United States Second Assistant Secretary of State

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The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriations Act for the year ending June 30, 1867 authorized the President to appoint a Second Assistant Secretary of State. Duties of incumbents varied less over the years than did those of the other Assistant Secretary positions. Responsibilities included: supervision of correspondence with diplomatic officers; preparation of drafts of treaties, conventions, diplomatic notes, and instructions; detailed treatment of current diplomatic and political questions; approval of correspondence for the signature of the Secretary of Acting Secretary; and consultation on matters of diplomatic procedure, international law and policy, and traditional practices of the Department. The Foreign Service Act of 1924 abolished numerical titles for Assistant Secretaries of State. Only two people have served the postion from 1866 to 1924.

#	Picture	Name	Residency	Term of Office		President(s) served under	Secretary of State(s) served under
				Start	End
1		William Hunter	Rhode Island	July 27, 1866	July 22, 1886	Andrew Johnson – Grover Cleveland	William H. Seward – Thomas F. Bayard
2		Alvey A. Adee	Washington D.C.	August 3, 1886	June 30, 1924	Grover Cleveland – Calvin Coolidge	Thomas F. Bayard – Charles Evans Hughes

[edit] See also

• United States Secretary of State
• United States Assistant Secretary of State

[edit] External links

• The Department of State's organization page.
• The Department of State's list of current or former positions and titles.
• The Department of State's list of Second Assistant Secretaries of State during the time it was the third-ranking position.