U.S. Secretaries of State
by aemelnick | created - 23 Mar 2021 | updated - 23 Mar 2021 | Public
1. Thomas Jefferson
Writer | Hamilton/Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was previously the second vice president of the United States under John Adams and the first United States secretary...
2. James Madison
Writer | 1787 the American Constitution
He enjoyed a humanistic school education. Madison completed his studies in 1771 with a Bachelor of Arts. He showed particular interest in the new ideas of the time, the Enlightenment, with which he dealt intensively. He became politically active at an early age. In 1776 he was elected to the ...
3. James Monroe
James Monroe was born on April 28, 1758 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA. He was a writer. He was married to Elizabeth Kortright. He died on July 4, 1831 in New York City, New York, USA.
4. John Quincy Adams
His father, John Adams, served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. In 1779, at the age of 12, the young Adams accompanied his father to Europe. There the linguistically gifted boy supported the US embassy as a translator and secretary. When Adams enrolled at Harvard in ...
5. Martin Van Buren
Served as eighth President of the United States (1837-1841). He was one of the founders of the Democratic Party. He was the eighth Vice President of the United States (1833-1837) He was also the tenth Secretary of State. Martin Van Buren was the first President of the United States of the United ...
6. James Buchanan
After graduating from college in 1809, Buchanan became a lawyer. In 1814 he entered the Pennsylvania Assembly as a Federalist representative. In 1820 Buchanan was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he served until 1831. At the same time he served as envoy to Russia from 1823 to 1833....
7. William H. Seward
William Henry Seward was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States Senator. A determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, he was a ...
9. William R. Day
William R. Day was born on April 17, 1849 in Ravenna, Ohio, USA. He died on July 9, 1923 in Mackinac Island, Michigan, USA.
10. John Hay
Writer | Jim Bludso
John Hay was born on October 8, 1838. He was a writer, known for Jim Bludso (1917) and Prince Henry (of Prussia) Arriving in Washington and Visiting the German Embassy (1902). He was married to Clara Stone. He died on July 1, 1905.
11. Elihu Root
Self | The German Curse in Russia
Elihu Root was born on February 15, 1845 in Clinton, New York, USA. He was married to Clara Frances Wales. He died on February 7, 1937 in New York City, New York, USA.
12. Philander Knox
Self | Pathé's Weekly, No. 19
13. William Jennings Bryan
Self | Prohibition
William Jennings Bryan is an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, running three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1896, 1900, and 1908 elections. He served in the United States ...
14. Robert Lansing
Self | Mutual Weekly, No. 32
Robert Lansing was born on October 17, 1864 in Watertown, New York, USA. He was married to Eleanor Foster. He died on October 30, 1928 in New York City, New York, USA.
15. Charles Evans Hughes
Self | Mutual Weekly, No. 87
Charles Evans Hughes is an American statesman, Republican Party politician, and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States. He was also the 36th Governor of New York, the Republican presidential nominee in the 1916 presidential election, and the 44th United States Secretary of State. In 1930, ...
16. Frank B. Kellogg
Frank B. Kellogg was born on December 22, 1856 in Potsdam, New York, USA. He died on December 21, 1937 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
17. Henry L. Stimson
Writer | Hiroshima: Why the Bomb Was Dropped
Henry L. Stimson was born on September 21, 1867 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Hiroshima: Why the Bomb Was Dropped (1995) and Uncle Hiram Visits Washington (1912). He was married to Mabel Wellington White. He died on October 20, 1950 in Huntington, Long Island, New York...
18. Cordell Hull
Self | World Leaders on Peace and Democracy
Cordell Hull was born on October 2, 1871 in Olympus, Tennessee, USA. He was married to Rose Frances Whitney. He died on July 23, 1955 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
19. Edward R. Stettinius Jr.
Self | One Inch from Victory
Edward R. Stettinius Jr. was born on October 22, 1900 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was married to Virginia Gordon Wallace. He died on October 31, 1949 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA.
20. James Byrnes
Self | Person to Person
James Byrnes was born on May 2, 1879 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. He was married to Maude Busch. He died on April 9, 1972 in Columbia, South Carolina, USA.
21. George C. Marshall
Self | Krymskaya konferentsiya
George Catlett Marshall Jr. GCB (December 31, 1880 - October 16, 1959) was an American army officer and statesman. He rose through the United States Army to become Chief of Staff of the US Army under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, then served as Secretary of State and ...
22. Dean Acheson
Self | Issues and Answers
Dean Acheson was born on April 11, 1893 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He died on October 12, 1971 in Sandy Spring, Maryland, USA.
