Office of the Historian

Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1916

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)
  • Olney Arnold (1861–1916)
    • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1913–1916)
  • *Arthur Bailly-Blanchard (1855–1925)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1914–1921)
  • Thomas Howard Birch (1875–1929)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1913–1922)
  • John Lawrence Caldwell (1875–1922)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iran (1914–1921)
  • James L. Curtis (1870–1917)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1915–1917)
  • Garrett Droppers (1860–1927)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece (1914–1920)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Montenegro (1914–1918)
  • Maurice Francis Egan (1852–1924)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1907–1917)
  • Abram Isaac Elkus (1867–1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1916–1917)
  • John Ewing (1857–1923)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1913–1918)
  • *Henry Prather Fletcher (1873–1959)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Chile (1909–1914)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1914–1916)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1916–1919)
    • Under Secretary of State (1921–1922)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1922–1924)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1923–1924)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1924–1929)
  • David Rowland Francis (1850–1927)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1916–1917)
  • James Watson Gerard III (1867–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1913–1917)
  • William Elliott Gonzales (1866–1937)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1913–1919)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1919–1921)
  • *Joseph Clark Grew (1880–1965)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Austria (1917)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1920–1921)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1921–1924)
    • Under Secretary of State (1924–1927)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1927–1932)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1932–1941)
    • Under Secretary of State (1944–1945)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1945)
  • George Wilkins Guthrie (1848–1917)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1913–1917)
  • Edward Joseph Hale (1839–1922)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1913–1917)
  • Charles Sampson Hartman (1861–1929)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1913–1922)
  • William Harrison Hornibrook (1884–1946)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1915–1916)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iran (1933–1936)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1935–1936)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1937–1941)
  • Benjamin Lafayette Jefferson (1871–1950)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1913–1921)
  • Robert Emmett Jeffery (1875–1935)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1915–1921)
  • Robert Lansing (1864–1928)
    • Counselor (1914–1915)
    • Secretary of State (1915–1920)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1915)
  • William Hayne Leavell (1850–1930)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1913–1918)
  • Boaz Walton Long (1876–1962)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1914–1917)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1919–1921)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1936–1938)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1938–1942)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1942–1943)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1943–1945)
  • George T. Marye (1857–1933)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1914–1916)
  • Preston Buford McGoodwin (1880–1945)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1913–1921)
  • Benton McMillin (1845–1933)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peru (1913–1919)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1919–1921)
  • Daniel Francis Mooney (1865–1930)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1914–1921)
  • Edwin Vernon Morgan (1865–1934)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1905–1910)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Korea (1905)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1909–1911)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1909–1911)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1911–1912)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1912–1933)
  • Henry Morgenthau (1856–1946)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1913–1916)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (Not commissioned; nomination not confirmed by the Senate.)
  • Ira Nelson Morris (1875–1942)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1914–1923)
  • John Davis O’Rear (1868–1918)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1913–1918)
  • John Eugene Osborne (1858–1943)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1913–1916)
  • Thomas Nelson Page (1853–1922)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1913–1919)
  • Walter Hines Page (1855–1918)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1913–1918)
  • Frederic Courtland Penfield (1855–1922)
    • Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1893–1897)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1913–1917)
  • *William Phillips (1878–1968)
    • Third Assistant Secretary of State (1909)
    • Third Assistant Secretary of State (1914–1917)
    • Assistant Secretary of State (1917–1920)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1920–1922)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1920–1922)
    • Under Secretary of State (1922–1924)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1924–1927)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1924–1927)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Canada (1927–1929)
    • Under Secretary of State (1933–1936)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1936–1941)
  • Frank Lyon Polk (1871–1943)
    • Counselor (1915–1919)
    • Under Secretary of State (1919–1920)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1920)
  • William Jennings Price (1873–1952)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1913–1921)
  • Paul Samuel Reinsch (1869–1923)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1913–1919)
  • William Worthington Russell (1859–1944)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1904–1905)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1905–1910)
    • Minister Resident/Consul General, Dominican Republic (1910–1911)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1911–1913)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1915–1925)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1925–1927)
  • Albert George Schmedemann (1864–1946)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Norway (1913–1921)
  • William Graves Sharp (1859–1922)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1914–1919)
  • Joseph Hooker Shea (1863–1928)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1916–1921)
  • Frederic Jesup Stimson (1855–1943)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1914–1921)
  • Pleasant Alexander Stovall (1857–1935)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1913–1919)
  • Thaddeus Austin Thomson (1853–1927)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1913–1916)
  • Henry van Dyke (1852–1933)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1913–1917)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1913–1917)
  • Charles Joseph Vopicka (1857–1935)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1913–1918)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Serbia (1913–1918)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1913–1920)
  • Brand Whitlock (1869–1934)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1913–1919)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1919–1921)
  • Joseph Edward Willard (1865–1924)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1913–1921)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1913)