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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1922
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- 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)
- Gerhard Adolph Bading (1870–1946)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1922–1929)
- Thomas Howard Birch (1875–1929)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1913–1922)
- *Maxwell Blake (1877–1959)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Morocco (1917)
- Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1917–1922)
- Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1925–1940)
- *Robert Woods Bliss (1875–1962)
- Third Assistant Secretary of State (1921–1923)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1923–1927)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1927–1933)
- Theodore Brentano (1854–1940)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1922–1927)
- Edward Everett Brodie (1876–1939)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1921–1925)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland (1930–1933)
- Richard Washburn Child (1881–1935)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1921–1924)
- Frederick William Backus Coleman (1874–1947)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Estonia (1922–1931)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Latvia (1922–1931)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lithuania (1922–1931)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1931–1933)
- William Miller Collier (1867–1956)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain (1905–1909)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1921–1928)
- Willis Clifford Cook (1874–1942)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1921–1929)
- Jesse Samuel Cottrell (1878–1944)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1921–1928)
- Roy Tasco Davis (1889–1975)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1921)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1922–1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1929–1933)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1953–1957)
- *Fred Morris Dearing (1879–1963)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1921–1922)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1922–1930)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1930–1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1937–1938)
- Joseph M. Denning (1866–1927)
- Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1922–1924)
- Henry Percival Dodge (1870–1936)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1907–1909)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1907–1909)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1908)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Morocco (1909–1910)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1911–1913)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1919–1926)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1926–1930)
- Ellis Loring Dresel (1865–1925)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Germany (1921–1922)
- Lewis David Einstein (1877–1967)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1911)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1921–1930)
- *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)
- *Arthur Hugh Frazier (1868–1963)
- Chargé d’Affaires pro tempore, Austria (1922)
- Arthur H. Geissler (1877–1945)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1922–1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1929)
- *Hugh Simons Gibson (1883–1954)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Poland (1919–1924)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1924–1927)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1927–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1927–1933)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1933–1936)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1937–1938)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1937–1938)
- *Ulysses Grant-Smith (1870–1959)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Albania (1922–1925)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1925–1929)
- *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)
- *Leland Harrison (1883–1951)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1922–1924)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1924–1927)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1927–1929)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1929–1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1935–1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1937–1947)
- Charles Sampson Hartman (1861–1929)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1913–1922)
- George Brinton McClellan Harvey (1864–1928)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1921–1923)
- Myron Timothy Herrick (1854–1929)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1912–1914)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1921–1929)
- Solomon Porter Hood (1853–1943)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1921–1926)
- Alanson Bigelow Houghton (1863–1941)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1922–1925)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1925–1929)
- Joseph Morton Howell (1863–1937)
- Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1921–1922)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1922–1927)
- Charles Evans Hughes (1862–1948)
- Secretary of State (1921–1925)
- Peter Augustus Jay (1877–1933)
- Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1909–1913)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1920–1921)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1921–1925)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1925–1926)
- Joseph Lowery Johnson (1874–1945)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1918–1922)
- Charles Lemuel Kagey (1876–1941)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland (1921–1925)
- Joseph Saul Kornfeld (1876–1943)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iran (1921–1924)
- *Alexander Richardson Magruder (1883–1973)
- Chargé d’Affaires pro tempore, Finland (1922)
- Franklin E. Morales (1884–1962)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1921–1925)
- 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)
- Ira Nelson Morris (1875–1942)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1914–1923)
- William Joseph O’Toole (1894–1928)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1922–1924)
- Hoffman Philip (1872–1951)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Ethiopia (1908–1910)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1917–1922)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1922–1925)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iran (1925–1928)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Norway (1930–1935)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1935–1937)
- *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)
- Samuel Henry Piles (1858–1940)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1922–1928)
- John Dyneley Prince (1868–1945)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1921–1926)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1926–1932)
- John Edward Ramer (1870–1926)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1921–1925)
- John Wallace Riddle (1864–1941)
- Agent/Consul General, Egypt (1903–1905)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Serbia (1905–1907)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1905–1907)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1906–1909)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1921–1925)
- 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)
- Jacob Gould Schurman (1854–1942)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece (1912–1913)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Montenegro (1912–1913)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1921–1925)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1925–1930)
- Montgomery Schuyler Jr. (1877–1955)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1913)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1921–1925)
- John Glover South (1873–1940)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1921–1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1929–1933)
- Laurits Selmer Swenson (1865–1947)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1897–1905)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1909–1911)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Norway (1911–1913)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Norway (1921–1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1931–1934)
- Charles Beecher Warren (1870–1936)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1921–1922)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1924)
- Albert Henry Washburn (1866–1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1922–1930)
- *Charles Stetson Wilson (1873–1947)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Bulgaria (1921)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1921–1928)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1928–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1933–1937)
- Cyrus E. Woods (1861–1938)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1912–1913)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1921–1923)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1923–1924)