List of all Secretaries of State of the United States

The Secretary of State is one of the most powerful positions in the government of the United States of America. The person occupying this position is 4th in line to succeed the president after the vice president, speaker of the House of Representatives, and President pro tempore of the Senate.

Thomas Jefferson is recorded as the first to occupy this office.

Here is a chronological list of all Secretaries of State of the United States of America.

S/N	Name	Term
1	Thomas Jefferson	1790-1793
2	Edmund Randolph	1794-1795
3	Timothy Pickering	1795-1800
4	John Marshall	1800-1801
5	James Madison	1801-1809
6	Robert Smith	1809-1811
7	James Monroe	1811-1817
8	John Quincy Adams	1817-1825
9	Henry Clay	1825-1829
10	Martin Van Buren	1829-1831
11	Edward Livingston	1831-1833
12	Louis McLane	1833-1834
13	John Forsyth	1834-1841
14	Daniel Webster	1841-1843
15	Abel Upshur	1843-1844
16	John C. Calhoun	1844-1845
17	James Buchanan	1845-1849
18	John M. Clayton	1849-1850
19	Daniel Webster	1850-1852
20	Edward Everett	1852-1853
21	William L. Marcy	1853-1857
22	Lewis Cass	1857-1860
23	Jeremiah S. Black	1860-1861
24	William H. Seward	1861-1869
25	Elihu B. Washburne	1869-1869
26	Hamilton Fish	1869-1877
27	William M. Evarts	1877-1881
28	James Gillespie Blaine	1881-1881
29	Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen	1881-1885
30	Thomas F. Bayard	1885-1889
31	James G. Blaine	1889-1892
32	John W. Foster	1892-1893
33	Walter Q. Gresham	1893-1895
34	Richard Olney	1895-1897
35	John Sherman	1897-1898
36	William R. Day	1898-1898
37	John Hay	1898-1905
38	Elihu Root	1905-1909
39	Robert Bacon	1909-1909
40	Philander C. Knox	1909-1913
41	William Jennings Bryan	1913-1915
42	Robert Lansing	1915-1920
43	Bainbridge Colby	1920-1921
44	Charles Evans Hughes	1921-1925
45	Frank B. Kellogg	1925-1929
46	Henry L. Stimson	1929-1933
47	Cordell Hull	1933-1944
48	Edward Reilly Stettinius	1944-1945
49	James Francis Byrnes	1945-1947
50	George Catlett Marshall	1947-1949
51	Dean Gooderham Acheson	1949-1953
52	John Foster Dulles	1953-1959
53	Christian Archibald Herter	1959-1961
54	David Dean Rusk	1961-1969
55	William Pierce Rogers	1969-1973
56	Henry Alfred Kissinger	1973-1977
57	Cyrus Roberts Vance	1977-1980
58	Edmund Sixtus Muskie	1980-1981
59	Alexander Meigs Haig	1981-1982
60	George Pratt Shultz	1982-1989
61	James Addison Baker	1989-1992
62	Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger	1992-1993
63	Warren Minor Christopher	1993-1997
64	Madeleine Korbel Albright	1997-2001
65	Colin Luther Powell	2001-2005
66	Condoleezza Rice	2005-2009
67	Hillary Rodham Clinton	2009-2013
68	John Kerry	2013-2017
69	Rex Wayne Tillerson	2017-2018
70	Michael R. Pompeo	2018-2021
71	Antony Blinken	2021-