Assistant Secretaries of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs
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The Department of State created the position of Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs during a general Department 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, by administrative action changed the incumbent’s designation to Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs on Sep 15, 1972.
- Willard Long Thorp (1946–1952)
- Harold Francis Linder (1952–1953)
- Samuel Clark Waugh (1953–1955)
- Thorsten Valentine Kalijarvi (1957)
- Thomas Clifton Mann (1957–1960)
- Edwin McCammon Martin (1960–1962)
- Gove Griffith Johnson Jr. (1962–1965)
- Anthony Morton Solomon (1965–1969)
- Philip Harold Trezise (1969–1971)
- Willis Coburn Armstrong (1972–1974)
- Thomas Ostrom Enders (1974–1975)
- Joseph Adolph Greenwald (1976)
- Julius Louis Katz (1976–1979)
- Deane Roesch Hinton (1980–1981)
- Robert David Hormats (1981–1982)
- Richard T. McCormack (1983–1985)
- Douglas W. McMinn (1985–1987)
- Eugene J. McAllister (1988–1992)
- Daniel K. Tarullo (1993–1996)
- Alan Philip Larson (1996–1999)
- Earl Anthony Wayne (2000–2006)
- Daniel S. Sullivan (2006–2009)
- Jose W. Fernandez (2009–2013)
- Charles Hammerman Rivkin (2014–2017)
- Manisha Singh (2017)