A Federal appropriations act for the year ending Jun 30, 1875 (Jun 20, 1874; 18 Stat. 90), authorized the President to appoint a Third Assistant Secretary of State. The Secretary of State was authorized to prescribe the duties of the Assistant Secretaries and other Department of State employees, "and may make changes and transfers therein when, in his judgment, it becomes necessary." The Third Assistant Secretary's duties varied over the years, including such diverse assignments as: supervision of several geographic divisions; oversight of the Bureaus of Accounts and Appointments; international conferences and commissions; and ceremonials and protocol, including presentation to the President of chiefs of foreign diplomatic missions. The Foreign Service Act of 1924 (May 24, 1924; 43 Stat 146) abolished numerical titles for Assistant Secretaries of State.
| # | Picture | Name | State of Residency | Term of Office | President(s) served under | Secretary of State(s) served under |
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| 1 | John Allen Campbell | Wyoming | February 24, 1875 - November 30, 1877 | Ulysses S. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes |
Hamilton Fish William M. Evarts |
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| 2 | Charles Payson | Massachusetts, New York | June 22, 1878 - June 30, 1881 | Rutherford B. Hayes James A. Garfield |
William M. Evarts James G. Blaine |
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| 3 | Walker Blaine | Maine | July 1, 1881 - June 30, 1882 | James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur |
James G. Blaine Frederick T. Frelinghuysen |
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| 4 | Alvey A. Adee | District of Columbia | July 18, 1882 - August 5, 1886 | Chester A. Arthur Grover Cleveland |
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. |
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| 5 | John Bassett Moore | Delaware, New York | August 6, 1886 - September 30, 1891 | Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison |
Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. James G. Blaine |
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| 6 | William Morton Grinnell | New York | February 15, 1892 - April 16, 1893 | Benjamin Harrison Grover Cleveland |
James G. Blaine John W. Foster |
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| 7 | Edward Henry Strobel | New York | April 17, 1893 - April 16, 1894 | Grover Cleveland | Walter Q. Gresham | |
| 8 | William Woodville Rockhill | District of Columbia, Maryland | April 17, 1894 - February 13, 1896 | Grover Cleveland | Walter Q. Gresham Richard Olney |
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| 9 | William Woodward Baldwin | New York | February 29, 1896 - April 1, 1897 | Grover Cleveland, William McKinley | Richard Olney John Sherman |
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| 10 | Thomas Wilbur Cridler | West Virginia | April 8, 1897 - November 15, 1901 | William McKinley | John Sherman William R. Day John Hay |
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| 11 | Herbert Henry Davis Peirce | Massachusetts | November 16, 1901 - June 22, 1906 | Theodore Roosevelt | John Hay Elihu Root |
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| 12 | Huntington Wilson | Illinois | July 2, 1906 - December 30, 1908 | Theodore Roosevelt | Elihu Root | |
| 13 | William Phillips | Massachusetts | January 11, 1909 - October 13, 1909 | Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft | Elihu Root Robert Bacon Philander C. Knox |
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| 14 | Chandler Hale | Maine | October 14, 1909 - April 21, 1913 | William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson | Philander C. Knox William Jennings Bryan |
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| 15 | Dudley Field Malone | New York | April 22, 1913 - November 22, 1913 | Woodrow Wilson | William Jennings Bryan | |
| 16 | William Phillips | Massachusetts | March 17, 1914 - January 24, 1917 | Woodrow Wilson | William Jennings Bryan Robert Lansing |
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| 17 | Breckinridge Long | Massachusetts | January 29, 1917 - June 8, 1920 | Woodrow Wilson | Robert Lansing Bainbridge Colby |
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| 18 | Van Santvoord Merle-Smith | New York | June 24, 1920 - March 4, 1921 | Woodrow Wilson | Bainbridge Colby | |
| 19 | Robert Woods Bliss | New York | March 16, 1921 - May 3, 1923 | Warren G. Harding | Charles Evans Hughes | |
| 20 | J. Butler Wright | Wyoming | June 11, 1923 - June 30, 1924 | Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge |
Charles Evans Hughes |
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