Statistics for U.S. Secretaries of State

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Years in Office	Secretary of State	President	% Correct
1790-1793	Thomas Jefferson	George Washington	100%
1817-1825	John Quincy Adams	James Monroe	83%
2005-2009	Condoleezza Rice	George W. Bush	79%
2009-2013	Hillary Clinton	Barack Obama	79%
2013-2017	John Kerry	Barack Obama	71%
1997-2001	Madeleine Albright	Bill Clinton	71%
2018-	Mike Pompeo	Donald Trump	71%
2017-2018	Rex Tillerson	Donald Trump	71%
2001-2005	Colin Powell	George W. Bush	67%
1973-1977	Henry Kissinger	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford	67%
1811-1817	James Monroe	James Madison	67%
1947-1949	George C. Marshall	Harry S. Truman	63%
1801-1809	James Madison	Thomas Jefferson	63%
1800-1801	John Marshall	John Adams	63%
1829-1831	Martin Van Buren	Andrew Jackson	50%
1981-1982	Alexander Haig	Ronald Reagan	46%
1953-1959	John Foster Dulles	Dwight D. Eisenhower	46%
1861-1869	William H. Seward	Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson	46%
1989-1992	James Baker	George H. W. Bush	42%
1898-1905	John Hay	William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt	42%
1809-1811	Robert Smith	James Madison	42%
1913-1915	William Jennings Bryan	Woodrow Wilson	42%
1977-1980	Cyrus Vance	Jimmy Carter	38%
1961-1969	Dean Rusk	John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson	38%
1982-1989	George P. Shultz	Ronald Reagan	38%
1845-1849	James Buchanan	James K. Polk	33%
1933-1944	Cordell Hull	Franklin D. Roosevelt	29%
1949-1953	Dean Acheson	Harry S. Truman	29%
1980-1981	Edmund Muskie	Jimmy Carter	29%
1825-1829	Henry Clay	John Quincy Adams	29%
1992-1993	Lawrence Eagleburger	George H. W. Bush	29%
1993-1997	Warren Christopher	Bill Clinton	29%
1841-1843	Daniel Webster	William Henry Harrison, John Tyler	25%
1850-1852	Daniel Webster	Millard Fillmore	25%
1905-1909	Elihu Root	Theodore Roosevelt	25%
1945-1947	James F. Byrnes	Harry S. Truman	25%
1959-1961	Christian Herter	Dwight D. Eisenhower	21%
1793-1795	Edmund J. Randolph	George Washington	21%
1844-1845	John C. Calhoun	John Tyler	21%
1857-1860	Lewis Cass	James Buchanan	21%
1969-1973	William P. Rogers	Richard Nixon	21%
1869-1877	Hamilton Fish	Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes	17%
1889-1892	James G. Blaine	Benjamin Harrison	17%
1881	James G. Blaine	James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur	17%
1860-1861	Jeremiah S. Black	James Buchanan	17%
1897-1898	John Sherman	William McKinley	17%
1921-1925	Charles Evans Hughes	Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge	13%
1944-1945	Edward Stettinius Jr.	Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman	13%
1881-1885	Frederick T. Frelinghuysen	Chester A. Arthur	13%
1909-1913	Philander C. Knox	William H. Taft	13%
1843-1844	Abel P. Upshur	John Tyler	8%
1869	Elihu B. Washburne	Ulysses S. Grant	8%
1925-1929	Frank B. Kellogg	Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover	8%
1795-1800	Timothy Pickering	George Washington, John Adams	8%
1853-1857	William L. Macy	Franklin Pierce	8%
1895-1897	Richard Olney	Grover Cleveland	4%
1885-1889	Thomas F. Bayard	Grover Cleveland	4%
1893-1895	Walter Q. Gresham	Grover Cleveland	4%
1920-1921	Bainbridge Colby	Woodrow Wilson	0%
1852-1853	Edward Everett	Millard Fillmore	0%
1831-1833	Edward Livingston	Andrew Jackson	0%
1929-1933	Henry L. Stimson	Herbert Hoover	0%
1834-1841	John Forsyth	Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren	0%
1849-1850	John M. Clayton	Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore	0%
1892-1893	John W. Foster	Benjamin Harrison	0%
1833-1834	Louis McLane	Andrew Jackson	0%
1909	Robert Bacon	Theodore Roosevelt	0%
1915-1920	Robert Lansing	Woodrow Wilson	0%
1877-1881	William M. Evarts	Rutherford B. Hayes	0%
1898	William R. Day	William McKinley	0%