U.S. Secretaries of State

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Years in Office	Secretary of State	President
1790-1793	Thomas Jefferson	George Washington
1793-1795	Edmund J. Randolph	George Washington
1795-1800	Timothy Pickering	George Washington, John Adams
1800-1801	John Marshall	John Adams
1801-1809	James Madison	Thomas Jefferson
1809-1811	Robert Smith	James Madison
1811-1817	James Monroe	James Madison
1817-1825	John Quincy Adams	James Monroe
1825-1829	Henry Clay	John Quincy Adams
1829-1831	Martin Van Buren	Andrew Jackson
1831-1833	Edward Livingston	Andrew Jackson
1833-1834	Louis McLane	Andrew Jackson
1834-1841	John Forsyth	Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren
1841-1843	Daniel Webster	William Henry Harrison, John Tyler
1843-1844	Abel P. Upshur	John Tyler
1844-1845	John C. Calhoun	John Tyler
1845-1849	James Buchanan	James K. Polk
1849-1850	John M. Clayton	Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore
1850-1852	Daniel Webster	Millard Fillmore
1852-1853	Edward Everett	Millard Fillmore
1853-1857	William L. Macy	Franklin Pierce
1857-1860	Lewis Cass	James Buchanan
1860-1861	Jeremiah S. Black	James Buchanan
1861-1869	William H. Seward	Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson
1869	Elihu B. Washburne	Ulysses S. Grant
1869-1877	Hamilton Fish	Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes
1877-1881	William M. Evarts	Rutherford B. Hayes
1881	James G. Blaine	James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur
1881-1885	Frederick T. Frelinghuysen	Chester A. Arthur
1885-1889	Thomas F. Bayard	Grover Cleveland
1889-1892	James G. Blaine	Benjamin Harrison
1892-1893	John W. Foster	Benjamin Harrison
1893-1895	Walter Q. Gresham	Grover Cleveland
1895-1897	Richard Olney	Grover Cleveland
1897-1898	John Sherman	William McKinley

Years in Office	Secretary of State	President
1898	William R. Day	William McKinley
1898-1905	John Hay	William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt
1905-1909	Elihu Root	Theodore Roosevelt
1909	Robert Bacon	Theodore Roosevelt
1909-1913	Philander C. Knox	William H. Taft
1913-1915	William Jennings Bryan	Woodrow Wilson
1915-1920	Robert Lansing	Woodrow Wilson
1920-1921	Bainbridge Colby	Woodrow Wilson
1921-1925	Charles Evans Hughes	Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge
1925-1929	Frank B. Kellogg	Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover
1929-1933	Henry L. Stimson	Herbert Hoover
1933-1944	Cordell Hull	Franklin D. Roosevelt
1944-1945	Edward Stettinius Jr.	Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman
1945-1947	James F. Byrnes	Harry S. Truman
1947-1949	George C. Marshall	Harry S. Truman
1949-1953	Dean Acheson	Harry S. Truman
1953-1959	John Foster Dulles	Dwight D. Eisenhower
1959-1961	Christian Herter	Dwight D. Eisenhower
1961-1969	Dean Rusk	John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
1969-1973	William P. Rogers	Richard Nixon
1973-1977	Henry Kissinger	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
1977-1980	Cyrus Vance	Jimmy Carter
1980-1981	Edmund Muskie	Jimmy Carter
1981-1982	Alexander Haig	Ronald Reagan
1982-1989	George P. Shultz	Ronald Reagan
1989-1992	James Baker	George H. W. Bush
1992-1993	Lawrence Eagleburger	George H. W. Bush
1993-1997	Warren Christopher	Bill Clinton
1997-2001	Madeleine Albright	Bill Clinton
2001-2005	Colin Powell	George W. Bush
2005-2009	Condoleezza Rice	George W. Bush
2009-2013	Hillary Clinton	Barack Obama
2013-2017	John Kerry	Barack Obama
2017-2018	Rex Tillerson	Donald Trump
2018-	Mike Pompeo	Donald Trump