Office of the Historian

List of Persons

  • Abdoh, Dr. Djalal, Iranian Representative to the United Nations, 1958–1959
  • Achilles, Theodore C., Counselor of the Department of State from March 1960
  • Ackerson, Garrett G., Jr., Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Legation in Hungary
  • Acly, R. Austin, Officer in Charge of Trusteeship Affairs, Department of State, August 1959–September 1960; thereafter Deputy Director, Office of Dependent Area Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • Adams, Ware, Director, Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, 1958
  • Aiken, Frank, Irish Foreign Minister
  • Allen, George V., Director, United States Information Agency
  • Alphand, Hervé, French Ambassador to the United States
  • Armitage, John A., Officer in Charge of Multilateral Political Relations, Department of State, from September 1960
  • Arneson, R. Gordon, Deputy Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Law of the Sea from the end of 1959
  • Ayub Khan, General Mohammad, President of Pakistan from October 1958
  • Bacon, Ruth E., United Nations Adviser, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, until September 1960
  • Bane, David M., Director, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, from May 1959
  • Barco, James W., Counselor, United States Mission at the United Nations
  • Beale, Howard, Australian Ambassador to the United States from March 1958
  • Becker, Loftus, Legal Adviser, Department of State, until August 15, 1959
  • Beeley, Harold, British Deputy Representative at the United Nations from June 1958
  • Belaunde, Victor Andrés, member, Peruvian Delegation to the United Nations
  • Bennett, Elmer E., Under Secretary of the Interior from October 1958
  • Berding, Andrew H., Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
  • Berry, J. Lampton, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs (Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs after August 20, 1958) until October 1958
  • Blow, Stuart, Office of the Special Assistant for Fisheries and Wildlife, Department of State
  • Bock, Benjamin, Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • Bohlen, Charles E., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State from December 1959
  • Boland, Frederick H., Irish Representative at the United Nations
  • Bomboko, Justin, Foreign Minister of the Republic of the Congo from July 1960
  • Booker, Malcolm R., Counselor of the Australian Embassy in the United States until late 1958; Minister of the Embassy, late 1958–spring 1960
  • Border, Lewis H., First Secretary of the Australian Embassy in the United States until early 1959; Counselor of the Embassy, early 1959–spring 1959
  • Bovey, John A., Jr., Deputy Director, Office of Northern Africa Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs (Bureau of African Affairs after August 20, 1958), Department of State, until August 1959
  • Breithut, Richard C., Deputy Special Assistant for Atomic Energy Affairs, Department of State, until November 1958; Deputy Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Disarmament and Atomic Energy Affairs, November 1958–April 1959
  • Brewer, William D., Officer in Charge of United Arab Republic-Sudan Affairs, Department of State, from August 1958
  • Brosio, Manlio, Italian Ambassador to the United States
  • Brown, Elizabeth A., Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, until August 1958; Acting Officer in Charge of United Nations Political Affairs, August 1958–November 1959; Officer in Charge of United Nations Political Affairs, November 1959–April 1960
  • Bruns, William H., Acting Staff Assistant, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, 1958; Staff Assistant, 1959
  • Buffum, William B., Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, June 1958–April 1960; thereafter Officer in Charge of United Nations Political Affairs
  • Bulganin, Marshal Nikolai Aleksandrovich, Chairman, Soviet Council of Ministers, until March 1958
  • Bunker, Ellsworth, Ambassador to India
  • Burdett, William C, Jr., Director, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, from September 1960
  • Burke, Admiral Arleigh A., Chief of Naval Operations
  • Caccia, Sir Harold A., British Ambassador to the United States
  • Cadieux, Marcel, Canadian Legal Adviser and Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for External Affairs
  • Calhoun, John A., Deputy Director, Executive Secretariat, Department of State, until September 1958; Director, September 1958–September 1960
  • Caprio, Gene F., Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, from August 1960
  • Cargo, William I., Deputy Director, Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, until August 1958; thereafter Director
  • Carson, James L., Reports and Operations Staff, Executive Secretariat, Department of State, until October 1960
  • Casey, Richard G., Australian Foreign Minister until February 1960
  • Castro, Fidel, Commander in Chief, Cuban Armed Forces, January–February 1959; thereafter Prime Minister of Cuba
  • Chehab, General Fuad, Commander in Chief, Lebanese Army, until September 1958; thereafter President of Lebanon
  • Colclough, Vice Admiral Oswald S., Department of Defense member, U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Conferences on the Law of the Sea, 1958 and 1960
