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U.S. diplomatic chiefs of mission to Belgium

Hugh S. Legaré (Charge d'Affaires 1832-36) Virgil Maxcy (Charge d'Affaires 1837-42) Henry W. Hilliard (Charge d'Affaires 1842-44) Thomas Green Clemson (Charge d'Affaires 1844-51) Richard H. Bayard (Charge d'Affaires 1851-53) John Jacob Seibels (Charge d'Affaires 1853-54) John Jacob Seibels (Minister 1854-56) Elisha Y. Fair (Minister 1858-61) Henry Shelton Sanford (Minister 1861-69) J. Russel Jones (Minister 1869-75) Ayres Phillips Merrill (Minister 1876-77) W. Cassius Goodloe (Minister 1878-80) James O. Putnam (Minister 1880-82) Nicholas Fish (Minister 1882-85) Lambert Tree (Minister 1885-88) John G. Parkhurst (Minister 1888-89) Edwin Holland Terrell (Minister 1889-93) James S. Ewing (Minister 1893-97) Bellamy Storer (Minister 1897-99) Lawrence Townsend (Minister 1899-1905) Henry L. Wilson (Minister 1905-09) Charles P. Bryan (Minister 1909-11) Larz Anderson (Minister 1911-12) Theodore Marburg (Minister 1912-14) Brand Whitlock (Minister 1914-19) Brand Whitlock (Ambassador 1919-21) Henry P. Fletcher (Ambassador 1922-24) William Phillips (Ambassador 1924-27) Hugh S. Gibson (Ambassador 1927-33) Dave Hennen Morris (Ambassador 1933-37) Hugh S. Gibson (Ambassador 1937-38) Joseph E. Davies (Ambassador 1938-39) John Cudahy (Ambassador 1940) A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. (Ambassador 1941-43) Charles W. Sawyer (Ambassador 1944-45) Alan G. Kirk (Ambassador 1946-49) Robert D. Murphy (Ambassador 1949-52) Myron M. Cowen (Ambassador 1952-53) Frederick M. Alger, Jr. (Ambassador 1953-57) John Clifford Folger (Ambassador 1957-59) William A. M. Burden (Ambassador 1959-61) Douglas MacArthur II (Ambassador 1961-65) Ridgway B. Knight (Ambassador 1965-69) John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower (Ambassador 1969-71) Robert Strausz-Hupé (Ambassador 1972-74) Leonard K. Firestone (Ambassador 1974-77) Anne Cox Chambers (Ambassador 1977-81) Charles H. Price II (Ambassador 1981-83) Geoffrey Swaebe (Ambassador 1983-88) Maynard Wayne Glitman (Ambassador 1988-91) Bruce S. Gelb (Ambassador 1991-93) Alan John Blinken (Ambassador 1993-98) Paul L. Cejas (Ambassador 1998-) Stephen Brauer (Ambassador 2001)

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