SECRETARIES OF STATE (1789-1938)

Presidents

George Washington..
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John Adams..

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Thomas Jefferson..

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James Madison.

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Secretaries of State

Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia, Mar. 22, 1790-Dec. 31, 1793__
Edmund Randolph, of Virginia, Jan. 2, 1794-Aug. 19,
1795.

Timothy Pickering, of Pennsylvania (Secretary of War),
ad interim Aug. 20, 1795- Dec. 9, 1795.

Timothy Pickering, of Pennsylvania, Dec. 10, 1795-May
12, 1800.

Charles Lee, of Virginia (Attorney General), ad interim
May 13-June 5, 1800.

John Marshall, of Virginia, June 6, 1800-Feb. 4, 1801.
John Marshall, of Virginia (Chief Justice of the United
States), ad interim Feb. 4-Mar. 4, 1801.

Levi Lincoln, of Massachusetts (Attorney General), ad
interim Mar. 4-May 1, 1801.

James Madison, of Virginia, May 2, 1801-Mar. 3, 1809....
Robert Smith, of Maryland, Mar. 6, 1809-Apr. 1, 1811..
James Monroe, of Virginia, Apr. 6, 1811-Sept. 30, 1814..
James Monroe, of Virginia (Secretary of War), ad interim
Oct. 1, 1814-Feb. 28, 1815.

Mar. 5, 1801

Mar. 6, 1809

Apr. 2, 1811

James Monroe, of Virginia, Mar. 1, 1815-Mar. 3, 1817.
John Graham (chief clerk), ad interim Mar. 4-9, 1817.
Richard Rush, of Pennsylvania (Attorney General), ad
interim Mar. 10-Sept. 22, 1817.

John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, Sept. 22, 1817-
Mar. 3, 1825.

Daniel Brent (chief clerk), ad interim Mar. 4-8, 1825.
Henry Clay, of Kentucky, Mar. 9, 1825-Mar. 3, 1829..
James A. Hamilton, of New York, ad interim Mar. 4-

27, 1829.

Martin Van Buren, of New York, Mar. 28, 1829-May 23,
1831.

Mar. 5, 1817

Mar. 7, 1825
Mar. 4, 1829

Mar. 6, 1829

Edward Livingston, of Louisiana, May 24, 1821-May 29,

May 24, 1831

1833.

May 29, 1833

June 27, 1834

Mar. 5, 1841

Louis McLane, of Delaware, May 29, 1833-June 30, 1834.
John Forsyth, of Georgia, July 1, 1834-Mar. 3, 1841.
J. L. Martin (chief clerk), ad interim Mar. 4-5, 1841.
Daniel Webster, of Massachusetts, Mar. 6, 1841-May

8. 1843.

Hugh S. Legaré, of South Carolina (Attorney General), ad
interim May 9-June 20, 1843 (died June 20, 1843).
William S. Derrick (chief clerk), ad interim June 21-
23. 1843.

Abel P. Upshur, of Virginia (Secretary of the Navy), ad
interim June 24-July 23, 1843.

Abel P. Upshur, of Virginia, July 24, 1843-Feb. 28, 1844 July 24, 1843
(died Feb. 28, 1844).

John Nelson, of Maryland (Attorney General), ad interim

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James K. Polk..

Zachary Taylor.
Millard Fillmore.
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Franklin Pierce..

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James Buchanan.

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Grover Cleveland.

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William McKinley.

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Theodore Roosevelt.

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William H. Taft..

Woodrow Wilson..

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William H. Seward, of New York, Mar. 6, 1861-Mar.

4, 1869.

Recommissioned (retired Mar. 12, 1877).
William M. Evarts, of New York, Mar. 12, 1877-Mar.
7, 1881.

Mar. 5, 1861

Elihu B. Washburne, of Illinois, Mar. 5-16, 1869.
Hamilton Fish, of New York (entered upon duties Mar.
17, 1869).

Mar. 5, 1869

Mar. 11, 1869

Mar. 17, 1873

Mar. 12, 1877

Mar. 5, 1881

Dec. 12, 1881

Mar. 6, 1885

James G. Blaine, of Maine, Mar. 7-Dec. 19, 1881.

Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, Dec. 19, 1881-
Mar. 6, 1885.

Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware, Mar. 7, 1885-Mar. 6,
1889.

James G. Blaine, of Maine, Mar. 7, 1889-June 4, 1892..
William F. Wharton, of Massachusetts (Assistant Secre-
tary), ad interim June 4-29, 1892.

Mar. 5, 1889

John W. Foster, of Indiana, June 29, 1892-Feb. 23, 1893. June 29, 1892
William F. Wharton, of Massachusetts (Assistant Secre-

tary), ad interim Feb. 24-Mar. 6, 1893.

Walter Q. Gresham, of Illinois, Mar. 7, 1893 (died May Mar. 6, 1893
28, 1895).

Edwin F. Uhl, of Michigan (Assistant Secretary), ad
interim May 28-June 9, 1895.

Richard Olney, of Massachusetts, June 10, 1895-Mar. 5
1897.

John Sherman, of Ohio, Mar. 6, 1897-Apr. 27, 1898..
William R. Day, of Ohio, Apr. 28-Sept. 16, 1898..
Alvey A. Adee, of the District of Columbia (Second Assist-
ant Secretary), ad interim Sept. 17-29, 1898.

John Hay, of the District of Columbia (entered upon
J duties Sept. 30, 1898).

Recommissioned.

Recommissioned (died July 1, 1905).

Francis B. Loomis, of Ohio (Assistant Secretary), ad
interim July 1-18, 1905.

Elihu Root, of New York, July 19, 1905-Jan. 27, 1909
Robert Bacon, of New York, Jan. 27-Mar. 5, 1909.
Philander C. Knox, of Pennsylvania, Mar. 6, 1909-Mar.
5, 1913.

William Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska, Mar. 5, 1913-
June 9, 1915.

Robert Lansing, of New York (Counselor for the Depart-
ment of State), ad interim June 9-23, 1915.

Warren G. Harding.

Calvin Coolidge.

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Herbert Clark Hoover.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt.... Cordell Hull, of Tennessee, Mar. 4, 1933..

Frank Billings Kellogg, of Minnesota, Mar. 5, 1925-Mar.
28, 1929.

Charles Evans Hughes, of New York, Mar. 5, 1921-
Mar. 4, 1925.

Mar. 4, 1921

Feb. 16, 1925

Henry Lewis Stimson, of New York, Mar. 28, 1929-
Mar. 4, 1933.

Mar. 5, 1929

Mar. 4, 1933