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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1960

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

  • *Theodore Carter Achilles (1905–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1956–1960)
    • Counselor (1960–1961)
  • *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)
  • *John Moore Allison (1905–1978)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1952–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1953–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia (1957–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1958–1960)
  • *Leland Judd Barrows (1906–1988)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cameroon (1960–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Togo (1960–1961)
  • *Frederic Pearson Bartlett (1909–1970)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Madagascar (1960–1962)
  • *Jacob Dyneley Beam (1908–1993)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1966–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1969–1973)
  • *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)
  • Andrew Henry Thomas Berding (1902–1989)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1957–1961)
  • *Maurice Marshall Bernbaum (1910–2008)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1960–1965)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1965–1969)
  • *Wilton Wendell Blancke (1908–1971)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Central African Republic (1960–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chad (1960–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Congo (Brazzaville) (1960–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Gabon (1960–1961)
  • *Don Carroll Bliss (1897–1978)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1957–1960)
  • *Charles Eustis Bohlen (1904–1974)
    • Counselor (1947–1949)
    • Counselor (1951–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1953–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1957–1959)
    • Career Ambassador (1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1962–1968)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1967–1969)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1969)
  • *James Cowles Hart Bonbright (1903–1993)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1955–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1958–1961)
  • *Philip Wilson Bonsal (1903–1995)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Spain (1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1955–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1957–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cuba (1959–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco (1961–1962)
  • *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.)
  • *Winthrop Gilman Brown (1907–1987)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Laos (1960–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea (1964–1967)
    • Career Ambassador (1969)
  • Wiley Thomas Buchanan Jr. (1914–1986)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1953–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1956)
    • Chief of Protocol (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1975–1977)
  • Ellsworth Bunker (1894–1984)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1951–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1952–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1956–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1956–1959)
    • Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American States (Washington) (1964–1966)
    • Ambassador at Large (1966–1967)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Vietnam (1967–1973)
    • Ambassador at Large (1973–1978)
  • William Armistead Moale Burden (1906–1984)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1959–1961)
  • Warren Randolph Burgess (1889–1978)
    • U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1957–1961)
  • *Charles Robert Burrows (1910–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1960–1965)
  • *Homer Morrison Byington Jr. (1908–1987)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malaysia (1957–1961)
  • *Henry Alfred Byroade (1913–1993)
    • Director of the Bureau of German Affairs (1950–1952)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1952–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1955–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1956–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1959–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1963–1968)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1969–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1973–1977)
  • *John Moors Cabot (1901–1981)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Finland (1950–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1952)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1953–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1954–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1957–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1959–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1962–1965)
  • *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)
  • *Vinton Chapin (1900–1982)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1957–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1960)
  • Philip Kingsland Crowe (1908–1976)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1953–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1959–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1969–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1973–1975)
  • *Hugh Smith Cumming Jr. (1900–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia (1953–1957)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (1957–1961)
  • Nelson Binkley David (1906–)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (Montreal) (1957–1968)
  • *John Gunther Dean (1926–)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1974–1975)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1975–1978)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1978–1981)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1981–1985)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1985–1988)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Mali ()
  • *Henry Mark Valpey Dearborn (1913–2013)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Dominican Republic (1960)
  • Clarence Douglas Dillon (1909–2003)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1953–1957)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1957–1958)
    • Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment (1958–1959)
    • Under Secretary of State (1959–1961)
  • *Walter Cecil Dowling (1905–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea (1956–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1959–1963)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1959)
    • Career Ambassador (1962)
  • John Caspar Dreier (1906–1994)
    • Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American States (Washington) (1950–1960)
  • *Gerald Augustin Drew (1903–1970)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1950–1952)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1952–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1954–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1957–1960)
    • Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service (1960–1962)
  • *Everett Francis Drumright (1906–1993)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1958–1962)
  • *Donald Albert Dumont (1911–1996)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Mali (1960)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Burundi (1962–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burundi (1963–1966)
  • *Elbridge Durbrow (1903–1997)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Vietnam (1957–1961)
  • Lane Dwinell (1906–1997)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1959–1961)
  • *Charles Burke Elbrick (1908–1983)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1957–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1958–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1964–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1969–1970)
    • Career Ambassador (1969)
  • Joseph Simpson Farland (1914–2007)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1957–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1960–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1969–1972)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1972–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Fiji (Not commissioned; nomination of October 11, 1973, withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (Not commissioned; nomination of October 11, 1973, withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Samoa (Not commissioned; nomination of October 11, 1973, withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tonga (Not commissioned; nomination on October 11, 1973, withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
  • *Wilson Clark Flake (1906–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ghana (1957–1960)
  • Paul Frederick Foster (1889–1972)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna) (1959–1961)
  • *Waldemar John Gallman (1899–1980)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1948–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1951–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1954–1958)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1958–1961)
  • *Bernard Anthony Gufler (1903–1973)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Lithuania (1940)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1959–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland (1961–1963)
  • Eric Hill Hager (1918–1973)
    • Legal Adviser (1959–1961)
  • *Raymond Arthur Hare (1901–1994)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1950–1953)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1950–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1953–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1956–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1958–1959)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1959)
    • Career Ambassador (1960)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1960–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1961–1965)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1965–1966)
  • *Julian Fiske Harrington (1901–1984)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1955–1960)
  • *Donald Read Heath (1894–1981)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1947–1950)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1950–1952)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Laos (1950–1954)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, State of Vietnam (1950–1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1952–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, State of Vietnam (1952–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1955–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1957–1961)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1957)
  • *Louis Douglas Heck (1918–1993)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Niger (1974–1976)
    • Director of the Bureau of Counterterrorism (1976–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1977–1980)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Cyprus ()
  • *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)
  • Christian Archibald Herter (1895–1966)
    • Under Secretary of State (1957–1959)
    • Secretary of State (1959–1961)
    • U.S. Trade Representative (1962–1966)
  • *John Dewey Hickerson (1898–1989)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1949–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland (1955–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1959–1961)
  • Robert Charles Hill (1917–1978)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1953–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1954–1955)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1956–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1957–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1969–1972)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1973–1977)
  • Harold Boies Hoskins (1895–?)
    • Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1955–1961)
  • Amory Houghton (1899–1981)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1957–1961)
  • Walter Howe (1907–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1958–1961)
  • *John Roland Jacobs (1911–)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Madagascar ()
  • *John Durnford Jernegan (1911–1981)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1958–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Algeria (1965–1967)
  • *Ural Alexis Johnson (1908–1997)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1953–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1958–1961)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1961–1964)
    • Career Ambassador (1964)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1965–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1966–1969)
    • Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1969–1973)
    • Ambassador at Large (1973–1977)
  • *George Lewis Jones (1907–1971)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tunisia (1956–1959)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1959–1961)
  • *Howard Palfrey Jones (1899–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia (1958–1965)
  • *John Wesley Jones (1907–1998)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Libya (1958–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1962–1969)
  • Thorsten Valentine Kalijarvi (1897–1980)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1957–1960)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (1957)
  • David Brewer Karrick (1893–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1960)
  • *Foy David Kohler (1908–1990)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1959–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1962–1966)
    • Career Ambassador (1964)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1966–1967)
  • Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902–1985)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1953–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Vietnam (1963–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Vietnam (1965–1967)
