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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1961

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

  • *Theodore Carter Achilles (1905–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1956–1960)
    • Counselor (1960–1961)
  • Anthony Boyce Akers (1914–1976)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1961–1963)
  • William Hollingsworth Attwood (1919–1989)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guinea (1961–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Kenya (1964–1966)
  • John Stothoff Badeau (1903–1995)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1961–1964)
  • *Charles Franklin Baldwin (1902–1993)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malaysia (1961–1964)
  • George Wildman Ball (1909–1994)
    • Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment (1961)
    • Under Secretary of State (1961–1966)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1968)
  • *Walworth Barbour (1908–1982)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel (1961–1973)
    • Career Ambassador (1969)
  • *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)
  • *Lucius Durham Battle (1918–2008)
    • Executive Secretary (1961–1962)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs (1962–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1964–1967)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1967–1968)
  • *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)
  • David Elliott Bell (1919–2000)
    • Administrator of the Agency for International Development (1961–1966)
  • *John Oscar Bell (1912–2000)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1961–1965)
  • Andrew Henry Thomas Berding (1902–1989)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1957–1961)
  • *Samuel David Berger (1911–1980)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea (1961–1964)
  • *Maurice Marshall Bernbaum (1910–2008)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1960–1965)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1965–1969)
  • Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. (1896–1961)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Norway (1935–1937)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1937–1943)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1941–1943)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Greece (1941–1942)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1941–1942)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Norway (1941–1942)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1941–1942)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1941–1943)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1942–1943)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1942–1943)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1942–1943)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Yugoslavia (1942–1943)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1943)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1943)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1961)
  • William McCormick Blair Jr. (1916–2015)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1961–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1964–1967)
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • Chester Bliss Bowles (1901–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1951–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1951–1953)
    • Ambassador at Large (1961–1963)
    • Under Secretary of State (1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1963–1969)
  • *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.)
  • *Aaron Switzer Brown (1913–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1961–1967)
  • *Winthrop Gilman Brown (1907–1987)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Laos (1960–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea (1964–1967)
    • Career Ambassador (1969)
  • David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (1898–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1949–1952)
    • Under Secretary of State (1952–1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1957–1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom (1961–1969)
    • Chief, China (1973–1974)
    • U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1974–1976)
  • 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)
  • *John Howard Burns (1913–2017)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Central African Republic (1961–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tanzania (1965–1969)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1969–1971)
  • *Charles Robert Burrows (1910–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1960–1965)
  • *William Walton Butterworth (1903–1975)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1949–1950)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1950–1953)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the European Union, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (1961–1962)
    • Career Ambassador (1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1962–1968)
  • *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)
  • *John Archibald Calhoun (1918–2000)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chad (1961–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tunisia (1969–1972)
  • Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan (1897–1968)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sierra Leone (1961–1963)
  • Abram Joseph Chayes (1922–2000)
    • Legal Adviser (1961–1964)
  • Harlan Cleveland (1918–2008)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1961–1965)
    • U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1965–1969)
  • Charles Woolsey Cole (1906–1978)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1961–1964)
  • Mercer Cook (1903–1987)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Niger (1961–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Senegal (1964–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, The Gambia (1965–1966)
  • Philip Hall Coombs (1915–2006)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs (1961–1962)
  • *William Avery Crawford (1915–2001)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania (1961–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Romania (1964–1965)
  • *William James Crockett (1914–1999)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1961–1963)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1963–1967)
  • 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)
  • Charles Francis Darlington (1904–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Gabon (1961–1964)
  • Nelson Binkley David (1906–)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (Montreal) (1957–1968)
  • 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)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1959)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1959–1963)
    • Career Ambassador (1962)
  • *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)
  • *William Redman Duggan (1915–1977)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Tanzania ()
  • Angier Biddle Duke (1915–1995)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1952–1953)
    • Chief of Protocol (1961–1965)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1965–1968)
    • Chief of Protocol (1968)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1968–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco (1979–1981)
  • *Elbridge Durbrow (1903–1997)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Vietnam (1957–1961)
  • Frederick Gary Dutton (1923–2005)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1961–1964)
  • 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)
    • Career Ambassador (1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1969–1970)
  • *Thomas Stuart Estes (1913–2001)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burkina Faso (1961–1966)
  • *John Scott Everton (1908–2003)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1961–1963)
  • 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.)
  • Thomas Knight Finletter (1893–1980)
    • U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1961–1965)
  • Paul Frederick Foster (1889–1972)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna) (1959–1961)
  • William Chapman Foster (1897–1984)
    • Administrator of the Economic Cooperation Administration (1950–1951)
    • Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1961–1968)
  • *Fulton Freeman (1915–1974)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1961–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1964–1969)
  • John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1961–1963)
  • *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)
  • James Maurice Gavin (1907–1990)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1961–1962)
  • Abraham Lincoln Gordon (1913–2009)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1961–1966)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1966–1967)
  • *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)
  • *Edmund Asbury Gullion (1913–1998)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Finland (1944)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Congo (Kinshasa) (1961–1964)
  • Eric Hill Hager (1918–1973)
    • Legal Adviser (1959–1961)
  • Fowler Hamilton (1911–1984)
    • Administrator of the Agency for International Development (1961–1962)
  • *William Jules Handley (1918–1979)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mali (1961–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1969–1973)
  • *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)
  • 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)
  • *Parker Thompson Hart (1910–1997)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Kuwait (1961–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1961–1965)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Yemen (1961–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1965–1968)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1968–1969)
    • Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1969)
  • *Norris S. Haselton (1902–1981)
    • Deputy Inspector General of Foreign Assistance (1961–1962)
    • Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service (1962–1964)
  • Lawrence Brooks Hays (1898–1981)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1961)
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • Roger Hilsman Jr. (1919–2014)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (1961–1963)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1963–1964)
  • *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.)
