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Secretaries and other leaders

• Dean Acheson [r]: An American diplomat (1893-1971) primarily responsible for shaping foreign policy during the Truman administration and early Cold War. ^[e]
• Madeleine Albright [r]: Principal, The Albright Group LLC; Director, Council on Foreign Relations; Director, Aspen Institute; Former U.S. Secretary of State ^[e]
• John Quincy Adams [r]: (1767-1848) Sixth U.S. President (from 1825 to 1829), and son of President John Adams. ^[e]
• James G. Blaine [r]: Republican presidential candidate in 1884; politician of the American Civil War, Reconstruction and Gilded Age eras. ^[e]
• John C. Calhoun [r]: (1782 – 1850) American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina; a strong advocate of southern state's rights and a defender of the institution of slavery. ^[e]
• Henry Clay [r]: (1777-1852) American Whig Party leader, 3-time failed presidential candidate, and broker of North/South compromises that held the Union together. ^[e]
• Hillary Clinton [r]: U.S. Secretary of State (2009-2013); Senator for New York (2001-2009); U.S. presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, 2016 (contender, 2008); former First Lady (born 1947). ^[e]
• John Foster Dulles [r]: U.S. Secretary of State during most of the Eisenhower administration; adamant about containment of, rather than compromise with, Communists. Allen Dulles was his brother and Director of Central Intelligence ^[e]
• John Hay [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Charles Evans Hughes [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cordell Hull [r]: (1871-1955) American attorney, political leader and diplomat; longest tenure as U.S. Secretary of State (1933-1944); especially interested in international organizations and received Nobel Peace Prize for contributions there; negotiated to avert World War Two in the Pacific ^[e]
• Thomas Jefferson [r]: (1743-1826) Third U.S. President (from 1801 to 1809), first U.S. Secretary of State (from 1789 to 1793), author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and founder of the University of Virginia. ^[e]
• George Kennan [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Henry Kissinger [r]: (1923—) American academic, diplomat, and simultaneously Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Secretary of State in the Nixon Administration; promoted realism (foreign policy) and détente with China and the Soviet Union; shared 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Vietnam War; Director, Atlantic Council ^[e]
• James Madison [r]: (1751–1836) Fourth U.S. President (from 1809 to 1817), author of some the Federalist Papers, Secretary of State, and one of the most influential U.S. founding fathers. ^[e]
• George Marshall [r]: Add brief definition or description
• James Monroe [r]: (1758-1831) Fifth U.S. President (from 1817 to 1825), creator of the Monroe Doctrine and a lessening of partisan tensions known as the "Era of Good Feelings." ^[e]
• Colin Powell [r]: A retired general in the United States Army who served in high political office, first African-American to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Secretary of State; minimally partisan although he considered himself a moderate Republican, not a neoconservative ^[e]
• Condoleeza Rice [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Elihu Root [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Dean Rusk [r]: United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1968 in the Administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, with extensive Asian experience and a strong advocate of U.S. resistance to Communism in Southeast Asia ^[e]
• William Seward [r]: Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln; survived assassination attempt; supervised the purchase of Alaska (called "Seward's Folly") ^[e]
• Daniel Webster [r]: Add brief definition or description

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