    • Ambassador at Large (1967–1968)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1968–1969)
    • Personal Representative of the President, Holy See (1977)
  • John Davis Lodge (1903–1985)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1955–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1969–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1983–1985)
  • *Alan Wood Lukens (1924–2019)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Congo (Brazzaville) (1984–1987)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Central African Republic ()
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Chad ()
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Congo (Brazzaville) ()
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Gabon ()
  • *Andrew Green Lynch (1902–1966)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Somalia (1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Somalia (1960–1962)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Libya ()
  • *Douglas MacArthur II (1909–1997)
    • Counselor (1953–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1956–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1961–1965)
    • Career Ambassador (1964)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1965–1967)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1967–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1969–1972)
  • *Jesse MacKenzie MacKnight (1910–1990)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Togo ()
  • William Butts Macomber Jr. (1921–2003)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1961–1963)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1967–1969)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1969–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1973–1977)
  • *Thomas Clifton Mann (1912–1999)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1955–1957)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (1957–1960)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1961–1963)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1963–1965)
    • Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment (1965–1966)
  • *Edwin McCammon Martin (1908–2002)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (1960–1962)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1962–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1964–1968)
    • Career Ambassador (1969)
  • *Graham Anderson Martin (1912–1990)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the European Office of the United Nations (Geneva) (1960–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1963–1967)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1969–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Vietnam (1973–1975)
  • *Elbert George Mathews (1910–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1959–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nigeria (1964–1969)
  • *Harrison Freeman Matthews (1899–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1947–1950)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1947)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1953–1957)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1953)
    • Career Ambassador (1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1957–1962)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Spain ()
  • *Roswell Dunlop McClelland (1914–1995)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Senegal (1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Niger (1970–1973)
  • *Robert Mills McClintock (1909–1976)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1954–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1962–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1970–1975)
  • *Walter Patrick McConaughy Jr. (1908–2000)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1957–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea (1959–1961)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1962–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1966–1974)
  • Dempster McIntosh (1896–1984)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1953–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1956–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1959–1961)
  • Robert Walter Scott McLeod (1914–1961)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs (1953–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1957–1961)
  • *Livingston Tallmadge Merchant (1903–1976)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1953–1956)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1953–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1956–1958)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1959)
    • Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1959–1961)
    • Career Ambassador (1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1961–1962)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1961)
  • *Raymond Clendenin Miller (1895–1963)
    • Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service (1957–1960)
  • *Sheldon Tibbetts Mills (1904–1988)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1954–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1956–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1959–1961)
  • *James Sayle Moose Jr. (1903–1989)
    • Minister Resident/Foreign Service officer, Saudi Arabia (1943–1944)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Syria (1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Syria (1952–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sudan (1958–1962)
  • *James Bolard More (1907–)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Cameroon ()
  • John Howard Morrow (1910–2000)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guinea (1959–1961)
    • U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (1961–1963)
  • *John Joseph Muccio (1900–1989)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea (1949–1952)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1954–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1955–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1959–1961)
  • *Robert Newbegin II (1905–1991)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1958–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1960–1961)
  • *Donald Richard Norland (1924–2007)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Botswana (1976–1979)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lesotho (1976–1979)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Swaziland (1976–1979)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chad (1979–1980)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Benin (Presented credentials as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim on July 31, 1960, to take effect on August 1, 1960.)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Burkina Faso (Presented credentials as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim on August 4, 1960, to take effect on August 5, 1960.)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Côte d’Ivoire ()
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Niger (Presented credentials as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim on August 2, 1960, to take effect on August 3, 1960.)