  • Coote, Wendell B., Deputy Director, Office of West African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from September 1960
  • Cordier, Andrew W., Executive Assistant to the Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Correa, José, Ecuadoran Representative at the United Nations from summer 1958
  • Couve de Murville, Maurice, French Foreign Minister from June 1958
  • Cutler, Robert, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs to June 1958
  • Daniels, Paul C., Special Adviser on Antarctica, Department of State, 1958–January 1960
  • Davis, Richard H., Director, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, August–December 1959; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Day, Arthur R., Reports and Operations Staff, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
  • De la Grandville, Jean, Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States until December 1958
  • Dean, Arthur H., head, U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Conferences on the Law of the Sea, 1958 and 1960
  • Diallo, Telli Boubacar, Guinean Ambassador to the United States
  • Diefenbaker, John G., Canadian Prime Minister
  • Dillon, C. Douglas, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs through June 1958; Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, July 1958–June 1959; thereafter Under Secretary of State
  • Dimechkié, Nadim, Lebanese Ambassador to the United States from February 1958
  • Dixon, Sir Pierson, British Representative at the United Nations until October 1960
  • Dorman, John R., Deputy Director, Office of Dependent Area Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, December 1958–September 1960
  • Dreier, John C., Acting Director, Office of Inter-American Regional Political Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State, until January 1960
  • Drew, George A., Canadian Ambassador to the United Kingdom; head, Canadian Delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea
  • Driscoll, Elizabeth C., Office of Dependent Area Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • Dryden, Hugh L., Deputy Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, from August 1958
  • Dulles, Allen W., Director of Central Intelligence
  • Dulles, John Foster, Secretary of State until April 1959
  • Eisendrath, Craig R., Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, from July 1958
  • Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States
  • Eisenhower, Major John S. D., Assistant Staff Secretary to the President; promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in May 1960
  • Elbrick, C. Burke, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until November 1958
  • Farinholt, Larkin H., Deputy Science Adviser, Department of State, from June 1958
  • Farley, Philip J., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Disarmament and Atomic Energy Affairs from March 1958
  • Feld, Nicholas, Officer in Charge of Trusteeship Affairs, Department of State, until September 1959
  • Ferguson, C. Vaughan, Jr., Director, Office of South African Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs (Bureau of African Affairs after August 20, 1958), Department of State, until October 1960; thereafter Director, Office of West African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
  • Fessenden, Russell, Deputy Director, Office of European Regional Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, September 1958–September 1960; thereafter Director
  • Fisher, Wayne W., Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from February 1959
  • Fitzmaurice, Gerald, Legal Adviser, British Foreign Office; member, British Delegation to the 1958 United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea
  • Ford, Alan W., Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for United Nations Affairs, Department of State, 1958
  • Freimarck, George S., Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • Garcia Robles, Alfonso, member, Mexican Delegation to the United Nations, and head, Mexican Delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, 1958
  • Gates, Thomas S., Jr., Secretary of the Navy to June 1959; Deputy Secretary of Defense, June–December 1959; thereafter Secretary of Defense
  • Gerig, O. Benjamin, Director, Office of Dependent Area Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • Goodpaster, Brigadier General Andrew J., Staff Secretary to the President
  • Grand, Stanley I., Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, from November 1958
  • Gray, Gordon, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from July 1958
  • Gros, André, Legal Adviser, French Foreign Ministry; head, French Delegation to the United Nations Conferences on the Law of the Sea, 1958 and 1960
  • Green, Howard C., Canadian Foreign Minister from June 1959
  • Green, James F., United Nations Adviser to the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, March 1959–January 1960
  • Hager, Eric H., Legal Adviser, Department of State, from September 1959
  • Hammarskjöld, Dag, Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Hanes, John W., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs until January 1959; thereafter Administrator, Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, Department of State
