Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

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The Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs is an office in the United States Department of State .

History of the office

Organizational chart : The administrative structure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (English)

The Division of Far Eastern Affairs, founded in 1908, was the first geographic division of the US State Department. After the Commission on the Organization of Executive Administration of the Government (Hoover Commission) recommended raising various areas for presentations, the US Congress approved the increase in Assistant Secretaries from six to ten. Then in 1949 the position of Head of the Far East Subdivision (Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs) was created.

On November 1, 1966, a ministerial decree renamed the position to today's name Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs .

He is head of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the US State Department and is responsible for the operations of the embassies in the countries in these regions. He reports to the Head of the Political Department ( Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs ) and is also an advisor to the US Secretary of State and the US Deputy Secretary of State .

The sub-department head is supported in his work by a Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs as the first deputy sub-department head as well as further Deputy Assistant Secretaries , who as heads of unit are responsible for the Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands and APEC (Deputy Assistant Secretary for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands and Senior Official for APEC) , Public Affairs, Public Diplomacy, Regional and Security Policy (Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy and for Regional and Security Policy) , Southeast Asia (Deputy Assistant Secretary for Southeast Asia) , strategic and multilateral affairs (Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategy and Multilateral Affairs) .

Official

Daniel R. Russel has been acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs since July 12, 2013

List of Assistant Secretaries of State for Far Eastern Affairs , 1949-1966

Surname Beginning of the term of office Term expires Acting US President
William Walton Butterworth September 29, 1949 4th July 1950 Harry S. Truman
Dean Rusk March 28, 1950 December 9, 1951 Harry S. Truman
John Moore Allison February 1, 1952 April 7, 1953 Harry S. Truman
Walter S. Robertson April 8, 1953 June 30, 1959 Dwight D. Eisenhower
J. Graham Parsons July 1, 1959 March 30, 1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walter P. McConaughy April 24, 1961 3rd December 1961 John F. Kennedy
W. Averell Harriman 4th December 1961 April 3, 1963 John F. Kennedy
Roger Hilsman May 9, 1963 March 15, 1964 John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

List of Assistant Secretaries of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs , since 1966

Surname Beginning of the term of office Term expires Acting US President
William Bundy March 16, 1964 4th May 1969 Lyndon B. Johnson
Marshall Green 5th May 1969 May 10, 1973 Richard Nixon
G. McMurtrie Godley Richard Nixon
Robert S. Ingersoll January 8, 1974 July 9, 1974 Richard Nixon
Philip Habib September 27, 1974 June 30, 1976 Gerald Ford
Arthur W. Hummel, Jr. July 12, 1976 March 14, 1977 Gerald Ford
Richard Holbrooke March 31, 1977 January 13, 1981 Jimmy Carter
John H. Holdridge May 28, 1981 December 13, 1982 Ronald Reagan
Paul Wolfowitz 22nd December 1982 March 12, 1986 Ronald Reagan
Gaston J. Sigur, Jr. March 12, 1986 February 21, 1989 Ronald Reagan
Richard Armitage George HW Bush
Richard H. Solomon June 23, 1989 July 10, 1992 George HW Bush
William Clark, Jr. July 10, 1992 April 23, 1993 George HW Bush
Winston Lord April 23, 1993 February 18, 1997 Bill Clinton
Stanley O. Roth 5th August 1997 January 20, 2001 Bill Clinton
James A. Kelly May 1, 2001 January 31, 2005 George W. Bush
Christopher R. Hill April 8, 2005 April 21, 2009 George W. Bush and Barack Obama
Kurt M. Campbell June 2, 2009 February 8, 2013 Barack Obama
Daniel R. Russel 12th of July 2013 Barack Obama

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  1. ^ Butterworth was initially appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs before changing his title to Assistant Secretary of State for Japanese Affairs on March 20, 1950 .
  2. ↑ Harriman was initially appointed because of a break in the US Senate session before confirmation and appointment on March 5, 1962 was repeated.
  3. ↑ Godley was not appointed after US President Nixon withdrew his nomination before the Senate personnel debate.
  4. ↑ nomination withdrawn.