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U.S. diplomatic chiefs of mission toNetherlands
| JohnAdams (Minister 1781-88)WilliamShort (Minister 1792)JohnQuincy Adams (Minister 1794-97)WilliamVans Murray (Minister 1797-1801)WilliamEustis (Minister 1814-18)AlexanderH. Everett (Charge d'Affaires 1818-24)ChristopherHughes (Charge d'Affaires 1825-30)WilliamPitt Preble (Minister 1830-31)AugusteDavezac (Charge d'Affaires 1831-39)HarmanusBleecker (Charge d'Affaires 1839-42)ChristopherHughes (Charge d'Affaires 1842-45)AugusteDavezac (Charge d'Affaires 1845-50)GeorgeFolsom (Charge d'Affaires 1850-53)AugustBelmont (Charge d'Affaires 1853-54)AugustBelmont (Minister 1854-57)HenryC. Murphy (Minister 1857-61)JamesS. Pike (Minister 1861-66)AlbertRhodes (Charge d'Affaires 1866)HughEwing (Minister 1866-70)CharlesT. Gorham (Minister 1870-75)JamesBirney (Minister 1876-82)WilliamL. Dayton (Minister 1882-85)IsaacBell, Jr. (Minister 1885-88)RobertB. Roosevelt (Minister 1888-89)SamuelR. Thayer (Minister 1889-93)WilliamE. Quinby (Minister 1893-97)StanfordNewel (Minister 1897-1905)DavidJ. Hill (Minister 1905-08)ArthurM. Beaupré (Minister 1908-11)LloydBryce (Minister 1911-13)Henryvan Dyke (Minister 1913-17)JohnW. Garrett (Minister 1917-19)WilliamPhillips (Minister 1920-22)RichardM. Tobin (Minister 1923-29)GerritJ. Diekema (Minister 1929-30)LauritzS. Swenson (Minister 1931-34)GrenvilleT. Emmet (Minister 1934-37)GeorgeA. Gordon (Minister 1937-40)A.J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. (Minister 1941-42)A.J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. (Ambassador 1942-43)StanleyK. Hornbeck (Ambassador 1944-47)HermanB. Baruch (Ambassador 1947-49)SeldenChapin (Ambassador 1949-53)H.Freeman Matthews (Ambassador 1953-57)PhilipYoung (Ambassador 1957-60)JohnS. Rice (Ambassador 1961-64)WilliamR. Tyler (Ambassador 1965-69)J.William Middendorf II (Ambassador 1969-73)KingdonGould, Jr. (Ambassador 1973-76)RobertJ. McCloskey (Ambassador 1976-78)GeriM. Joseph (Ambassador 1978-81)WilliamJennings Dyess (Ambassador 1981-83)PaulBremer (Ambassador 1983-86)JohnS. R. Shad (Ambassador 1987-89)C.Howard Wilkins, Jr. (Ambassador 1989-92)K.Terry Dornbush (Ambassador 1994-98)CynthiaP. Schneider (Ambassador 1998-2001)CliffordM. Sobel (Ambassador 2001-) |
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