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