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

  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)

    John Forbes Kerry (2013-2017)

    Rex W. Tillerson (2017- )
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