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style="text-align: right"><tt>28-Mar-1829</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>23-Mar-1831</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/821/000024749/">Martin Van Buren</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>24-May-1831</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>29-May-1833</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/907/000049760/">Edward Livingston</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>29-May-1833</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>30-Jun-1834</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/601/000168097/">Louis McLane</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>01-Jul-1834</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>03-Mar-1841</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/599/000168095/">John Forsyth</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>06-Mar-1841</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>08-May-1843</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/445/000024373/">Daniel Webster</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>24-Jul-1843</tt></td> <td style="text-align: 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Upshur</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>01-Apr-1844</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>10-Mar-1845</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/902/000043773/">John C. Calhoun</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>10-Mar-1845</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>07-Mar-1849</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/080/000031984/">James Buchanan</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>08-Mar-1849</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>22-Jul-1850</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/567/000050417/">John Middleton Clayton</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>23-Jul-1850</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>24-Oct-1852</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/445/000024373/">Daniel Webster</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>06-Nov-1852</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>03-Mar-1853</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/591/000168087/">Edward Everett</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>08-Mar-1853</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>06-Mar-1857</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/987/000051834/">William L. Marcy</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>06-Mar-1857</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>14-Dec-1860</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/224/000050074/">Lewis Cass</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>17-Dec-1860</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>05-Mar-1861</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/588/000168084/">Jeremiah S. Black</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>06-Mar-1861</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>04-Mar-1869</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/014/000049864/">William Henry Seward</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>05-Mar-1869</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>16-Mar-1869</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/520/000050370/">Elihu Benjamin Washburne</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>17-Mar-1869</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>12-Mar-1877</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/060/000051904/">Hamilton Fish</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>12-Mar-1877</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>07-Mar-1881</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/507/000050357/">William M. Evarts</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>07-Mar-1881</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>19-Dec-1881</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/235/000050085/">James G. Blaine</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>19-Dec-1881</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>06-Mar-1885</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/587/000168083/">Frederick T. Frelinghuysen</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>07-Mar-1885</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>06-Mar-1889</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/573/000168069/">Thomas F. Bayard</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>07-Mar-1889</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>04-Jun-1892</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/235/000050085/">James G. Blaine</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>29-Jun-1892</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>23-Feb-1893</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/574/000168070/">John W. Foster</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>07-Mar-1893</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>28-May-1895</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/951/000103642/">Walter Q. Gresham</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>19-Jun-1895</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>05-Mar-1897</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/070/000102761/">Richard Olney</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>06-Mar-1897</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>27-Apr-1898</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/278/000050128/">John Sherman</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>28-Apr-1898</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>16-Sep-1898</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/572/000168068/">William R. Day</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>30-Sep-1898</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>01-Jul-1905</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/121/000059941/">John Hay</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>19-Jul-1905</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>27-Jan-1909</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/457/000059280/">Elihu Root</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>27-Jan-1909</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>05-Mar-1909</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/114/000059934/">Robert Bacon</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>06-Mar-1909</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>05-Mar-1913</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/107/000059927/">Philander Knox</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>05-Mar-1913</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>09-Jun-1915</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/088/000044953/">William Jennings Bryan</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>24-Jun-1915</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>13-Feb-1920</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/095/000059915/">Robert Lansing</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>23-Mar-1920</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>04-Mar-1921</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/078/000059898/">Bainbridge Colby</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>05-Mar-1921</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>04-Mar-1925</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/753/000055588/">Charles Evans Hughes</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>05-Mar-1925</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>28-Mar-1929</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/490/000059313/">Frank B. Kellogg</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>28-Mar-1929</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>04-Mar-1933</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/489/000059312/">Henry L. Stimson</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>04-Mar-1933</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>30-Nov-1944</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/365/000059188/">Cordell Hull</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>01-Dec-1944</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>27-Jun-1945</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/487/000059310/">Edward Stettinius, Jr.</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>03-Jul-1945</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>21-Jan-1947</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/367/000059190/">James F. Byrnes</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>21-Jan-1947</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>20-Jan-1949</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/704/000053545/">George C. Marshall</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>21-Jan-1949</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>20-Jan-1953</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/425/000054263/">Dean Acheson</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>21-Jan-1953</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>22-Apr-1959</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/321/000028237/">John Foster Dulles</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>22-Apr-1959</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>20-Jan-1961</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/366/000059189/">Christian Herter</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>21-Jan-1961</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>20-Jan-1969</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/527/000056359/">Dean Rusk</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>22-Jan-1969</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>03-Sep-1973</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/312/000059135/">William P. Rogers</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>22-Sep-1973</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>20-Jan-1977</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/357/000022291/">Henry Kissinger</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>23-Jan-1977</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>28-Apr-1980</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/983/000024911/">Cyrus Vance</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>08-May-1980</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>18-Jan-1981</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/239/000059062/">Ed Muskie</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>22-Jan-1981</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>05-Jul-1982</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/989/000022923/">Alexander Haig</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>16-Jul-1982</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>20-Jan-1989</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/864/000022798/">George Shultz</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>25-Jan-1989</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>23-Aug-1992</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/331/000023262/">James Baker</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>08-Dec-1992</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>19-Jan-1993</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/340/000023271/">Lawrence Eagleburger</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>20-Jan-1993</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>17-Jan-1997</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/145/000023076/">Warren Christopher</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>23-Jan-1997</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>19-Jan-2001</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/980/000023911/">Madeleine Albright</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>20-Jan-2001</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>27-Jan-2005</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/649/000022583/">Colin Powell</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>28-Jan-2005</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>20-Jan-2009</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/205/000024133/">Condoleezza Rice</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>21-Jan-2009</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>01-Feb-2013</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/022/000025944/">Hillary Clinton</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>01-Feb-2013</tt></td> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>20-Jan-2017</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/512/000024440/">John Kerry</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right"><tt>01-Feb-2017</tt></td> <td style="text-align: center"><tt>--</tt></td> <td><a href="/people/639/000125264/">Rex W. 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