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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1945
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- Dean Gooderham Acheson (1893–1971)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1941)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1945)
- Under Secretary of State (1945–1947)
- Secretary of State (1949–1953)
- *Paul Humiston Alling (1896–1949)
- Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1945–1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1947–1948)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Syria (1947)
- *Norman Armour (1887–1982)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1932–1933)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1933–1935)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Canada (1935–1938)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1938–1939)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1939–1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1944–1945)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1947–1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1950–1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1954–1955)
- *Ray Atherton (1883–1960)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Greece (1924)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1937–1939)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1939–1940)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Canada (1943)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1943–1948)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1943)
- Herman Benjamin Baruch (1872–1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1945–1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1947–1949)
- *Willard Leon Beaulac (1899–1990)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1944–1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1947–1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1951–1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1953–1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1956–1960)
- William Burnett Benton (1900–1973)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1945–1947)
- Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (1895–1971)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1938–1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1945–1946)
- Claude Gernade Bowers (1878–1958)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1933–1939)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1939–1953)
- Spruille Braden (1894–1978)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1935)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1939–1942)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1941–1945)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1945–1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1945)
- *Ellis Ormsbee Briggs (1899–1976)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1944–1945)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1947–1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1949–1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea (1952–1955)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1955–1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1956–1959)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1959–1962)
- Career Ambassador (1960)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
- James Francis Byrnes (1882–1972)
- Secretary of State (1945–1947)
- *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)
- *John Kenneth Caldwell (1881–1982)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Ethiopia (1943)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1943–1945)
- Benjamin Victor Cohen (1894–1983)
- Counselor (1945–1947)
- *Felix Cole (1887–1969)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Russia (1919)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1945–1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1948–1949)
- Francis Patrick Corrigan (1881–1968)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1934–1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Panama (1937–1939)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1939–1947)
- *Monnett Bain Davis (1893–1953)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1945–1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1948–1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel (1951–1953)
- *William Dawson Jr. (1885–1972)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1930–1935)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1934–1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1937–1939)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1937)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1939–1941)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1941–1946)
- Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American States (Washington) (1948)
- *Louis Goethe Dreyfus Jr. (1889–1973)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iran (1939–1943)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1940–1942)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1944–1946)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1946–1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1949–1951)
- *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)
- William Alfred Eddy (1896–1962)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1944–1946)
- *Cornelius Van Hemert Engert (1887–1985)
- Minister Resident/Consul General, Ethiopia (1936)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Iran (1940)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1942–1945)
- John Draper Erwin (1883–1983)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1937–1943)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1943–1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1951–1954)
- David Gray Jr. (1870–1968)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1940–1947)
- *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)
- Green Haywood Hackworth (1883–1973)
- Legal Adviser (1931–1946)
- *Maxwell McGaughey Hamilton (1896–1957)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland (1945–1947)
- William Averell Harriman (1891–1986)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1943–1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1946)
- Director of the Mutual Security Agency (1951–1953)
- Ambassador at Large (1961)
- Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1961–1963)
- Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1963–1965)
- Ambassador at Large (1965–1969)
- *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)
- Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes (1882–1964)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1942–1945)
- *Loy Wesley Henderson (1892–1986)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1943–1945)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1948–1951)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1948–1951)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1951–1954)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1955)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1955)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1955–1961)
- Career Ambassador (1956)
- Frank Thomas Hines (1879–1960)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1945–1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1945)
- Thomas Holcomb Jr. (1879–1965)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1944–1948)
- *Julius Cecil Holmes (1899–1968)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1944–1945)
- Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1955–1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1961–1965)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
- Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck (1883–1966)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1944–1947)
- *Benjamin Mayham Hulley (1898–)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Finland ()
- Patrick Jay Hurley (1883–1963)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1942)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1944–1945)
- *Hallett Johnson (1888–1968)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1944–1947)
- *Herschel Vespasian Johnson II (1894–1966)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1941–1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1948–1953)
- *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)
- *Alexander Comstock Kirk (1888–1979)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Germany (1940)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1941–1944)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1941–1943)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1943)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1944–1946)
- *Alfred Will Klieforth (1889–1969)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Czechoslovakia ()
- Edwin Jackson Kyle (1876–1963)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1945–1948)
