Office of the Historian

Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1946

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

  • 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)
  • *George Venable Allen (1903–1970)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1946–1948)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1948–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1949–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1953–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1953–1954)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1955–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1956–1957)
    • Director of the U.S. Information Agency (1957–1960)
    • Career Ambassador (1960)
    • Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1966–1968)
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • Charles Ulrick Bay (1888–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1946–1953)
  • *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)
  • *George Howland Butler (1894–1967)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1946–1948)
  • Robert Butler (1897–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1946–1948)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1948–1951)
  • 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)
  • *Selden Chapin (1899–1963)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1946–1947)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1947–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1949–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1953–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1955–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1960)
  • *James Rives Childs (1893–1987)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Morocco (1945)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1946–1949)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1946–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1949–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1951–1953)
  • William Lockhart Clayton (1880–1966)
    • Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment (1946–1947)
  • 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)
  • William Prentice Cooper Jr. (1895–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1946–1948)
  • 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)
  • *John George Erhardt (1889–1951)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Austria (1946–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1950–1951)
  • 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)
  • Charles Fahy (1892–1979)
    • Legal Adviser (1946–1947)
  • *Joseph Flack (1894–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1946–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1949–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1950–1955)
  • Oliver Maxwell Gardner (1882–1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1946)
  • David Gray Jr. (1870–1968)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1940–1947)
  • 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)
  • John Henry Hilldring (1895–1974)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas (1946–1947)
  • 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)
  • Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck (1883–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1944–1947)
  • *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)
  • Alan Goodrich Kirk (1888–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1946–1949)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1946–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1949–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1962–1963)
  • *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)
  • 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)
  • Raphael O’Hara Lanier (1900–1962)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1946–1948)
  • 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)
  • Josiah Marvel Jr. (1904–1955)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1946–1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1947–1949)
  • *Joseph F. McGurk (1892–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1945)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1946–1947)
  • Paul Vories McNutt (1891–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1946–1947)
  • *George Robert Merrell (1898–1962)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Haiti (1926)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1947–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1949–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1951–1952)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, India ()
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • William Douglas Pawley (1896–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1945–1946)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1946–1948)
  • *Lowell Call Pinkerton (1894–1959)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1946)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1946)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1947–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sudan (1956–1957)
  • Donald Stuart Russell (1906–1998)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1945–1947)
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • Walter Bedell Smith (1895–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1946–1948)
    • Under Secretary of State (1953–1954)
  • *Edwin Forward Stanton (1901–1968)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1946–1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1947–1953)
  • 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)
  • John Leighton Stuart (1876–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1946–1949)
  • Myron Charles Taylor (1874–1959)
    • Personal Representative of the President, Holy See (1950)
  • Willard Long Thorp (1899–1992)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (1946–1952)
  • *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)
  • *Harold Hilgard Tittmann Jr. (1893–1980)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Holy See (1944)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1946–1948)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1948–1955)
  • *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 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)
  • *Stanley Woodward (1899–1992)
    • Chief of Protocol (1944)
    • Chief of Protocol (1946–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1950–1953)
  • *Charles Woodruff Yost (1907–1981)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Thailand (1946)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Laos (1954–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Laos (1955–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Syria (1957–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco (1958–1961)
    • Career Ambassador (1964)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1969–1971)