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Foreign Service, US

  
     
  The diplomatic (including consular) service of the United States. As in the case of Britain, the United States originally had separate diplomatic and consular services but these were merged into a unified service – the US Foreign Service – when the Rogers Act became law on 24 May 1924. Under this Act, which was also of great significance for putting the service for the first time on a secure professional basis, permanent officers under the rank of minister were designated Foreign Service Officers (FSOs). A further amalgamation, analogous to that which had taken place in Britain after the First World War, occurred when, following the Wriston Report of 1954, the Foreign Service absorbed the personnel of the hitherto separate State Department. See also career ambassador; career minister; career officer; diplomat-in-residence; Foggy Bottom; Larkin; senior foreign service.  
 

 

 

  
 
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