  • Hare, John, British Agriculture Minister, Fisheries and Food; head, British Delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, 1960
  • Hare, Raymond A., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from January 1960
  • Harr, Karl G., Jr., Special Assistant to the President
  • Hartley, Virginia F., Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • Hawley, Charles F., Officer in Charge of General Assembly and Security Council Affairs, Department of State
  • Heeney, Arnold D. P., Canadian Ambassador to the United States from March 1959
  • Henderson, Horace E., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from January 1959
  • Henderson, Loy W., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration
  • Herrington, William C., Special Assistant for Fisheries and Wildlife, Office of the Under Secretary of State
  • Herz, Martin, United Nations Adviser, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from January 1960
  • Home, Lord (Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home), British Foreign Minister from July 1960
  • Hood, Viscount Samuel, Minister of the British Embassy in the United States
  • Hope, A. Guy, Deputy Director, Office of Near Eastern, South Asian Regional Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, from May 1960
  • Hussein, King, King of Jordan
  • Jackson, C. D., Vice President, Time Inc., and former speechwriter, special assistant, and consultant to President Eisenhower
  • Jackson, Henry M., Democratic Senator from Washington
  • Jandrey, Fred W., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until early 1959
  • Jeffrey, H. P., First Secretary of the New Zealand Embassy in the United States until summer 1958
  • Johnson, Lyndon B., Democratic Senator from Texas; Senate Majority Leader
  • Jones, G. Lewis, Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from July 1959
  • Kádár Janos, Hungarian Prime Minister and First Secretary of the Hungarian Revolutionary Socialist Party through January 1958; thereafter First Secretary only
  • Kasavubu, Joseph, President of the Republic of the Congo from July 1960
  • Kerley, Ernest L., Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for United Nations Affairs, Department of State
  • Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich, First Secretary, Communist Party of the Soviet Union; also Chairman, Soviet Council of Ministers, from March 1958
  • Killian, Dr. James R., Jr., Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology until May 1959
  • Kohler, Foy D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, February 1958–December 1959; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Krebs, Max V., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State from June 1959
  • Kuznetsov, Vasily V., Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister
  • Lall, Arthur, Indian Representative at the United Nations, 1958
  • Lane, George M., Office of European Regional Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, until January 1960
  • Lebel, Claude, Minister-Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States, from May 1959
  • Lloyd, Selwyn, British Foreign Minister until June 1960; thereafter Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Lodge, Henry Cabot, Representative at the United Nations until September 1960
  • Long, Edward T., Special Assistant, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, October-December 1959; thereafter Special Assistant, Office of the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Looney, Warren W., Office of the Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Fisheries and Wildlife until June 1958
  • Lopez, Salvador P., member, Philippine Delegation to the United Nations
  • Luboeansky, Earl H., Office of Inter-American Regional Political Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State, 1958; Officer in Charge of Special Political Matters, Office of Inter-American Regional Political Affairs, 1959–1960
  • Lucet, Charles, Minister of the French Embassy in the United States through spring 1959
  • Ludlow, James M., Acting United Nations Adviser to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until December 1958; thereafter United Nations Adviser to the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
  • Lumumba, Patrice, Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo from July 1960
  • McBride, Robert H., Director, Office of Western European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, from September 1958
  • McClintock, Robert M., Ambassador to Lebanon
  • McElhiney, Thomas W., Deputy Director, Executive Secretariat, Department of State, September 1958–August 1960
  • McElroy, Neil, Secretary of Defense until December 1959
  • Macmillan, Harold, British Prime Minister
  • McNutt, Louise, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • Macomber, William B., Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations from October 21, 1957
  • McSweeney, John M., Director, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, from June 1960
  • Magnuson, Warren G., Democratic Senator from Washington; Chairman, Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
