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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1962
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- Anthony Boyce Akers (1914–1976)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1961–1963)
- Helen Eugenie Moore Anderson (1909–1997)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1949–1953)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1962–1964)
- 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)
- William Cullen Battle (1920–2008)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1962–1964)
- 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)
- *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)
- 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, Congo (Brazzaville) (1960–1963)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chad (1960–1961)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Central African Republic (1960–1961)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Gabon (1960–1961)
- *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)
- *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)
- Under Secretary of State (1961)
- Ambassador at Large (1961–1963)
- 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)
- William H. Brubeck (1920–)
- Executive Secretary (1962–1963)
- 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)
- *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)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1962–1968)
- Career Ambassador (1962)
- *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)
- *Irving Gottlieb Cheslaw (1921–2013)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Trinidad and Tobago (1979–1981)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Jamaica ()
- *William Harold Christensen (1909–)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Trinidad and Tobago ()
- 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)
- *Wymberley DeRenne Coerr (1913–1996)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1962–1965)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1965–1967)
- 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)
- Francis P. Cotter (1922–)
- Deputy Inspector General of Foreign Assistance (1962–1963)
- *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)
- 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)
- *Olcott Hawthorne Deming (1909–2007)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uganda (1963–1966)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Uganda ()
- William Charles Doherty (1902–1987)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jamaica (1962–1964)
- *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)
- *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)
- 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)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1968–1969)
- Chief of Protocol (1968)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco (1979–1981)
- *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)
- Frederick Gary Dutton (1923–2005)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1961–1964)
- *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)
- *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, Tonga (Not commissioned; nomination on 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, New Zealand (Not commissioned; nomination of October 11, 1973, withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
- *Charles Vaughan Ferguson Jr. (1915–1981)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Madagascar (1962–1966)
- John Haven Ferguson (1915–1970)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco (1962–1964)
- Thomas Knight Finletter (1893–1980)
- U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1961–1965)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1960–1961)
- Career Ambassador (1960)
- 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)
- Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1961–1963)
- Ambassador at Large (1961)
- 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)
- Crane Haussamen (1907–)
- U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (1962–1964)
- Christian Archibald Herter (1895–1966)
- Under Secretary of State (1957–1959)
- Secretary of State (1959–1961)
- U.S. Trade Representative (1962–1966)
- *John Calvin Hill Jr. (1921–1973)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Dominican Republic ()
- 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.)
- *Outerbridge Horsey II (1910–1983)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1962–1966)
- *John Durnford Jernegan (1911–1981)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1958–1962)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Algeria (1965–1967)
- Gove Griffith Johnson Jr. (1912–2006)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (1962–1965)
- *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)
- *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, Senegal (1961–1964)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mauritania (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)
- 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)
- *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 Marshall Leddy (1914–1997)
- Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris) (1962–1965)
- Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1965–1969)
- *William Leonhart (1919–1997)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tanzania (1962–1965)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1969–1971)
- 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)
- William Patrick Mahoney Jr. (1916–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ghana (1962–1965)
- *Dayton S. Mak (1917–)
- Chargé d’Affaires, Kuwait (1962)
- *David John Stanger Manbey (1919–1994)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Rwanda ()
- *Thomas Clifton Mann (1912–1999)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1955–1957)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1957–1961)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (1957–1960)
- 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)
- Robert Joseph Manning (1919–2012)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1962–1964)
- John Kenneth Mansfield (1951–)
- Inspector General of Foreign Assistance (1962–1969)
- *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)
- John Bartlow Martin (1915–1987)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1962–1963)
- *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 ()
- *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)
- Matthew Henry McCloskey Jr. (1893–1973)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1962–1964)
- *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)
- Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1961–1963)
- Director of Policy Planning (1961)
- Counselor (1961)
- 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)
- 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)
- *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)
- Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1959–1961)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1959)
- Career Ambassador (1960)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1961–1962)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1961)
- *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)
- *Robert Graham Miner (1911–1990)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Trinidad and Tobago (1962–1967)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sierra Leone (1967–1971)
- *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)
- *George Allen Morgan (1905–1988)
- Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1962–1965)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Côte d’Ivoire (1965–1969)
- 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)
- Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965)
- Director of the U.S. Information Agency (1961–1964)
- *Frederick Ernest Nolting Jr. (1911–1989)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Vietnam (1961–1963)
- *Herbert Vincent Olds (1913–1999)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Burundi ()
- William Horsley Orrick Jr. (1915–2003)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1962–1963)
- *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)
- *William James Porter (1914–1988)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Algeria (1962–1965)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Korea (1967–1971)
- Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1973–1974)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1974–1975)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1975–1977)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
- *Leon Baqueiro Poullada (1913–1987)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Togo (1961–1964)
- *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)
- Charles Edward Rhetts (1910–1971)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1962–1964)
- 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)
- William Robert Rivkin (1919–1967)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1962–1965)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, The Gambia (1966–1967)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Senegal (1966–1967)
- Walt Whitman Rostow (1916–2003)
- Director of Policy Planning (1961–1966)
- Counselor (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)
- David Dean Rusk (1909–1994)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State (1949–1950)
- Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1949–1951)
- 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)
- Abba Philip Schwartz (1916–1989)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs (1962–1966)
- 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)
- *Philip Dodson Sprouse (1906–1977)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cambodia (1962–1964)
- *Henry Endicott Stebbins (1905–1973)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1959–1966)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uganda (1966–1969)
- *John Milton Steeves (1905–1998)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1962–1966)
- Director General of the Foreign Service (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)
- *Charles Allen Stewart (1907–1973)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela (1962–1964)
- 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)
- Phillips Talbot (1915–2010)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1961–1965)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1965–1969)
- 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)
- *Horace Gates Torbert Jr. (1911–2008)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Hungary (1962)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Somalia (1962–1965)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1970–1973)
- *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)
- *William Royall Tyler (1910–2003)
- Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1962–1965)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Netherlands (1965–1969)
- *Leonard Seidman Unger (1917–2010)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Laos (1962–1964)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1967–1973)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1974–1979)
- *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)
- *Fraser Wilkins (1908–1989)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cyprus (1960–1964)
- Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service (1964–1971)
- 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)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1961)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1961–1962)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1962–1965)
- Kenneth Todd Young Jr. (1916–1972)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand (1961–1963)