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U.S. diplomatic chiefs of mission to France

Benjamin Franklin (Minister 1778-85) Thomas Jefferson (Minister 1785-89) William Short (Charge d'Affaires 1790-92) Gouverneur Morris (Minister 1792-94) James Monroe (Minister 1794-96) Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Minister 1796-97) Robert R. Livingston (Minister 1801-04) John Armstrong, Jr. (Minister 1804-10) Jonathan Russell (Charge d'Affaires 1810-11) Joel Barlow (Minister 1811-12) William H. Crawford (Minister 1813-15) Albert Gallatin (Minister 1815-23) James Brown (Minister 1823-29) William Cabell Rives (Minister 1829-32) Levitt Harris (Charge d'Affaires 1833) Edward Livingston (Minister 1833-35) Lewis Cass (Minister 1836-42) William R. King (Minister 1844-46) Richard Rush (Minister 1847-49) William Cabell Rives (Minister 1849-53) John Y. Mason (Minister 1853-59) Charles J. Faulkner (Minister 1860) William L. Dayton (Minister 1861-64) John Bigelow (Minister 1865-66) John A. Dix (Minister 1866-69) Elihu B. Washburne (Minister 1869-77) Edward F. Noyes (Minister 1877-81) Levi P. Morton (Minister 1881-85) Robert M. McLane (Minister 1885-89) Whitelaw Reid (Minister 1889-92) T. Jefferson Coolidge (Minister 1892-93) James B. Eustis (Ambassador 1893-97) Horace Porter (Ambassador 1897-1905) Robert S. McCormick (Ambassador 1905-07) Henry White (Ambassador 1906-09) Robert Bacon (Ambassador 1909-12) Myron T. Herrick (Ambassador 1912-14) William G. Sharp (Ambassador 1914-19) Hugh Campbell Wallace (Ambassador 1919-21) Myron T. Herrick (Ambassador 1921-29) Walter E. Edge (Ambassador 1929-33) Jesse Isidor Straus (Ambassador 1933-36) William C. Bullitt (Ambassador 1936-40) William D. Leahy (Ambassador 1940-42) Jefferson Caffery (Ambassador 1944-49) David K. E. Bruce (Ambassador 1949-52) James Clement Dunn (Ambassador 1952-53) C. Douglas Dillon (Ambassador 1953-57) Amory Houghton (Ambassador 1957-61) James M. Gavin (Ambassador 1961-62) Charles E. Bohlen (Ambassador 1962-68) R. Sargent Shriver, Jr. (Ambassador 1968-70) Arthur K. Watson (Ambassador 1970-72) John Nichol Irwin II (Ambassador 1973-74) Kenneth Rush (Ambassador 1974-77) Arthur Adair Hartman (Ambassador 1977-81) Evan Griffith Galbraith (Ambassador 1981-85) Joe M. Rodgers (Ambassador 1985-89) Walter J. P. Curley, Jr. (Ambassador 1989-93) Pamela Harriman (Ambassador 1993-97) Felix Rohatyn (Ambassador 1997) Howard H. Leach (Ambassador 2001)

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