South America
- Argentina - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, President of Argentina (1868–1874)
- Brazil - Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil (1831–1889)
- Chile - Federico Errázuriz Zañartu, President of Chile (1871–1876)
- Ecuador - Gabrial García Moreno, President of Ecuador (1869–1875)
- Peru - Manuel Pardo, President of Peru (1872–1876)
- Uruguay -
- Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, President of Uruguay (1868–1872)
- Tomás Gomensoro, President of Uruguay (1872–1873)
- Venezuela - Antonio Guzmán Blanco, President of Venezuela (1870–1877)
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“Indeed, I believe that in the future, when we shall have seized again, as we will seize if we are true to ourselves, our own fair part of commerce upon the sea, and when we shall have again our appropriate share of South American trade, that these railroads from St. Louis, touching deep harbors on the gulf, and communicating there with lines of steamships, shall touch the ports of South America and bring their tribute to you.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“I need not tell you of the inadequacy of the American shipping marine on the Pacific Coast.... For this reason it seems to me that there is no subject to which Congress can better devote its attention in the coming session than the passage of a bill which shall encourage our merchant marine in such a way as to establish American lines directly between New York and the eastern ports and South American ports, and both our Pacific Coast ports and the Orient and the Philippines.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)