Secretaries of State
Biographies of former Secretaries of State: https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/secretaries
list previous Secretaries of State and LINKS to some of the previous administrations and their documents
- 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)
John Forbes Kerry (2013-2017)
Rex W. Tillerson (2017- )