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Ralph Johnson Bunche
United States diplomat and United Nations official (1904-1971)
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John Foster Dulles
United States diplomat who (as Secretary of State) pursued a policy of opposition to the USSR by providing aid to American allies (1888-1959)
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John Kenneth Galbraith
United States economist (born in Canada) who served as ambassador to India (born in 1908)
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Edmund Charles Edouard Genet
French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834)
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Huig de Groot
Dutch jurist and diplomat whose writings established the basis of modern international law (1583-1645)
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Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold
Swedish diplomat who greatly extended the influence of the United Nations in peacekeeping matters (1905-1961)
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William Averell Harriman
United States financier who negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union banning tests of nuclear weapons (1891-1986)
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Townsend Harris
United States diplomat who was instrumental in opening Japan to foreign trade (1804-1878)
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Cordell Hull
United States diplomat who did the groundwork for creating the United Nations (1871-1955)
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John Jay
United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829)
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Henry Alfred Kissinger
United States diplomat who served under President Nixon and President Ford (born in 1923)
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Le Duc Tho
Vietnamese diplomat who negotiated with Henry Kissinger to end the war in Vietnam (1911-1990)
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Vicomte Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps
French diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal (1805-1894)
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Trygve Halvden Lie
Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968)
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Sir Harold George Nicolson
English diplomat and author (1886-1968)
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Thomas Nelson Page
United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922)
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
wife of Franklin Roosevelt and a strong advocate of human rights (1884-1962)
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson
United States politician and diplomat (1900-1968)
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Kurt Waldheim
Austrian diplomat who was Secretary General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981; in 1986 he was elected president of Austria in spite of worldwide allegations that he had direct knowledge of Nazi atrocities during World War II (born in 1918)
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Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko
Soviet ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations (1909-1989)
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ambassador, embassador
a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another
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charge d'affaires
the official temporarily in charge of a diplomatic mission in the absence of the ambassador
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consul
a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country
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envoy, envoy extraordinary, minister plenipotentiary
a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador
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high commissioner
a senior diplomat from one country to another who is assigned ambassadorial rank
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internuncio
(Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope ranking below a nuncio
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diplomatic minister, minister
a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador
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nuncio, papal nuncio
(Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope having ambassadorial status
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persona grata
a diplomat who is acceptable to the government to which he is sent
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persona non grata
a diplomat who is unacceptable to the government to which he is sent
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plenipotentiary
a diplomat who is fully authorized to represent his or her government
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George F. Kennan, George Frost Kennan, Kennan
United States diplomat who recommended a policy of containment in dealing with Soviet aggression (1904-2005)
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ambassadress
a woman ambassador