
See below for Deputy Chiefs of Mission
Deputy Chiefs of Mission
| Name | Appointed | Title |
| A.L. C. Portman | June 27, 1861 | Secretary & Interpreter |
| J. C. Hepburn | April 6, 1871 |
Interpreter |
| Durham W. Stevens | August 6, 1873 |
Secretary of Legation |
| Gustavus Goward | January 23, 1883 |
Secretary of Legation |
| Fred S. Mansfield | November 12, 1885 |
Secretary of Legation |
| Edwin Dun | September 3, 1889 |
Secretary of Legation |
| Joseph R. Herod | March 8, 1895 |
Secretary of Legation |
| Huntington Wilson | October 10, 1900 |
Secretary of Legation |
| H. Percival Dodge | August 8, 1906 |
Secretary of Embassy |
| Peter Augustus Jay | June 21, 1907 |
Secretary of Embassy |
| Montgomery Schuyler | December 21, 1908 |
Secretary of Embassy |
| Arthur Bailly-Blanchard | February 1, 1912 |
Secretary of Embassy |
| Post Wheeler | June 3, 1914 |
Secretary of Embassy |
| John Van A. MacMurray | November 10, 1917 |
Counselor |
| Hugh R. Wilson | August 19, 1921 |
Counselor |
| Jefferson Caffery | September 5, 1923 |
Counselor |
| Norman Armour | June 25, 1925 |
Counselor of Embassy |
| Edwin L. Neville | April 12, 1928 |
Counselor of Embassy |
| Eugene H. Dooman | January 5, 1937 |
Counselor of Embassy |
Embassy Closed December 8, 1941
Embassy re-established April 28, 1952
| William T. Turner | April 10, 1953 |
Counselor |
| J. Graham Parsons | July 18, 1953 |
Counselor of Embassy |
| Outerbridge Horsey | April 22, 1956 |
Minister-Counselor |
| William Leonhart | December 28, 1958 |
Minister-Counselor |
| John K. Emmerson | July 22, 1962 |
DCM |
| David L. Osborn | January 1967 |
DCM |
| Richard L. Sneider | September 1969 |
DCM |
| Thomas P. Shoesmith | July 1972 |
DCM |
| William C. Sherman | July 1977 |
DCM |
| William Clark, Jr. | October 1981 |
DCM |
| L. Desaix Anderson | June 1985 |
DCM |
| William T. Breer | September 1989 |
DCM |
| Rust M. Deming | October 1993 |
DCM |
| Christopher J. LaFleur | November 1998 | DCM |
| Richard A. Christenson | July 2001 | DCM |
| Michael W. Michalak | April 2004 | DCM |
| Joseph R. Donovan | August 2005 | DCM |
| James P. Zumwalt | July 2008 | DCM |


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