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Cordell Hull is the only person to have served as secretary of state for more than eight years. Daniel Webster and James G. Blaine are the only secretaries of state to have ever served non-consecutive terms. Warren Christopher served very briefly as acting secretary of state non-consecutively with his later tenure as full-fledged secretary of ...
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright [1] (born Marie Jana Körbelová, later Korbelová; May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022) [2] [3] was an American diplomat and political scientist who was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State, a post she held in the cabinet of President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001.
Azar was the former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under George W. Bush (2005–2007) [187] and president of Lilly USA, LLC, the largest affiliate of global biopharmaceutical leader Eli Lilly and Company from 2012 to 2017. On January 24, 2018, Azar was confirmed by the Senate in a vote of 53–43.
Rogers served first under President Dwight Eisenhower as Attorney General (1957–1961) and then later under Richard Nixon as Secretary of State. Rogers earlier served in the sub-cabinet as Deputy Attorney General (1953–1957), and as a result served at a cabinet or sub-cabinet level during all 2922 days of the Eisenhower Administration.
Tillerson was first recommended to president-elect Trump for the secretary of state role by former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, during her meeting with Trump in late November 2016. Rice's recommendation of Tillerson to Trump was backed up by former secretary of defense Robert Gates , three days later. [ 73 ]
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is presented with a Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama during an East Room event May 29, 2012 at the White House. (Alex Wong ...
Colin Luther Powell (/ ˈ k oʊ l ɪ n ˈ p aʊ ə l / KOH-lin POW-əl; [a] 5 April 1937 – () 18 October 2021) was an American statesman, [3] diplomat, and army officer who was the 65th United States secretary of state from 2001 to 2005.
From L to R, former US President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President George W. Bush, his wife Laura Bush, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, Vice President Kamala ...