Thomas Reeve Pickering

(November 5, 1931, Orange, New Jersey-Alive). 19th U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 1989-1992. Diplomat, 1959-Current. U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, 1974-1978. Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Oceans, Environment, and Science, 1978-1981. U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, 1981-1983. U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, 1983-1985. U.S. Ambassador to Israel, 1985-1988. 19th U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 1989-1992. U.S. Ambassador to India, 1992-1993. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, May, 1993-November, 1996. President, Eurasia Foundation, 1996-1997. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, May 27, 1997-January, 2001. Senior Vice President, The Boeing Company, January, 2001-Current.

Madeleine Korbel Albright

(May 15, 1937, Prague, Czechoslovakia-Alive). 21st U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 1993-1996. Chief Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Edmund S. Muskie, 1976-1978. Staff, National Security Council, c. 1977-1981. Professor of International Affairs and Director, Center for National Policy, Georgetown University. 21st U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, February, 1993-January, 1997. U.S. Secretary of State, 1997-January 20, 2001. First woman U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and first woman U.S. Secretary of State. Noted for advocating a hard-line strategy in Yugoslavia and the Middle East. A naturalized U.S. citizen.

William Blaine "Bill" Richardson

(November 15, 1947, Pasadena, California-Alive). 22nd U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 1997-1998. International business consultant. U.S. Representative (Democrat-New Mexico), January 3, 1983-February 13, 1997. 22nd U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 1997-1998. U.S. Secretary of Energy, 1998-January 20, 2001. Instructor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2001. Chairman, Freedom House, 2001. Democratic Governor of New Mexico, 2003-Current.

Richard C. Holbrooke

(April 24, 1941, New York, New York-Alive). 23rd U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 1999-2001. Member, U.S. Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks, 1967-1969. Director of the Peace Corps in Morocco, 1970-1972. Managing Director, Foreign Policy quarterly, 1972-1976. Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 1977-1981. Vice President, Public Strategies, 1981-1985. Managing Director, Lehman Brothers, 1985-1993. U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1993-1994. Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs, 1994-1996. Vice Chairman, Credit Suisse First Boston, 1996-1999. 23rd U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, August 5, 1999-January, 2001. Chief Negotiator for the Dayton Peace Accords, 1995.

John Dimitri Negroponte

(Alive). Deputy U.S. Secretary of State, 2007-Current. U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, 1981-1985; Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, 1985-1987; Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, 1987-1989; U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, 1989-1993; U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, 1993-1996; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 2001-2004. U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, 2004-2005. Director of National Intelligence, 2005-2007. Deputy U.S. Secretary of State, 2007-Current.

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John Claggett Danforth

(September 5, 1936, St. Louis, Missouri-Alive). Attorney. Ordained Priest, Episcopal Church, 1936. Attorney General of Missouri, 1969-1976. U.S. Senator (R-MO), 1976-1995. Special U.S. Envoy to the Sudan, to 2004. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 2004-2005.

John Robert Bolton

(November 20, 1948, Baltimore, Maryland-Alive). General Counsel, USAID, 1981-1982, Assistant Administrator, 1982-1983. Assistant Attorney General of the United States, 1985-1989. Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, 1989-1993. Under U.S. Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, 2001-2005. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 2005-2006.

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Alejandro Daniel Wolff

Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in France, 2001-2005. Deputy U.S. Representative to the United Nations, 2005. Acting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 2006-2007.

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Khalilzad Zalmay

(March 22, 1951, Marzari Sharif, Afghanistan-Alive). Highest ranking Muslim in the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government. Deputy U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning, 1990-1992. Special Assistant to the President, 2001. Special U.S. Envoy to Afghanistan, 2001-2003. U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, 2003-2005. U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, 2005-2007. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 2007-Current.

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