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Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs

Creation of this Position

Title: Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
Name: Philip H. Coombs
State of Residency: Connecticut
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Mar 7, 1961
Entry on Duty: Mar 23, 1961
Termination of Appointment: Jun 4, 1962

Title: Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
Name: Lucius D. Battle
State of Residency: Florida
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: May 29, 1962
Entry on Duty: Jun 5, 1962
Termination of Appointment: Aug 20, 1964

Title: Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
Name: Harry C. McPherson, Jr.
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Aug 7, 1964
Entry on Duty: Aug 23, 1964
Termination of Appointment: Aug 14, 1965

Title: Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
Name: Charles Frankel<BR> State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Sep 11, 1965
Entry on Duty: Sep 15, 1965
Termination of Appointment: Dec 31, 1967

Title: Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
Name: Edward D. Re
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Feb 2, 1968
Entry on Duty: Feb 28, 1968
Termination of Appointment: Jan 9, 1969

Title: Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
Name: John Richardson, Jr.
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Jul 8, 1969
Entry on Duty: Jul 15, 1969
Termination of Appointment: Mar 7, 1977

Title: Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
Name: Joseph D. Duffey
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Mar 30, 1977
Entry on Duty: Apr 8, 1977
Termination of Appointment: Mar 21, 1978

Title: Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
Name: Alice Stone Ilchman
State of Residency: Massachusetts
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Mar 21, 1978
Entry on Duty: Mar 22, 1978
Termination of Appointment: Mar 31, 1978

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Creation of Position: The Department of State established a Bureau of International Cultural Relations on Jun 1, 1959, and subsequently renamed it the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs on Apr 17, 1960. The following year, the Department elevated the position of Special Assistant for Coordination of International Educational and Cultural Relations, which headed the Bureau, to the rank of Assistant Secretary of State. The Department had first established a Division of Cultural Relations in 1938. Cultural relations was also part of the responsibilities of the first Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs created in 1944. In 1978 the Bureau was abolished and its functions transferred to the International Communications Agency (currently the U.S. Information Agency) under Reorganization Plan No. 2 (91 Stat. 1637).

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