  • *Edward Page Jr. (1905–1965)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1959–1962)
  • *Joseph Palmer II (1914–1994)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nigeria (1960–1964)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1964–1966)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1966–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Libya (1969–1972)
  • *James Graham Parsons (1907–1991)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Laos (1956–1958)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1959–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1961–1967)
  • Frederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson (1903–1983)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland (1969–1973)
  • *Karl Lott Rankin (1898–1991)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, China (1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1953–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1957–1961)
  • *Christian Magelssen Ravndal (1899–1984)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1947–1949)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1949–1951)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1951–1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1956–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1960–1961)
  • *Robert Borden Reams (1904–1994)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Denmark (1941)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Benin (1960–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burkina Faso (1960–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Côte d’Ivoire (1960–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Niger (1960–1961)
  • Ogden Rogers Reid (1925–)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel (1959–1961)
  • *George Frederick Reinhardt (1911–1971)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Vietnam (1955–1957)
    • Counselor (1957–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1960–1961)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1960–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1961–1968)
  • *Arthur Lincoln Richards (1907–1991)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1960–1962)
  • *James Williams Riddleberger (1904–1982)
    • Director of the Bureau of German Affairs (1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1953–1958)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1958–1959)
    • Director of the International Cooperation Administration (1959–1961)
    • Career Ambassador (1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1962–1967)
  • *William Manning Rountree (1917–1995)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1956–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1959–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sudan (1962–1965)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1965–1970)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1970–1973)
  • *Roy Richard Rubottom Jr. (1912–2010)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1957–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1960–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1960)
  • *Francis Henry Russell (1904–1989)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1957–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ghana (1960–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tunisia (1962–1969)
  • *Joseph Charles Satterthwaite (1900–1990)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1949–1953)
    • Diplomatic Agent/Consul General, Morocco (1953–1955)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1955–1957)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1957–1958)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1958–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1961–1965)
  • *William Joseph Sebald (1901–1980)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1952–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1957–1961)
  • Edson Oliver Sessions (1902–1987)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland (1959–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1968–1970)
  • Gerard Coad Smith (1914–1994)
    • Director of Policy Planning (1957–1961)
    • Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1969–1973)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna) (1977–1980)
    • Ambassador at Large (1977–1980)
  • *Horace Harrison Smith (1905–1976)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Laos (1958–1960)
  • *William Pennell Snow (1907–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1959–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1961–1967)
  • *Edward John Sparks (1897–1976)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1951–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1955–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1958–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1961–1962)
  • *Henry Endicott Stebbins (1905–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1959–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uganda (1966–1969)
  • Harry Farnum Stimpson Jr. (1913–2005)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1959–1961)
  • *Carl Walther Strom (1899–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1956–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1959–1961)
    • Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1961–1962)
  • Allingham Burks Summers (1898–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1960–1961)
  • Henry Junior Taylor (1902–1984)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1957–1961)
  • *Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr. (1904–1972)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1952–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1957–1962)
    • Career Ambassador (1960)
    • Ambassador at Large (1962–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1966–1969)
  • *Tyler Thompson (1907–2002)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1960–1961)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1961–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland (1964–1969)
  • *Clare Hayes Timberlake (1907–1982)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Congo (Kinshasa) (1960–1961)
  • *John Doren Tomlinson (1903–1981)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Congo (Kinshasa) ()
  • *William Cattell Trimble (1907–1996)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1959–1962)
  • *Henry Serrano Villard (1900–1996)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Libya (1952–1954)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the European Office of the United Nations (Geneva) (1958–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mauritania (1960–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Senegal (1960–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mali (Commissioned to the Federation of Mali (capital at Dakar). Took oath of office, but the Federation of Mali was dissolved before Villard proceeded to post. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned on August 27, 1960, after confirmation.)
  • James Jeremiah Wadsworth (1905–1984)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1960–1961)
  • *Edward Thompson Wailes (1903–1969)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1953–1954)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1954–1956)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1958–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1961–1962)
  • *Walter Newbold Walmsley Jr. (1904–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tunisia (1959–1962)
  • *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)
  • *Clifton Reginald Wharton (1899–1990)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1958–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1961–1964)
  • Thomas Edward Whelan (1895–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1951–1961)
  • John Hay Whitney (1904–1982)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1957–1961)
  • Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth (1891–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1958–1960)
  • Francis Orlando Wilcox (1908–1985)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1955–1961)
  • *Fraser Wilkins (1908–1989)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cyprus (1960–1964)
    • Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service (1964–1971)
  • Whiting Willauer (1906–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1954–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1958–1961)
  • *Frances Elizabeth Willis (1899–1983)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1953–1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1961–1964)
    • Career Ambassador (1962)
  • *Robert Forbes Woodward (1908–2001)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1954–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1958–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1961)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1961–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1962–1965)
  • *Thomas Kenneth Wright (1908–1998)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Malaysia (1957)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mali (1960–1961)
  • *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)
  • Philip Young (1910–1987)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1957–1960)
  • James David Zellerbach (1892–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1956–1960)