Assistant Secretaries of State for Public Affairs
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The Department of State created the position of Assistant Secretary of State for Public and Cultural Relations during a general reorganization in Dec 1944, after Congress authorized an increase in the number of Assistant Secretaries in the Department from four to six (Dec 8, 1944; P.L. 78-472; 58 Stat. 798). The reorganization was the first to designate substantive designations for specific Assistant Secretary positions. The Department changed the title to Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in 1946. Initially, incumbents supervised the forerunners of the U.S. Information Agency and the Voice of America. P.L. 112-116, the Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011 (signed into law August 10, 2012), removed the requirement for Senate confirmation of Assistant Secretaries of State for Public Affairs.
- Archibald MacLeish (1944–1945)
- William Burnett Benton (1945–1947)
- George Venable Allen (1948–1949)
- Edward Ware Barrett (1950–1952)
- Howland Hill Sargeant (1952–1953)
- Carl Wesley McCardle (1953–1957)
- Andrew Henry Thomas Berding (1957–1961)
- Roger Wellington Tubby (1961–1962)
- Robert Joseph Manning (1962–1964)
- James Lloyd Greenfield (1964–1966)
- Dixon Donnelley (1966–1969)
- Michael Collins (1970–1971)
- Caroline Clendening Laise (1973–1975)
- John Edward Reinhardt (1975–1977)
- William Hodding Carter III (1977–1980)
- William Jennings Dyess (1980–1981)
- Dean E. Fischer (1981–1982)
- (Robert) John Hughes (1982–1985)
- Bernard Kalb (1985–1986)
- Charles Edgar Redman (1987–1989)
- Margaret DeBardeleben Tutwiler (1989–1992)
- Thomas E. Donilon (1993–1996)
- James P. Rubin (1997–2000)
- Richard A. Boucher (2001–2005)
- Sean McCormack (2005–2009)
- Philip J. Crowley (2009–2011)
- Michael A. Hammer (2012–2013)
- Douglas Frantz (2013–2015)
- John F. Kirby (2015–2017)
- Michelle S. Giuda (2018)
- Aaron Ellis Ringel (2020)