It is headed by the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, who is currently Roberta S. Jacobson.
Western Australia | Federal Bureau of Investigation | Western | Western (genre) | western | University of Western Ontario | Great Western Railway | Western Cape | Western world | Shanghai Railway Bureau | United States Department of Veterans Affairs | Southern Hemisphere | Case Western Reserve University | London and North Western Railway | University of Western Australia | Western Ghats | Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | Western Front | Bureau of Land Management | Western Union | Western Province | Kimberley (Western Australia) | Western Europe | Western Sahara | Western Michigan University | Western Front (World War I) | University of Western Sydney | Premier of Western Australia | Central Bureau of Investigation | Western Electric |
He worked in the Office of Management and Budget from 1957 to 1959, then worked for the United States Department of Justice in the Federal Bureau of Prisons until 1962, when he took a position with the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs at the United States Department of State.
He has been posted to Mexico City, the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Quito, Panama City, El Salvador, Monterrey, and Managua.