page_title: List of international trips made by the United States Secretary of State
section_title: Edward Stettinius
hierarchical_section_title: List of international trips made by the United States Secretary of State / Edward Stettinius
context_page_description: This is a list of international visits undertaken by the United States secretary of state. The list includes both private travel and official state visits. The list includes only foreign travel which the secretaries of state have made during their tenure in the position.
  The first secretary of state who made a trip abroad was William H. Seward, who visited the Danish West Indies in 1866. In the early years, most secretary of state visits took place in the North, Central, and South American countries and in the Caribbean. John Hay was the first secretary of state to visit Europe. Philander C. Knox was the first to go to Asia. Cordell Hull was the first to go to Africa. Dean Rusk was the first to go to Oceania.
context_section_description: Edward Stettinius, Jr. (in office 1944–1945)
caption: Secretary of State Edward Stettinius with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov during the Yalta Conference, in Crimea, 1945
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