Assistant Secretaries of State for Near Eastern Affairs

Name	Assumed Office	Left Office
George C. McGhee	June 28, 1949	December 19, 1951
Henry A. Byroade	April 14, 1952	January 25, 1995
George V. Allen	January 26, 1955	August 27, 1956
William M. Rountree	August 30, 1956	July 6, 1959
G. Lewis Jones	July 10, 1959	April 10, 1961
Phillips Talbot	April 21, 1961	September 1, 1965
Raymond A. Hare	September 22, 1965	November 30, 1966
Lucius D. Battle	April 5, 1967	September 30, 1968
Parker T. Hart	October 14, 1968	February 4, 1969
Joseph J. Sisco	February 10, 1969	February 18, 1974
Alfred Atherton	April 27, 1974	April 13, 1978
Harold H. Saudners	April 11, 1978	January 16, 1981
Nicolas A Veliotes	May 21, 1981	October 27, 1983
Richard W. Murphy	October 28, 1983	May 15, 1989
John Hubert Kelly	June 16, 1989	September 30, 1991
Edward Djerejian	September 30, 1991	December 17, 1993
Robert Pelletreau	February 18, 1994	January 24, 1997
Martin Indyk	October 14, 1997	November 16, 1999
Edward S. Walker, Jr.	January 18, 2000	2001
William Joseph Burns	June 4, 2001	March 2, 2005
David Welch	March 18, 2005	December 18, 2008

Note: On August 24, 1992 the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs into a separate Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs and a Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs.