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United States Secretary of State

head of the United States Department of State

32 dated entries naming United States Secretary of State, drawn from 29 separate years between 1790 CE and 2016 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1790March 21 – Thomas Jefferson reports to President George Washington in New York, as the new United States Secretary of State.source

19th century

  • 1801May 16 – William H. Seward, 24th United States Secretary of State (d. 1872)source
  • 1817August 4 – Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, 29th United States Secretary of State (d. 1885)source
  • 1830January 31 – James G. Blaine, 28th and 31st United States Secretary of State (d. 1893)source
  • 1838October 8 – John Hay, diplomat, private secretary to Abraham Lincoln, 37th United States Secretary of State (d. 1905)source
  • 1844April 22 – Lewis Powell, attempted assassin of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward, conspirator with John Wilkes Booth (d. 1865)source
  • 1856December 22 – Frank B. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937)source
  • 1865April 14 – United States Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home, by Lewis Powell.source
  • 1865December 18 – Secretary of State William H. Seward declares the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified by three-quarters of the states, including those in secession. As of December 6, slavery is legally outlawed in the last two slave states of Kentucky and Delaware, and the remaining 45,000 slaves are freed.source
  • 1867March 30 – Alaska Purchase: Alaska is purchased for US$7.2 million from Alexander II of Russia, about 2 cents/acre ($4.19/km 2 ), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. Newspapers call this Seward's Folly.source
  • 1872October 10 – William H. Seward, 24th United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)source
  • 1880December 31 – George C. Marshall, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1959)source
  • 1885May 20 – Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, 29th United States Secretary of State (b. 1817)source
  • 1888February 25 – John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State (d. 1959)source
  • 1893April 11 – Dean Acheson, 51st United States Secretary of State (d. 1971)source
  • 1893January 27 – James G. Blaine, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1830)source

20th century

  • 1920December 13 – George P. Shultz, American economist, politician and 60th United States secretary of state (d. 2021)source
  • 1923May 27 – Henry Kissinger, German-born United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2023)source
  • 1930April 28 – James Baker, former United States Secretary of State and United States Secretary of the Treasurysource
  • 1937December 21 – Frank B. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b. 1856)source
  • 1941The Hull note (Outline of Proposed Basis for Agreement Between the United States and Japan), named for Secretary of State Cordell Hull, is delivered to the Empire of Japan by the United States.source
  • 1944December 1 – Edward Stettinius, Jr. becomes the last United States Secretary of State of the Roosevelt administration, filling the seat left by Cordell Hull.source
  • 1947October 26 – Hillary Clinton, American politician, First Lady, US Senator (D-Ny.), Secretary of State, and 2016 Democratic presidential candidatesource
  • 1950October 20 – Henry L. Stimson, United States Secretary of State (b. 1867)source
  • 1952March 23 – Rex Tillerson, United States Secretary of Statesource
  • 1954November 14 – Condoleezza Rice, American politician, 66th United States Secretary of Statesource
  • 1959May 24 – John Foster Dulles, 52nd United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)source
  • 1959October 16 – George C. Marshall, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880)source
  • 1962April 16 – Antony Blinken, American diplomat, 71st United States Secretary of Statesource
  • 1971October 12 – Dean Acheson, 51st United States Secretary of State (b. 1893)source
  • 1972April 9 – James F. Byrnes, United States Secretary of State and Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1882)source

21st century

  • 2016November 8 – 2016 United States presidential election: Businessman and television personality Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States in a surprise upset against his opponent, former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton.source

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