John Adams
John Adams (1735-1826), Second President of the U.S., was the first U.S. Chief of Mission in the Netherlands.
About the Mission
United States Chiefs of Mission to the Netherlands since 1781
| 1 | John Adams (1) | MA | MP | 1781- 1788 |
| 2 | William Livingstone | NJ | MP | |
| 3 | John Rutledge | SC | MP | |
| 4 | William Short | VA | MR | 1792 |
| 5 | John Quincy Adams (2) | MA | MR | 1794 - 1797 |
| 6 | William Vans Murray | MD | MR | 1797 - 1801 |
| 7 | William Eustis | MA | EE/MP | 1814 - 1818 |
| 8 | Alexander H. Everett | MA | Chd'Aff | 1818 - 1824 |
| 9 | Christopher Hughes | MD | Chd'Aff | 1825 - 1830 |
| 10 | William Pitt Preble | ME | EE/MP | 1829 - 1831 |
| 11 | Auguste Davezac | LA | Chd'Aff | 1831 - 1839 |
| 12 | Harmanus Bleecker | NY | Chd'Aff | 1839 - 1842 |
| 13 | Christopher Hughes | MD | Chd'Aff | 1842 - 1845 |
| 14 | Auguste Davezac | NY | Chd'Aff | 1845 - 1850 |
| 15 | George Folsom | NY | Chd'Aff | 1850 - 1853 |
| 16 | August Belmont | NY | Chd'Aff | 1853 - 1854 |
| MR | 1854 - 1857 | |||
| 17 | Henry C. Murphy | NY | MR | 1857 - 1861 |
| 18 | James S. Pike | ME | MR | 1861 - 1866 |
| 19 | Daniel E. Sickles (3) | NY | MR | 1866 |
| 20 | John A. Dix (4) | NY | MR | 1866 |
| 21 | Albert Rhodes (5) | Chd'Aff | 1866 | |
| 22 | Hugh Ewing | KS | MR | 1866 - 1870 |
| 23 | Joseph P. Root (6) | KS | MR | |
| 24 | Charles T. Gorham | MI | MR | 1870 - 1875 |
| 25 | Francis B. Stockbridge (7) | MI | MR | 1875 |
| 26 | James Birney | MI | MR | 1876 - 1882 |
| 27 | William L. Dayton | NJ | 1882 - 1885 | |
| 28 | Isaac Bell Jr. | RI | MR | 1885 - 1888 |
| 29 | Robert D. Roosevelt | NY | MR | 1888 |
| EE/MP | 1888 - 1889 | |||
| 30 | Samuel R. Thayer | MN | EE/MP | 1893 - 1893 |
| 31 | William E. Quinby | MI | EE/MP | 1893 - 1897 |
| 32 | Stanford Newel | MN | EE/MP | 1897 - 1905 |
| 33 | David J. Hill | NY | EE/MP | 1905 - 1908 |
| 34 | Arthur M. Beaupre | IL | EE/MP | 1908 - 1911 |
| 35 | Lloyd Bryce | NY | EE/MP | 1911 - 1913 |
| 36 | Henry van Dyke | NJ | EE/MP | 1913 - 1917 |
| 37 | John W. Garrett | MD | EE/MP | 1917 - 1919 |
| 38 | William Phillips | MA | EE/MP | 1920 - 1922 |
| 39 | Richard M. Tobin | CA | EE/MP | 1923 - 1929 |
| 40 | Gerrit John Diekema | MI | EE/MP | 1929 - 1930 |
| 41 | Laurits S. Swenson | MN | EE/MP | 1931 - 1934 |
| 42 | Grenville T. Emmet | NY | EE/MP | 1934 - 1937 |
| 43 | George A. Gordon (8) | NY | EE/MP | 1937 - 1940 |
| 44 | Anthony J. Drexel Biddle | PA | EE/MP | 1941 |
| AE/P | 1942 - 1943 | |||
| 45 | Stanley K. Hornbeck (9) | CO | AE/P | 1944 - 1947 |
| 46 | Herman B. Baruch | NY | AE/P | 1947 - 1949 |
| 47 | Selden Chapin | DC | AE/P | 1949 - 1953 |
| 48 | H. Freeman Matthews | DC | AE/P | 1953 - 1957 |
| 49 | Philip Young | NY | AE/P | 1957 - 1960 |
| 50 | John S. Rice | PA | AE/P | 1961 - 1964 |
| 51 | William R. Tyler | DC | AE/P | 1965 - 1969 |
| 52 | J. William Middendorf II | CT | AE/P | 1969 - 1973 |
| 53 | Kingdon Gould, Jr | MD | AE/P | 1973 - 1976 |
| 54 | Robert J. McCloskey | PA | AE/P | 1976 - 1978 |
| 55 | Geri M. Joseph | MN | AE/P | 1978 - 1981 |
| 56 | William J. Dyess | AL | AE/P | 1981 - 1983 |
| 57 | L. Paul Bremer III | CN | AE/P | 1983 - 1986 |
| 58 | John Shad | AE/P | 1987 - 1989 | |
| 59 | C. Howard Wilkins | KS | AE/P | 1989 - 1992 |
| 60 | K. Terry Dornbush | GA | AE/P | 1994 - 1998 |
| 61 | Cynthia P. Schneider | MD | AE/P | 1998 - 2001 |
| 62 | Clifford M. Sobel | NJ | AE/P | 2001 - 2005 |
| 63 | Roland E. Arnall | CA | AE/P | 2006 - 2008 |
| 64 | James B. Culbertson | NC | AE/P | 2008 - 2009 |