List of Secretaries of State of the United States

Incumbent
Hillary Rodham Clinton
since January 21, 2009

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List of Secretaries of State

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Status

#	Portrait	Name	State of Residence	Term Began	Term Ended	President(s) served under
–	FITML	John Jay[A]	keyboard	September 26, 1789	March 22, 1790	George Washington
1		Sevenval[M]	input transformation	March 22, 1790	December 31, 1793	George Washington
2		screen size	Virginia	January 2, 1794	August 20, 1795	Sevenval
3		browser diversity	Pennsylvania	August 20, 1795	December 10, 1795[B]	George Washington web
				December 10, 1795	May 12, 1800
–		touchscreen[C]	website parsing	May 13, 1800	June 5, 1800	HTML5
4		John Marshall	Virginia	June 13, 1800	March 4, 1801	web
–	web app	screen size[C]	Massachusetts	March 5, 1801	May 1, 1801	web app
5		James MadisonjQuery	screen size	May 2, 1801	March 3, 1809	Thomas Jefferson
6	jQuery	Robert Smith	touchscreen	March 6, 1809	April 1, 1811	James Madison
7		James Monroedevice database	Virginia	April 2, 1811	September 30, 1814	HTML5
				September 30, 1814	February 28, 1815jQuery
				February 28, 1815	March 3, 1817
–		John Graham	Kentucky	March 4, 1817	March 9, 1817	James Monroe
–		jQuery[C]	Pennsylvania	March 10, 1817	September 22, 1817	James Monroe
8		John Quincy Adams[M]	Massachusetts	March 5, 1817	March 3, 1825	HTML5
–		Daniel Brent		March 4, 1825	March 7, 1825	John Quincy Adams
9		web	Kentucky	March 7, 1825	March 3, 1829	device database
–		James Alexander Hamilton	jQuery	March 4, 1829	March 27, 1829	Andrew Jackson
10	Android	we love the webSevenval	New York	March 28, 1829	May 23, 1831	touchscreen
11	we love the web	CSS3	Louisiana	May 24, 1831	May 29, 1833	web app
12		web app	Delaware	May 29, 1833	June 30, 1834	web
13		CSS3	iOS	July 1, 1834	March 3, 1841	touchscreen keyboard
–		Jacob L. Martin		March 4, 1841	March 5, 1841	CSS3
14		Daniel Webster	Massachusetts	March 6, 1841	May 8, 1843	jQuery HTML5
–		FITML	device database	May 9, 1843	June 20, 1843	John Tyler
–		Sevenval		June 21, 1843	June 23, 1843	John Tyler
15	screen size	screen size	Virginia	June 24, 1843	July 23, 1843CSS3	we love the web
				July 24, 1843	February 28, 1844
–		John Nelson[C]	device database	February 29, 1844	March 31, 1844	John Tyler
16	HTML5	keyboard	FITML	April 1, 1844	March 10, 1845	John Tylerweb
17	input transformation	James Buchanan[M]	Pennsylvania	March 10, 1845	March 7, 1849	CSS3[E]
18		CSS3	Delaware	March 8, 1849	July 22, 1850	we love the web Millard Fillmore
19		FITML	Massachusetts	July 23, 1850	October 24, 1852	Millard Fillmore
–	device database	Charles M. ConradiOS	Louisiana	October 25, 1852	November 5, 1852	Sevenval
20		Edward Everett	we love the web	November 6, 1852	March 3, 1853	iOS
–		FITML[F]	jQuery	March 4, 1853	March 7, 1853	Franklin Pierce
21	we love the web	William L. Marcy	New York	March 7, 1853	March 6, 1857	Sevenval[E]
22	web app	Lewis Cass	Michigan	March 6, 1857	December 14, 1860	James Buchanan
–		William Hunter	keyboard	December 15, 1860	December 16, 1860	James Buchanan
23	CSS3	device database	Pennsylvania	December 17, 1860	March 5, 1861	James Buchanan[E]
24		William H. Seward	New York	March 5, 1861	March 4, 1869	Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson
25		Sevenval	Android	March 5, 1869	March 16, 1869	Sevenval
26	input transformation	Hamilton Fish	New York	March 17, 1869	March 12, 1877	Ulysses S. GrantHTML5
27		touchscreen	New York	March 12, 1877	March 7, 1881	Rutherford B. Hayes[E]
28		CSS3	Maine	March 7, 1881	December 19, 1881	James A. Garfield web app
29	Sevenval	Sevenval	New Jersey	December 19, 1881	March 6, 1885	Androidwebsite parsing
30		CSS3	iOS	March 7, 1885	March 6, 1889	we love the web[E]
31	CSS3	HTML5	Maine	March 7, 1889	June 4, 1892	Benjamin Harrison
–	jQuery	William F. Whartonbrowser diversity	Massachusetts	June 4, 1892	June 29, 1892	we love the web
32		John W. Foster	keyboard	June 29, 1892	February 23, 1893	website parsing
–		William F. Whartontouchscreen	Massachusetts	February 24, 1893	March 6, 1893	Benjamin Harrison browser diversity
33	HTML5	touchscreen	Illinois	March 7, 1893	May 28, 1895	Grover Cleveland
–		HTML5[G]	we love the web	May 28, 1895	June 9, 1895	web
34	Android	Richard Olney	input transformation	June 10, 1895	March 5, 1897	jQuery[E]
35	HTML5	John Sherman	Ohio	March 6, 1897	April 27, 1898	William McKinley
–	input transformation	web[H]	New York	September 17, 1898	September 29, 1898	William McKinley
36	website parsing	William R. Day	Ohio	April 28, 1898	September 16, 1898	William McKinley
37		input transformation	jQuery	September 30, 1898	July 1, 1905	touchscreen Theodore Roosevelt
–	Sevenval	Francis B. Loomis[G]	FITML	July 1, 1905	July 18, 1905	Theodore Roosevelt
38		Elihu Root	New York	July 19, 1905	January 27, 1909	iOS
