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Portugal
U.S. diplomatic chiefs of mission to Portugal
David Humphreys (Minister 1791-97) William Smith (Minister 1797-1801) Thomas Sumter (Minister 1809-19) John Graham (Minister 1819-20) John James Appleton (Charge d'Affaires 1820-21) Henry Dearborn (Minister 1822-24) Thomas L. L. Brent (Charge d'Affaires 1825-34) Edward Kavanagh (Charge d'Affaires 1835-41) Washington Barrow (Charge d'Affaires 1841-44) Abraham Rencher (Charge d'Affaires 1844-47) George W. Hopkins (Charge d'Affaires 1847-49) James Brown Clay (Charge d'Affaires 1849-50) Charles B. Haddock (Charge d'Affaires 1850-54) John L. O'Sullivan (Charge d'Affaires 1854) John L. O'Sullivan (Minister 1854-58) George W. Morgan (Minister 1858-61) James E. Harvey (Minister 1861-69) Samuel Shellabarger (Minister 1869-70) Charles H. Lewis (Minister 1870-75) Benjamin Moran (Minister 1875-76) Benjamin Moran (Charge d'Affaires 1876-82) John M. Francis (Minister 1882-84) Lewis Richmond (Minister 1884-85) Edward P. C. Lewis (Minister 1885-89) George B. Loring (Minister 1889-90) George S. Batcheller (Minister 1890-92) Gilbert A. Pierce (Minister 1893) George W. Caruth (Minister 1893-97) Lawrence Townsend (Minister 1897-99) John N. Irwin (Minister 1899-1900) Francis B. Loomis (Minister 1901-02) Charles P. Bryan (Minister 1903-10) Henry T. Gage (Minister 1910) Edwin V. Morgan (Minister 1911-12) Cyrus E. Woods (Minister 1912-13) Thomas H. Birch (Minister 1913-22) Fred Morris Dearing (Minister 1922-30) John Glover South (Minister 1930-33) Robert Granville Caldwell (Minister 1933-37) Herbert C. Pell, Jr. (Minister 1937-41) Bert Fish (Minister 1941-43) R. Henry Norweb (Minister 1943-44) R. Henry Norweb (Ambassador 1944-45) Herman B. Baruch (Ambassador 1945-47) John C. Wiley (Ambassador 1947-48) Lincoln MacVeagh (Ambassador 1948-52) Cavendish W. Cannon (Ambassador 1952-53) M. Robert Guggenheim (Ambassador 1953-54) James C. H. Bonbright (Ambassador 1955-58) C. Burke Elbrick (Ambassador 1958-63) George W. Anderson, Jr. (Ambassador 1963-66) W. Tapley Bennett, Jr. (Ambassador 1966-69) Ridgway B. Knight (Ambassador 1969-73) Stuart Nash Scott (Ambassador 1973-75) Frank C. Carlucci (Ambassador 1975-78) Richard J. Bloomfield (Ambassador 1978-82) Henry Allen Holmes (Ambassador 1982-85) Frank Shakespeare (Ambassador 1985-86) Edward Morgan Rowell (Ambassador 1988-90) Everett Ellis Briggs (Ambassador 1990-93) Elizabeth Frawley=Bagley (Ambassador 1994-97) Gerald S. McGowan (Ambassador 1997-2001) John M. Palmer (Ambassador 2001-) |
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