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The position of Secretary of War refers to the leader of the War Department. This agency and position was disbanded in the US in 1947, after WWII. The most similar agency in the US is now the Department of Defense, headed by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
Condoleezza Rice was the first black woman. She served 8 years with president George W Bush. The first 4 years as the National Security Advisor, and the last 4 yrs, 2005-2009 as the Secretary of State.
Under the Articles of Confederation, the Confederation Congress created the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1780 and appointed Robert R. Livingston as the first Secretary of Foreign Affairs.When the United States switched from the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution in March 1789, the Department of Foreign Affairs automatically dissolved. In July of that year George Washington signed into law the bill recreating it, and he appointed John Jay, the second and last Secretary of Foreign Affairs under the Articles of Confederation, as the first Acting Secretary of Foreign Affairs under the Constitution. Then in September of 1789, George Washington signed into law the bill that changed the Department of Foreign Affairs to the Department of State. At the same time, John Jay's position was changed from Acting Secretary of Foreign Affairs to Acting Secretary of State.The first official Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, was also appointed by George Washington. He took office in March 1790.
Franklin Roosevelt named Frances Perkins Secretary of Labor in 1933. She stayed until he died, in 1945.
Secretary of State: Thomas Jefferson Secretary of Treasury: Alexander Hamilton Secretary of War: Henry Knox Tobias Lear served as the executive secretary to George Washington from 1786 to 1799 (Washington was President from 1789 to 1797). During the Revolutionary War, Washington had various military secretaries and aides-de-camp who performed secretarial duties - about 32 different men served in these positions.
George Washington appointed Thomas Jefferson as the first Secretary of State of the US (1790-1793).
George w. bush was in the army.
George Washington, the 1st US President, had Thomas Jefferson in his cabinet as the 1st Secretary of State.
George Washington's Secretary of State was Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson went on to become the 3rd President of the US.
Alexander Hamilton was one of the founding fathers. He was good with financial affairs and Hamilton became the Secretary of the Treasury under US President George Washington. At that time. the Treasury was the largest US government department.
George Bancroft, Secretary of the Navy, is best known for establishing the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD in 1845.
George Washington's Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton.
The Secretary of the Navy, George Bancroft, is given the credit for establishing the US Naval Academy.
Since the times of President Theodor Roosevelt and up to the present day, the news conference was a special way in which a US president could try to influence the public media and US citizens. Also, as time progressed, the US president also learned what the news media thought of national policies by the nature of the questions presented to the president. This has been avoided both ways by the so-called press conferences held almost daily by the presidential press secretary. The press secretary can always "find out" how the president feels about a certain policy issue and then put together the best answer later on. The news media is rarely fooled by the responses of a press secretary, however, but the news media cannot claim a president has taken any position that the press is interested in.
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In the US, the first secretary of state was Thomas Jefferson. He was appointed to that position by President George Washington.
The White House Press Secretary speaks on behalf of the of the POTUS in all routine matters involving the media. The current White House Press Secretary (serving under President Obama as of February 2010) is Robert Gibbs.