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|image           = Daniel Benjamin.jpg
|incumbent       = [[Daniel Benjamin]]
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|inaugural       = [[L. Douglas Heck]]
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The '''Coordinator for Counterterrorism''' heads the [[Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism]], which coordinates U.S. government efforts to fight [[terrorism]].

==List of Coordinators for Combating Terrorism==

{| class="wikitable"
!Name
!Assumed Office
!Left Office
![[President of the United States|President]] served under
|-
|[[L. Douglas Heck]]
|August 29, 1976
|June 6, 1977
|[[Gerald Ford]]
|-
|[[Heyward Isham]]
|October 26, 1977
|August 1, 1978
|[[Jimmy Carter]]
|-
|[[Anthony C. E. Quainton]]
|August 16, 1978
|August 1, 1981
|[[Jimmy Carter]]
|-
|[[Robert M. Sayre]]
|May 11, 1982
|September 10, 1984
|[[Ronald Reagan]]
|-
|[[Robert B. Oakley]]
|September 10, 1984
|October 12, 1986
|[[Ronald Reagan]]
|-
|[[L. Paul Bremer]]
|October 16, 1986
|May 25, 1989
|[[Ronald Reagan]]
|-
|[[Morris D. Busby]]
|May 1, 1989
|July 24, 1991
|[[George H. W. Bush]]
|-
|[[Peter Burleigh]]
|November 22, 1991
|November 23, 1992
|[[George H. W. Bush]]
|-
|[[Philip C. Wilcox, Jr.]]
|March 24, 1995
|June 27, 1997
|[[Bill Clinton]]
|-
|[[Christopher W.S. Ross]]
|March 24, 1995
|December 13, 1998
|[[Bill Clinton]]
|-
|[[Michael A. Sheehan]]
|August 9, 1999
|December 20, 2000 
|[[Bill Clinton]]
|-
|[[Francis X. Taylor]]
|July 13, 2001
|November 15, 2002
|[[George W. Bush]]
|-
|[[Cofer Black]]
|November 26, 2002
|November 15, 2004
|[[George W. Bush]]
|-
|[[Henry Crumpton]]
|August 2, 2005
|
|[[George W. Bush]]
|-
|[[Dell L. Dailey]]
|June 22, 2007
|
|[[George W. Bush]]
|-
|[[Daniel Benjamin]]
|May 28, 2009
|
|[[Barack Obama]]
|}

==External links==
*[http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/po/12257.htm State Department Historian on the Coordinator for Counterterrorism]
*[http://www.state.gov/s/ct/ Website of the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism]

[[Category:Counter-terrorism policy of the United States]]
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