Ambassadors and ministers

Ambassadors and ministers who have attended Princeton number more than a hundred and have served throughout the world in approximately seventy countries and missions, including the following:

ALBANIA
Post Wheeler 1891 (1933-1934)

ARGENTINA
John W. Garrett 1895 (1911-1914)
Norman Armour '09 (1939-1944)

AUSTRIA
Gilchrist B. Stockton '14 (1930-1933)
H. Freeman Matthews '21 (1957-1962)
John P. Humes '43 (1969-1972)

BAHAMAS
Ronald I. Spiers MPA '50 (1973-1974)

BELGIUM
Leonard K. Firestone '31 (1974-1976)

BOLIVIA
William Austin Seay 1850 (1885-1887)
Robert G. Caldwell Ph.D. '12 (1937-1939)

BURUNDI
George W. Renchard '30 (1968-1970)

CAMBODIA
William C. Trimble '30 (1959-1962)

CANADA
R. Douglas Stuart '08 (1953-1956)
Livingston T. Merchant '26 (1956-1958; 1961-1962)
W. Walton Butterworth, Jr., '25 (1962-1968)
Adolph W. Schmidt '26 (1969-1974)

CEYLON
Bernard A. 'Gufler 25 (1959-1961)

CHILE
Norman Armour '09 (1938-1939)
Ralph A. Dungan, Jr., MPA '52 (1964-1967)

CHINA
John V. MacMurray '02 (1925-1929)

CHINA (Taiwan)
Karl L. Rankin '22 (1953-1957)

CONGO
Edmund A. Gullion '35 (1961)
Robert H. McBride '40 (1967-1969)

COSTA RICA
Nathaniel P. Davis '16 (1949-1951)
Whiting Willauer '28 (1958-1960)

CUBA
Joshua B. Wright 1899 (1937-1939)

CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Joshua B. Wright 1899 (1934-1937)
Edward T. Wailes '25 (1961-1962)
Jacob D. Beam '29 (1966-1969)

ECUADOR
Findley Burns, Jr., '39 (1970-1971)

FINLAND
Bernard A. Gufler '25 (1961-1963)
Tyler Thompson '30 (1964-1969)

FRANCE
John Armstrong 1776 (1804-1810)
Edward Livingston 1781 (1833-1835)
Richard Rush 1797 (1847-1851)
William Lewis Dayton 1825 (1861-1864)
David K. E. Bruce '19 (1949-1952)
John N. Irwin II '37 (1973-1974)

GABON
Richard Funkhouser '39 (1969-1970)

GERMANY
David K. E. Bruce '19 (1957-1959)

GREAT BRITAIN
Richard Rush 1797 (1817-1825)
Joseph Reed Ingersoll 1804 (1852-1853)
George Mifflin Dallas 1810 (1856-1861)
John Gilbert Winant '13 (1941-1947)
David K. E. Bruce '19 (1961-1969)

GREECE
Henry R. Labouisse '26 (1962-1965)

GUINEA
William H. At~twood '41 (1961-1963)

HONDURAS
Whiting Willauer '28 (1954-1958)

HUNGARY
Joshua B. Wright 1899 (1927-1930)
Nathaniel P. Davis '16 (1949-1951)

ICELAND
Tyler Thompson '30 (1960-1961)

INDIA
Robert F. Goheen '40 (1977- )

IRAN
Richmond Pearson 1872 (1902-1907)
Edward T. Wailes '25 (1958-1961)

IRAQ
Edward S. Crocker '18 (1948-1952)

ITALY
John P. Stockton 1843 (1857-1861)
John W. Garrett 1895 (1929-1933)
Breckenridge Long '03 (1933-1936)

IVORY COAST
John F. Root '40 (1969-1974)

JAPAN
Roland S. Morris 1896 (1917-1921)

KENYA
William H Attwood '41 (1964-1966)

KUWAIT
William Stoltzfus '46 (1974-1976)