  • 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 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)
  • Roger Warren Jones (1908–1993)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1961–1962)
  • Philip Mayer Kaiser (1913–2007)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mauritania (1961–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Senegal (1961–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1977–1980)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1980–1981)
  • *George Frost Kennan (1904–2005)
    • Director of Policy Planning (1947–1949)
    • Counselor (1949–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1952)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1961–1963)
  • *Ridgway Brewster Knight (1911–2001)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Syria (1961–1965)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Syria (1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Belgium (1965–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1969–1973)
  • *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 Richardson Labouisse Jr. (1904–1987)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1961–1965)
  • 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)
  • James Isaac Loeb Jr. (1908–1992)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1961–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guinea (1963–1965)
  • *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)
  • 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)
  • *Dayton S. Mak (1917–)
    • Chargé d’Affaires, Kuwait (1962)
  • *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)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1953)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1953–1957)
    • Career Ambassador (1956)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria (1957–1962)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Spain ()
  • *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)
  • George Crews McGhee (1912–2005)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1949–1951)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1951–1953)
    • Counselor (1961)
    • Director of Policy Planning (1961)
    • Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1961–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1963–1968)
    • Ambassador at Large (1968–1969)
  • *Robinson McIlvaine (1913–2001)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Benin (1961–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guinea (1966–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Kenya (1969–1973)
  • 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 Moody McKinney (1910–2001)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna) (1957–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1961–1963)
  • 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)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1961–1962)
  • *Armin Henry Meyer (1914–2006)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1961–1965)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1965–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1969–1972)
  • *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)
  • deLesseps Story Morrison (1912–1964)
    • Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American States (Washington) (1961–1963)
  • 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)
  • Teodoro Moscoso (1910–1992)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1961)
  • *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)
  • Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965)
    • Director of the U.S. Information Agency (1961–1964)
  • *Robert Newbegin II (1905–1991)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1958–1960)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1960–1961)
  • *Frederick Ernest Nolting Jr. (1911–1989)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Vietnam (1961–1963)
  • *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)
  • *James Kedzie Penfield (1908–2004)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1961–1967)
  • Frederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson (1903–1983)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1957–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland (1969–1973)
  • *Leon Baqueiro Poullada (1913–1987)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Togo (1961–1964)
  • *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, Burkina Faso (1960–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Côte d’Ivoire (1960–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Niger (1960–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Benin (1960–1961)
  • Ogden Rogers Reid (1925–)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel (1959–1961)
  • *Herbert Reiner Jr. (1916–1999)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Sierra Leone ()
  • *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)
  • Edwin Oldfather Reischauer (1910–1990)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Japan (1961–1966)
  • John Stanley Rice (1899–1985)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1961–1964)
  • *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)
  • Walt Whitman Rostow (1916–2003)
    • Counselor (1961–1966)
    • Director of Policy Planning (1961–1966)
  • *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)
  • David Dean Rusk (1909–1994)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1949–1951)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State (1949–1950)
    • Secretary of State (1961–1969)
  • *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)
  • Gerard Coad Smith (1914–1994)
    • Director of Policy Planning (1957–1961)
    • Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1969–1973)
    • Ambassador at Large (1977–1980)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna) (1977–1980)
  • Henry DeWolf Smyth (1898–1986)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna) (1961–1970)
  • *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)
  • *Ben Solomon Stephansky (1913–1999)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1961–1963)
  • Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (1900–1965)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1961–1965)
  • William Edwards Stevenson (1900–1985)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1961–1964)
  • Harry Farnum Stimpson Jr. (1913–2005)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1959–1961)
  • Edward Grant Stockdale (1915–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1961–1962)
  • *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)
  • Phillips Talbot (1915–2010)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1961–1965)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1965–1969)
  • Henry Junior Taylor (1902–1984)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1957–1961)
  • Raymond L. Telles Jr. (1915–2013)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1961–1967)
  • *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)
  • *Raymond LeRoy Thurston (1913–1981)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1961–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Somalia (1965–1968)
  • *Clare Hayes Timberlake (1907–1982)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Congo (Kinshasa) (1960–1961)
  • *William Cattell Trimble (1907–1996)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1959–1962)
  • Roger Wellington Tubby (1910–1991)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1961–1962)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the European Office of the United Nations (Geneva) (1967–1969)
  • *John Wills Tuthill (1910–1996)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris) (1961–1962)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the European Union, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (1962–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1966–1969)
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • 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)
  • Gerhard Mennen Williams (1911–1988)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1961–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1968–1969)
  • *Murat Willis Williams (1914–1994)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1961–1964)
  • *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)
  • James Wilmer Wine (1918–1990)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1961–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Côte d’Ivoire (1962–1965)
  • *Robert Forbes Woodward (1908–2001)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1954–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1958–1961)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1961–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1961)
    • 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)
  • Kenneth Todd Young Jr. (1916–1972)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1961–1963)