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United States Secretary of State
The United States Secretary of State 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. The current Secretary of...
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James Monroe
James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was the fifth President of the United States (1817–1825). His administration was marked by the acquisition of Florida (1819); the Missouri Compromise (1820), in which Missouri was declared a slave state;...
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- Mar 4, 1817
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- Apr 2, 1811
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is a professor, diplomat, author, and national security expert. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush....
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- Jan 26, 2005
Thomas F. Bayard
Thomas Francis Bayard (October 29, 1828 – September 29, 1898) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served three terms as U.S. Senator from Delaware, and as U.S. Secretary of...
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- Mar 6, 1889
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- Mar 7, 1885
Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger (born May 27, 1923) pronounced /ˈkɪsɪndʒər/, is a German-born American political scientist, diplomat, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State...
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- Jan 20, 1977
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- Sep 22, 1973
Cyrus Vance
Cyrus Roberts Vance (March 27, 1917–January 12, 2002) was the United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980. He approached foreign policy with an emphasis on negotiation over conflict and a special interest in arms...
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- Apr 28, 1980
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- Jan 20, 1977
Warren Christopher
Warren Minor Christopher (born October 27, 1925) is an American diplomat, lawyer, and public servant. During Bill Clinton's first term as President, Christopher served as the 63rd Secretary of State. He also served as Deputy Attorney General in the...
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- Jan 17, 1997
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- Jan 20, 1993
Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Korbel Albright (May 15, 1937) is the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State. She was appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was unanimously confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote of 99-0. She was...
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- Jan 20, 2001
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- Jan 23, 1997
Louis McLane
Louis McLane (May 28, 1786 - October 7, 1857) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland. He was a veteran of the War of 1812 and a member of the Federalist Party and later the...
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Thomas Jefferson
The third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, had an ambivalent relationship with the institution of slavery. During his lifetime, Jefferson attempted twice to legislate the emancipation of slaves, one time in 1769 at the Virginia...
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- Dec 31, 1793
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- Sep 26, 1789
James Madison
James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was an American politician and political philosopher who served as the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817), and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Considered to be the ...
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- Mar 3, 1809
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- May 2, 1801
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (pronounced /ˈhɪləri daɪˈæn ˈrɒdəm ˈklɪntən/; born October 26, 1947) is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving within the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York...
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- Jan 21, 2009
William H. Seward
William Henry Seward, Sr. (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was a Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. An outspoken opponent of the spread of slavery in the...
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- 1869
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- 1861
Lawrence Eagleburger
Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger (born August 1, 1930) is an American statesman and former career diplomat, who served briefly as the United States Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush. Previously, he had served in lesser capacities under...
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- Jan 20, 1993
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- Dec 8, 1992
Cordell Hull
Cordell Hull (October 2, 1871–July 23, 1955) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known as the longest-serving Secretary of State, holding the position for 11 years (1933–1944) in the administration of President...
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- Nov 30, 1944
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- Mar 4, 1933
Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was a leading American statesman during the nation's Antebellum Period. He first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests. His increasingly nationalistic...
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- May 8, 1843
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- Mar 6, 1841
Henry L. Stimson
Henry Lewis Stimson (September 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) was an American statesman, who served as Secretary of War, Governor-General of the Philippines, and Secretary of State. He was a conservative Republican, and a leading lawyer in New York...
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- Mar 4, 1933
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- Mar 28, 1929
John Marshall
John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was an American statesman and jurist who shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of power. Marshall was Chief Justice of the United States, serving from February 4,...
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- Mar 4, 1801
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- Jun 13, 1800
Dean Acheson
Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman during 1949–1953, he played a central role in defining American...
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- Jan 20, 1953
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- Jan 21, 1949
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was the sixth President of the United States from March 4, 1825 to March 4, 1829. He was also an American diplomat and served in both the Senate and House of Representatives. He was a member of...
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- Mar 3, 1825
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Edward Stettinius, Jr.
Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. (October 22, 1900 – October 31, 1949) was United States Secretary of State under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, serving from 1944 to 1945.
Stettinius was born in Chicago, the younger of two sons...
