- David Wilkins
David Horton Wilkins (born October 12, 1946) is a former South Carolina politician and an American diplomat. He is accredited as the current United States Ambassador to Canada. Prior to the appointment, he was the Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives. The son of William Walter and Evelyn Wilkins of South Carolina, Wilkins was first elected to the state legislature in 1981.
- Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of Republicanism in the United States. Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806).
- Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9 1932) is a U.S. politician and businessman, who was the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977, and the 21st Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006. He is both the youngest (43 years old) and the oldest (74 years old) person to have held the position, as well as the only person to have held the position for two non-consecutive terms, and the second longest serving, …
- John Adams
John Adams was a politician and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. He served both as that nation's first Vice President (1789–1797), and as its second President (1797-1801). He was defeated for re-election in the "Revolution of 1800" by Thomas Jefferson. Adams was a sponsor of the American Revolution in Massachusetts, and a diplomat in the 1770s. He was a driving force for independence in 1776; in fact, …
- George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush was the forty-first President of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. Before his presidency, Bush was the forty-third Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan. He has also served as the member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th district of Texas (1967–1971), the United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1971–1973), …
- Tom Schieffer
John Thomas "Tom" Schieffer (born October 4, 1947) is the current United States Ambassador to Japan, and served as U.S. Ambassador to Australia from 2001 to 2005. Schieffer is a friend and former business partner of President George W. Bush. His only brother is CBS News reporter and host of Face the Nation Bob Schieffer.
- Zalmay Khalilzad
Zalmay Khalilzad is the program directory for strategy, doctrine, and force structure of RAND's Project AIR FORCE and director of RAND's Greater Middle East Studies Center. He was assistant deputy under secretary of defense for policy planning between January 1991 and December 1992.
- Tony Garza
Antonio Oscar "Tony" Garza, Jr. (born 1958), an American lawyer and former county judge in Texas, is the United States ambassador to Mexico. Garza, the grandson of Mexican immigrants to the U.S, graduated from Saint Joseph Academy in Brownsville, the seat of Cameron County on the Gulf of Mexico coast in far south Texas.
- John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams Secretary of State,
- Jeane Kirkpatrick
Jeane Kirkpatrick (1926-2006) Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN American Enterprise Institute: Former Fellow Foundation for the Defense of Democracies: Former Board Member
- Robert O. Blake
Robert Orris Blake (April 7, 1921 -) is a retired U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Among his duties was serving as ambassador to Mali, serving under U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. He also served as ambassador to the United Nations, and subsequently as the United States Representative to the Joint Commission on the Environment. His path led him to a 30-year career in the U.S. foreign service before retiring.
- Victor Ashe
Victor Henderson Ashe II (born January 1, 1945) is the current United States Ambassador to Poland. From 1988 to 2003, he was mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee. Ashe is a Republican.
- William R. Timken
William Robert Timken, Jr. is the current United States Ambassador to Germany. He has served at The Timken Company as Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and CEO. Timken has been chairman of Securities Investor Protection Corporation, National Association of Manufacturers, The Manufacturing Institute and the Ohio Business Roundtable. He also served on the Advisory Council of the Stanford University School of Business and the U.S.-Japan Business Council.
- Francis Rooney
Francis Rooney was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See on October 13, 2005. Francis Rooney is the former Chief Executive Officer of Rooney Holdings, Inc., an investment and holding company based in Naples, Florida, with administrative offices in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- Walter Mondale
Walter F. Mondale 's record of public service includes: vice president of the United States, U.S. ambassador to Japan, and U.S. senator and attorney general for the State of Minnesota. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for U.S. president in 1984. He is currently a partner with the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney LLP, headquartered in Minneapolis with 16 offices worldwide. He serves as chair of the firm's Asia Law Practice Group.
- Richard Holbrooke
Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (born April 24, 1941) is an American diplomat, magazine editor, author, Peace Corps official, and investment banker. He is also the only person to have held the Assistant Secretary of State position for two different regions of the world (Asia and Europe). From 1993-1994, he was U.S. Ambassador to Germany. Although long well-known in diplomatic and journalistic circles, …
- John F. Tefft
John F. Tefft United States Ambassador to Georgia
- Eduardo Aguirre
Eduardo Aguirre, Jr. (born July 30, 1946, in Cuba) is the United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra, appointed by President George W. Bush, confirmed by the United States Senate on June 16, 2005, and sworn in on June 24, 2005. He presented his credentials to King Juan Carlos I of Spain on June 29, 2005.
- Jim Nicholson
Robert James "Jim" Nicholson (born February 4, 1938) is an attorney, real estate developer, and more recently, and a former Republican Party chairman. He has been the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs since January 26, 2005. On on July 17 2007, he announced that he was stepping down as Secretary, effective October 1 2007.
- John Campbell
John F. Campbell was appointed by President George W. Bush as the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria in 2004. Ambassador Campbell previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Human Resources at the State Department. His numerous overseas postings include service as a political counselor in Nigeria in the late 1980s and in South Africa in the mid 1990s during the transition from apartheid to majority rule. Born in Washington, D.C. in 1944, Mr.
- Martin Indyk
Martin S. Indyk, born July 1, 1951, to a Jewish family in London, England, is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in the Foreign Policy Studies program at The Brookings Institution and a former United States ambassador to Israel. He grew up and was educated in Australia, gaining a BEcon from the University of Sydney in 1972 and a PhD in international relations from the Australian National University in 1977.
