (1870–1873)
- Minister Resident, Uruguay (1870–1873)
- Minister Resident, Sweden (1877–1883)
- Minister Resident, Hawaii (1889–1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hawaii (1890–1893)
- Oscar Solomon Straus (1850–1926)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1887–1889)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1898–1899)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1909–1910)
- John Franklin Swift (1829–1891)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Japan (1889–1891)
- Edwin Holland Terrell (1848–1910)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1889–1893)
- Samuel Richard Thayer (1837–1909)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1889–1893)
- 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)
- John Edgar West Thompson (1860–1918)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Dominican Republic (1885–1889)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Haiti (1885–1889)
- Lambert Tree (1832–1910)
- Minister Resident, Belgium (1885–1888)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1888–1889)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1888)
- John Davis Washburn (1833–1903)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Switzerland (1889–1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1890–1892)
- William Fisher Wharton (1847–1919)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1889–1893)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1892)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1893)
- Boyd Winchester (1836–1923)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Switzerland (1885–1889)