- *Arthur Bliss Lane (1894–1956)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1933–1936)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Estonia (1936–1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Latvia (1936–1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lithuania (1936–1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1937–1941)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1941–1942)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1942–1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1944–1947)
- 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)
- Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1944–1945)
- Lincoln MacVeagh (1890–1972)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece (1933–1941)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1941–1942)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1942–1943)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1943–1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1943–1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1948–1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1952–1953)
- Frank McCarthy (1912–1986)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1945)
- *Joseph F. McGurk (1892–1962)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1945)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1946–1947)
- *George Strausser Messersmith (1883–1960)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1934–1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1934)
- Assistant Secretary of State (1937–1940)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1940–1942)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1941–1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1946–1947)
- *Leland Burnette Morris (1886–1950)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Germany (1941)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1942–1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1944–1945)
- *Wallace Smith Murray (1887–1965)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1945–1946)
- *Raymond Henry Norweb (1894–1983)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1936–1937)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1937–1940)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1940–1943)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1943–1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1944–1945)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1945–1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1945)
- *Lithgow Osborne (1892–1980)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1944–1946)
- *Ely Eliot Palmer (1887–1977)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1945–1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1948)
- Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr. (1896–1966)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1944–1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1948–1950)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1951–1953)
- *Kenneth Stuart Patton (1882–1960)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1944–1945)
- William Douglas Pawley (1896–1977)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1945–1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1946–1948)
- Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908–1979)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1944–1945)
- Donald Stuart Russell (1906–1998)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1945–1947)
- Charles Sawyer (1887–1979)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1944–1945)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1944–1945)
- *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)
- *Rudolf Emil Schoenfeld (1895–1981)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Belgium (1944)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Luxembourg (1944)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Poland (1945)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1947–1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1951–1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1953–1955)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Belgium (Served as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim near the Government of Belgium established in England.)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Belgium (Schoenfeld established the Legation near the Government of the Netherlands in the United Kingdom.)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Norway ()
- *Robert McGregor Scotten (1891–1968)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1940–1942)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1942–1943)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1943–1947)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1947–1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1948–1955)
- *John Farr Simmons (1892–1968)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1944–1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1947–1950)
- Chief of Protocol (1950–1957)
- Laurence Adolph Steinhardt (1892–1950)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1933–1937)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1937–1939)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1939–1941)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1942–1945)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1944–1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1948–1950)
- Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. (1900–1949)
- Under Secretary of State (1943–1944)
- Secretary of State (1944–1945)
- Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1945–1946)
- *James Bolton Stewart (1882–1969)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1942–1943)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1943–1945)
- Myron Charles Taylor (1874–1959)
- Personal Representative of the President, Holy See (1950)
- *Walter Clarence Thurston (1894–1974)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Costa Rica (1922)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1942–1943)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1943–1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1944–1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1946–1950)
- *Somerville Pinkney Tuck Jr. (1891–1967)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, France (1942)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1944–1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1946–1948)
- *George Wadsworth II (1893–1958)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Italy (1941)
- Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Lebanon (1942–1944)
- Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Syria (1942–1944)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1944–1947)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Syria (1944–1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1946)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1947–1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1948–1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1952–1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1953–1958)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1953–1958)
- Lester Aglar Walton (1882–1965)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1935–1946)
- *Avra Milvin Warren (1893–1957)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1942–1943)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1943–1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1944–1945)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1945–1947)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland (1947–1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1949)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1950–1952)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1953–1956)
- *William Fletcher Warren (1896–1992)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1945–1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1947–1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1951–1956)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1956–1960)
- *John Campbell White (1884–1967)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1940–1943)
- Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1940–1941)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1943–1944)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1944–1945)
- *John Cooper Wiley (1893–1967)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Austria (1938)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Estonia (1938–1940)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Latvia (1938–1940)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1944–1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1947–1948)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1948–1950)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1951–1953)
- *Edwin Carleton Wilson (1893–1972)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1939–1941)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1941–1943)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1945–1948)
- *Orme Wilson Jr. (1885–1966)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1944–1946)
- John Gilbert Winant (1889–1947)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1941–1946)