Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: W. Walton Butterworth
State of Residency: Louisiana
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: Sep 27, 1949
Entry on Duty: Sep 29, 1949
Termination of Appointment: Jul 4, 1950
Note: Originally designated Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs; Japanese Affairs from Mar 28, 1950.
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: Dean Rusk
State of Residency: Virginia
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Feb 8, 1949
Entry on Duty: Mar 28, 1950
Termination of Appointment: Dec 9, 1951
Note: Commissioned as Assistant Secretary. Originally designated as Assistant Secretary for United Nations Affairs and as Deputy Under Secretary from May 26, 1949.
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: John M. Allison
State of Residency: Nebraska
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: Feb 1, 1952
Entry on Duty: Feb 1, 1952
Termination of Appointment: Apr 7, 1953
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: Walter S. Robertson
State of Residency: Virginia
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Mar 27, 1953
Entry on Duty: Apr 8, 1953
Termination of Appointment: Jun 30, 1959
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: J. Graham Parsons
State of Residency: New York
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: Jun 5, 1959
Entry on Duty: Jul 1, 1959
Termination of Appointment: Mar 30, 1961
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: Walter P. McConaughy
State of Residency: Alabama
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: Apr 18, 1961
Entry on Duty: Apr 24, 1961
Termination of Appointment: Dec 3, 1961
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: W. Averell Harriman
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Nov 29, 1961
Entry on Duty: Dec 4, 1961
Termination of Appointment: Apr 3, 1963
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Mar 5, 1962.
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: Roger Hilsman, Jr.
State of Residency: Maryland
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Apr 25, 1963
Entry on Duty: May 9, 1963
Termination of Appointment: Mar 15, 1964
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: William P. Bundy
State of Residency: Maryland
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Mar 10, 1964
Entry on Duty: Mar 16, 1964
Termination of Appointment: May 4, 1969
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: Marshall Green
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: May 1, 1969
Entry on Duty: May 5, 1969
Termination of Appointment: May 10, 1973
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: G. McMurtrie Godley
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Note: Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: Robert Stephen Ingersoll
State of Residency: Illinois
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Dec 19, 1973
Entry on Duty: Jan 8, 1974
Termination of Appointment: Jul 9, 1974
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: Philip C. Habib
State of Residency: California
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: Sep 19, 1974
Entry on Duty: Sep 27, 1974
Termination of Appointment: Jun 30, 1976
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: Arthur W. Hummel, Jr.
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: Jun 16, 1976
Entry on Duty: Jul 12, 1976
Termination of Appointment: Mar 14, 1977
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: Richard C. Holbrooke
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Mar 23, 1977
Entry on Duty: Mar 31, 1977
Termination of Appointment: Jan 13, 1981
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: John H. Holdridge
State of Residency: Maryland
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: May 20, 1981
Entry on Duty: May 28, 1981
Termination of Appointment: Jan 13, 1981
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: Paul D. Wolfowitz
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Dec 16, 1982
Entry on Duty: Dec 22, 1982
Termination of Appointment: Mar 12, 1986
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: Gaston J. Sigur, Jr.
State of Residency: Maryland
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Mar 4, 1986
Entry on Duty: Mar 12, 1986
Termination of Appointment: Feb 21, 1989
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: Richard L. Armitage
State of Residency: Virginia
Non-career appointee
Note: Nomination withdrawn.
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: Richard H. Solomon
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Jun 23, 1989
Entry on Duty: June 23, 1989
Termination of Appointment: Jul 10, 1992
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: William Clark, Jr.
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: Jul 7, 1992
Entry on Duty: Jul 10, 1992
Termination of Appointment: Apr 23, 1993
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: Winston Lord
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Apr 22, 1993
Entry on Duty: Apr 23, 1993
Termination of Appointment: Feb 18, 1997
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: Stanley O. Roth
State of Residency: Virginia
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Aug 1, 1997
Entry on Duty: Aug 5, 1997
Termination of Appointment: Jan 20, 2001
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: James Andrew Kelly
State of Residency: Hawaii
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Apr 30, 2001
Entry on Duty: May 1, 2001
Termination of Appointment: Jan 31, 2005
Title: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Name: Christopher R. Hill State of Residency: Rhode Island
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: Mar 28, 2005
Entry on Duty: Apr 8, 2005
Termination of Appointment:
