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On August 10, 1781, Congress selected Robert R. Livingston, a delegate from New York, as the first Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Livingston was unable to take office until October 20, 1781. Livingston was unable to take office until October 20, 1781.
Berrien was born on August 23, 1781, at Rockingham, his parents' home in Rocky Hill, New Jersey. His father was Major John Berrien, son of Judge John Berrien, and his mother was Margaret Macpherson. [1] The next year his parents moved with him to Savannah, Georgia, in 1782. His mother died three years later. [2]
Michigan Secretary of State elections (12 P) Pages in category "Secretaries of state of Michigan" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
He is best known as the last Secretary of the Michigan Territory (1835–1838), Secretary of the Oregon Territory (1849–1850), and serving a two-month term as Governor of the Oregon Territory after the resignation of General Joseph Lane. He was appointed to the last two positions by President James K. Polk.
He ultimately served a record 24 years as the first African American Secretary of State, not just in Michigan, but the nation. He became known as “Mr. Traffic Safety” for spearheading the ...
Benjamin Lincoln served as Secretary of War from 1781 until the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783. He was eventually succeeded by Henry Knox , who held the position from 1785 to 1789. Robert Livingston served as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 1781 to 1783, and he was followed in office by John Jay , who served from 1784 to 1789.
August 19 – Congress passes an act saying they will recognize the secessionist state of Vermont (formed in 1777 by unilateral separation from New York) and agree to admit that state to the Union if Vermont will renounce its claims to territory east of the Connecticut River and west of Lake Champlain. (The following spring the Vermont ...
[161] He nominated moderate Republicans to his cabinet: James Madison as secretary of state, Henry Dearborn as secretary of war, Levi Lincoln as attorney general, and Robert Smith as secretary of the navy. [160] Widowed since 1782, Jefferson first relied on his two daughters to serve as his official hostesses. [162]