General Gresham, Secretary of State, born near Lanesville, Harrison county, Ind., March 17th, 1832; died at Washington D. C., May 28th, 1895.- Frank Leslie, 1896

Blaine was a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator from Maine, U.S. Secretary of State, and ran for presidency.

President James Madison, who served as the Secretary of State under Jefferson for eight years.

A U.S. Senator from Delaware and Secretary of State.

Secretary of State for the Colonies

(1835- ) American jurist and statesman. Served as attorney general and secretary of state under President Cleveland

U.S. Senator from Delaware and Secretary of State under President Cleveland.

Secretary of State under President Lincoln

(1818-1901) US Secretary of State, US Attorney General and Senator from New York.

William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818 - February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as US Secretary of State, US Attorney General and US Senator from New York.

Home of Robert Toombs, U.S. Senator, C.S.A. Secretary of State and Confederate Army Brigadier General.

From 1889 until his death, this was the permanent residence of Frank B. Kellogg (1856-1937), lawyer, U.S. Senator, and diplomat. As Secretary of State (1925-29), he negotiated the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928), for which he received the...

A short biography of the first African-American to serve as Secretary of State.

The federal government faces a great deal of criticism for its response to Hurricane Katrina, including former Secretary of State Colin Powell. Report is from September, 2005.

Millard Filmore, Secretary of State and involved in the Compromise of 1850.-E. Benjamin Andrews 1895

A statesman, born in Oxford, Mass., Sept. 15, 1835. In 1856 he completed a course at Brown University, studied three years at the Harvard Law School, and after being admitted to the bar, developed a successful practice in Boston. In 1874...

Robert Augustus Toombs (July 2, 1810 - December 15, 1885) was an American political leader, Secretary of State of the Confederacy, and a Confederate general in the Civil War.

(1801-1872) U.S. Senator, Governor of New York, Secretary of State.

This site from the Library of Congress provides a very brief biography of U.S. Secretary of State from 1898-1905, John Milton Hay. Includes some photographs.

This site from the Library of Congress provides a very brief biography of U.S. Secretary of State from 1898-1905, John Milton Hay. Includes some photographs.

Edward Livingston (26 May 1764-23 May 1836) was a prominent American jurist and statesman. He was an influential figure in the drafting of the Louisiana Civil Code of 1825, a civil code based largely on the Napoleonic Code. He...

Henry Clay, the famous American statesman and orator. He ran for president unsuccessfully several times. Speaker of the House of Representatives, US Secretary of State, Senator from Kentucky.

Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Minister to Spain, and secretary of state of Wisconsin.

(1830-1893) US representative, Speaker of the House of Representatives, senator from Maine, and secretary of state.