Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1966

Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.

  • *Charles Wallace Adair Jr. (1914–2006)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1965–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1969–1972)
  • *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)
  • George Whelan Anderson Jr. (1906–1992)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1963–1966)
  • William Hollingsworth Attwood (1919–1989)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guinea (1961–1963)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Kenya (1964–1966)
  • 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)
  • *David Morgan Bane (1915–2004)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Gabon (1965–1969)
  • *Walworth Barbour (1908–1982)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Israel (1961–1973)
    • Career Ambassador (1969)
  • *Robert Gaylord Barnes (1914–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1964–1966)
  • *Leland Judd Barrows (1906–1988)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cameroon (1960–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Togo (1960–1961)
  • *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)
  • *Wilson Thomas Moore Beale Jr. (1909–1997)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jamaica (1965–1967)
  • *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)
  • *Taylor Garrison Belcher (1920–1990)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cyprus (1964–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1969–1974)
  • David Elliott Bell (1919–2000)
    • Administrator of the Agency for International Development (1961–1966)
  • *James Dunbar Bell (1911–1979)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malaysia (1964–1969)
  • *William Tapley Bennett Jr. (1917–1994)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1964–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal (1966–1969)
    • U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1977–1983)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1983–1985)
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • Robert Richardson Bowie (1909–2013)
    • Director of Policy Planning (1953–1957)
    • Director of Policy Planning (1955–1957)
    • Counselor (1966–1968)
  • 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)
  • *Aaron Switzer Brown (1913–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1961–1967)
  • *Ben Hill Brown Jr. (1914–1989)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1964–1969)
  • *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)
  • William Putnam Bundy (1917–2000)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1964–1969)
  • 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)
  • *Findley Burns Jr. (1917–2003)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1966–1967)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1970–1973)
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • *Delmar Richard Carlson (1918–)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guyana (1966–1969)
  • Reynold Erland Carlson (1912–1993)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1966–1969)
  • Raul Hector Castro (1916–2015)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1964–1968)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1968–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1977–1980)
  • Edward Aubrey Clark (1906–1992)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1965–1967)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • *Andrew Vincent Corry (1904–1981)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sierra Leone (1964–1967)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Maldives (1967–1970)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1967–1970)
  • *Howard Rex Cottam (1910–1984)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Kuwait (1963–1969)
  • *John Hugh Crimmins (1919–2007)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Dominican Republic (1966–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1973–1978)
  • *William James Crockett (1914–1999)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1961–1963)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1963–1967)
  • *Leo George Cyr (1909–2003)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Rwanda (1966–1971)
  • Nelson Binkley David (1906–)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (Montreal) (1957–1968)
  • *Nathaniel Davis (1925–2011)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1965–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1968–1971)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1971–1973)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1973–1975)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1975–1977)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1975)
  • *Richard Hallock Davis (1913–1972)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Romania (1965–1969)
  • *Olcott Hawthorne Deming (1909–2007)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uganda (1963–1966)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Uganda ()
  • *George Dolgin (1911–)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Barbados ()
  • *Richard Hempstead Donald (1922–)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Singapore ()
  • Dixon Donnelley (1915–1982)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1966–1969)
  • 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)
  • Ralph Anthony Dungan (1923–2013)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1964–1967)
  • *Hermann Frederick Eilts (1922–2006)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1965–1970)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bangladesh (1972)
    • Principal Officer, Egypt (1974)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt (1974–1979)
  • *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)
  • George Joseph Feldman (1904–1994)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malta (1965–1967)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1967–1969)
  • *Charles Vaughan Ferguson Jr. (1915–1981)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Madagascar (1962–1966)
  • Glenn Walker Ferguson (1929–2008)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Kenya (1966–1969)
  • 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)
  • Charles Frankel (1917–1979)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs (1965–1967)
  • *Fulton Freeman (1915–1974)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1961–1964)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1964–1969)
  • *Francis Joseph Galbraith (1913–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Singapore (1966–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia (1969–1974)
  • William Steen Gaud (1907–1977)
    • Administrator of the Agency for International Development (1966–1969)
  • *George McMurtrie Godley II (1917–1999)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Congo (Kinshasa) (1964–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Laos (1969–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1974–1976)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.)
