Who was the last secretary of state of  US?
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the US isn't a state, it's a country
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I think it's either the Speaker of the House or the Secretary of State.
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first the vice president, then..   speaker of the house, president pro temp of the senate, secretary of state...   hmm  dont know the rest  =/   hope that helps  ^^
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name the 20th president of the united states of america
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Rumsfeld\n\nBy the way.  The way the previous answer was presented is very obnoxious.
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Thomas Jefferson was the first, but he resigned in 1793.  The next was Edmund Randolph, who resigned in 1795.  Washington's third Secretary of State was Timothy Pickering.
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Cassandra Chandler\n\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002/02/06/usat-fbi.htm
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William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States
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USA has no Secretary of Justice Department. Let me tell how it works. USA has another position for what you just called Secretary of Justice: It is called Attorney General and its head is : Alberto R. Gonzales
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It is going to be Robert Gates, ex-CIA director.\n\nI always said that *no one* could be worse than Rumsfeld...I guess that statement will now be put to the test.\n\nBTW, read my question from yesterday :-)
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That all depends on which Secretary of State you're talking about. The United States Secretary of State generally handles diplomatic relations with other countries and is a prime spokesperson about foreign policy. Also, as a member of the president's cabinet, he/she is the president's main adviser and is also the 4th in line for the succession of the presidency.\n\nStates also tend to have secretaries of state, whose duties depend on the state, but generally involve conducting the state's elections and supervising the collection of all official records in the state. For more information about your state, consult your state's webpage.
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George W. Bush\n2001-2009
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It's "d" (of course) but the name of the current Secretary of State is spelled Condoleezza Rice.  \n\n"Under the Constitution, the President of the United States determines U.S. foreign policy. The Secretary of State, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, is the President’s chief foreign affairs adviser. The Secretary carries out the President’s foreign policies through the State Department and the Foreign Service of the United States."
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Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson 1789–1793 \n  Edmund Randolph 1794–1795 \n  Timothy Pickering 1795–1797 \nSecretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton 1789–1795 \n  Oliver Wolcott, Jr. 1795–1797 \nSecretary of War Henry Knox 1789–1794 \n  Timothy Pickering 1795–1796 \n  James McHenry 1796–1797 \nAttorney General Edmund Randolph 1789–1793 \n  William Bradford 1794–1795 \n  Charles Lee 1795–1797 \nPostmaster General Samuel Osgood 1789–1791 \n  Timothy Pickering 1791–1795 \n  Joseph Habersham 1795–1797
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I am not sure of the number, however, there was one President,\nand I don't remember which one, whose entire cabinet quit.\n\nThank you very much, while you're up!!
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Dwight D. Eisenhower\n\n"John Rogers, a resourceful Reagan aide now nominated to be undersecretary of state for management, found in an attic pieces of the old cork floor from the Oval Office. Some had cleat marks from Dwight Eisenhower's golf shoes (his putting green was just outside the Oval Office). Rogers put them in lucite with the inscription: "This fragment of cork was part of the floor installed in the White House Oval Office in 1934. The floor supported six Presidents of the United States before it was removed in 1969."
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if the president and vice president are both incapacitated than the third person in line to the presidency is....you guessed it..the speaker of the house. which would be nancy palosi.  YAHOO!