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