  • Arthur Joseph Goldberg (1908–1990)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1965–1968)
    • Ambassador at Large (1977–1978)
  • Robert Crocker Good (1924–1984)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Zambia (1965–1968)
  • Abraham Lincoln Gordon (1913–2009)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1961–1966)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1966–1967)
  • *Marshall Green (1916–1998)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia (1965–1969)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1969–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1973–1975)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nauru (1974–1975)
  • James Lloyd Greenfield (1924–)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1964–1966)
  • John Austin Gronouski (1919–1996)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1965–1968)
  • *Raymond Richard Guest (1907–1991)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1965–1968)
  • Lloyd Nelson Hand (1929–)
    • Chief of Protocol (1965–1966)
  • *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)
  • Patricia Roberts Harris (1924–1985)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1965–1967)
  • *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)
  • Howard E. Haugerud (1924–)
    • Deputy Inspector General of Foreign Assistance (1963)
    • Deputy Inspector General of Foreign Assistance (1964–1969)
  • John Susskind Hayes (1910–1981)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland (1966–1969)
  • *Douglas Henderson (1914–2010)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1963–1968)
  • Christian Archibald Herter (1895–1966)
    • Under Secretary of State (1957–1959)
    • Secretary of State (1959–1961)
    • U.S. Trade Representative (1962–1966)
  • *Outerbridge Horsey II (1910–1983)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1962–1966)
  • *Henry Augustus Hoyt (1914–1967)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1965–1967)
  • Thomas Lowe Hughes (1925–)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (1963–1969)
  • *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)
  • *John Wesley Jones (1907–1998)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Libya (1958–1962)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1962–1969)
  • *Marshall Paul Jones (1915–1985)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malawi (1965–1970)
  • *Joseph John Jova (1916–1993)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honduras (1965–1969)
    • Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American States (Washington) (1969–1974)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1973–1977)
  • Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach (1922–2012)
    • Under Secretary of State (1966–1969)
  • *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)
  • *Clinton Everett Knox (1908–1980)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Benin (1964–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (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)
  • Edward Malcolm Korry (1922–2003)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1963–1967)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1967–1971)
  • *Caroline Clendening Laise (1917–1991)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal (1966–1973)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1973–1975)
    • Director General of the Foreign Service (1975–1977)
  • 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)
  • *Geoffrey Whitney Lewis (1910–1992)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mauritania (1965–1967)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Central African Republic (1967–1970)
  • Sol Myron Linowitz (1913–2005)
    • Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American States (Washington) (1966–1969)
  • Eugene Murphy Locke (1918–1972)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (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)
  • *Cecil Burton Lyon (1903–1993)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chile (1956–1958)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka (1964–1967)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Maldives (1965–1967)
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • John Kenneth Mansfield (1951–)
    • Inspector General of Foreign Assistance (1962–1969)
  • Leonard Harold Marks (1916–2006)
    • Director of the U.S. Information Agency (1965–1968)
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • *John Morgan McSweeney (1916–1979)
    • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1966–1967)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bulgaria (1967–1970)
  • Leonard Carpenter Meeker (1916–2014)
    • Legal Adviser (1965–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Romania (1969–1973)
  • *John Gordon Mein (1913–1968)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1965–1968)
  • *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)
  • *Charles Robert Moore (1915–1992)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mali (1965–1968)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cameroon (1972–1975)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Equatorial Guinea (1972–1975)
  • *George Allen Morgan (1905–1988)
    • Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1962–1965)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Côte d’Ivoire (1965–1969)
  • *Brewster Hilliard Morris (1909–1990)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chad (1963–1967)
  • Robert Gerhard Neumann (1916–1999)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Afghanistan (1966–1973)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco (1973–1976)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Saudi Arabia (1981)
  • *David Dunlap Newsom (1918–2008)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Libya (1965–1969)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1969–1974)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Indonesia (1973–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1977–1978)
    • Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1978–1981)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1980)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1980)
    • Secretary of State ad interim (1981)
  • Covey Thomas Oliver (1913–2007)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1964–1966)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1967–1968)
  • *Henry David Owen (1920–2011)
    • Director of Policy Planning (1966–1969)
    • Ambassador at Large (1978–1981)
  • *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)
  • *Charles Hutchinson Pletcher (1922–1992)
    • Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Botswana (1970)
  • *Dwight Johnson Porter (1916–2006)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1963–1965)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1965–1970)
  • Herbert Butler Powell (1903–1998)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1963–1967)
  • Benjamin Huger Read (1925–1993)
    • Executive Secretary (1963–1969)
    • Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1977–1978)
    • Under Secretary of State for Management (1978–1981)
  • *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)
  • *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)
  • *Claude George Anthony Ross (1917–2006)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Central African Republic (1963–1967)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1967–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tanzania (1969–1972)
  • Eugene Victor Debs Rostow (1913–2002)
    • Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1966–1969)
    • Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1981–1983)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • *Robert Joseph Ryan (1914–2003)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Niger (1964–1968)
  • John Robert Schaetzel (1917–2003)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the European Union, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (1966–1972)
  • Abba Philip Schwartz (1916–1989)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs (1962–1966)
  • *Joseph John Sisco (1919–2004)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1965–1969)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1969–1974)
    • Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1974–1976)
  • Elliott Percival Skinner (1924–2007)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burkina Faso (1966–1969)
  • Henry DeWolf Smyth (1898–1986)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna) (1961–1970)
  • Hugh Heyne Smythe (1913–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Syria (1965–1967)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malta (1967–1969)
  • *William Pennell Snow (1907–1986)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1959–1961)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1961–1967)
  • Anthony Morton Solomon (1919–2008)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (1965–1969)
  • *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)
  • *Robert Campbell Strong (1915–1999)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iraq (1963–1967)
  • *William Healy Sullivan (1922–2013)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Laos (1964–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1973–1977)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iran (1977–1979)
  • James Wadsworth Symington (1927–)
    • Chief of Protocol (1966–1968)
  • Phillips Talbot (1915–2010)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1961–1965)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1965–1969)
  • *Henry Joseph Tasca (1912–1979)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco (1965–1969)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (1969–1974)
  • 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)
  • *Margaret Joy Tibbetts (1919–2010)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Norway (1964–1969)
  • *Benson Ellison Lane Timmons III (1916–1997)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Haiti (1963–1967)
  • Philip Harold Trezise (1912–2001)
    • Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris) (1965–1969)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (1969–1971)
  • *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)
  • Jack Hood Vaughn (1920–2012)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1964–1965)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1965–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia (1969–1970)
  • Robert Hirsch Beard Wade (1916–2005)
    • U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (1964–1969)
  • *William Henry Weathersby (1914–2001)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sudan (1965–1967)
  • Katharine Elkus White (1906–1985)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1964–1968)
  • *Fraser Wilkins (1908–1989)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cyprus (1960–1964)
    • Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service (1964–1971)
  • Franklin Hall Williams (1917–1990)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ghana (1965–1968)
  • Gerhard Mennen Williams (1911–1988)
    • Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1961–1966)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Philippines (1968–1969)
  • *Charles Dudley Withers (1916–)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Rwanda (1963–1966)
  • *William Witman II (1914–1978)
    • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Togo (1964–1967)