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Martin Van Buren
James Buchanan, who served as Secretary of State for James Polk was the most recent Secretary of State to later become President. (Other former Secretaries who later became President were Martin Van Buren, John Quincy Adams, James Monroe , James Madison and Thomas Jefferson.)
US president Dwight D. Eisenhower Vice President Richard M. Nixon speaker of the house Joseph William Martin, Jr. Republican Massachusetts 1953-1955 president pro tempore of the senate 83rd Congress (1953-1955) Styles Bridges (NH) January 3, 1953 - January 4, 1955 secretary of state John Foster Dulles (1953-59) secretary of the treasury George M. Humphrey (1953-57) secretary of defense Charles E. Wilson (1953-57) attorney general Herbert Brownell, Jr. (1953-57)
The people who were nominated for cabinet positions by the President but rejected by the Senate are listed below with the years rejected, the offices for which they were nominated, and the nominating President:1815 : Henry Dearborn (War Secretary; James Madison)1834 : Roger B. Taney (Treasury Secretary; Andrew Jackson)1843 : Caleb Cushing (Treasury Secretary; John Tyler)1844 : David Henshaw (Navy Secretary; John Tyler)1844 : James M. Porter (War Secretary; John Tyler)1844 : James S. Green (Treasury Secretary; John Tyler)1868 : Henry Stanbery (Attorney General; Andrew Johnson)1925 : Charles B. Warren (Attorney General; Calvin Coolidge)1959 : Lewis L. Strauss (Commerce Secretary; Dwight Eisenhower)1989 : John G. Tower (Defense Secretary; George H.W. Bush)
Martin Van Burren created the idea but James K. Polk enforced it.
He's remembered for marrying his cousin and being a president an vice president as well as a secretary of state
Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van Buren held both of these offices before they were President.
Martin Van Buren was a US senator, the secretary of state, the vice-president and the 8th president. He did not hold any other federal positions.
Old Fuss and Feathers, Brigadier General Winfield Scottwas appointed in 1838 by Vice President Martin Van Buren to remove the Cherokee indians.
He was Secretary of State, Ambassador to Great Britain and then Vice President
The Department of Labor was not created until 1913 while Woodrow Wilson was president. Van Buren was president from 1837-1841
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