The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

By maintaining the nuclear deterrent, but gearing American military forces to fight conventional wars too, Secretary of State Rusk junks bluff and nuclear brinkmanship and builds more muscle and greater safety into our military position.

Touring Africa, the new U.S. Assistant Secretary of State observed `` Africa should be for the Africans '' and the British promptly denounced him.

Not only is Mr. Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State in the administration of Chester A. Arthur.

Next year is the 80th anniversary of the signing of the treaty between Korea and the United States and experts in Seoul are trying to find the correspondence between Frederick Frelinghuysen, who was Secretary of State in 1883 and 1884, and Gen. Lucius Foote, who was the first minister to Korea.

The public appeal by the new Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Cicognani, for renewed efforts toward Eastern and Western reunion was still another remarkable act.

Secretary of State Seward was a sick man.

and ( C ) to finance, for not more than three years beyond the end of said period, such activities as are required to correlate, coordinate, and round out the results of studies and research undertaken pursuant to this Act: Provided, That funds available in any one year for research and development may, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State to assure that such activities are consistent with the foreign policy objectives of the United States, be expended in cooperation with public or private agencies in foreign countries in the development of processes useful to the program in the United States: And provided further, That every such contract or agreement made with any public or private agency in a foreign country shall contain provisions effective to insure that the results or information developed in connection therewith shall be available without cost to the United States for the use of the United States throughout the world and for the use of the general public within the United States.

The Secretary of the Interior or any duly authorized representative shall be entitled to admission to, and to require reports from the operator of, any metal or nonmetallic mine which is in a State ( excluding any coal or lignite mine ), the products of which regularly enter commerce or the operations of which substantially affect commerce, for the purpose of gathering data and information necessary for the study authorized in the first section of this Act.

The action of the Commission in allowing or denying any claim under this title shall be final and conclusive on all questions of law and fact and not subject to review by the Secretary of State or any other official, department, agency, or establishment of the United States or by any court by mandamus or otherwise.

The Commission shall, as soon as possible, and in the order of the making of such awards, certify to the Secretary of the Treasury and to the Secretary of State copies of the awards made in favor of the Government of the United States or of nationals of the United States under this Title.

The Commission shall certify to the Secretary of State, upon his request, copies of the formal submissions of claims filed pursuant to subsection ( B ) of Section 4 of this Act for transmission to the foreign government concerned.

The Secretary of the Treasury, upon the concurrence of the Secretary of State, is authorized and directed, out of the sum covered into the Yugoslav Claims Fund pursuant to subsection ( B ) of this section, after completing the payments of such funds pursuant to subsection ( C ) of this Section, to make payment of the balance of any sum remaining in such fund to the Government of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia to the extent required under Article 1 ( C ) of the Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948.

The Secretary of State shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the total cost of adjudication, not borne by the claimants, attributable to the Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948.

The already appropriated funds within the discretion of the President and Secretary of State under the Mutual Security Act are the only immediately available source of financing this summer's pilot programs of the Peace Corps.

The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.

His duties as Massachusetts Secretary of State obliged him to wait until the adjournment of the legislature in mid-April.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a former Rhodes Scholar and Mills College dean, has headed the Rockefeller Foundation and in that role expended large sums for international cultural exchange.

One of his initial acts in office was to appoint Philip Coombs of the Ford Foundation as the first Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Armed with constitutional power to negate the Executive's foreign policy, the Senate carries a big stick and is easily provoked to use it on the State Department's back, or on the head of the Secretary of State.

He is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has served as the United States Secretary of State since 2009 and was a Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009.

The current Secretary of State is Hillary Clinton.

At present, there are five living former first ladies: Rosalynn Carter, wife of Jimmy Carter ; Nancy Reagan, widow of Ronald Reagan ; Barbara Bush, wife of George H. W. Bush ; current Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton ; and Laura Bush, wife of George W. Bush.

Hay and Hillary Rodham Clinton are the only future secretaries of state to have resided in the White House prior to becoming Secretary of State.

U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Libyan National Security Adviser Mutassim Gaddafi in 2009

During the Libyan civil war, after meeting with high-level representatives of the Chadian government, United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that N ' Djamena opposes Gaddafi and has reached out to the rival National Transitional Council in rebel-held Benghazi.

US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, visited Burma in November – December 2011.

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced plans in the spring of 2012 for a “ targeted easing ” of sanctions to allow American dollars to enter the country, but companies could not move ahead until the sanctions were formally suspended.

* 1947 – Hillary Rodham Clinton, American politician, United States Senator from New York ( 2001 – 2009 ), 67th United States Secretary of State ( since 2009 )

According to a 2009 U. S. State Department communication by Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State, ( disclosed as part of the Wikileaks U. S. ' cables leaks ' controversy in 2010 ) " donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide ".

The current Secretary of State is Hillary Clinton.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the leak as harmful to international diplomacy.

The current Secretary of State is Hillary Rodham Clinton, the 67th person, and third woman to hold the post.

In addition, Democratic Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Senator Max Cleland are also United Methodists.

The law's author, Joe Biden, and UN Ambassador and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and Hillary Clinton ( see below ) become vocal advocates of action against violence against women.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, leading policy proposals, traveling abroad as a State Department representative to 82 nations, advising her husband, and being elected a Senator ( in 2000 ), is the most openly empowered and politically powerful First Lady in American history ; Madeleine Albright and Janet Reno take two of the cabinet's top jobs as United States Secretary of State (# 1 ), and United States Attorney General (# 4 ), respectively.

Participants include Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, NSC Advisor Gen. James " Jim " Jones, Director of National Intelligence ( DNI ) Dennis Blair, Deputy National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, White House Counsel Greg Craig, CIA Director Leon Panetta, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright, and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel

A cultural icon, Nancy Drew has been cited as a formative influence by a number of women, from Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O ' Connor and Sonia Sotomayor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former First Lady Laura Bush.

When Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State in 2009, the Secret Service continued to protect her at home ; however the Diplomatic Security Service protects her while she is performing her duties as the Secretary of State, to include any foreign travel.

* Hillary Rodham Clinton, the current United States Secretary of State, a former United States Senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009 and, as the spouse of Bill Clinton, the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, and the former First Lady of Arkansas.