Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
The Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs is an office within the United States Department of State .
History of the office
In 1909, a geographical department was created in the Foreign Ministry with the Latin America Department (Division of Latin American Affairs) after a Far East department had already been established. The later legal basis for the four original Assistant Secretaries of States was The Foreign Service Act of May 24, 1924. In 1944, the United States Congress agreed to allow the executive branch to increase the number of Assistant Secretaries of State from four to six.
An office of this hierarchy with the corresponding functions was created on December 20, 1944 in the State Department with the function of Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs . This acted as head of the subdivision for American Republican Affairs (Bureau of American Republic Affairs) , the post between June 1947 and June 1949 was vacant. After the US Congress had approved the increase in the number of Assistant Secretaries of State from six to ten based on the report of the Commission for the Organization of Government Administration (Hoover Commission) on May 26, 1949, the function was reintroduced. By administrative decree of October 3, 1949, this function was renamed Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs , who was the head of the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs .
After taking over responsibility for Canada on January 12, 1999 , the post was given the current designation as Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs . The duties of the respective official include the management of the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs . The Western Hemisphere , the hemisphere west of Greenwich , is an elliptical name for the continent of America . According to this language regulation , the School of the Americas operates as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation .
The subdivision head is supported in his work by a Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs as the first deputy subdivision head and other Deputy Assistant Secretaries who, as heads of section, are responsible for the departments Mexico, regional economic policy and summits of the western hemisphere (Deputy Assistant Secretary, Mexico and Western Hemisphere Regional Economic Policy and Summit Issues) , Central America and the Caribbean (Deputy Assistant Secretary, Central America and the Caribbean) , Deputy Assistant Secretary, Public Diplomacy .
Official
List of Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs , 1944–1949
| Beginning of the term of office | Surname | Principal Deputy | Acting US President | Term expires |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 20, 1944 | Nelson Rockefeller | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Aug 17, 1945 | |
| Oct. 29, 1945 | Spruille Braden | Harry S. Truman | June 27, 1947 |
List of Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs , 1949–1999
List of Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs , since 1999
| Beginning of the term of office | Surname | Principal Deputy | Acting US President | Term expires |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 4, 2001 | Peter F. Romero | Bill Clinton | June 4, 2001 | |
| Jan. 11, 2002 | Otto Reich | George W. Bush | Nov 22, 2002 | |
| July 31, 2003 | Roger Noriega | George W. Bush | Oct 6, 2005 | |
| Oct 17, 2005 | Thomas A. Shannon | George W. Bush | Nov 5, 2009 | |
| Nov 10, 2009 | Arturo Valenzuela | Craig Kelly ; December 2010 - July 2011: Roberta S. Jacobson | Barack Obama | 31 Aug 2011 |
| March 30, 2012 | Roberta S. Jacobson | May 2012: John D. Feeley | Barack Obama |
Web links
- Entry on the page of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
- Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs on the US State Department's side; accessed on June 6, 2016
Individual evidence
- ^ Joseph Pratt Harris, The Advice and Consent of the Senate : The Advice and Consent of the Senate: A Study of the Confirmation of Appointments by the United States Senate, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953, p. 300
- ↑ Cecil Burton Lyon: Cecil B. Lyon, 89, Who Long Served As US Diplomat , Cecil Burton Lyon (1903-1993) Time : content.time.com
- ↑ Robert Arnold Hurwitch
- ↑ An exact end of Davidow's tenure as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs is not given on the website of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department. However, Davidow took up his new post as Ambassador to Mexico on August 5, 1998 , so that from this point in time at the latest he no longer performed his duties as Assistant Secretary of State .