23. John Foster Dulles
Self | The Hot Seat
John Foster Dulles was born on February 25, 1888 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was married to Janet Pomeroy Avery. He died on May 24, 1959 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
24. Dean Rusk
Self | Santo Domingo: War Among Friends
Dean Rusk was born on February 9, 1909 in Lickskillet, Georgia, USA. He was married to Virginia Foisie. He died on December 20, 1994 in Athens, Georgia, USA.
25. William Rogers
Self | This Week
William Rogers was born on June 23, 1913 in Norfolk, New York, USA. He was married to Adele Langston. He died on January 2, 2001 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
26. Henry Kissinger
Heinz Alfred grew up in his hometown, where he attended school. When the persecution of the Jewish population in Germany intensified as a result of Adolf Hitler's rise to power in January 1933, he emigrated to the USA with his parents Paula Stern and Ludwig Kissinger in 1938. Kissinger attended ...
27. Cyrus Vance
Self | Cartes sur table
Cyrus Vance was born on March 27, 1917 in Clarksburg, West Virginia, USA. He was married to Grace Elsie Sloane. He died on January 12, 2002 in New York City, New York, USA.
28. Edmund Muskie
Self | The Joey Bishop Show
Edmund Muskie was an American politician who served as the 58th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter, a United States Senator from Maine from 1959 to 1980, the 64th Governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1946 to 1951, and ...
29. Alexander Haig
Self | The American President
Nixon's Chief of Staff, 1973-74. Finally urged Nixon to resign. NATO Commander from 1975 to 1979. Secretary of State for Ronald Reagan. Got himself in hot water after the assassination attempt against the President in March 1981 when he appeared in the Press Room in the White House and announced "...
30. George Shultz
Self | The League
George Shultz is an American economist, politician, and businessman.
Shultz served in various positions under three different presidents and was one of only two people to have held four different Cabinet posts. Shultz played a major role in shaping the foreign policy. From 1974 to 1982, he was an ...
31. James Baker III
Self | The American Ruling Class
James Baker III was born on April 28, 1930 in Houston, Texas, USA. He has been married to Susan Garrett Winston since 1973. They have one child. He was previously married to Mary Stuart McHenry.
32. Lawrence Eagleburger
Self | Yellow Wasps
Lawrence Eagleburger was born on August 1, 1930 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He was married to Marlene Ann Heinemann. He died on June 4, 2011 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
33. Warren Christopher
Self | Iran and the West
Warren Christopher was born on October 27, 1925 in Scranton, North Dakota, USA. He was married to Marie Josephine Wyllis and Joan Southgate Workman. He died on March 18, 2011 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
34. Madeleine Albright
Actress | Gilmore Girls
Madeleine Albright was born on May 15, 1937 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Gilmore Girls (2000), Madam Secretary (2014) and Parks and Recreation (2009). She was married to Joseph Medill Patterson Albright. She died on March 23, 2022 in Washington, ...
35. Colin Powell
Actor | Madam Secretary
Colin Luther Powell (April 5, 1937 - October 18, 2021) was an American politician, statesman, diplomat, and United States Army officer who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African-American Secretary of State. He served as the 15th United States...
36. Condoleezza Rice
Actress | 30 Rock
Condoleezza Rice was born on November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She is an actress, known for 30 Rock (2006), Manningcast and Poodle Samizdat (2006).
37. Hillary Clinton
Producer | State of Terror
In every role she has ever held -- as an advocate for women and kids, as an attorney, as First Lady, as Senator, as Secretary of State, and as the first woman in U.S. history to earn a major party's presidential nomination - Hillary Clinton has defied convention and stood up for what she believes.
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38. John Kerry
Actor | Cheers
John Kerry is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election,...
39. Rex Tillerson
Self | DIVEST! The Climate Movement on Tour
Rex Tillerson was born on March 23, 1952 in Wichita Falls, Texas, USA. He has been married to Renda St. Clair since June 21, 1986. They have four children.
40. Mike Pompeo
Self | Billy Yeager v. NPR Enemy of the People
Mike Pompeo was born on December 30, 1963 in Orange, California, USA. He is an executive. He has been married to Susan Pompeo since May 27, 2000. They have one child. He was previously married to Leslie Libert.
41. Antony Blinken
Producer | The Addiction
Antony Blinken was born on April 16, 1962 in Yonkers, New York, USA. He is a producer, known for The Addiction (1995), Café (1990) and PBS NewsHour (1975). He has been married to Evan Ryan since March 2, 2002. They have two children.
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