George Pratt Shultz (born December 13, 1920) served as the United States Secretary of Labor from 1969 to 1970, as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974, and as the U.S. Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989.

Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie (March 28, 1914 - March 26, 1996) was an American Democratic politician from Maine. He served as Governor of Maine, a U.S. Senator, as U.S. Secretary of State, and ran as a candidate for Vice President of the United States.

Edward Livingston (May 26,1764-May 23, 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 represented both New York, and later Louisiana in Congress and he served as the U.S. Secretary of State from 1831 to 1833.

John Middleton Clayton (July 24, 1796 - November 9, 1856) was an American lawyer and politician from Dover in Kent County, and later New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Whig Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, and as U.S. Senator from Delaware and U.S. Secretary of State..

John Watson Foster was an American military man, journalist and diplomat. Born in Petersburg, Indiana, and raised in Evansville, Indiana, he was first a lawyer and then served as general for the Union in the American Civil War. Following the war he worked as a journalist, editing the "Evansville Daily Journal" from 1865 to 1869 Thereafter he was the U.S. Minister to Mexico (1873-1880), to Russia (1880-1881) and to Spain (1883-1885).

Louis McLane (May 28 1786 - October 7 1857) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland. He was a veteran of the War of 1812 and a member of the Federalist Party and later the Democratic Party. He served as the U.S. Representative from Delaware, U.S. Senator from Delaware, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Secretary of State, and President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

Thomas Francis Bayard (October 29 1828 - September 29 1898) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served three terms as U.S. Senator from Delaware, and as U.S. Secretary of State, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He was considered a prominent Bourbon Democrat.

Robert Bacon (July 5, 1860 - May 29, 1919) was an American statesman and diplomat. He served as United States Secretary of State from January to March of 1909. Born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, to William B. and Emily C. (Low) Bacon, he was graduate of Harvard University, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was married on October 10, 1883 to Martha Waldron Cowdin. Their son Robert Low Bacon was a United States Congressman.

Edwin Fuller Uhl (August 14 1841 - May 17 1901) was a prominent Michigan lawyer and politician. He served as Mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Ambassador to Germany, United States Assistant Secretary of State and, for thirteen days, Acting U.S. Secretary of State. Uhl was born in the township of Rush, New York, the son of David M. and Catherine (De Garmo) Uhl. The family moved to a farm near Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1844.

Jeremiah Sullivan Black (January 10, 1810 - August 19, 1883) was an American statesman and lawyer. He was the father of writer Chauncey Black. He was largely self-educated, and before he was of age was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar. He gradually became one of the leading American lawyers, and from 1851 to 1857 was a member of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, serving as Chief Justice from 1851 to 1854.

Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. (born August 24, 1918) is currently the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University, a position he has held since 1988. He is an internationally known author and lecturer. He was born in Auburn, New York, the son of future U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (for whom Dulles Airport is named) and Janet Pomeroy Avery Dulles. His uncle was Director of Central Intelligence Allen Welsh Dulles.

Brian Haig (born 1953) is a thriller author and the son of former U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig.

Robert Orris Blake (April 7, 1921 -) is a retired U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Among his duties was serving as ambassador to Mali, serving under U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. He also served as ambassador to the United Nations, and subsequently as the United States Representative to the Joint Commission on the Environment. His path led him to a 30-year career in the U.S. foreign service before retiring.

Elizabeth Harrison (February 21, 1897 in Indianapolis, Indiana - December 25, 1955 in New York City) was the third of three surviving children of the former U.S. President, Benjamin Harrison, and the only child of his second wife, Mary Scott Lord Dimmick. She graduated from New York University School of Law in 1919 and was admitted to the bar in Indiana and New York. On April 6, 1921, Elizabeth Harrison married James Blaine Walker, (January 20, 1889 in Helena, …

Hillary Clinton is a junior Democratic Senator from New York. Married to former President Bill Clinton , she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 and is considered the front-runner. Mike Huckabee

William Leonard Langer is the last to be edited by Langer. Peter N. Stearns and thirty other prominent historians edited the sixth edition, published in 2001. Stearns paid tribute to Langer's great achievement in the introduction to the new edition. Following America's involvement in World War II, William Langer was asked by the U.S. government to volunteer his skills with the new Office of Strategic Services (OSS).

