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The United States Secretary of State (commonly abbreviated as SecState) is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in line of succession and order of precedence. On January 10, 1780, the Second Continental Congress created the Department of Foreign Affairs. On July 27, 1789, George Washington signed a congressional bill into law reauthorizing an... full article at wikipedia

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officeholder	jurisdiction of office	appointed by (if position is appointed)	from	to
James Monroe			Apr 2, 1811	Mar 4, 1817
Condoleezza Rice	United States		Jan 26, 2005
Thomas F. Bayard
Henry Kissinger		Richard Nixon	Sep 22, 1973	Jan 20, 1977
Cyrus Vance		Jimmy Carter	Jan 20, 1977	Apr 28, 1980
Warren Christopher		Bill Clinton	Jan 20, 1993	Jan 17, 1997
Madeleine Albright		Bill Clinton	Jan 23, 1997	Jan 20, 2001
Louis McLane
Thomas Jefferson	United States		Sep 26, 1789	Dec 31, 1793
James Madison	United States	Thomas Jefferson	May 2, 1801	Mar 3, 1809
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