- Adolph Dubs
Adolph "Spike" Dubs (August 4, 1920 - February 14, 1979) was the ambassador of the United States to Afghanistan from May 13 1978 to 1979. He was killed in an exchange of fire after a kidnapping attempt. Dubs was born in Chicago, Illinois and graduated from Beloit College in 1942 with a degree in political science. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. Later, … - George Curtis Moore
George Curtis Moore was the United States' Deputy Ambassador to Sudan. He was assassinated (see Khartoum diplomatic assassinations) on March 1st 1973, when Palestinian gunmen, part of the "Black September" group took him and the Saudi ambassador, Sheikh Abdullah al Malhouk, his wife, the US ambassador to Sudan, Cleo Noel Jr, the Belgian Chargé d'affaires, Guy Eid, and his Jordanian counterpart, Adli al Nasser, stormed the Saudi embassy in Khartoum. - William Carmichael
William Carmichael (died 1795) was an American lawyer, statesman, and diplomat from Maryland. He represented Maryland in the Continental Congress in 1778 and 1779 and was the principal diplomat for the United States to Spain from 1782 to 1794. William was born sometime around 1739 at the family home ("Round Top") in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, on the Chester River just opposite Chestertown. Apparently, he was sent to Europe for his education, … - Ihab Al-Sherif
Ihab Al-Sherif served as Egypt's ambassador to Iraq until kidnappers murdered him in July 2005. He previously served as Egypt's Chargé d'affaires to Israel. - David Hale
David Hale was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on November 2, 2005. Mr. Hale had been serving as Deputy Chief of Mission in Amman since July 2003 and as Chargé d'affaires since July 2004. Previously, he was the State Department’s Director of the Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, and Executive Assistant to the Secretary of State. - Jonathan Russell
Jonathan Russell was a United States Representative from Massachusetts and diplomat. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Russell graduated from Brown University (then Rhode Island College) in 1791. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, but did not practice. He engaged in mercantile pursuits for a numbers of years. He appointed by President James Madison to the Diplomatic Service in France in 1811. - Henry Wheaton
Henry Wheaton, American lawyer and diplomat, was born at Providence, Rhode Island. He was the third reporter of decisions for the United States Supreme Court. He graduated from Brown University in 1802, was admitted to the bar in 1805, and, after two years’ study abroad, practiced law at Providence (1807-1812) and at New York City (1812-1827). He was a justice of the Marine Court of the city of New York from 1815 to 1819. - Charles Elliot
Charles Elliot, also Charles Elliott was a British naval officer, diplomat, colonial administrator and drug-trafficker - a combination considered legitimate at the time. Born in England, he joined the British Royal Navy in 1816. He participated in the bombardment of Algiers, served in India, Africa and the West Indies and became an Admiral. He was appointed Chief Superintendent of Trade and British Minister to China in 1835 and was based in Macao, … - Enos T. Throop
Enos Thompson Throop, (the name is pronounced like "troop"), (August 21, 1784 Johnstown, then Montgomery County, now Fulton County, New York - November 1, 1874 Auburn, New York) was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat who was Governor of New York from 1829 to 1832. - John Nelson
John Nelson (June 1, 1791 - January 8, 1860) was Attorney General of the United States from 1843 to 1845 under John Tyler. Nelson was born in Frederick, Maryland, the son of politician Roger Nelson. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1811 and was admitted to the bar in 1813, starting practice in Frederick. He held several local offices before being elected to the United States House of Representatives representing Maryland's fourth district. - Woodbine Parish
Sir Woodbine Parish KCH (September 14, 1796—August 16, 1882) was a British diplomat and traveller. He served as chargé d'affaires at Buenos Aires from 1825 to 1832. In this capacity, he signed the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation with Argentina on February 2, 1825, accompanying also official recognition by Great Britain of Argentinian independence. With Joseph Barclay Pentland, Parish surveyed a large part of the Bolivian Andes between 1826 and 1827. - Caroline Millar
Caroline Millar was the acting ambassador ("Chargé d'affaires ad interim") to the United Nations in New York for Australia between February and April 2006. She replaced John Dauth, who left the post to become Australia's ambassador to New Zealand and the Cook Islands. On May 1 2006, she was replaced by Robert Hill, who took the position on a permanent basis. - Powhatan Ellis
Powhatan Ellis (January 17, 1790 - March 18, 1863) was a United States Senator from Mississippi. Born at "Red Hill" in Amherst County, Virginia, he graduated from Washington Academy (now Washington and Lee University) in 1809, attended Dickinson College Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1809 and 1810, and studied law at William and Mary College in 1813 and 1814. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Lynchburg, Virginia; he moved to Natchez, … - Douglas Hurd
Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC (born 8 March 1930), is a senior British Conservative politician and novelist, who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major between 1979 and his retirement in 1995. He is a patron of the Tory Reform Group, and remains an active figure in public life. - George Wadsworth
