| United States Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs | |
|---|---|
 Seal of the United States Department of State | |
 Flag of an assistant secretary of state | |
| Reports to | The secretary of state |
| Nominator | The president of the United States |
| Inaugural holder | Dean Acheson [1] |
| Formation | 1944 |
| 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.
| # | Name | Assumed office | Left office | President served under |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dean Acheson | December 20, 1944 | August 15, 1945 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| 2 | Ernest A. Gross | March 4, 1949 | October 13, 1949 | Harry S. Truman |
| 3 | Jack K. McFall | October 15, 1949 | September 9, 1952 | |
| 4 | Thruston Ballard Morton | January 30, 1953 | February 29, 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 5 | Robert C. Hill | March 9, 1956 | June 26, 1957 | |
| 6 | William B. Macomber Jr. | October 21, 1957 | February 27, 1961 | |
| 7 | Brooks Hays | February 28, 1961 | December 3, 1961 | John F. Kennedy |
| 8 | Fred Dutton | December 4, 1961 [2] | July 27, 1964 | John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson |
| 9 | Douglas MacArthur II | March 14, 1965 | March 6, 1967 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| 10 | William B. Macomber Jr. | March 7, 1967 | October 2, 1969 | |
| 11 | David Manker Abshire | April 20, 1970 | January 8, 1973 | Richard Nixon |
| 12 | Marshall Wright | May 29, 1973 | February 2, 1974 | |
| 13 | A. Linwood Holton | February 28, 1974 | January 31, 1975 | Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford |
| 14 | Robert J. McCloskey | February 21, 1975 | September 10, 1976 | Gerald Ford |
| 15 | Douglas J. Bennet | March 18, 1977 | August 2, 1979 | Jimmy Carter |
| 16 | J. Brian Atwood | August 3, 1979 | January 14, 1981 | |
| 17 | Richard M. Fairbanks | March 6, 1981 | January 26, 1982 | Ronald Reagan |
| 18 | Powell A. Moore | February 8, 1982 | August 5, 1983 | |
| 19 | W. Tapley Bennett Jr. | November 17, 1983 | January 4, 1985 | |
| 20 | William L. Ball | April 2, 1985 | February 28, 1986 | |
| 21 | J. Edward Fox | June 18, 1986 | February 21, 1989 | |
| 22 | Janet G. Mullins | March 2, 1989 | August 23, 1992 | George H. W. Bush |
| 23 | Wendy Sherman | May 12, 1993 | March 29, 1996 | Bill Clinton |
| 24 | Barbara Mills Larkin | July 19, 1996 | January 19, 2001 | |
| 25 | Paul Vincent Kelly | June 1, 2001 | January 24, 2005 | George W. Bush |
| 26 | Jeffrey Bergner | November 9, 2005 | June 27, 2008 | |
| 27 | Matthew A. Reynolds | October 7, 2008 | January 20, 2009 | |
| 28 | Richard Verma | April 6, 2009 | March 14, 2011 | Barack Obama |
| - | Joseph Macmanus (acting) | March 14, 2011 | August 4, 2011 | |
| 29 | David S. Adams | August 4, 2011 | June 18, 2013 | |
| 30 | Julia Frifield | October 21, 2013 | January 20, 2017 | |
| - | Joseph Macmanus (acting) | January 20, 2017 | December 20, 2017 | Donald Trump |
| 31 | Mary Kirtley Waters | December 20, 2017 | August 31, 2018 | |
| 32 | Mary Elizabeth Taylor | October 1, 2018 | June 18, 2020 | |
| - | Ryan M. Kaldahl (acting) | July 2020 | January 20, 2021 | |
| - | Naz Durakoğlu (acting) | January 20, 2021 | July 22, 2022 | Joe Biden |
| 33 | Naz Durakoğlu | July 22, 2022 | December 20, 2024 | |
| - | Philip Laidlaw (acting) | December 20, 2024 | February 1, 2025 | Joe Biden Donald Trump |
| - | Paul D. Guaglianone (acting) | February 1, 2025 | Present | Donald Trump |
