George Washington appointed Thomas Jefferson as the first Secretary of State of the US (1790-1793).
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs was created in 1790.
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It became the 13th US State in 1790.
Thomas Jefferson - Secretary of State 1790-1793 James Madison - Secretary of State 1801-1809 James Monroe - Secretary of State 1811-1817, Secretary of War 1814-1815 John Quincy Adams - Secretary of State 1817-1825 Martin Van Buren - Secretary of State 1829-1831 James Buchanan - Secretary of State 1845-1849 William Howard Taft - Secretary of War 1904-1908 Herbert Hoover - Secretary of Commerce 1921-1928
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Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th US Secretary of State.
Hillary Clinton is the US Secretary of State at this date in March, 2011.
It became a US State in 1790.
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.
The post of 'Secretary of State' at 'The State Department' is the US representative for the implementation and handling of US foreign policy. Currently, Hilary Clinton is the Secretary of State.