William Andreas Brown (born September 7, 1930)[2] served as the U.S.

He also served as the last Chief of mission (Chargé d'affaires) of the U.S. Embassy to the Republic of China (Taiwan) stationed in Taipei, Taiwan after the departure of Ambassador Leonard S. Unger in 1979.

[3] After diplomatic ties between Taipei and Washington severed, he remained in Taiwan to set up the Taipei Main Office of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) at the former compound of U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG).

He majored in history at Harvard on a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps scholarship and served as an artillery officer in the United States Marine Corps from 1952 to 1954 and the reserves from 1954 to 1960.

[2][5] He was stationed in Korea after the Korean War from August 1953 for about a year.