Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

United States Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent Daniel R. Russel since July 12, 2013
Nominator	Barack Obama
Inaugural holder	William Walton Butterworth
Formation	1949
Website	Official Website

The Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs is the head of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs within the United States Department of State. The Assistant Secretary guides operation of the U.S. diplomatic establishment in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region and advises the Secretary of State and the Under Secretary for Political Affairs on matters relating to the area. The current Assistant Secretary is Daniel R. Russel.

The Department of State established the position of Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs in 1949, after the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of Government recommended that certain offices be upgraded to bureau level and after Congress increased the number of Assistant Secretaries of State from six to ten. On November 1, 1966, the Department by administrative action changed the incumbent's designation to Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. The Division of Far Eastern Affairs, established in 1908, was the first geographical division to be established in the Department of State.^[1]

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

Name	Assumed Office	Left Office	President served under
William Walton Butterworth^[2]	September 29, 1949	July 4, 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	December 3, 1961	John F. Kennedy
W. Averell Harriman	December 4, 1961^[3]	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, 1966—Present

Name	Assumed Office	Left Office	President served under
William Bundy	March 16, 1964	May 4, 1969	Lyndon B. Johnson
Marshall Green	May 5, 1969	May 10, 1973	Richard Nixon
G. McMurtrie Godley	^[4]		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	January 13, 1981^[5]	Ronald Reagan
Paul Wolfowitz	December 22, 1982	March 12, 1986	Ronald Reagan
Gaston J. Sigur, Jr.	March 12, 1986	February 21, 1989	Ronald Reagan
Richard Armitage	^[6]		George H. W. Bush
Richard H. Solomon	June 23, 1989	July 10, 1992	George H. W. Bush
William Clark, Jr.	July 10, 1992	April 23, 1993	George H. W. Bush
Winston Lord	April 23, 1993	February 18, 1997	Bill Clinton
Stanley O. Roth	August 5, 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	July 12, 2013		Barack Obama

External links

↑ "Assistant Secretaries of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs". Archived from the original on 23 September 2007. Retrieved September 21, 2007.
↑ Butterworth was initially appointed as "Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs." On March 20, 1950, his title was changed to "Assistant Secretary of State for Japanese Affairs."
↑ Initially commissioned during a recess of the Senate. He was later confirmed and re-commissioned on March 5, 1962.
↑ Godley was never commissioned and President Nixon withdrew his nomination before the Senate acted upon it.
↑ This date appears to be an error on the State Department's website: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/po/12046.htm
↑ Nomination withdrawn.

United States Assistant Secretaries of State (and Equivalent Ranks)

Reporting to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs	African Affairs East Asian and Pacific Affairs European and Eurasian Affairs International Organization Affairs Near Eastern Affairs South and Central Asian Affairs Western Hemisphere Affairs

Reporting to the Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment	Economic and Business Affairs Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs

Reporting to the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs	Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance International Security and Nonproliferation Political-Military Affairs

Reporting to the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs	Educational and Cultural Affairs Public Affairs Coordinator for International Information Programs

Reporting to the Under Secretary for Management	Administration Consular Affairs Diplomatic Security Director General of the Foreign Service

Reporting to the Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights	Conflict and Stabilization Operations Coordinator for Counterterrorism (Ambassador-at-Large) Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Population, Refugees, and Migration Trafficking in Persons (Ambassador-at-Large) War Crimes Issues (Ambassador-at-Large)

Reporting directly to the Secretary	Intelligence and Research Legislative Affairs Executive Secretary Inspector General Legal Adviser Director of Policy Planning Chief of Protocol Global Women's Issues (Ambassador-at-Large) Global AIDS Coordinator (Ambassador-at-Large)

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