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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 1968
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- Tyler Abell (1932–)
- Chief of Protocol (1968–1969)
- Hugh Gardner Ackley (1915–1998)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy (1968–1969)
- *Charles Wallace Adair Jr. (1914–2006)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1965–1969)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1969–1972)
- Samuel Clifford Adams Jr. (1920–2001)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Niger (1968–1969)
- *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 Wildman Ball (1909–1994)
- Under Secretary of State (1961–1966)
- Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment (1961)
- 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)
- *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)
- *Taylor Garrison Belcher (1920–1990)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cyprus (1964–1969)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Peru (1969–1974)
- *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)
- *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)
- *Clarence A. Boonstra (1914–2006)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica (1967–1969)
- *William Garton Bowdler (1924–2016)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, El Salvador (1968–1971)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guatemala (1971–1973)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, South Africa (1975–1978)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (1978–1979)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1979–1981)
- 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)
- Under Secretary of State (1961)
- Ambassador at Large (1961–1963)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, India (1963–1969)
- Robert Patrick Boyle (1913–2007)
- Representative of the U.S.A. on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (Montreal) (1968–1969)
- *Ben Hill Brown Jr. (1914–1989)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1964–1969)
- *Lewis Dean Brown (1920–2001)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, The Gambia (1967–1970)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Senegal (1967–1970)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1970–1973)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1973–1975)
- 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)
- Carter Lane Burgess (1916–2002)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Argentina (1968–1969)
- *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)
- *Gilbert Edward Clark (1917–1984)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mali (1968–1970)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, The Gambia (1970–1973)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Senegal (1970–1973)
- 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)
- *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)
- William Aloysious Costello (1904–1969)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Trinidad and Tobago (1967–1969)
- *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)
- *Kennedy McCampbell Crockett (1920–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nicaragua (1967–1970)
- William Herbert Crook (1925–1997)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Australia (1968–1969)
- *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)
- 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)
- *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)
- George Joseph Feldman (1904–1994)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malta (1965–1967)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Luxembourg (1967–1969)
- 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)
- *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)
- 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)
- *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)
- John Austin Gronouski (1919–1996)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1965–1968)
- *Raymond Richard Guest (1907–1991)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1965–1968)
- *William O. Hall (1914–1977)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1967–1971)
- Director General of the Foreign Service (1971–1973)
- 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)
- 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)
- William Womack Heath (1903–1971)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sweden (1967–1969)
- *Douglas Henderson (1914–2010)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Bolivia (1963–1968)
- John Francis Henning (1915–2009)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, New Zealand (1967–1969)
- Benigno Carlos Hernandez (1917–2007)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paraguay (1967–1969)
- *Martin Joseph Anthony Hillenbrand (1915–2005)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Hungary (1967–1969)
- Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1969–1972)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1972–1976)
- Thomas Lowe Hughes (1925–)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (1963–1969)
- *Arthur William Hummel Jr. (1920–2001)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (1968–1971)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (1975–1976)
- Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1976–1977)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1977–1981)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, China (1981–1985)
- Career Ambassador (1981)
- *William Bertrand Hussey (1915–2013)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Mauritius ()
- *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)
- David Sjodahl King (1917–2009)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Madagascar (1967–1969)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mauritius (1968–1969)
- *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)
- Robert William Komer (1922–2000)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Turkey (1968–1969)
- 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)
- Harold Francis Linder (1900–1981)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (1952–1953)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada (1968–1969)
- Sol Myron Linowitz (1913–2005)
- Permanent Representative of the U.S.A. to the Organization of American States (Washington) (1966–1969)
- 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)
- *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)
- Fredric Rand Mann (1903–1987)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Barbados (1967–1969)
- 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)
- *Elbert George Mathews (1910–1977)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Liberia (1959–1962)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nigeria (1964–1969)
- *Robert Henry McBride (1918–1983)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Congo (Kinshasa) (1967–1969)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mexico (1969–1974)
- *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)
- *Thomas Watkins McElhiney (1919–1998)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ghana (1968–1971)
- Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service (1971–1973)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ethiopia (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)
- Frank Edward McKinney (1904–1974)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1968)
- *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, Equatorial Guinea (1972–1975)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cameroon (1972–1975)
- *George Allen Morgan (1905–1988)
- Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1962–1965)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Côte d’Ivoire (1965–1969)
- 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)
- Benjamin Hilborn Oehlert (1909–1985)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan (1967–1969)
- 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)
- *Christos Constantine Pappas Jr. (1925–1976)
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Swaziland ()
- Robert Lewis Payton (1926–2011)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Cameroon (1967–1969)
- *Dwight Johnson Porter (1916–2006)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Administration (1963–1965)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lebanon (1965–1970)
- *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.)
- Edward Dominic Re (1920–2006)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs (1968–1969)
- 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)
- *George Willmot Renchard (1907–1982)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burundi (1968–1969)
- *Idar Rimestad (1916–2003)
- Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (1967–1969)
- Representative of the U.S.A. to the European Office of the United Nations (Geneva) (1969–1973)
- Karl Fritjof Rolvaag (1913–1990)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Iceland (1967–1969)
- *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)
- William Matson Roth (1916–2014)
- U.S. Trade Representative (1967–1969)
- *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)
- *Robert Joseph Ryan (1914–2003)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Niger (1964–1968)
- *Robert Marion Sayre (1924–2016)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Uruguay (1968–1969)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama (1969–1974)
- Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service (1975–1978)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Brazil (1978–1981)
- Director of the Bureau of Counterterrorism (1982–1984)
- 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)
- Edson Oliver Sessions (1902–1987)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Finland (1959–1960)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ecuador (1968–1970)
- *Albert William Sherer Jr. (1916–1986)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Togo (1967–1970)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Equatorial Guinea (1968–1969)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Guinea (1970–1971)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Czechoslovakia (1972–1975)
- Leo John Sheridan (1897–1975)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ireland (1968–1969)
- Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. (1915–2011)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, France (1968–1970)
- *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)
- 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)
- *William John Stibravy (1916–2013)
- Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (Vienna) (1968–1977)
- *Walter John Stoessel Jr. (1920–1986)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Poland (1968–1972)
- Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1972–1974)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia (1973–1976)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Germany (1976–1981)
- Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1981–1982)
- Career Ambassador (1981)
- Secretary of State ad interim (1982)
- Deputy Secretary of State (1982)
- *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)
- *Harrison Matthews Symmes (1921–2010)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan (1967–1970)
- 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)
- *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)
- Walter Nathan Tobriner (1902–1979)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jamaica (1967–1969)
- 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)
- 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)
- *Sheldon Baird Vance (1917–1995)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chad (1967–1969)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Congo (Kinshasa) (1969–1974)
- Robert Hirsch Beard Wade (1916–2005)
- U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (1964–1969)
- Robert Ferdinand Wagner Jr. (1910–1991)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Spain (1968–1969)
- Personal Representative of the President, Holy See (1981)
- Barbara Mae Watson (1918–1983)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs (1968–1974)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs (1977–1980)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Malaysia (1980–1981)
- Katharine Elkus White (1906–1985)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Denmark (1964–1968)
- James Russell Wiggins (1903–2000)
- Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations (1968–1969)
- *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)