Secretary of State

One holder at a time · 108 terms · 1789–present

Current holder

Previous holders 107

Antony Blinken 2021–2025 Daniel Bennett Smith 2021 Mike Pompeo 2018–2021 John J. Sullivan 2018 Rex Tillerson 2017–2018 Thomas A. Shannon Jr. 2017 John Kerry 2013–2017 Hillary Clinton 2009–2013 William J. Burns 2009 Condoleezza Rice 2005–2009 Colin Powell 2001–2005 Madeleine Albright 1997–2001 Frank G. Wisner 1993 Warren Christopher 1993–1997 Lawrence Eagleburger 1992–1993 James Baker 1989–1992 Michael Armacost 1989 George Shultz 1982–1989 Walter J. Stoessel Jr. 1982 Alexander Haig 1981–1982 David D. Newsom 1981 Edmund Muskie 1980–1981 Warren Christopher 1980 David D. Newsom 1980 Richard N. Cooper 1980 David D. Newsom 1980 Warren Christopher 1980 Cyrus Vance 1977–1980 Henry Kissinger 1973–1977 Kenneth Rush 1973 William P. Rogers 1969–1973 Dean Rusk 1961–1969 Livingston T. Merchant 1961 Christian Herter 1959–1961 John Foster Dulles 1953–1959 H. Freeman Matthews 1953 Dean Acheson 1949–1953 George C. Marshall 1947–1949 James F. Byrnes 1945–1947 Joseph Grew 1945 Edward Stettinius Jr. 1944–1945 Cordell Hull 1933–1944 Henry L. Stimson 1929–1933 Frank B. Kellogg 1925–1929 Charles Evans Hughes 1921–1925 Frank Polk 1920 Bainbridge Colby 1920–1921 Robert Lansing 1915–1920 William Jennings Bryan 1913–1915 Philander C. Knox 1909–1913 Robert Bacon 1909 Elihu Root 1905–1909 Francis Butler Loomis 1905 John Hay 1898–1905 William R. Day 1898 John Sherman 1897–1898 Richard Olney 1895–1897 Edwin F. Uhl 1895 Walter Q. Gresham 1893–1895 William F. Wharton 1893 John W. Foster 1892–1893 William F. Wharton 1892 James G. Blaine 1889–1892 Thomas F. Bayard 1885–1889 Frederick T. Frelinghuysen 1881–1885 James G. Blaine 1881 William M. Evarts 1877–1881 Hamilton Fish 1869–1877 Elihu B. Washburne 1869 William H. Seward 1861–1869 Jeremiah S. Black 1860–1861 William Hunter 1860 Lewis Cass 1857–1860 William L. Marcy 1853–1857 William Hunter 1853 Edward Everett 1852–1853 Charles Magill Conrad 1852 Daniel Webster 1850–1852 John M. Clayton 1849–1850 James Buchanan 1845–1849 John C. Calhoun 1844–1845 John Nelson 1844 Abel P. Upshur 1843–1844 William S. Derrick 1843 Hugh S. Legaré 1843 Daniel Webster 1841–1843 Jacob L. Martin 1841 John Forsyth 1834–1841 Louis McLane 1833–1834 Edward Livingston 1831–1833 Martin Van Buren 1829–1831 James Alexander Hamilton 1829 Henry Clay 1825–1829 John Quincy Adams 1817–1825 Richard Rush 1817 John Graham 1817 James Monroe 1815–1817 James Monroe 1814–1815 James Monroe 1811–1817 Robert Smith 1809–1811 James Madison 1801–1809 Levi Lincoln Sr. 1801 John Marshall 1800–1801 Timothy Pickering 1795–1800 Edmund Randolph 1794–1795 Thomas Jefferson 1790–1793 John Jay 1789–1790

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