- Clifford Sobel
Ambassador Clifford M. Sobel is the 62nd Ambassador of the United States to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. President George W. Bush nominated him on July 3, 2001. He was confirmed by the Senate on October 30, 2001, and sworn in by Secretary of State Powell on November 8, 2001. On December 5, 2001, he presented his credentials to Her Majesty Queen Beatrix.
- David Mulford
David Campbell Mulford (born June 1937) is the current United States Ambassador to the Republic of India. He took office on January 23, 2004. Mulford was born in Rockford, Illinois. He earned his bachelor's degree from Lawrence University in 1959, his master's degree from Boston University in 1962 and his Ph. D. from Oxford University in 1965.
- David Welch
C. David Welch is the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs of the United States. He served from 2001 to 2005 as the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt. Welch was born in Munich in 1953. He studied at the London School of Economics in 1973 and '74, and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University (1975). He holds a graduate degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University.
- Ross Wilson
Ross L. Wilson is a U.S. foreign service officer and ambassador. As of 2006, he is the United States Ambassador to Turkey. Wilson was born in 1955 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received a Bachelors degree "magna cum laude" from the University of Minnesota in 1977 and Masters degrees from Columbia University (1979) and the U.S. National War College (1995). He is the recipient of the President’s Meritorious Service Award (2005), Azerbaijan’s Order of Honor, …
- William Brownfield
William R. Brownfield is the former ambassador from the United States to Venezuela. He was sworn into this current position on August 27, 2004.
- Robert O. Blake Jr.
Robert Orris Blake, Jr., is a career diplomat and current U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives. He is the son of Robert O. Blake, retired U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
- William Bullitt
William Christian Bullitt, Jr. (born January 25, 1891 in Philadelphia; died February 15, 1967, Neuilly) was an American diplomat, journalist, and novelist. Although in his youth he was considered something of a radical, he later became an outspoken anticommunist.
- Thomas R. Pickering
Ambassador Pickering is senior vice president for international relations for Boeing. He has had a long career spanning five decades as a U.S. diplomat, serving as under secretary of state for political affairs, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and as U.S. ambassador to Russia, India, Israel, Nigeria, Jordan, and El Salvador. He also served on assignments in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
- Andrew Young
Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is an American civil rights activist, former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, and was the United States' first African-American ambassador to the United Nations. Young is the namesake of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. International Boulevard, near the Centennial Olympic Park, has been re-named Andrew Young International Boulevard, …
- Karen Hughes
Karen Parfitt Hughes (born December 27, 1956) is a Republican politician from the state of Texas. She currently serves as the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the U.S. Department of State with the rank of ambassador. She resides in Austin, Texas where she is an elder in her church, Westlake Hills Presbyterian.
- Shirley Temple
Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928) later known as Shirley Temple Black, is an American former child actress. She starred in over 40 films during the 1930s. She was later a diplomat and is now retired
- C. Boyden Gray
Clayland Boyden Gray, born February 6, 1943, is the United States Ambassador to the European Union. He took that post on January 17, 2006, when President George W. Bush granted him a recess appointment to the post. Prior to that, he was a partner with the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. He served as White House Counsel to President George H. W. Bush. He is also a member of the Federalist Society.
- Sam Fox
Sam Fox (born 1929 in Desloge, Missouri) is an American businessman in St. Louis and prominent Republican Party donor, who was made United States ambassador to Belgium by President George W. Bush. Bush employed a recess appointment to secure Fox's position on April 4, 2007. His nomination had previously been withdrawn following Sen. John Kerry's objections to his contributions to the so-called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
- Charles Burke Elbrick
Hon. Charles Burke Elbrick, (b. Louisville, Kentucky, March 25th 1908, d. Washington, D.C. 1983), was the son of Charles Elbrick and his Irish wife Lillian Burke. He graduated with a leading Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College, and narrowly missed selection for a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. Having joined the United States Foreign Service in 1932, Elbrick was initially appointed Vice Consul in Panama.
- Terence Todman
Terrance Alphonso Todman (b. 1926), is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Chad, Guinea, Costa Rica, Spain, Denmark and Argentina. Todman is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.
- Daniel C. Kurtzer
Daniel Kurtzer , a Career-Minister in the Senior Foreign Service until 2005, has been intimately involved in Middle East peace negotiations and the formulation of U.S. policy in the Middle East for almost three decades.
- Clark T. Randt Jr.
Clark T. Randt, Jr. is the current United States Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.
- Howard Baker
Howard Henry Baker, Jr. (born November 15, 1925) is a former Senate Majority Leader, Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee, White House Chief of Staff, and a former United States Ambassador to Japan. Known in Washington, D.C. as the "Great Conciliator," Baker is often regarded as one of the most successful Senators in terms of brokering compromises, enacting legislation, and maintaining civility.
- James W. Gerard
James Watson Gerard (August 25, 1867 - September 6, 1951) was a U.S. lawyer and diplomat. Gerard was born in Geneseo, N. Y. He graduated from Columbia in 1890 and from Columbia Law School in 1902. He was chairman of the Democratic campaign committee of New York County for four years, and served as major of the National Guard of the State of New York for four years. He was appointed to the New York Supreme Court in 1908, where he served as associate justice until 1911.