Flashcards: Ambassadors of the United States to France

John Adams Dix (July 24, 1798 – April 21, 1879) was Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York and Union major general during the Civil War.

Fleet Admiral William Daniel Leahy (May 6, 1875 – July 20, 1959) was an American naval officer who served as the senior-most United States military officer on active duty during World War II.

Elihu Benjamin Washburne (September 23, 1816 – October 23, 1887) was an American politician and diplomat.

Robert Sargent "Sarge" Shriver Jr.

Gouverneur Morris I (January 31, 1752 – November 6, 1816) was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a native of New York City who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

Robert Bacon (July 5, 1860 – May 29, 1919) was an American statesman and diplomat.

Edward Livingston (May 28, 1764 – May 23, 1836) was an American jurist and statesman.

William Harris Crawford (February 24, 1772 – September 15, 1834) was an American politician and judge during the early 19th century.

James Maurice "Jumpin' Jim" Gavin (March 22, 1907 – February 23, 1990) was a senior United States Army officer, with the rank of lieutenant general, who was the third Commanding General (CG) of the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II.

Richard Rush (August 29, 1780 – July 30, 1859) was United States Attorney General under James Madison and United States Secretary of the Treasury under President John Quincy Adams as well as John Quincy Adams' running mate when he ran for re-election on the National Republican ticket in 1828.

Robert R(obert) Livingston (November 27, 1746 (Old Style November 16) – February 26, 1813) was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat from New York, and a Founding Father of the United States.

Levi Parsons Morton (May 16, 1824 – May 16, 1920) was a Representative from New York and the 22nd Vice President of the United States (1889–93).

William Rufus DeVane King (April 7, 1786 – April 18, 1853) was an American politician and diplomat.

Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin (January 29, 1761 – August 12, 1849) was a Swiss-American politician, diplomat, ethnologist and linguist.

Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer, politician, and statesman: he was longtime governor of the Michigan Territory (1813–1831), Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson, and Secretary of State under President James Buchanan.

Clarence Douglas Dillon (born Clarence Douglass Dillon; August 21, 1909 – January 10, 2003) was an American diplomat and politician, who served as U.

John Young Mason (April 18, 1799 – October 3, 1859) was an American politician, diplomat, and United States federal judge.

Edwin Lefèvre (1871–1943) was an American journalist, writer, and diplomat most noted for his writings on Wall Street business.

Joel Barlow (March 24, 1754 – December 26, 1812) was an American poet, diplomat, and politician.

Walter Joseph Patrick Curley II (September 17, 1922 – June 2, 2016) was the 57th United States Ambassador to France from 1989 to 1993 and the United States Ambassador to Ireland from 1975 to 1977.

William Cabell Rives (May 4, 1793 – April 25, 1868) was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat from Albemarle County, Virginia.

James Biddle Eustis (August 27, 1834 – September 9, 1899) was a United States Senator from Louisiana.

John Nichol Irwin, II (December 31, 1913 – February 28, 2000) was a United States diplomat and attorney during the Cold War.

Jane Dorothy Hartley (born April 18, 1950) is the current United States Ambassador to France and United States Ambassador to Monaco.

Evan (Van) Griffith Galbraith (July 2, 1928 – January 21, 2008) was the United States Ambassador to France from 1981 to 1985 under Ronald Reagan and the Secretary of Defense Representative to Europe and NATO under Donald Rumsfeld from 2002 to 2007.

John Armstrong Jr.

Whitelaw Reid (October 27, 1837 – December 15, 1912) was an American politician and newspaper editor, as well as the author of a popular history of Ohio in the Civil War.

Pamela Beryl Harriman (née Digby; 20 March 1920 – 5 February 1997), also known as Pamela Churchill Harriman, was an English-born American socialite who was married and linked to important and powerful men.

Charles James Faulkner (July 6, 1806 – November 1, 1884) was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia and West Virginia.

James Brown (September 11, 1766 – April 7, 1835) was a lawyer beginning in Kentucky, U.

William Graves Sharp (March 14, 1859 – November 17, 1922) was an American lawyer, manufacturer, three-term congressman, and diplomat.

Jefferson Caffery (December 1, 1886 – April 13, 1974) was a distinguished American diplomat.

Silas Deane (January 4, 1738 [O.S. December 24, 1737] – September 23, 1789) was an American merchant, politician, and diplomat, and a supporter of American independence.

Dr. Arthur Lee (20 December 1740 – 12 December 1792) was a physician and opponent of slavery in colonial Virginia in North America who served as an American diplomat during the American Revolutionary War.

Robert Sanderson McCormick (July 26, 1849 – April 16, 1919) was an American diplomat.

Charles Eustis “Chip” Bohlen (August 30, 1904 – January 1, 1974) was a US diplomat from 1929 to 1969 and an expert on the Soviet Union.

David Kenneth Rush (January 17, 1910 – December 11, 1994) was a United States Ambassador who helped negotiate the ground-breaking four-power agreement in 1971 that ended the post-war crisis over Berlin.

Edward Follansbee Noyes (October 3, 1832 – September 4, 1890) was a Republican politician from Ohio.

Myron Timothy Herrick (October 9, 1854 – March 31, 1929) was a Republican politician from Ohio.

Walter Evans Edge (November 20, 1873 – October 29, 1956) was an American politician.

Robert Milligan McLane (June 23, 1815 – April 16, 1898) was an American politician, military officer, and diplomat.

Somerville Pinkney Tuck (May 3, 1891 – April 21, 1967) was an American Foreign Service Officer who served as Chargé d'affaires to Vichy France and United States Ambassador to Egypt from 1946 to 1948.

Charles Hammerman Rivkin (born 1962) is the current Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs.

Craig Roberts Stapleton (born 1945) is a former United States ambassador to France and the Czech Republic.

Felix George Rohatyn (/ˈroʊɑːtɪn/ ROH-ah-tin; born May 29, 1928) is an American investment banker.

Henry White (March 29, 1850 – July 15, 1927) was a prominent U.

Horace Porter (April 15, 1837 – May 29, 1921) was an American soldier and diplomat who served as a lieutenant colonel, ordnance officer and staff officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, personal secretary to General and President Ulysses S.

David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (February 12, 1898 – December 5, 1977) was an American diplomat, intelligence officer and politician.

William Lewis Dayton (February 17, 1807 – December 1, 1864) was an American politician, active first in the Whig Party and later in the Republican Party.

Donald Ray Seawell (August 1, 1912 – September 30, 2015) was an American cultural and civic leader, born in Jonesboro, North Carolina.

Arthur Kittredge "Dick" Watson (April 23, 1919 – July 26, 1974) served as president of IBM World Trade Corporation and United States Ambassador to France.

Howard H. Leach is an American diplomat, college administrator and philanthropist.

Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr.

William Short (1759–1849) was Thomas Jefferson's private secretary when Jefferson was a peace commissioner and then the United States Minister to France in Paris, from 1784 to 1789.

James Clement Dunn (December 27, 1890, Newark, New Jersey – April 10, 1979, West Palm Beach, Florida) was an American diplomat and a career employee of the United States Department of State.

Jesse Isidor Straus (June 25, 1872 – October 4, 1936) served as the American ambassador to France from 1933 to 1936.