Secretaries of State

 

Former Secretaries of State  http://www.state.gov/secretary/former/index.htm

 

list previous Secretaries of State and LINKS to some of the previous administrations and their documents

 

1.      Thomas Jefferson (1790-1793)

2.      Edmund Jennings Randolph (1794-1795)

3.      Timothy Pickering (1795-1800)

4.      John Marshall (1800-1801)

5.      James Madison (1801-1809)

6.      Robert Smith (1809-1811)

7.      James Monroe (1811-1817)

8.      John Quincy Adams (1817-1825)

9.      Henry Clay (1825-1829)

10.  Martin Van Buren (1829-1831)

11.  Edward Livingston (1831-1833)

12.  Louis McLane (1833-1834)

13.  John Forsyth (1834-1841)

14.  Daniel Webster (1841-1843)

15.  Abel Parker Upshur (1843-1844)

16.  John Caldwell Calhoun (1844-1845)

17.  James Buchanan (1845-1849)

18.  John Middleton Clayton (1849-1850)

19.  Daniel Webster (1850-1852)

20.  Edward Everett (1852-1853)

21.  William Learned Marcy (1853-1857)

22.  Lewis Cass (1857-1860)

23.  Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1860-1861)

24.  William Henry Seward (1861-1869)

25.  Elihu Benjamin Washburne (1869-1869)

26.  Hamilton Fish (1869-1877)

27.  William Maxwell Evarts (1877-1881)

28.  James Gillespie Blaine (1881-1881)

29.  Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (1881-1885)

30.  Thomas Francis Bayard (1885-1889)

31.  James Gillespie Blaine (1889-1892)

32.  John Watson Foster (1892-1893)

33.  Walter Quintin Gresham (1893-1895)

34.  Richard Olney (1895-1897)

35.  John Sherman (1897-1898)

36.  William Rufus Day (1898-1898)

37.  John Milton Hay (1898-1905)

38.  Elihu Root (1905-1909)

39.  Robert Bacon (1909-1909)

40.  Philander Chase Knox (1909-1913)

41.  William Jennings Bryan (1913-1915)

42.  Robert Lansing (1915-1920)

43.  Bainbridge Colby (1920-1921)

44.  Charles Evans Hughes (1921-1925)

45.      Frank Billings Kellogg (1925-1929)

46.      Henry Lewis Stimson (1929-1933)

47.      Cordell Hull (1933-1944)

48.      Edward Reilly Stettinius (1944-1945)

49.      James Francis Byrnes (1945-1947)

50.      George Catlett Marshall (1947-1949)

51.      Dean Gooderham Acheson (1949-1953)

52.      John Foster Dulles (1953-1959)

53.      Christian Archibald Herter (1959-1961)

54.  David Dean Rusk (1961-1969)

55.  William Pierce Rogers (1969-1973)

56.  Henry A. (Heinz Alfred) Kissinger (1973-1977)

57.  Cyrus Roberts Vance (1977-1980)

58.  Edmund Sixtus Muskie (1980-1981)

59.  Alexander Meigs Haig (1981-1982)

60.  George Pratt Shultz (1982-1989)

61.  James Addison Baker (1989-1992)

62.  Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger (1992-1993)

63.  Warren Minor Christopher (1993-1997)

64.     Madeleine Korbel Albright (1997-2001) (see also former Secretary Albright's Archive site)

65.  Colin Luther Powell (2001-2005)  (see also former Secretary Powell's Archive site)

66.  Condoleezza Rice (2005-2009) (see also former Secretary Rice's Archive site)

67.  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2009-2013)

68.   John Forbes Kerry (2013-2017)

69. Rex W. Tillerson (2017- )