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- Jul 27, 1945
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- Dec 1, 1944
James Baker
James Addison Baker, III (born April 28, 1930) is an American attorney, politician, political administrator, and political advisor.
He served as the Chief of Staff in President Ronald Reagan's first administration and in the final year of the...
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- Aug 23, 1992
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- Jan 25, 1989
John C. Calhoun
John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was the seventh Vice President of the United States and a leading Southern politician from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. Calhoun was an advocate of slavery, states'...
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- Mar 10, 1845
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- Apr 1, 1844
Alexander Haig
Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. (born December 2, 1924) is a retired United States Army general who served as the United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford....
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- Jul 5, 1982
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- Jan 22, 1981
Elihu Root
Elihu Root (February 15, 1845 – February 7, 1937) was an American lawyer and statesman and the 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the prototype of the 20th century "wise man", who shuttled between high-level government positions in...
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- Jan 27, 1909
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- Jul 19, 1905
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren (pronounced /væn ˈbjʊərɨn/ or /væn ˈbjɜrɨn/; December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. Before his presidency, he served as the eighth Vice President (1833–1837) and the 10th...
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- May 23, 1831
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- Mar 28, 1829
Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was a leading American statesman during the nation's Antebellum Period. He first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests. His increasingly nationalistic...
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- Oct 24, 1952
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- Jul 23, 1850
Frank B. Kellogg
Frank Billings Kellogg (December 22, 1856 – December 21, 1937) was an American lawyer, politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of State. He co-authored the Kellogg-Briand Pact, for which he was awarded the Nobel...
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- Mar 28, 1929
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- Mar 5, 1925
George Marshall
General of the Army George Catlett Marshall (December 31, 1880 – October 16, 1959) was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by...
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- Jan 20, 1949
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- Jan 21, 1947
George P. Shultz
George Pratt Shultz (born December 13, 1920) is an American economist, statesman, and businessman. He served as the United States Secretary of Labor from 1969 to 1970, as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974, and as the U.S....
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- Jan 20, 1989
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- Jul 16, 1982
Edmund Muskie
Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie (March 28, 1914–March 26, 1996) was an American Democratic politician from Maine. He served as Governor of Maine, as U.S. Senator, and as U.S. Secretary of State. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1968,...
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- Jan 20, 1981
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- May 8, 1980
John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism...
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- Apr 22, 1959
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- Jan 20, 1953
Henry Clay
Henry Clay, Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was a nineteenth-century American statesman and orator who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives and Senate. He served as Secretary of State from 1825 to 1829.
He was a dominant...
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- Mar 3, 1829
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- Mar 7, 1825
James F. Byrnes
James Francis Byrnes (May 2, 1879 – April 9, 1972) was an American statesman from the state of South Carolina. During his career, Byrnes served as a member of the House of Representatives (1911–1925), as a Senator (1931–1941), as Justice of the...
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- Jan 21, 1947
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- Jul 3, 1945
James Alexander Hamilton
James Alexander Hamilton (April 14, 1788 - September 24, 1878) was the third son of Alexander Hamilton. He graduated from Columbia University, was an officer in the War of 1812, and served as acting Secretary of State to Andrew Jackson. He then...
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- Mar 27, 1829
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- Mar 4, 1829
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, 1900 and 1908, a lawyer, and the 41st United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson. One of the...
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- Jun 9, 1915
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- Mar 5, 1913
James Monroe
James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was the fifth President of the United States (1817–1825). His administration was marked by the acquisition of Florida (1819); the Missouri Compromise (1820), in which Missouri was declared a slave state;...
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- Mar 3, 1809
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- May 2, 1801
James Buchanan
James Buchanan, Jr. (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the 15th President of the United States from 1857–1861 and the last to be born in the 18th century. To date he is the only President from the state of Pennsylvania and the only president to...
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- Mar 7, 1849
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- Mar 10, 1845
Colin Powell
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was sworn in as the 65th
Secretary of State in 2001 after unanimous confirmation by the U.S.
Senate. He served in the military for 35 years, and rose to the rank of
4-star General. His last assignment, from...
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- Jan 26, 2005
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