LAOS
Charles W. Yost '28 (1954-1956)
Christian G. Chapman '43 (1974- )

LIBYA
John L. Tappin '28 (1954-1958)

MALAWI
William C. Buldett '41 (1970-1975)

MALTA
John C. Pritz~laff, Jr, '47 (1969-1972) ~

MAURITANIA
Holsey G. Handyside MPA '53 (197- )

MEXICO
John Forsyth, Jr., 1832 (1856-1858)
Robert H. McBride, '40 (1969-1972) ~

MOROCCO
Samuel R. Gummere 1870 (1905-1909)
Charles W. Yost '28 (1958-1961)

NETHERLANDS
William Lewis Dayton 1858 (1882-1885)
Henry van Dyke 1873 (1913-1917)
John W. Garrett 1895 (1917-1919)
H. Freeman Matthews '21 (1953-1957)

NICARAGUA
Aaron S. Brown '35 (1961-1967)

NIGERIA
Donald B. Easum Ph.D. '53 (1975- )

PARAGUAY
Post Wheeler 1891 (1929-1933)

PERU
William P. Cooper '17 (1946-1948)

PHILIPPINES
William E. Stevenson '22 (1961-1964)
G. Mennen Williams '33 (1968-1969)

POLAND
Jacob D. Beam '29 (1957-1961)

PORTUGAL
Robert G. Caldwell Ph.D. '12 (1933-1937)
Frank C. Carlucci '52 (1975-1977)

RUMANIA
Richard H. Davis '35 (1965-1969)

RUSSIA
George Washington Campbell 1794 (1818-1821)
George Mifflin Dallas 1810 (1837-1839)
George Henry Boker 1842 (1875-1878)
(See USSR for later appointments)

SAUDI ARABIA
William A. Eddy '17 (1944-1946)
Nicholas G. Thacher '37 (1970-1973)

SOMALIA
Roger Kirk '52 (1973-1975)

SOUTH AFRICA
Edward T. Wailes '25 (1954-1956)

SPAIN
John Forsyth 1799 (1819-1823)
Norman Armour '09 (1944-1945)
Peter M. Flanigan '45 (1975-1976)

SWEDEN
H. Freeman Matthews '21 (1947-1950)
W. Walton Butterworth, Jr., '25 (1950-1953)

SWITZERLAND
Shelby Cullom Davis '30 (1969-1972)

SYRIA
Charles W. Yost '28 (1958)

TANGANYIKA
William K. Leonhart Ph.D. '43 (1962-1965)

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
John F. Symington, Jr., '33 (1969-1973)

TURKEY
George Henry Boker 1842 (1871-1875)
John V. MacMurray '02 (1936-1942)
Ronald I. Spiers MPA '50 (1977- )

URUGUAY
Joshua B. Wright 1899 (1930-1934)

UPPER VOLTA
Donald B. Easum Ph.D. '53 (1971-1975)

U.S.S.R.
George F. Kennan '25 (1952-1953)
Jaeob D. Beam '29 (1969-1973) (Russia for earlier appointments)

VENEZUELA
Allen Thomas 1850 (1888-1892)
John W. Garrett 1895 (1910-1911)
Norman Armour '09 (1950-1951)

YUGOSLAVIA
Karl L. Rankin '22 (1958-1961)
George F. Kennan '25 (1961-1963)
William K. Leonhart Ph.D. '43 (1969-1971)

Representatives to Special Missions with rank of Ambassador

UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK
Adlai E. Stevenson '22 (1961-1965)
Charles W. Yost '28 (1969-1971)

INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION, VIENNA
Henry DeWolf Smyth '18 (1961-1970)

NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION AND EUROPEAN REGIONAL ORGANIZATION, PARIS
John C. Hughes '14 (1953-1955)
James Harlan Cleveland '38 (1965-1969)
Donald Rumsfeld '54 (1973-1974)
David K. E. Bruce '19 (1975-1976)

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
W. Walton Butterworth '25 (1958-1962)


From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton University Press (1978).

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