US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

Chief officer of the US State Department.

04-Mar-1790	22-Mar-1790	John Jay (acting)
22-Mar-1790	31-Dec-1793	Thomas Jefferson
02-Jan-1794	20-Aug-1795	Edmund Randolph
10-Dec-1795	12-May-1800	Timothy Pickering
06-Jun-1800	04-Feb-1801	John Marshall
02-May-1801	03-Mar-1809	James Madison
06-Mar-1809	01-Apr-1811	Robert Smith
06-Apr-1811	30-Sep-1814	James Monroe
28-Feb-1815	03-Mar-1817	James Monroe
22-Sep-1817	03-Mar-1825	John Quincy Adams
07-Mar-1825	03-Mar-1829	Henry Clay
28-Mar-1829	23-Mar-1831	Martin Van Buren
24-May-1831	29-May-1833	Edward Livingston
29-May-1833	30-Jun-1834	Louis McLane
01-Jul-1834	03-Mar-1841	John Forsyth
06-Mar-1841	08-May-1843	Daniel Webster
24-Jul-1843	28-Feb-1844	Abel P. Upshur
01-Apr-1844	10-Mar-1845	John C. Calhoun
10-Mar-1845	07-Mar-1849	James Buchanan
08-Mar-1849	22-Jul-1850	John Middleton Clayton
23-Jul-1850	24-Oct-1852	Daniel Webster
06-Nov-1852	03-Mar-1853	Edward Everett
08-Mar-1853	06-Mar-1857	William L. Marcy
06-Mar-1857	14-Dec-1860	Lewis Cass
17-Dec-1860	05-Mar-1861	Jeremiah S. Black
06-Mar-1861	04-Mar-1869	William Henry Seward
05-Mar-1869	16-Mar-1869	Elihu Benjamin Washburne
17-Mar-1869	12-Mar-1877	Hamilton Fish
12-Mar-1877	07-Mar-1881	William M. Evarts
07-Mar-1881	19-Dec-1881	James G. Blaine
19-Dec-1881	06-Mar-1885	Frederick T. Frelinghuysen
07-Mar-1885	06-Mar-1889	Thomas F. Bayard
07-Mar-1889	04-Jun-1892	James G. Blaine
29-Jun-1892	23-Feb-1893	John W. Foster
07-Mar-1893	28-May-1895	Walter Q. Gresham
19-Jun-1895	05-Mar-1897	Richard Olney
06-Mar-1897	27-Apr-1898	John Sherman
28-Apr-1898	16-Sep-1898	William R. Day
30-Sep-1898	01-Jul-1905	John Hay
19-Jul-1905	27-Jan-1909	Elihu Root
27-Jan-1909	05-Mar-1909	Robert Bacon
06-Mar-1909	05-Mar-1913	Philander Knox
05-Mar-1913	09-Jun-1915	William Jennings Bryan
24-Jun-1915	13-Feb-1920	Robert Lansing
23-Mar-1920	04-Mar-1921	Bainbridge Colby
05-Mar-1921	04-Mar-1925	Charles Evans Hughes
05-Mar-1925	28-Mar-1929	Frank B. Kellogg
28-Mar-1929	04-Mar-1933	Henry L. Stimson
04-Mar-1933	30-Nov-1944	Cordell Hull
01-Dec-1944	27-Jun-1945	Edward Stettinius, Jr.
03-Jul-1945	21-Jan-1947	James F. Byrnes
21-Jan-1947	20-Jan-1949	George C. Marshall
21-Jan-1949	20-Jan-1953	Dean Acheson
21-Jan-1953	22-Apr-1959	John Foster Dulles
22-Apr-1959	20-Jan-1961	Christian Herter
21-Jan-1961	20-Jan-1969	Dean Rusk
22-Jan-1969	03-Sep-1973	William P. Rogers
22-Sep-1973	20-Jan-1977	Henry Kissinger
23-Jan-1977	28-Apr-1980	Cyrus Vance
08-May-1980	18-Jan-1981	Ed Muskie
22-Jan-1981	05-Jul-1982	Alexander Haig
16-Jul-1982	20-Jan-1989	George Shultz
25-Jan-1989	23-Aug-1992	James Baker
08-Dec-1992	19-Jan-1993	Lawrence Eagleburger
20-Jan-1993	17-Jan-1997	Warren Christopher
23-Jan-1997	19-Jan-2001	Madeleine Albright
20-Jan-2001	27-Jan-2005	Colin Powell
28-Jan-2005	20-Jan-2009	Condoleezza Rice
21-Jan-2009	01-Feb-2013	Hillary Clinton
01-Feb-2013	20-Jan-2017	John Kerry
01-Feb-2017	--	Rex W. Tillerson

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