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U.S. diplomatic chiefs of mission toRussia
| FrancisDana (Minister 1780-83)JohnQuincy Adams (Minister 1809-14)WilliamPinkney (Minister 1816-18)GeorgeW. Campbell (Minister 1818-20)HenryMiddleton (Minister 1820-30)JohnRandolph of Roanoke (Minister 1830)JamesBuchanan (Minister 1832-33)WilliamWilkins (Minister 1834-35)JohnR. Clay (Charge d'Affaires 1836-37)GeorgeM. Dallas (Minister 1837-39)ChurchillC. Cambreleng (Minister 1840-41)CharlesS. Todd (Minister 1841-46)RalphI. Ingersoll (Minister 1846-48)ArthurP. Bagby (Minister 1848-49)NeillS. Brown (Minister 1850-53)ThomasH. Seymour (Minister 1853-58)FrancisW. Pickens (Minister 1858-60)JohnAppleton (Minister 1860-61)CassiusM. Clay (Minister 1861-62)SimonCameron (Minister 1862)CassiusM. Clay (Minister 1863-69)AndrewG. Curtin (Minister 1869-72)JamesL. Orr (Minister 1872-73)MarshallJewell (Minister 1873-74)GeorgeH. Boker (Minister 1875-78)EdwinW. Stoughton (Minister 1878-79)JohnW. Foster (Minister 1880-81)WilliamH. Hunt (Minister 1882-84)AlphonsoTaft (Minister 1884-85)GeorgeV. N. Lothrop (Minister 1885-88)LambertTree (Minister 1888-89)CharlesEmory Smith (Minister 1890-92)AndrewD. White (Minister 1892-94)CliftonR. Breckinridge (Minister 1894-97)EthanA. Hitchcock (Minister 1897-98)EthanA. Hitchcock (Ambassador 1898-99)CharlemagneTower (Ambassador 1899-1902)RobertS. McCormick (Ambassador 1902-05)GeorgeV. L. Meyer (Ambassador 1905-07)JohnW. Riddle (Ambassador 1907-09)WilliamW. Rockhill (Ambassador 1909-11)CurtisGuild, Jr. (Ambassador 1911-13)GeorgeT. Marye (Ambassador 1914-16)DavidR. Francis (Ambassador 1916-17)RobertS. Strauss (Ambassador 1992)ThomasR. Pickering (Ambassador 1993-96)JamesF. Collins (Ambassador 1996-2001)AlexanderVershbow (Ambassador 2001-05)WilliamJ. Burns (Ambassador 2005-) |
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