SECRETARIES OF STATE (1789-1938)

Presidents

Secretaries of State

Date of commission

George Washington..
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John Adams..

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Thomas Jefferson...

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James Madison..

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James Monroe..

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John Quincy Adams.
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Andrew Jackson..

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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.

Sept. 26, 1789
Jan. 2, 1794

Dec. 10, 1795

May 13, 1800

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

Mar. 5, 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.

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.

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Martin Van Buren.

William H. Harrison.

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John Tyler.

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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
(died Feb. 28, 1844).

John Nelson, of Maryland (Attorney General), ad interim
Feb. 29-Mar. 31, 1844.

July 24, 1843

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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..

William H. Seward, of New York, Mar. 6, 1861-Mar.
4, 1869.

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

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

Mar. 17, 1873

Mar. 12, 1877

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
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).

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Robert Lansing, of New York (Counselor for the Depart-
ment of State), ad interim June 9-23, 1915.
Robert Lansing, of New York, June 24, 1915-Feb. 13,
1920.

June 23, 1915

Frank Lyon Polk, of New York (Undersecretary), Feb.
14-Mar. 13, 1920.

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

Mar. 4, 1933