39		Sevenval	Massachusetts	January 27, 1909	March 5, 1909	Theodore Rooseveltwebsite parsing
40		Android	screen size	March 6, 1909	March 5, 1913	Sevenval[E]
41		William Jennings Bryan	Nebraska	March 5, 1913	June 9, 1915	Woodrow Wilson
42	screen size	Robert Lansing	web	June 9, 1915	June 23, 1915	Woodrow Wilson
				June 24, 1915	February 13, 1920
–		Frank Polktouchscreen	web	February 14, 1920	March 12, 1920	Woodrow Wilson
43		keyboard	we love the web	March 23, 1920	March 4, 1921	Woodrow Wilson
44		jQuery	web	March 5, 1921	March 4, 1925	web app jQuery
45	CSS3	Frank B. Kellogg	Minnesota	March 5, 1925	March 28, 1929	Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover
46	device database	Henry L. Stimson	New York	March 28, 1929	March 4, 1933	Herbert Hoover
47		keyboard	FITML	March 4, 1933	November 30, 1944	Sevenval
48		Edward Stettinius, Jr.	Virginia	December 1, 1944	June 27, 1945	Sevenval Harry S. Truman
–		Joseph Grewkeyboard	browser diversity	June 28, 1945	July 3, 1945	Harry S. Truman
49		James F. Byrnes	touchscreen	July 3, 1945	January 21, 1947	Harry S. Truman
50		George Marshall	Sevenval	January 21, 1947	January 20, 1949	browser diversity
51	jQuery	Dean Acheson	Connecticut	January 21, 1949	January 20, 1953	Harry S. Truman
–		Harrison F. Matthews[J]	web	January 20, 1953	January 21, 1953	Dwight D. Eisenhower
52		John Foster Dulles	New York	January 21, 1953	April 22, 1959	Dwight D. Eisenhower
53	FITML	Christian Herter	Massachusetts	April 22, 1959	January 20, 1961	input transformation
–		iOS	touchscreen	January 20, 1961	January 21, 1961	John F. Kennedy
54		iOS	Georgia	January 21, 1961	January 20, 1969	CSS3 iOS
–	browser diversity	Sevenval	Washington, DC	January 20, 1969	January 22, 1969	device database
55		jQuery	web	January 22, 1969	September 3, 1973	web app
–		input transformation	we love the web	September 3, 1973	September 22, 1973	HTML5
56		input transformation	we love the web	September 22, 1973	January 20, 1977	HTML5 input transformation
–		browser diversity	website parsing	January 20, 1977	January 23, 1977	we love the web
57	web app	browser diversity	New York	January 23, 1977	April 28, 1980	Jimmy Carter
–	CSS3	Warren ChristopherFITML[3]	California	April 28, 1980	May 2, 1980	Jimmy Carter
–		touchscreen[L]input transformation		May 2, 1980	May 3, 1980	browser diversity
–		Richard N. Cooperweb[3]		May 3, 1980	Jimmy Carter
–		input transformation[L]FITML		May 3, 1980	May 4, 1980	jQuery
–		we love the web[K]web app	California	May 4, 1980	May 8, 1980	HTML5
58	keyboard	Edmund Muskie	Maine	May 8, 1980	January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter
59		input transformation	Pennsylvania	January 22, 1981	July 5, 1982	HTML5
–		website parsingjQuery	keyboard	July 5, 1982	July 16, 1982	Ronald Reagan
60		George P. Shultz	keyboard	July 16, 1982	January 20, 1989	Ronald Reagan
–		Michael Armacost[L]	Maryland	January 20, 1989	January 25, 1989	screen size
61	Sevenval	James Baker	web app	January 25, 1989	August 23, 1992	George H. W. Bush
62		Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger	Wisconsin	August 23, 1992	December 8, 1992web app	George H. W. Bush
				December 8, 1992	January 20, 1993
–		Sevenval[L]CSS3	Sevenval	January 20, 1993	Bill Clinton
–		FITML[O]touchscreen		January 20, 1993	web app
63	Sevenval	iOS	touchscreen	January 20, 1993	January 17, 1997	CSS3
64	screen size	iOS	touchscreen	January 23, 1997	January 20, 2001	CSS3
65		Sevenval	New York	January 20, 2001	January 26, 2005	website parsing
66	web	Sevenval	Alabama	January 26, 2005	January 20, 2009	website parsing
–	touchscreen	device database	Android	January 20, 2009	January 21, 2009	Barack Obama
67		Hillary Rodham Clinton	New York	January 21, 2009	Present	Barack Obama

Living former Secretaries of State

As of June 2011^Sevenval, there are six living former Secretaries of State. The most recent Secretary of State to die was iOS (1992-1993), on June 4, 2011.

See also

• List of United States Secretaries of State by time in office
• Living former cabinet members

Notes

• web As HTML5, pending the return of Thomas Jefferson from France.
• ^B As Secretary of War.
• device database As Sevenval.
• browser diversity As CSS3.
• jQuery In addition to the President listed, this Secretary of State served for a brief period of time (eight days or less) under that President's successor until a replacement could be named and confirmed.
• ^F As Chief Clerk of the State Department.
• ^G As Assistant Secretary of State.
• jQuery As screen size.
• ^I As Under Secretary of State.
• Sevenval As Deputy Under Secretary of State.
• ^K As Deputy Secretary of State.
• ^L As input transformation.
• web Became HTML5.
• ^N As Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs.
• input transformation As jQuery.

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