Office of the Historian

List of Persons

  • Abdirashid Ali Shermarche, Prime Minister of Somalia
  • Adoula, Cyrille, Congolese Minister of the Interior until July 1961; Prime Minister of the Congo from August 1961
  • Alphand, Herve, French Ambassador to the United States
  • Attwood, William H., Ambassador to Guinea until May 1963
  • Balafrej, Ahmed, Moroccan Foreign Minister
  • Balewa, Sir Abubakar Tafawa, Prime Minister of Nigeria
  • Ball, George W., Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs from February until December 1961; thereafter Under Secretary of State
  • Banda, Hastings, Prime Minister of Malawi from 1963
  • Bell, David E., Director of the Bureau of the Budget from January 1961 until December 1962; thereafter Administrator of the Agency for International Development
  • Ben Bella, Ahmed, President and Prime Minister of Algeria
  • Bonsal, Phillip W., Ambassador to Morocco from May 1961 until August 1962
  • Bourguiba, Habib, President of Tunisia
  • Bowles, Chester B., Under Secretary of State until December 3, 1961; President’s Special Representative and Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin American Affairs and Ambassador at Large until July 19, 1963; thereafter Ambassador to India
  • Brown, L. Dean, Deputy Director, Office of Western European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, from July until December 1961
  • Brubeck, William H., Deputy Executive Secretary, Department of State, from August 1961 until May 1962; Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary from May 1962 until July 1963; thereafter Member of National Security Council Staff
  • Bruce, David K.E., Ambassador to the United Kingdom from March 1961
  • Buffum, William B., Deputy Director, Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, until November 1963; thereafter Director of that office
  • Bundy, McGeorge, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from January 1961
  • Burdett, William C., Jr., Director, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, until September 1962; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Caccia, Sir Harold, British Ambassador to the United States until October 1961
  • Cleveland, J. Harlan, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from February 1961
  • Coote, Wendell B., Deputy Director, Office of Western African and Malagasy Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from June 1961 until January 1962;
  • Couve de Murville, Maurice, French Foreign Minister
  • De Gaulle, Charles, President of France
  • Dean, Sir Patrick, United Kingdom Permanent Representative at the United Nations
  • Deming, Olcott H., Director, Office of Eastern and Southern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until August 1962; Ambassador to Uganda from January 1963
  • Dillon, C. Douglas, Secretary of the Treasury from January 1961
  • Dulles, Allen W., Director of Central Intelligence until November 1961
  • Dumont, Donald A., Deputy Director, Office of Western African and Malagasy Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from September 1961 until October 1962; thereafter Ambassador to Burundi
  • Dungan, Ralph A., Special Assistant to the President
  • Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States until January 20, 1961
  • Elbrick, C. Burke, Ambassador to Portugal until August 1963
  • Ferguson, C. Vaughan, Jr., Director, Office of Western African and Malagasy Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from June 1961 until December 1962; Ambassador to the Malagasy Republic from January 1963
  • Ferguson, John H., Ambassador to Morocco from October 1962
  • Field, Winston, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1962
  • Franco, Generalissimo Francisco, Chief of State and Prime Minister of Spain
  • Fredericks, J. Wayne, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from May 1961
  • Gilpatric, Roswell L., Deputy Secretary of Defense from January 1961
  • Godley, G. McMurtrie, Director, Office of Central African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from September 1962
  • Greenhill, Denis, Counselor at the British Embassy
  • Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia
  • Hamilton, Fowler, Administrator of the Agency for International Development from September 1961 until December 1962
  • Harriman W. Averell, Ambassador at Large from February until December 1961; Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs from December 1961 until April 1963; thereafter Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Hassan II, King of Morocco
  • Herter, Christian A., Secretary of State until January 20, 1961
  • Hilsman, Roger, Jr., Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, from February 1961 until April 1963; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs
  • Home, Lord (Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home), British Foreign Secretary until October 1963
  • Hooper, Peter, Jr., Officer in Charge of Algerian Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
  • Houphouet-Boigny, Felix, President of Ivory Coast and Minister of Defense, the Interior, and Agriculture
  • Johnson, Lyndon B., President of the United States from November 22, 1963
  • Johnson, U. Alexis, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from April 1961
  • Jones, John Wesley, Ambassador to Libya until December 1962
  • Kaiser, Philip M., Ambassador to Senegal from July 1961
  • Kayibanda, Gregoire, President and Prime Minister of Rwanda from October 1961
  • Kaysen, Carl, Member of the National Security Council Staff from June until December 1961; thereafter Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
  • Keita, Modibo, President of Mali
  • Kennedy, John F., President of the United States from January 20, 1961 until November 22, 1963
