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John Craven was the very first Secretary of State
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John Herbert - Secretary of State - died in 1617.
The first Secretary of Foreign Affairs (the original title of the Secretary of State), Robert R. Livingston, was appointed in October 1781. The first Acting Secretary of State under the U.S. Constitution, John Jay, was appointed in September 1789. That was the same month in which the name was changed from Sec. of Foreign Affairs. The first Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, was appointed in March 1790. The current (2014) Secretary of State, John Kerry, was appointed in February 2013.
John Marshall was one of the men who served as Secretary of State to John Adams.
John Kerry is the U.S. secretary of state and Leon Panetta is the U.S. secretary of defense
John F. O'Brien - NY secretary of state - died in 1927.
To the surprise of many people, Mr. Obama named Hillary Clinton (his former rival for the nomination) to be Secretary of State during his first term. For his second term, he named Massachusetts Senator John Kerry to be Secretary of State.
first VP to succeed to President, and the annexation of Texas from Mexico... that's about it really
John Quincy Adams was the very able Secretary of State for Monroe.
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