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# 									Former Secretaries of State							

        - Thomas Jefferson  (1790-1793)
        - Edmund Jennings Randolph  (1794-1795)
        - Timothy Pickering  (1795-1800)
        - John Marshall  (1800-1801)
        - James Madison  (1801-1809)
        - Robert Smith  (1809-1811)
        - James Monroe  (1811-1817)
        - John Quincy Adams  (1817-1825)
        - Henry Clay  (1825-1829)
        - Martin Van Buren  (1829-1831)
        - Edward Livingston  (1831-1833)
        - Louis McLane  (1833-1834)
        - John Forsyth  (1834-1841)
        - Daniel Webster  (1841-1843)
        - Abel Parker Upshur  (1843-1844)
        - John Caldwell Calhoun  (1844-1845)
        - James Buchanan  (1845-1849)
        - John Middleton Clayton  (1849-1850)
        - Daniel Webster  (1850-1852)
        - Edward Everett  (1852-1853)
        - William Learned Marcy  (1853-1857)
        - Lewis Cass  (1857-1860)
        - Jeremiah Sullivan Black  (1860-1861)
        - William Henry Seward  (1861-1869)
        - Elihu Benjamin Washburne  (1869-1869)
        - Hamilton Fish  (1869-1877)
        - William Maxwell Evarts  (1877-1881)
        - James Gillespie Blaine  (1881-1881)
        - Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen  (1881-1885)
        - Thomas Francis Bayard  (1885-1889)
        - James Gillespie Blaine  (1889-1892)
        - John Watson Foster  (1892-1893)
        - Walter Quintin Gresham  (1893-1895)
        - Richard Olney  (1895-1897)
        - John Sherman  (1897-1898)
        - William Rufus Day  (1898-1898)
        - John Milton Hay  (1898-1905)
        - Elihu Root  (1905-1909)
        - Robert Bacon  (1909-1909)
        - Philander Chase Knox  (1909-1913)
        - William Jennings Bryan  (1913-1915)
        - Robert Lansing  (1915-1920)
        - Bainbridge Colby  (1920-1921)
        - Charles Evans Hughes  (1921-1925)
        - Frank Billings Kellogg  (1925-1929)
        - Henry Lewis Stimson  (1929-1933)
        - Cordell Hull  (1933-1944)
        - Edward Reilly Stettinius  (1944-1945)
        - James Francis Byrnes  (1945-1947)
        - George Catlett Marshall  (1947-1949)
        - Dean Gooderham Acheson  (1949-1953)
        - John Foster Dulles  (1953-1959)
        - Christian Archibald Herter  (1959-1961)
        - David Dean Rusk  (1961-1969)
        - William Pierce Rogers  (1969-1973)
        - Henry A. (Heinz Alfred) Kissinger  (1973-1977)
        - Cyrus Roberts Vance  (1977-1980)
        - Edmund Sixtus Muskie  (1980-1981)
        - Alexander Meigs Haig  (1981-1982)
        - George Pratt Shultz  (1982-1989)
        - James Addison Baker  (1989-1992)
        - Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger  (1992-1993)
        - Warren Minor Christopher  (1993-1997)
        - Madeleine Korbel Albright  (1997-2001) (see also  former Secretary Albright’s Archive site )
        - Colin Luther Powell  (2001-2005) (see also  former Secretary Powell’s Archive site )
        - Condoleezza Rice  (2005-2009) (see also  former Secretary Rice’s Archive site )
        - Hillary Rodham Clinton  (2009-2013) (see also  Secretary Clinton’s Archive site )
        - John Kerry  (2013-2017) (see also  Secretary Kerry’s Archive site )
        - Rex Wayne Tillerson  (2017-2018) (see also  Secretary Tillerson’s Archive site )
        - Michael R. Pompeo  (2018-2021) (see also  Secretary Pompeo’s Archive site )

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