United States Secretaries of State

John Forsyth, Sr.

Elihu Benjamin Washburne (September 23, 1816 – October 23, 1887) was an American politician and diplomat.

Colin Luther Powell (/ˈkoʊlᵻn/; born April 5, 1937) is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army.

Born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Marshall was a 1901 graduate of the Virginia Military Institute.

Dean Gooderham Acheson (pronounced /ˈætʃᵻsən/; April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer.

Robert Lansing (/ˈlænsɪŋ/; October 17, 1864 – October 30, 1928) was an American lawyer and Conservative Democratic politician who served as Legal Advisor to the State Department at the outbreak of World War I, and then as United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson from 1915 to 1920.

Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr.

Abel Parker Upshur (June 17, 1790 – February 28, 1844) was an American lawyer, judge and politician from Virginia.

Edmund Jennings Randolph (August 10, 1753 – September 12, 1813) was an American attorney, the seventh Governor of Virginia, the second Secretary of State, and the first United States Attorney General.

Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie (March 28, 1914 – March 26, 1996) was an American statesman, author, academic, and reformer, of Polish origin, who served as the 58th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter.

Robert Bacon (July 5, 1860 – May 29, 1919) was an American statesman and diplomat.

John Sherman (May 10, 1823 – October 22, 1900) was an American Republican representative and senator from Ohio during the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century.

Edward Livingston (May 28, 1764 – May 23, 1836) was an American jurist and statesman.

Louis McLane (May 28, 1786 – October 7, 1857) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland.

William Rufus Day (April 17, 1849 – July 9, 1923) was an American diplomat and jurist, who served for nineteen years as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Philander Chase Knox (May 6, 1853 – October 12, 1921) was an American lawyer, bank director and politician who served as United States Attorney General (1901–1904), a Senator from Pennsylvania (1904–1909, 1917–1921) and Secretary of State (1909–1913).

Richard Olney (September 15, 1835 – April 8, 1917) was an American statesman.

Bainbridge Colby (December 22, 1869 – April 11, 1950) was an American lawyer, a political progressive, a co-founder of the United States Progressive Party and Woodrow Wilson's last Secretary of State.

Thomas Francis Bayard (October 29, 1828 – September 28, 1898) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat from Wilmington, Delaware.

John Middleton Clayton (July 24, 1796 – November 9, 1856) was an American lawyer and politician from Delaware.

Frank Billings Kellogg (December 22, 1856 – December 21, 1937) was an American lawyer, politician and statesman who served in the U.

William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's nominee for President of the United States (1896, 1900, and 1908).

James Francis Byrnes (US /ˈbɜːrnz/; May 2, 1882 – April 9, 1972) was an American politician from the state of South Carolina.

William Pierce Rogers (June 23, 1913 – January 2, 2001) was an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer.

Timothy Pickering (July 17, 1745 – January 29, 1829) was a politician from Massachusetts who served in a variety of roles, most notably as the third United States Secretary of State, serving in that office from 1795 to 1800 under Presidents George Washington and John Adams.

Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American statesman who twice served in the United States House of Representatives, representing New Hampshire (1813–1817) and Massachusetts (1823–1827), served as a U.

Alexander Meigs Haig Jr.

John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 – July 1, 1905) was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century.

John Quincy Adams (/ˈkwɪnzi/; July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman who served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829.

The Secretary of State is a senior official of the federal government of the United States of America heading the U.

Elihu Root (/ˈɛlᵻhjuː ˈruːt/; February 15, 1845 – February 7, 1937) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the Secretary of War (1899–1904) under two presidents, including President Theodore Roosevelt.

Robert Smith (November 3, 1757 – November 26, 1842) was the second United States Secretary of the Navy from 1801 to 1809 and the sixth United States Secretary of State from 1809 to 1811.

William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818 – February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman from New York who served as U.

Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (August 4, 1817 – May 20, 1885) was an American lawyer and politician from New Jersey who served as a U.

Walter Quintin Gresham (March 17, 1832 – May 28, 1895) was an American statesman and jurist.

This is a list of Secretaries of State of the United States.

Cordell Hull (October 2, 1871 – July 23, 1955) was an American politician from the U.

Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger (August 1, 1930 – June 4, 2011) was an American statesman and career diplomat, who served briefly as the Secretary of State under President George H.

John Caldwell Calhoun (/kælˈhuːn/; March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina, and the seventh Vice President of the United States.

James Addison Baker III (born April 28, 1930) is an American attorney and statesman.

John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American diplomat and Democratic Party politician who is the 68th and current United States Secretary of State.

John Foster Dulles (/ˈdʌləs/; February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) served as U.

Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895 – December 30, 1966) was an American politician and statesman; 59th Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957, and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961.

Robert R(obert) Livingston (November 27, 1746 (Old Style November 16) – February 26, 1813) was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat from New York, and a Founding Father of the United States.

William Learned Marcy (December 12, 1786 – July 4, 1857) was an American statesman, who served as U.

Hamilton Fish (August 3, 1808 – September 7, 1893), was an American statesman and politician who served as the 16th Governor of New York, a United States Senator and United States Secretary of State.

John Watson Foster (March 2, 1836 – November 15, 1917) was an American diplomat and military officer, as well as a lawyer and journalist.

Warren Minor Christopher (October 27, 1925 – March 18, 2011) was an American lawyer, diplomat and politician.

Cyrus Roberts Vance (March 27, 1917 – January 12, 2002) was an American lawyer and United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980.

William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as Governor of New York and United States Senator.

John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1801–1835).

Charles Evans Hughes, Sr.

David Dean Rusk (February 9, 1909 – December 20, 1994) was the United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F.

George Pratt Shultz (born December 13, 1920) is an American economist, statesman, and businessman.

Henry Lewis Stimson (September 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican Party politician and spokesman on foreign policy.

Condoleezza "Condi" Rice (/ˌkɒndəˈliːzə raɪs/; born November 14, 1954) is an American political scientist and diplomat.

Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer, politician, and statesman: he was longtime governor of the Michigan Territory (1813–1831), Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson, and Secretary of State under President James Buchanan.

John Graham (1774 – 6 August 1820) was an American politician and diplomat.