Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin ( left ) with Clement Attlee in 1945.

He persuaded St-Laurent that it was his duty to remain in government following the war in order to help with the construction of a post war international order and promoted him to the position of Secretary of State for External Affairs ( foreign minister ) in 1945, a portfolio King had previously always kept for himself.

The signatories were General Secretary Joseph Stalin, President Harry S. Truman, and Prime Minister Clement Attlee, who, as a result of the British general election of 1945, had replaced Winston Churchill as the UK ’ s Conference representative.

His father was imprisoned during the 1926 General Strike for his involvement in a riot and later became Member of Parliament for Pontypool, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee, and briefly a minister in the 1945 Labour government.

On April 14, 1945 Patton was promoted to a full four-star General, a promotion long advocated by Secretary of War Stimson in recognition of Patton's battle accomplishments during 1944.

The Department ’ s headquarters is housed in the Frances Perkins Building, named in honor of Frances Perkins, the Secretary of Labor from 1933 – 1945 and the first female cabinet secretary in U. S. history.

They were politically faithful to their father throughout his life ; but after 1945, each drifted away from the Liberal Party, Gwilym finishing his career as a Conservative Home Secretary while Megan became a Labour MP in 1957, perhaps symbolising the fate of much of the old Liberal Party.

Entering Parliament in 1945, Harold Wilson was appointed the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works and rose quickly through the ranks, becoming the Secretary for Overseas Trade two years later and finally being appointed to the Cabinet as the President of the Board of Trade in 1947.

In 1945, Stevenson took a temporary position in the State Department, as special assistant to the Secretary of State to work with Assistant Secretary of State Archibald MacLeish on a proposed world organization.

Nevertheless, a clemency board, appointed by the Secretary of War in the summer of 1945, reviewed all general court-martial cases where the accused was still in confinement.

Others from Hope include former White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty ; attorney Vincent Walker Foster, Jr. ( 1945 – 1993 ); former Louisville, Kentucky, Mayor David L. Armstrong ; Gary Dee ; former Arkansas Secretary of State Kelly Bryant, PGA golfer Ken Duke, actress / vocalist Ketty Lester, and actress Melinda Dillon.

Nixon's Vietnam policy, as well as that of previous administrations, suffered further criticism when, in June 1971, the Pentagon Papers, a highly classified narrative and documentary history of U. S. involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967, prepared at Secretary McNamara's order, was leaked and published in part in several major newspapers.

Ernest Bevin: Foreign Secretary, 1945 – 1951 ( 1983 ) on British roles

Henry Agard Wallace ( October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965 ) was the 33rd Vice President of the United States ( 1941 – 1945 ), the Secretary of Agriculture ( 1933 – 1940 ), and the Secretary of Commerce ( 1945 – 1946 ).

The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4 – 11, 1945, was the wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization.

From 1945 to 1947, Bundy co-authored recently retired United States Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson's third-person autobiography, On Active Service in Peace and War, which was published in 1947.

From 1945 to 1946, he was the Secretary of State for Air in the first majority Labour Government.

* William J. Perry, former Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton ( 1994 – 97 ), born in Vandergrift, PA graduated from Butler High School in 1945.

An MP from 1945 to 1983, he held office in Harold Wilson's 1964-1970 Labour administration, notably as Secretary of State for Wales from 1968 to 1970.

* Letter from The Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley to the U. S. Secretary of State TEHRAN, April 14, 1945.

* 1939 – John W. Snow, American politician, 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury

* 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War ( d. 1926 )

* 1884 – Ogden L. Mills, American businessman and politician, 50th United States Secretary of the Treasury ( d. 1937 )

* 1991 – Collapse of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.

* 1911 – Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and diplomat, 5th Secretary General of NATO ( d. 2002 )

* 1940 – William Cohen, American politician and author, 20th United States Secretary of Defense

* 1938 – Robert Rubin, American politician, 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury

* 1940 – James Brady, American activist, 15th White House Press Secretary

* 1865 – U. S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.

* 1922 – Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to " Vietnamize " the war effort.

* 1996 – A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board.

* – both of Young's books were commissioned by the U. S. Department of Defense, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense ( Installations and Environment )

* Henry Austin Bruce-1st Baron Aberdare & Home Secretary ( 1868 – 1873 )

* 1922 – Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.

* 1927 – First distance public television broadcast ( from Washington, D. C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover ).

* 1950 – Brian J. Doyle, American Deputy Press Secretary in the United States Department of Homeland Security

* C. I. Hamilton, " Selections from the Phinn Committee of Inquiry of October – November 1853 into the State of the Office of Secretary to the Admiralty, in The Naval Miscellany, volume V, edited by N. A. M. Rodger, ( London: Navy Records Society, London, 1984 ).

* Secretary or Company secretary – legally recognized " titled " corporate officer who reports to the Board of Directors and is responsible for keeping the records of the Board and the company.

* Secretary-Treasurer – in many cases, the offices of Secretary and Treasurer are held by the same person.

Attlee was Lord Privy Seal ( 1940 – 42 ), Deputy Prime Minister ( 1942 – 45 ), Dominions Secretary ( 1942 – 43 ), and Lord President of the Council ( 1943 – 45 ).