  • Mahgoub, Mohammed Ahmed, Sudanese Foreign Minister
  • Mak, Dayton S., Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, from December 1958
  • Maleter, General Pal, former Hungarian Defense Minister
  • Malik, Charles, Lebanese Foreign Minister until September 1958
  • Mansfield, Mike, Democratic Senator from Montana
  • Marcus, Melvin M., Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • Matsch, Dr. Franz, Austrian Representative at the United Nations
  • Meeker, Leonard C., Assistant Legal Adviser for United Nations Affairs, Department of State
  • Mendenhall, Joseph A., Officer in Charge of Vietnam Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, March 1958–August 1959
  • Merchant, Livingston T., Ambassador to Canada until November 1958; Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, November 1958–August 1959; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, August-December 1959; thereafter Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Menshikov, Mikhail A., Soviet Ambassador to the United States from February 1958
  • Menon, V. K. Krishna, Indian Defense Minister from April 1958
  • Menzies, Robert G., Australian Prime Minister; also Foreign Minister from February 1960
  • Mindszenty, Cardinal Jozef, Primate of Hungary, resident in the U.S. Legation at Budapest from November 1956
  • Monsma, George N., Officer in Charge of International Organizations, Office of Inter-American Regional Political Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State, 1958; thereafter International Organizations Adviser, Office of Inter-American Regional Political Affairs
  • Moor, Carol C., Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • Mountbatten, Lord Louis, British Chief of the Defense Staff from December 1958
  • Munro, Sir Leslie, New Zealand Representative at the United Nations, 1958
  • Murphy, Robert D., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until August 1959; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, August 1959–December 1959
  • Nagy, Imre, former Prime Minister of Hungary
  • Nash, Walter, Prime Minister of New Zealand
  • Nasser, Gamel Abdel, President of Egypt until February 1958; thereafter President of the United Arab Republic
  • Nehru, Jawaharlal, Prime Minister of India
  • Neidle, Alan F., Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State, until 1959; thereafter Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
  • Newlin, Michael H., Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, from June 1958
  • Nixon, Richard M., Vice President of the United States
  • Nkrumah, Dr. Kwame, President of the Republic of Ghana from July 1960
  • Nosek, Jiri, Deputy Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia
  • Nunley, William T., United Nations Adviser, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Nutt, Jim S., First Secretary of the Canadian Embassy in the United States, fall 1958–summer 1960; thereafter Counselor of the Embassy
  • Oakley, Robert, Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, from summer 1960
  • Olympio, Sylvanus, Prime Minister and Defense Minister of Togo from April 1960
  • Ortona, Egidio, Italian Representative at the United Nations from 1959
  • Owen, George H., Office of Inter-American Regional Political Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State, until March 1959; Officer in Charge, Antarctica Staff, Department of State, March–December 1959; thereafter Special Assistant for Antarctica
  • Parsons, J. Graham, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, from July 1959
  • Pella, Guiseppe, Foreign Minister of Italy until June 1958 and February 1959–February 1960
  • Pelly, Thomas M., Republican Congressman from Washington
  • Pender, John H., Jr., Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Special Functional Problems, Department of State
  • Penfield, James K., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from September 1958
  • Phleger, Herman, Chairman, Delegation to the Conference on Antarctica, 1958
  • Piccioni, Attilio, member, Italian Delegation to the United Nations
  • Plimsoll, James, Australian Representative at the United Nations, 1960
  • Puhan, Alfred, Deputy Director, Office of International Administration, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, until February 1959; Director, Office of International Administration, February 1959–July 1960
  • Quaison-Sackey, Alex, member, Ghanian Delegation to the United Nations
  • Quarles, Donald A., Deputy Secretary of Defense until May 1959
  • Rae, S. E, Minister of the Canadian Embassy in the United States
  • Raymond, John M., Deputy Legal Adviser, Department of State
  • Rewinkel, Milton C., Deputy Director, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, from August 1959
  • Richards, Arthur L., Special Assistant for Law of the Sea Matters, Office of the Under Secretary of State, January 1958–June 1960
  • Robertson, Walter S., Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs until June 1959
  • Rosen, Arthur H., Office of Chinese Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • Rossel, Agda, Swedish Representative at the United Nations from summer 1958
  • Rountree, William M., Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs (Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs after August 20, 1958) until July 1959