Rika Diallina also spelled Dialina and Dialyna, born in Heraklion, Crete, won the Miss Star Hellas title, and went on to represent Greece at the Miss Universe 1954 pageant in Long Beach, California. Rika, along with Miss Korea, Pu Rak Hi, were denied entry into the U.S. because of their alleged Communist affiliations. Diallina was disqualified from obtaining a U.S. visa for allegedly illustrating a book on Communism.

Eduardo Diez de Medina (1881-1955), born in La Paz, Bolivia, was Bolivia's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship on three occasions (1923, 1925, 1936-39). He signed on July 9, 1925 the Carillo-Diez de Medina treaty with Argentine representative Horacio Carillo, which settled a long border dispute between Argentina and Bolivia. He also negotiated with U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg a plan to grant Bolivia the city of Arica, thereby granting it access to the sea.

Harold G. Maier (B.A. 1959, J.D. 1963 Cincinnati; L.L.M. Michigan 1964) held the David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law until his retirement in 2006. A member of the Vanderbilt Law Faculty since 1965, he is an internationally recognized authority on the application of United States regulatory legislation to foreign business activity.

Im Colon Powell. And I'm one crazy ass nigga. People think i'm not black enough, those niggas have no idea. Don't debate with me, Ill win. I used to be the secretary of state but I got tired of Bush. Now I just sit at home and chill. I also love Beyonce, man that ass, Id tap it.

Madeleine Albright (1937 - ) was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. As the Nazis invaded that country before World War II, Albright and her family fled and eventually settled in the U.S. She graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and she later received master's and doctorate degrees from Columbia University in New York. By the late 1970s, she was working in the White House for President Jimmy Carter 's national security team.

James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 - June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth President of the United States (1857-1861). He was the only President from Pennsylvania and the only President to never marry. As president he was a "doughface" who battled Stephen A. Douglas for control of the Democratic Party. Scholars consistently rank him as one of the two or three worst American presidents; although he claimed secession was illegal, he claimed going to war to stop it was also illegal.

Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. (born December 2, 1924) is a former Four-Star General in the U.S. Army who served as the U.S. Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. In 1973 Haig served as Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, the number two ranking officer in the Army. From 1974-79, Haig served as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), …

Mordecai Manuel Noah (July 14, 1785, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,- May 22, 1851, New York) was an American playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian. Born in a family of Portuguese Sephardic ancestry; he was the first Jew born in the United States to reach national prominence. Noah engaged in trade and law, but when removing to Charleston, South Carolina, dedicated himself to politics. In 1811, he was appointed by President James Madison as consul at Riga, …

Jerome Davis Greene, (1874-1959)

James Falconer Wilson (October 19, 1828 - April 22, 1895) was a U.S. Congressman from Iowa during the American Civil War. Wilson was born in Newark, Ohio. A Republican, he was elected to the House of Representatives in October 1861. He supported Civil Rights moves and objected to President Andrew Johnson's attempts to veto the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Acts. He voted to impeach President Johnson in 1868.

Howard Alexander Smith (January 30, 1880-October 27, 1966) was a United States Senator from New Jersey. He was the uncle of Peter Hoyt Dominick, also a United States Senator from Colorado. Born in New York City; attended the Cutler School in New York City; graduated from Princeton University in 1901 and from the law department of Columbia University in 1904; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in New York City; moved to Colorado Springs, …

Robert White served as U.S. ambassador under different administrations. He currently is president of the Center for International Policy. In 1980-81, he was posted in El Salvador during the first years of that country's brutal 12-year civil war. He was harshly critical of the Salvadoran government and accused the military and paramilitaries (widely alleged to have close ties) of committing widespread atrocities against civilians, …

Bainbridge Colby (December 22, 1869 - April 11, 1950) was an American lawyer, a founder of the United States Progressive Party and Woodrow Wilson's last Secretary of State. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he graduated from Williams College and Columbia Law School, and was admitted to the New York bar. He served in the New York State Assembly from 1901 to 1902, was a special assistant to the United States Attorney General in an anti-trust action in 1917, …