1892 - Principals and Chiefs Chronological
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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1892
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- John True Abbott (1850–1914)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1889–1893)
- 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)
- John Alexander Anderson (1834–1892)
- Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1891–1892)
- Thomas Henry Anderson (1848–1916)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Bolivia (1889–1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1890–1892)
- George Sherman Batcheller (1837–1908)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Portugal (1890–1892)
- Truxtun Beale (1856–1936)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Iran (1891–1892)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Greece (1892–1893)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece (1892)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Serbia (1892)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Serbia (1892)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1892)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Romania (1892)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary/Consul General, Greece (1893)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary/Consul General, Serbia (1893)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary/Consul General, Romania (1893)
- James Gillespie Blaine (1830–1893)
- Secretary of State (1881)
- Secretary of State (1889–1892)
- Sempronius Hamilton Boyd (1828–1894)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Thailand (1890–1892)
- Clark Ezra Carr (1836–1919)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Denmark (1889–1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1890–1893)
- Person Colby Cheney (1828–1901)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1892–1893)
- Edwin Hurd Conger (1843–1907)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1890–1893)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1897–1898)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1898–1905)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1905)
- Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (1831–1920)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1892–1893)
- Frank Leslie Coombs (1853–1934)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Japan (1892–1893)
- Charles Denby (1830–1904)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1885–1898)
- John Stephens Durham (1861–1919)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Dominican Republic (1891–1893)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Haiti (1891–1893)
- Patrick Egan (1841–1919)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1889–1893)
- John Walker Fearn (1832–1899)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Greece (1885–1889)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Serbia (1885–1889)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Romania (1885–1899)
- 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)
- Frederic James Grant (1862–1894)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1892–1893)
- Frederick Dent Grant (1850–1912)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1889–1893)
- William Morton Grinnell (1857–1906)
- Third Assistant Secretary of State (1892–1893)
- Edward Burd Grubb (1841–1917)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1890–1892)
- Augustine Heard (1827–1905)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Korea (1890–1893)
- 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)
- Robert Todd Lincoln (1843–1926)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1889–1893)
- Edward Campbell Little (1858–1924)
- Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1892–1893)
- Rowland Blennerhassett Mahany (1864–1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1892–1893)
- 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.)
- William D. McCoy (1853–1893)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1892–1893)
- Romualdo Pacheco (1831–1899)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1890–1891)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1890–1891)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1890)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1890–1891)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1891–1893)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1891–1893)
- 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)
- William Potter (1852–1926)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Italy (1892–1894)
- Whitelaw Reid (1837–1912)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, France (1889–1892)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1905–1912)
- Thomas Ryan (1837–1914)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1889–1893)
- 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)
- Richard Cutts Shannon (1839–1920)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1891–1893)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1891–1893)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1891–1893)
- Charles Emory Smith (1842–1908)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1890–1892)
- Archibald Loudon Snowden (1837–1912)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Greece (1889–1891)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Serbia (1889–1892)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Romania (1889–1892)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece (1891–1892)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Serbia (1891)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1891–1892)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1892–1893)
- Watson Robertson Sperry (1842–1926)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Iran (1892–1893)
- 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)
- 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)
- David Preston Thompson (1834–1901)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1892–1893)
- 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)
- Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Germany (1879–1881)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Russia (1892–1894)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1897–1902)