US Secretary of State Chart
All US Secretaries of State
| Secretary of State | President | State | Appointment |
| Thomas Jefferson | George Washington | Virginia | 1789 |
| Edmund Randolph | George Washington | Virginia | 1794 |
| Timothy Pickering | George Washington John Adams |
Pennsylvania | 1795, 1797 |
| John Marshall | John Adams | Virginia | 1800 |
| James Madison | Thomas Jefferson | Virginia | 1801 |
| Robert Smith | James Madison | Maryland | 1809 |
| James Monroe | James Madison | Virginia | 1811 |
| John Quincy Adams | James Monroe | Massachusetts | 1817 |
| Henry Clay | John Quincy Adams | Kentucky | 1825 |
| Martin Van Buren | Andrew Jackson | New York | 1829 |
| Edward Livingston | Andrew Jackson | Louisiana | 1831 |
| Louis McLane | Andrew Jackson | Delaware | 1833 |
| John Forsyth | Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren |
Georgia | 1834, 1837 |
| Daniel Webster | William Henry Harrison John Tyler |
Massachusetts | 1841 |
| Abel P Upshur | John Tyler | Virginia | 1843 |
| John C. Calhoun | John Tyler James Polk |
South Carolina | 1844, 1845 |
| James Buchanan | James Polk Zachary Taylor |
Pennsylvania | 1849 |
| John M. Clayton | Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore |
Delaware | 1849, 1850 |
| Daniel Webster | Millard Fillmore | Massachusetts | 1850 |
| Edward Everett | Millard Fillmore | Massachusetts | 1852 |
| William L. Marcy | Franklin Pierce James Buchanan |
New York | 1853, 1857 |
| Lewis Cass | James Buchanan | Michigan | 1857 |
| Jeremiah S. Black | James Buchanan Abraham Lincoln |
Pennsylvania | 1860, 1861 |
| William H. Seward | Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson |
New York | 1861, 1865 |
| Elihu B. Washburne | Ulysses S. Grant | Illinois | 1869 |
| Hamilton Fish | Ulysses S. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes |
New York | 1869, 1877 |
| William M. Evarts | Rutherford B. Hayes James Garfield |
New York | 1877, 1881 |
| James G. Blaine | James Garfield Chester Arthur |
Maine | 1881 |
| F.T. Frelinghuysen | Chester Arthur Grover Cleveland |
New Jersey | 1881, 1885 |
| Thomas F. Bayard | Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison |
Delaware | 1885, 1889 |
| James G. Blaine | Benjamin Harrison | Maine | 1889 |
| John W. Foster | Benjamin Harrison | Indiana | 1892 |
| Walter Q. Gresham | Grover Cleveland | Indiana | 1893 |
| Richard Olney | Grover Cleveland William McKinley |
Massachusetts | 1895, 1897 |
| John Sherman | William McKinley | Ohio | 1897 |
| William R. Day | William McKinley | Ohio | 1898 |
| John Hay | William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt |
Washington D.C. | 1898, 1901 |
| Elihu Root | Theodore Roosevelt | New York | 1905 |
| Robert Bacon | Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft |
New York | 1909 |
| Philander C. Knox | William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson |
Pennsylvania | 1909, 1913 |
| William J. Bryan | Woodrow Wilson | Nebraska | 1913 |
| Robert Lansing | Woodrow Wilson | New York | 1915 |
| Bainbridge Colby | Woodrow Wilson | New York | 1920 |
| Charles E. Hughes | Warren Harding Calvin Coolidge |
New York | 1921, 1923 |
| Frank B. Kellogg | Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover |
Minnesota | 1925, 1929 |
| Henry L. Stimson | Herbert Hoover | New York | 1929 |
| Cordell Hull | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Tennessee | 1933 |
| E.R. Stettinius, Jr. | Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry Truman |
New York | 1944, 1945 |
| James F. Byrnes | Harry Truman | South Carolina | 1945 |
| George C. Marshall | Harry Truman | Pennsylvania | 1947 |
| Dean G. Acheson | Harry Truman | Connecticut | 1949 |
| John Foster Dulles | Dwight Eisenhower | New York | 1953 |
| Christian A. Herter | Massachusetts | 1959 | |
| Dean Rusk | John Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson |
New York | 1961, 1963 |
| William P. Rogers | Richard Nixon | New York | 1969 |
| Henry A. Kissinger | Richard Nixon Gerald Ford |
Washington, D.C. | 1973, 1974 |
| Cyrus R. Vance | Jimmy Carter | New York | 1977 |
| Edmund S. Muskie | Jimmy Carter | Maine | 1980 |
| Alexander M. Haig, Jr. | Ronald Reagan | Connecticut | 1981 |
| George P. Schultz | Ronald Reagan | California | 1982 |
| James A. Baker 3rd | George H. W. Bush | Texas | 1989 |
| Lawrence S. Eagleburger | George H. W. Bush | Michigan | 1992 |
| Warren M. Christopher | William Clinton | California | 1993 |
| Madeleine Albright | William Clinton | New York | 1997 |
| Colin Powell | George W. Bush | New York | 2001 |
| Condoleezza Rice | George W. Bush | Alabama | 2005 |
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