  • Rubottom, Roy R., Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs until August 1960
  • Salaam, Saleb, Lebanese Prime Minister from August 1960
  • Satterthwaite, Joseph C., Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from September 1958
  • Seip, Peter A., Assistant Chief, Reports and Operations Staff, Executive Secretariat, Department of State, from November 1959
  • Shukairy, Ahmad, Saudi Representative at the United Nations
  • Sisco, Joseph J., Officer in Charge of United Nations Political Affairs, Department of State, until August 1958; thereafter Deputy Director, Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs
  • Slim, Monghi, Tunisian Ambassador to the United States
  • Smith, Gerard C., Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning
  • Sobolev, Arkady A., Soviet Representative at the United Nations
  • Spiers, Ronald I., Officer in Charge of Disarmament Affairs, Department of State, until October 1960; thereafter Chief, Political Office, Disarmament Administration
  • Sprague, Mansfield D., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs until August 1958
  • Spruks, H. Charles, Special Assistant to the Chief of Protocol, Department of State, from September 1958
  • Stans, Maurice, Director, Bureau of the Budget
  • Stavropoulos, Constantin A., United Nations Legal Counsel
  • Steeves, John M., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs from October 1959
  • Stoessel, Walter J., Jr., Director, Executive Secretariat, Department of State, from September 1960
  • Sukarno, Ahmed, President of Indonesia; also Prime Minister from July 1959
  • Sullivan, William H., United Nations Adviser, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, from September 1960
  • Taylor, Fred E., Fisheries and Wildlife Adviser to the Under Secretary of State, until December 1959; thereafter Deputy Special Assistant for Fisheries and Wildlife
  • Terry, William M., Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of Interior
  • Thacher, Nicholas G., First Secretary of the Embassy in Iran until August 1958; National War College, August 1958–June 1959; thereafter Deputy Director, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
  • Thompson, Llewellyn E., Ambassador to the Soviet Union
  • Thors, Thor, Prime Minister and Defense Minister of Iceland from April 1958
  • Tito, Marshal Josef Broz, President of Yugoslavia
  • Tron, René, Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, from mid-1960
  • Tunkin, Grigoriy I., head, Contractural Law Department, Soviet Foreign Ministry
  • Twining, General Nathan F., Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, until August 1960
  • Valdes, Philip H., Office of Western European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, from June 1959
  • Van Heuven, Marten H. A., Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for United Nations Affairs, Department of State, 1959–1960
  • Wadsworth, James, Deputy Representative at the United Nations until September 1960; thereafter Representative at the United Nations
  • Waggoner, Edward L. Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs (Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs after August 20, 1958), Department of State, 1958
  • Wallner, Woodruff, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from August 1959
  • Walmsley, Walter N., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs until October 1959; thereafter Ambassador to Tunisia
  • Wan Waithayakon, Prince, Foreign Minister of Thailand until October 1958; Thai Representative at the United Nations until October 1958–February 1959; thereafter Deputy Premier
  • Ward, Rear Admiral Chester, Judge Advocate General of the United States Navy
  • Waterman, Alan T., Director, National Science Foundation; also member, National Aeronautics and Space Committee, from September 1958
  • Westfall, Virginia C., Office of International Administration Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, until February 1959; Acting Deputy Director of the Office, February 1959–April 1960; Deputy Director, April–June 1960; thereafter Acting Director
  • Wexler, Harry, Director, Office of Meteorological Research, Department of Commerce
  • White, Ivan B., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from March 1959
  • White, General Thomas D., Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
  • Whitney, John Hay, Ambassador to the United Kingdom
  • Wilcox, Francis O., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
  • Williamson, Larry C., Office of the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, 1960
  • Willis, Frances E., Ambassador to Norway
  • Willoughby, Woodbury, Director, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, from August 1958
  • Wright, Edward E., Office of South American Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State, until November 1958; thereafter Office of the Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Law of the Sea
  • Yang, Dr. You Chan, Korean Ambassador to the United States until spring 1960
  • Yingling, Raymond T., Assistant Legal Adviser for Special Functional Problems, Department of State
  • Zorin, Valerian A., Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union