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Former Secretaries of State

2001-2005: Colin L. Powell
1997-2001: Madeleine Korbel Albright
1993-1997: Warren Minor Christopher
1992-1993: Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger
1989-1992: James Addison Baker III
1982-1989: George Pratt Shultz
1981-1982: Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr.
1980-1981: Edmund Sixtus Muskie
1977-1980: Cyrus Roberts Vance
1973-1977: Henry Alfred Kissinger
1969-1973: William Pierce Rogers
1961-1969: Dean David Rusk
1959-1961: Christian Archibald Herter
1953-1959: John Foster Dulles
1949-1953: Dean Gooderham Acheson
1947-1949: George Catlett Marshall
1945-1947: James Francis Byrnes
1944-1945: Edward Rielly Stettinius, Jr.
1933-1944: Cordell Hull
1929-1933: Henry Lewis Stimson
1925-1929: Frank Billings Kellogg
1921-1925: Charles Evans Hughes
1920-1921: Bainbridge Colby
1915-1920: Robert Lansing
1913-1915: William Jennings Bryan
1909-1913: Philander Chase Knox
1909: Robert Bacon
1905-1909: Elihu Root
1898-1905: John Hay
1898: William Rufus Day
1897-1898: John Sherman
1895-1897: Richard Olney
1893-1895: Walter Quintin Gresham
1892-1893: John Watson Foster
1889-1892: James Gillespie Blaine
1885-1889: Thomas Francis Bayard
1881-1885: Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen
1881: James Gillespie Blaine
1877-1881: William Maxwell Evarts
1869-1877: Hamilton Fish
1869: Elihu Benjamin Washburne
1861-1869: William H. Seward
1860-1861: Jeremiah Sullivan Black
1857-1860: Lewis Cass
1853-1857: William Learned Marcy
1852-1853: Edward Everett
1850-1852: Daniel Webster
1849-1850: John Middleton Clayton
1845-1849: James Buchanan
1843-1845: John Caldwell Calhoun
1843-1844: Abel Parker Upshur
1841-1843: Daniel Webster
1834-1841: John Forsyth
1833-1834: Louis Mclane
1831-1833: Edward Livingston
1826-1831: Martin Van Buren
1825-1829: Henry Clay
1817-1825: John Quincy Adams
1815-1817: James Monroe
1811-1814: James Monroe
1809-1811: Robert Smith
1801-1809: James Madison
1800-1801: John Marshall
1795-1800: Timothy Pickering
1794-1795: Edmund Randolph
1789-1793: Thomas Jefferson

  
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