  • Kohler, Foy D., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until August 1962
  • Komer, Robert W., Member of the National Security Council Staff
  • Korry, Edward M., Ambassador to Ethiopia from April 1963
  • Khrushchev, Nikita S., Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers
  • LeMay, General Curtis E., USAF, Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, from June 1961
  • Lemnitzer, General Lyman L., USA, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until September 1962
  • Lightner, E. Allan, Ambassador to Libya from May 1963
  • Lumumba, Patrice, leader of the Congo National Movement (MNC); first Prime Minister of independent Congo Republic; murdered in February 1961
  • Luthuli, Albert John, South African nationalist leader; President of the African Nationalist Congress (ANC)
  • Lynch, Andrew G., Ambassador to Somalia until May 1962
  • MacKnight, Jesse M., Director, Office of Eastern and Southern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from August 1963
  • Macmillan, Harold, British Prime Minister until October 1963
  • Mahoney, William P., Ambassador to Ghana from June 1962
  • McClintic, Stephen H., Officer in Charge of Moroccan Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
  • McCone, John A., Director of Central Intelligence from November 1961
  • McGhee, George C., Counselor of the Department of State and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council from February until December 1961; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from December 1961 until March 1963
  • McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense from January 1961
  • Newsom, David D., Director, Office of Northern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from September 1963
  • Nkomo, Joshua, Rhodesian nationalist leader; President of the banned Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU)
  • Nkrumah, Kwame, President of Ghana
  • Nyerere, Julius, President of Tanganyika from December 1962
  • Obote, A. Milton, Prime Minister of Uganda
  • Ormsby Gore, Sir David, British Ambassador to the United States from November 1961
  • Palmer, Joseph, II, Ambassador to Nigeria
  • Porter, William J., Ambassador to Algeria from December 1962
  • Post, Richard St. F., Officer in Charge of Libya Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until April 1962; Officer in Charge of Ethiopian Affairs from March 1963
  • Poullada, Leon B., Ambassador to Togo from July 1961
  • Read, Benjamin H., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary of the Department from August 1963
  • Richards, Arthur L., Ambassador to Ethiopia until November 1962
  • Roberto, Holden, leader of the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA)
  • Root, John F., Deputy Director, Office of Northern African Affairs, Department of State, until August 1962
  • Rostow, Walt W., Counselor of the Department of State and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council from December 1961
  • Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State from January 1961
  • Russell, Francis H., Ambassador to Ghana from January 1961 until March 1962; Ambassador to Tunisia from October 1962
  • Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira, Prime Minister of Portugal
  • Satterthwaite, Joseph C., Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs until February 1961; thereafter Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa
  • Savimbi, Jonas, leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)
  • Senghor, Leopold Sedar, President of Senegal
  • Sisco, Joseph J., Director, Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, from July 1961 until November 1963; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
  • Smith, Bromley K., Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
  • Stevenson, Adlai E., U.S. Representative to the United Nations
  • Tasca, Henry J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs until May 1965
  • Taylor, General Maxwell D., USA, President’s Military Representative until October 1962; thereafter Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Thant, U, Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations from November 1961 until November 1962; thereafter Secretary-General
  • Thompson, Llewellyn E., Ambassador at Large from October 1962
  • Torbert, Horace G., Jr., Ambassador to Somalia from January 1963
  • Toure, Sekou, President of Guinea
  • Trimble, William C., Director, Office of West Coast and Malian Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from September 1962
  • Tyler, William R., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from May 1961 until September 1962; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Vance, Sheldon B., Director, Office of Central African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from June 1961 until August 1962
  • Verwoerd, Hendrik F., Prime Minister of South Africa
  • Villard, Henry S., Ambassador to Senegal until April 1961
  • Walmsley, Walter N., Ambassador to Tunisia until July 1962
  • Welensky, Sir Roy, Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland until 1963
  • Whitehead, Edgar, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia until 1962
  • Williams, G. Mennen, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from January 1961
  • Wine, James, Ambassador to the Ivory Coast from November 1962
  • Witman, William, II, Director, Office of Northern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until April 1962
  • Wright, Thomas K., Ambassador to Mali from January until December 1961
  • Yost, Charles W., Ambassador to Morocco until March 1961; thereafter Deputy Representative at the U.N. Security Council and Representative at the U.N. General