George Wadsworth II (April 3 1893-March 5 1958) was a United States diplomat, specializing in the Middle East. Wadsworth was born in Buffalo, New York and received a degree in chemical engineering from Union College in Schenectady, New York. He became interested in teaching abroad and moved to Beirut, Lebanon and joined the staff of the American University of Beirut as a professor (he served there from 1914 to 1917). - Hugh S. Legaré
Hugh Swinton Legaré was an American lawyer and politician. Legaré was born in Charleston, South Carolina, of Huguenot and Scottish ancestry. In South Carolina his last name is pronounced as if it were spelled Leh-gree. Partly due to his inability to share in the amusements of his fellows as a result of a deformity due to a vaccine poisoning suffered before he was five (the poison permanently arresting the growth and development of his legs), … - Mohamed Latheef
His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Latheef is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative to the United Nations for the Republic of Maldives, based in New York. He presented his credentials to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 11 November 2002. Dr. Latheef took over the role, first on a charge d'affaires basis from Husain Shihab on September 9 2002. Prior to this, he had been the Ambassador of the Republic of Maldives to the United States. - Bancroft Davis
John Chandler Bancroft Davis, commonly known as Bancroft Davis (December 22, 1822-December 27, 1907) was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was also the ninth reporter of decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, serving from 1883 to 1902. Davis was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of John Davis, a Whig governor of Massachusetts, and was the older brother of congressman Horace Davis. - Joseph Eve
Joseph Eve was an American politician. Eve was born July 17, 1784 in Culpeper County, Virginia. As a young man he moved to Knox County, Kentucky. He married Betsey Withers Ballinger in 1811. They had no children. He was an attorney in Kentucky and was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives three times. He was a colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, and later served four years as a senator in the Kentucky Senate. - Paul Eyschen
Paul Eyschen was a Luxembourgian politician, statesman, jurist, and diplomat. He was the eighth Prime Minister of Luxembourg, serving for twenty-seven years, from 22 September 1888 until his death, on 11 October 1915. The son of Charles-Gérard Eyschen, a former Director-General for Justice, Eyschen was born in Diekirch, in northern Luxembourg, on 9 September 1841. Eyschen became a lawyer after studying Law in Bonn and Paris. - Richard Fell
Richard Taylor Fell CVO (b. 11 November 1948) was the British High Commissioner to New Zealand and the colonial Governor of the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands (of which only Pitcairn is inhabited) from 2001 to 2006. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1971, after completing an MA in Area Studies (1971) at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, serving in the South Asian Department. - Robert C. Frasure
Robert C. Frasure was an American diplomat and the first American Ambassador to the modern Republic of Estonia. Born in Morgantown to parents who were educators, he attended West Virginia University, the London School of Economics and received a Ph.D. from Duke University. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He taught briefly at Duke and the University of the South and contributed to various professional journals including the American Political Science Review. - Robert Finn
Robert Patrick John Finn (born December 19, 1945) was the first United States ambassador to Afghanistan in more than 20 years, from March 22, 2002 until November 27, 2003. He was succeeded by Zalmay Khalilzad. Finn earned a B.A. in American Literature and European History with honors from St. John's University, an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from New York University and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 1978. - William Beach Lawrence
William Beach Lawrence was an American politician and jurist who served as lieutenant governor of Rhode Island from 1851 to 1852. Lawrence was born in New York City to a wealthy family from England. He graduated from Columbia in 1818 and was admitted to the bar in 1823. Three years later he was appointed Secretary of Legation for Great Britain, and was made chargé d'affaires the year after. When he returned to the United States in 1829 he practiced law with Hamilton Fish, … - Christopher Gore
Christopher Gore (September 21 1758 - March 1 1827) was a prominent Massachusetts lawyer, Federalist politician, and diplomat. Gore was born in Boston in 1758, the tenth of thirteen children of Frances and John Gore, a successful merchant and artisan. He attended Boston Latin School and graduated from Harvard College in 1776, and served in the Continental Army as a clerk with an artillery regiment. - Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros
Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros was one of the first daguerrotypists. Baron and French chargé d'affaires in Bogotá (1838–1842), Athens (1850) and Ambassador to London (1852–1863) - during which period he also travelled to China and Japan in 1857 and 1858 — he produced many famous daguerrotypes — chief among them those of the Acropolis. - Gustaf John Ramstedt
Gustaf John Ramstedt born in Ekenäs October 22, 1873, died in Helsinki November 25 1950, was a Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat. As an undergraduate, he attended the University of Helsinki, where he studied Finno-Ugric languages under Eemil Nestor Setälä. He was later attracted to the study of Altaic languages and went to Mongolia to study the Mongolian language at the suggestion of Otto Donner. - Christian Günther von Bernstorff
