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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1929
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- Gerhard Adolph Bading (1870–1946)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1922–1929)
- *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)
- *Jefferson Caffery (1886–1974)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Greece (1923)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1926–1928)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1928–1933)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1933)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1934–1937)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1937–1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1944–1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1949–1955)
- Wilbur John Carr (1870–1942)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1924–1933)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1933–1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1937–1939)
- William Richards Castle Jr. (1878–1963)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1927–1929)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1929–1930)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1930–1931)
- Under Secretary of State (1931–1933)
- Joshua Reuben Clark Jr. (1871–1961)
- Under Secretary of State (1928–1929)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1930–1933)
- 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)
- Willis Clifford Cook (1874–1942)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1921–1929)
- Joseph Potter Cotton (1875–1931)
- Under Secretary of State (1929–1931)
- William Smith Culbertson (1884–1966)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1925–1928)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1928–1933)
- *Charles Boyd Curtis (1878–1962)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1929–1931)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1931)
- 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)
- Charles Gates Dawes (1865–1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1929–1931)
- *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)
- Gerrit John Diekema (1859–1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1929–1930)
- 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)
- *James Clement Dunn (1890–1979)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Haiti (1924)
- Chief of Protocol (1928–1930)
- Chief of Protocol (1933–1935)
- Assistant Secretary of State for European, Far Eastern, Near Eastern, and African Affairs (1944–1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1946–1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1952–1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1953–1955)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1955–1956)
- Career Ambassador (1956)
- *Charles Christopher Eberhardt (1871–1965)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1925–1929)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1930–1933)
- Walter Evans Edge (1873–1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1929–1933)
- 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)
- William Treyanne Francis (1870–1929)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Liberia (1927–1929)
- John Work Garrett (1872–1942)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1910–1911)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1911–1913)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1917–1919)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1917–1919)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1929–1933)
- 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)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1927–1933)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1927–1933)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1933–1936)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1937–1938)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (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)
- Harry Frank Guggenheim (1890–1971)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1929–1933)
- *Franklin Mott Gunther (1885–1941)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1928–1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1937–1941)
- Ogden Haggerty Hammond (1869–1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1925–1929)
- *Matthew Elting Hanna (1873–1936)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1929–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1933–1936)
- *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 Calmer Hart (1878–1956)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Albania (1925–1928)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iran (1929–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Albania (1929)
- Myron Timothy Herrick (1854–1929)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1912–1914)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1921–1929)
- Alanson Bigelow Houghton (1863–1941)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1922–1925)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1925–1929)
- *Nelson Trusler Johnson (1887–1954)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1927–1929)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1929–1935)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1935–1941)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Australia (1941–1945)
- Noble Brandon Judah (1884–1938)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1927–1929)
- David E. Kaufman (1883–1962)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1928–1929)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1930–1933)
- Frank Billings Kellogg (1856–1937)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1923–1925)
- Secretary of State (1925–1929)
- George Lewis Kreeck (1882–1945)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1925–1930)
- *Irwin Boyle Laughlin (1871–1941)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece (1924–1926)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1929–1933)
- *Julius Gareche Lay (1872–1939)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1929–1935)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1934)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1935–1937)
- Harold Orville MacKenzie (1886–1980)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1927–1930)
- *John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1881–1960)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1924–1925)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, China (1925–1929)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Estonia (1933–1936)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Latvia (1933–1936)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lithuania (1933–1936)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1936–1941)
- Alexander Pollock Moore (1867–1930)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1923–1925)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1928–1929)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1930)
- 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)
- Dwight Whitney Morrow (1873–1931)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1927–1930)
- Alfred John Pearson (1869–1939)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Poland (1924–1925)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland (1925–1930)
- *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, Luxembourg (1920–1922)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1920–1922)
- Under Secretary of State (1922–1924)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1924–1927)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1924–1927)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Canada (1927–1929)
- Under Secretary of State (1933–1936)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1936–1941)
- John Dyneley Prince (1868–1945)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1921–1926)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1926–1932)
- *Warren Delano Robbins (1885–1935)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1928–1931)
- Chief of Protocol (1931–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Canada (1933–1935)
- *Hans Frederick Arthur Schoenfeld (1889–1952)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1928)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1929)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1931–1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland (1937–1942)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1945–1947)
- 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)
- *Robert Peet Skinner (1866–1960)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece (1926–1932)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Estonia (1931–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Latvia (1931–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lithuania (1931–1933)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1933–1936)
- John Glover South (1873–1940)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1921–1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1929–1933)
- *Addison E. Southard (1884–1970)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Ethiopia (1927–1934)
- *Frederick Augustine Sterling (1876–1957)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1927–1934)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1933–1936)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Estonia (1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Latvia (1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1938–1941)
- John Batterson Stetson Jr. (1884–1952)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland (1925)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Poland (1925–1929)
- Henry Lewis Stimson (1867–1950)
- Secretary of State (1929–1933)
- *George Thomas Summerlin (1872–1947)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Mexico (1924)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1925–1929)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1929–1935)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1934)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1935–1937)
- Chief of Protocol (1937)
- 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)
- Richard Montgomery Tobin (1866–1952)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1923)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1923–1929)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1923)
- *Ralph James Totten (1877–1949)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, South Africa (1929–1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1930–1937)
- Albert Henry Washburn (1866–1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1922–1930)
- *George Post Wheeler (1869–1956)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1929–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Albania (1933–1934)
- *Francis White (1892–1961)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1927–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1933)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1953–1957)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1957–1958)
- *Sheldon Whitehouse (1883–1965)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1929–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1933–1934)
- *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)
- *Hugh Robert Wilson (1885–1946)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1927–1937)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1937–1938)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1938)
- *Joshua Butler Wright (1877–1939)
- Third Assistant Secretary of State (1923–1924)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1924–1927)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1927–1930)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1930–1934)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1934–1937)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1937–1939)
- Evan Erastus Young (1878–1946)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1911–1912)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1925–1929)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1929)