Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs

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United States
Assistant Secretary of State
for Legislative Affairs
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Incumbent
Naz Durakoğlu
since July 22, 2022
Reports toThe United States Secretary of State
NominatorThe President of the United States
Inaugural holder Dean Acheson [1]
Formation1944
Website Official Website

The Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs is the head of the Bureau of Legislative Affairs within the United States Department of State.

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List of Assistant Secretaries of State for Legislative Affairs

#NameAssumed officeLeft office President served under
1 Dean Acheson December 20, 1944August 15, 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt
2 Ernest A. Gross March 4, 1949October 13, 1949 Harry S. Truman
3 Jack K. McFall October 15, 1949September 9, 1952
4 Thruston Ballard Morton January 30, 1953February 29, 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower
5 Robert C. Hill March 9, 1956June 26, 1957
6 William B. Macomber Jr. October 21, 1957February 27, 1961
7 Brooks Hays February 28, 1961December 3, 1961 John F. Kennedy
8 Fred Dutton December 4, 1961 [2] July 27, 1964John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
9 Douglas MacArthur II March 14, 1965March 6, 1967Lyndon B. Johnson
10 William B. Macomber Jr. March 7, 1967October 2, 1969
11 David Manker Abshire April 20, 1970January 8, 1973 Richard Nixon
12 Marshall Wright May 29, 1973February 2, 1974
13 A. Linwood Holton February 28, 1974January 31, 1975Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
14 Robert J. McCloskey February 21, 1975September 10, 1976 Gerald Ford
15 Douglas J. Bennet March 18, 1977August 2, 1979 Jimmy Carter
16 J. Brian Atwood August 3, 1979January 14, 1981
17 Richard M. Fairbanks March 6, 1981January 26, 1982 Ronald Reagan
18 Powell A. Moore February 8, 1982August 5, 1983
19 W. Tapley Bennett Jr. November 17, 1983January 4, 1985
20 William L. Ball April 2, 1985February 28, 1986
21 J. Edward Fox June 18, 1986February 21, 1989
22 Janet G. Mullins March 2, 1989August 23, 1992 George H. W. Bush
23 Wendy Sherman May 12, 1993March 29, 1996 Bill Clinton
24 Barbara Mills Larkin July 19, 1996January 19, 2001
25 Paul Vincent Kelly June 1, 2001January 24, 2005 George W. Bush
26 Jeffrey Bergner November 9, 2005June 27, 2008
27 Matthew A. Reynolds October 7, 2008January 20, 2009
28 Richard Verma April 6, 2009March 14, 2011 Barack Obama
- Joseph Macmanus (acting)March 14, 2011August 4, 2011
29 David S. Adams August 4, 2011June 18, 2013
30 Julia Frifield October 21, 2013January 20, 2017
- Joseph Macmanus (acting)January 20, 2017December 20, 2017 Donald Trump
31 Mary Kirtley Waters December 20, 2017August 31, 2018
32 Mary Elizabeth Taylor October 1, 2018June 18, 2020
- Ryan M. Kaldahl (acting)July 2020January 20, 2021
- Naz Durakoğlu (acting)January 20, 2021July 22, 2022 Joe Biden
33 Naz Durakoğlu July 22, 2022present

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References

  1. "Assistant Secretaries of State for Legislative Affairs". U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian . Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  2. Commissioned during a Senate recess; after confirmation, he was re-commissioned on January 30, 1962.