Count Christian Gunther von Bernstorff was a Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat, son of Count Andreas Peter von Bernstorff. Born in Copenhagen, and educated for the diplomatic service under his father's direction, he began his career in 1787, as attaché to the representative of Denmark at the opening of the Swedish Diet. In 1789 he went as secretary of legation to Berlin, where his maternal uncle, Count Leopold Friedrich zu Stolberg, was Danish ambassador. - Samuel Wells Williams
Samuel Wells Williams was a linguist and diplomat from the United States of America. He was born in Utica, New York and studied at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. On graduation he was elected as a Professor of the Institute. On the June 15 1833, and still in his Twenties, he sailed for China to take charge of the Printing Press of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at Guangdong, China. In 1837 he sailed on the Morrison to Japan. - Alcée Louis La Branche
Alcée Louis la Branche was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from the state of Louisiana. He served one term as a Democrat. La Branche was born near New Orleans and attended the Université de Sorreze in France. He served as Speaker of the House of the Louisiana State House of Representatives in 1833 and later served as Chargé d'Affaires to the Republic of Texas. He served in Congress from 1843 until 1845. He died in Hot Springs, Virginia. - Edward Kavanagh
Edward Kavanagh (April 27, 1795 - January 22, 1844) was a United States Representative and Governor of Maine. Born in Newcastle, Maine, he attended Montreal Seminary (in Quebec, Canada) and Georgetown College, (Georgetown, D.C.) He graduated from St. Mary's College (Baltimore) in 1813. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Damariscotta, Maine. He was a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1826 to 1828, … - Paul-Henri-Benjamin D'Estournelles de Constant
Paul-Henri-Benjamin Baluet d'Estournelles, baron de Constant de Rébecque, was a French diplomat and politician, advocate of international arbitration and winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize for Peace. He was born at La Flèche (Sarthe) in the Loire valley to an old aristocratic family which traced its genealogy back to the Crusades; the renowned Revolution-era writer and politician Benjamin Constant was his great-uncle. - Robert B. McAfee
Robert Breckinridge McAfee (1784-1849) was a Kentucky politician, and was the 7<sup>th</sup> Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky serving from 1824 to 1828. McAfee was born on February 18, 1784 in Mercer County, Kentucky, and was orphaned in 1795 after his father was killed in New Orleans, Louisiana. McAfee was made a General in the United States Army during the War of 1812 and commanded a troop raised by order of Gen. Andrew Jackson, that took part in the Battle of New Orleans. - Pierre Guérin de Tencin
Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French ecclesiastic, was archbishop of Embrun and Lyon, and a cardinal. His sister Claudine was a spur to his career. After studying with the Oratorians in his native Grenoble, he entered the Sorbonne, where he became prior in 1702, and obtained the doctorate in 1705. He was then appointed Vicar-General of the diocese of Sens and, in 1721, accompanied Cardinal de Rohan to Rome as his conclavist, … - Ivone Kirkpatrick
Sir Ivone Augustine Kirkpatrick was a British diplomat. Kirkpatrick left school to join the British Army and was wounded in the Great War. He was mentioned in despatches twice and awarded the Belgian Croix de guerre. After being wounded he was sent to Holland as a spymaster. He entered the diplomatic service almost immediately after in 1919. - Bernhard Ernst von Bülow
Bernhard Ernst von Bulöw, Danish and German statesman, was the son of Adolf von Bulow, a Danish official, and was born at Cismar in Holstein on the 2nd of August 1815. He studied law at the universities of Berlin, Göttingen and Kiel, and began his political career in the service of Denmark, in the chancery of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg at Copenhagen, and afterwards in the foreign office. - Henry Shelton Sanford
Henry Shelton Sanford was an American diplomat and businessman who founded the city of Sanford, Florida. Sanford was born in Woodbury, Connecticut into an old New England family. He was the son of Nehemiah Curtis Sanford, who made his fortune in selling brass tacks and was a senator of the Connecticut Senate. Henry Shelton Sanford enrolled in Trinity College in 1839, but did not graduate. He obtained the title of ‘General,’ which he is often noted by, … - Albrecht Elof Ihre
Baron Albrecht Elof Ihre was a Swedish diplomat and politician who served as Swedish-Norwegian prime minister of foreign affairs 1840-1848 (acting 1840-1842). Ihre was employed in the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1823, serving as secretary of the Swedish legation in Constantinople from 1824, and chargé d'affaires there from 1827. He was appointed state secretary for foreign affairs in 1831. Ihre became Swedish Minister of Ecclesiastical affairs from 1840, … - Lublin Dilja
Lublin Dilja is a former Albanian Ambassador to the United Nations. He represented his country on an ad interim basis, as chargé d'affaires, until he was replaced in 2006 by Adrian Neritani. Until 2004, he was an MP of the Democratic Party of Albania. - Harmanus Bleecker
Harmanus Bleecker (October 9, 1779 - July 19, 1849) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Albany, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1801, and commenced practice in Albany. He was elected as a Federalist to the Twelfth Congress, holding office from March 4, 1811 to March 3, 1813. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1812 and resumed the practice of law in Albany.
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