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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 ...
The United States secretary of state (SecState) [5] is a member of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States and the head of the U.S. Department of State. The secretary of state serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all foreign affairs matters.
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 served as the 64th United States secretary of state under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. [4]
Henry Alfred Kissinger [a] (May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 56th United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 and the 7th national security advisor from 1969 to 1975, serving in the presidential administrations of both Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
Former Solicitor Eugene Scalia of Virginia – Secretary of Health and Human Services Announced November 13, 2017 Assumed office January 29, 2018: Former Deputy Secretary Alex Azar of Indiana – Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Announced December 5, 2016 Assumed office March 2, 2017: Former neurosurgeon Ben Carson of Virginia ...
John Foster Dulles [a] (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as United States secretary of state under president Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959.
26 May: Dirk Kempthorne, Governor of Idaho, to become the United States Secretary of the Interior. 26 June: Mari Alkatiri, Prime Minister of East Timor, during the 2006 East Timorese crisis. 3 November: Donald Rumsfeld, United States Secretary of Defense, after the opposition Democratic Party took control of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections.
Under Secretary of State (Arms Control and International Security Affairs) Christopher Ford: October 21, 2019 January 8, 2021 Under Secretary of State (Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment) Keith J. Krach [6] June 21, 2019 (Confirmed June 20, 2019, voice vote) Under Secretary of State (Management) Brian Bulatao [7] May 17, 2019