State

Department of State
Secretary Condoleezza Rice


Previous Secretaries listed after headlines

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March 22, 1790 – December 31, 1793 -- Thomas Jefferson
January 2, 1794 – August 20, 1795 -- Edmund Randolph
December 10, 1795 – May 12, 1800 -- Timothy Pickering
June 13, 1800 – February 4, 1801 -- John Marshall
May 2, 1801 – March 3, 1809 -- James Madison
March 6, 1809 – April 1, 1811 -- Robert Smith
April 2, 1811 – September 30, 1814 -- James Monroe
February 28, 1815 – March 3, 1817 -- James Monroe
March 5, 1817 – March 3, 1825 -- John Quincy Adams
March 7, 1825 – March 3, 1829 -- Henry Clay
March 28, 1829 – May 23, 1831 -- Martin Van Buren
May 24, 1831 – May 29, 1833 -- Edward Livingston
May 29, 1833 – June 30, 1834 -- Louis McLane
July 1, 1834 – March 3, 1841 -- John Forsyth
March 6, 1841 – May 8, 1843 -- Daniel Webster
July 24, 1843 – February 28, 1844 -- Abel Parker Upshur
April 1, 1844 – March 10, 1845 -- John Caldwell Calhoun
March 10, 1845 – March 7, 1849 -- James Buchanan
March 8, 1849 – July 22, 1850 -- John Clayton
July 23, 1850 – October 24, 1852 -- Daniel Webster
November 6, 1852 – March 3, 1853 -- Edward Everett
March 7, 1853 – March 6, 1857 -- William Learned Marcy
March 6, 1857 – December 14, 1860 -- Lewis Cass
December 17, 1860 – March 5, 1861 -- Jeremiah Sullivan Black
March 5, 1861 – March 4, 1869 -- William Henry Seward
March 5, 1869 – March 16, 1869 -- Elihu Benjamin Washburne
March 17, 1869 – March 12, 1877 -- Hamilton Fish
March 12, 1877 – March 7, 1881 -- William Maxwell Evarts
March 7, 1881 – December 19, 1881 -- James Gillespie Blaine
December 19, 1881 – March 6, 1885 -- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen
March 7, 1885 – March 6, 1889 -- Thomas F. Bayard
March 7, 1889 – June 4, 1892 -- James Gillespie Blaine
June 29, 1892 – February 23, 1893 -- John W. Foster
March 7, 1893 – May 28, 1895 -- Walter Q. Gresham
June 10, 1895 – March 5, 1897 -- Richard Olney
March 6, 1897 – April 27, 1898 -- John Sherman
April 28, 1898 – September 16, 1898 -- William R. Day
September 30, 1898 – July 1, 1905 -- John Hay
July 19, 1905 – January 27, 1909 -- Elihu Root
January 27, 1909 – March 5, 1909 -- Robert Bacon
March 6, 1909 – March 5, 1913 -- Philander C. Knox
March 5, 1913 – June 9, 1915 -- William Jennings Bryan
June 24, 1915 – February 13, 1920 -- Robert Lansing
March 23, 1920 – March 4, 1921 -- Bainbridge Colby
March 5, 1921 – March 4, 1925 -- Charles Evans Hughes
March 5, 1925 – March 28, 1929 -- Frank B. Kellogg
March 28, 1929 – March 4, 1933 -- Henry L. Stimson
March 4, 1933 – November 30, 1944 -- Cordell Hull
December 1, 1944 – June 27, 1945 -- Edward Stettinius Jr.
July 3, 1945 – January 21, 1947 -- James F. Byrnes
January 21, 1947 – January 20, 1949 -- George Catlett Marshall
January 21, 1949 – January 20, 1953 -- Dean Acheson
January 21, 1953 – April 22, 1959 -- John Foster Dulles
April 22, 1959 – January 20, 1961 -- Christian Herter
January 21, 1961 – January 20, 1969 -- Dean Rusk
January 22, 1969 – September 3, 1973 -- William P. Rogers
September 22, 1973 – January 20, 1977 -- Henry A. Kissinger
January 23, 1977 – April 28, 1980 -- Cyrus Vance
May 8, 1980 – January 18, 1981 -- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
January 22, 1981 – July 5, 1982 -- Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr.
July 16, 1982 – January 20, 1989 -- George P. Shultz
January 25, 1989 – August 23, 1992 -- James Baker
December 8, 1992 – January 19, 1993 -- Lawrence Eagleburger
January 20, 1993 – January 17, 1997 -- Warren Christopher
January 23, 1997 – January 19, 2001 -- Madeleine Albright
January 20, 2001 – January 26, 2005 -- Colin Powell
January 26, 2005 – present -- Condoleezza Rice