2015 Event U.S. President Barack Obama states that he did not know that former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton solely used a personal email address for government business, possibly violating federal law; Clinton served under Obama for four years 2014 Event U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel resigns; the resignation may be due to disagreements over current U.S. strategy concerning Islamic State militants and the conflict in Syria 2014 Event Former Press Secretary James S. Brady dies at age 73; Brady's death has been ruled a homicide due to a gunshot wound made 33 years earlier by John W. Hinckley, Jr.; Hinckley was found to be insane and was not charged with the original crime 2014 Event Budget director Sylvia Mathews Burwell is nominated to replace Kathleen Sebelius as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services 2014 Event U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew urges Congress to increase the debt ceiling because the U.S government debt is expected to hit $17.2 trillion soon 2014 Event U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry criticizes Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, for legislation he signed last week to ban same-sex marriage and criminalize gay rights groups and their activities; the law includes penalties of up to 14 years imprisonment 2013 Event The legality of the United States' plans to strike Syria without UN backing are called into question by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon 2013 Event Teresa Heinz Kerry, 74, wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, was discharged from the hospital after suffering a seizer nearly three weeks ago; she is expected to make a full recovery 2013 Event Janet Napolitano, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, announces she will resign from her position to become the President of the University of California 2013 Event The release of 1.7 million U.S diplomatic and intelligence documents from 1973-1976 when Henry Kissinger was U.S. Secretary of State were released by Wikileaks; Julian Assange worked on the project inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London 2013 Event David Milliband announces plans to resign as Britain's Foreign Secretary and move to U.S. state of New York to head the International Rescue Committee 2013 Event Alfred Xuereb, an Honorary Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, is selected by Pope Francis' to become his first private secretary 2013 Event China's CPC General Secretary Xi Jinping is named as the new President of the People's Republic of China, with Li Yuanchao named as Vice President 2013 Event U.S. Senate Republicans filibuster the nomination of Chuck Hagel as U.S. Secretary of Defense, demanding answers to questions about President Obama and Benghazi 2013 Event U.S. Treasury Secretary nominee, Jack Lew, begins his confirmation hearing by testifying before the U.S. Senate's financial committee 2013 Event Owen Paterson, UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, convenes with British retailers and the Food Standards Agency to determine how "beef" products containing horsemeat were sold in supermarkets 2013 Event U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton steps down from her post; she is succeeded by Senator John Kerry 2013 Event U.S. Senator John Kerry is confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the next U.S. Secretary of State 2013 Event Ken Salazar, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, announces he will leave his post at the end of March, 2013 2013 Event U.S. President announces the nomination of Jack Lew as Treasury Secretary, to replace Timothy Geithner, who is stepping down from his post 2013 Event U.S. Republican Chuck Hagel is nominated to be the country's next Secretary of Defense by President Barack Obama; John O. Brennan is nominated to be the next CIA Director 2012 Event After suffering from a concussion caused by fainting from dehydration, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is hospitalized for a blood clot 2012 Event Hilary Clinton, the U.S. Secretary of State, fainted from dehydration and sustained a concussion after falling in her home 2012 Event The U.S. Surgeon General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Army Secretary, release a new U.S. national strategy to prevent suicides; the strategy uses Facebook as a tactic 2012 Event In Egypt, protesters throw tomatoes and shoes at U.S. Secretary of State's motorcade during her first visit to the country since President Mohamed Mursi was elected 2012 Event France O'Grady is appointed the first female General Secretary by Britain's Trade Union Congress 2012 Event After Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apologized for a NATO airstrike that killed 26 Pakistani soldiers and officials, Pakistan reopens key NATO supply routes into Afghanistan 2012 Event Richard Dawkins, an atheist, ethologist and evolutionary biologist, approves of British education secretary Michael Gove's plan of sending free King James Bibles to every state school 2012 Event Syria accuses Ban Ki-moon, Secretary of the United Nations, of 'encouraging attacks on the government' 2012 Event The North Korean Workers party names Kin Jong Un First Secretary, with his father, Kim Jong IL delcared as the party's 'eternal' General Secretary 2012 Event Justine Greening, the U.K. Secretary of State for Transport approves the HS2, a high-speed rail line that will link major cities in the U.K. to London 2012 Event The U.K. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague, begins a two day tour of Myanmar 2011 Event U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promotes democratic reforms in her meeting with Burma's top pro-democracy activist, Aung San Suu Kyi 2011 Event U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls on Iran to respond to the IAEA report stating Iran is working on nuclear bomb technology 2011 Event At a meeting in Nanjing, China, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the main problem in the world's monetary system is countries that inhibit the free flow of the value of their currency 2011 Event U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, publicly announces she will retire rather than serve a second term in 2012 if President Obama is reelected 2010 Event U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner declares his interest in allowing the set of tax cuts in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 to expire at the end of 2010 2010 Event U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague says British soldiers should be out of Afghanistan by 2014 2010 Event Christina Figueres of Costa Rica is appointed by U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki Moon to lead efforts to combat global warming and climate change 2010 Event Yvo de Boer, top climate change official at the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, resigns 2009 Event U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urges Israeli-Palestinian peace talks to resume as soon as possible 2009 Event At the 21st NATO Summit, new Secretary General, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is appointed 2006 Event Donald Rumsfeld resigns as U.S. Secretary of Defense 1998 Event U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations 1997 Death Zdenek Mlynar, Secretary of Czechoslovakian Communist Central Committee (1968), dies 1997 Event Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish 1996 Death Sidney George Gray, company secretary, dies at 82 1996 Death Ron Brown, Secretary of Commerce, dies in an accident 1996 Death Claude Mauriac, writer, journalist, author, personal secretary to Charles de Gaulle1944 - 1949, co-scripted his father's novel titled Therese Desqueyroux, wrote study of Marcel Proust, dies at 81 1996 Death Bentley Bridgewater, british Museum secretary, dies at 84 1996 Death Karoly Grosz, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism, dies at 65 1995 Death Les Aspin, Representative-D-Wisconsin 1971 - 1993, U.S. Secretary of Defense 1993 - 1995, dies of stroke at 56 1994 Death John Keith Wright, English Assistant Secretary of State (1971-84), dies at 66 1994 Death Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State, dies at 85 1994 Death Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State 1961 - 1969, dies at 85 1994 Death Ad Gang, Dutch Liberal Party Assistant Secretary of State, dies at 67 1993 Death Antoon Veerman, Dutch ARP Assistant Secretary of Education 1973 - 1975, dies at 77 1993 Event Lee Aspen resigns as Secretary of Defense 1993 Death Klaas Wiersma, Dutch Secretary of Justice (VVD), dies 1992 Death Abderrahim Bouabid, Morroco prime secretary (1972), dies 1991 Event Bomb attack on Aad Kosto, Dutch social dem party - Assistant Secretary of state 1991 Event U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam 1990 Event Secretary of State James Baker visits U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia 1990 Event U.S. Secretary of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister 1990 Death Michael Stewart, U.K. Secretary of State 1965 - 1966, 1968 - 1970, dies 1989 Death Hu Yaobang, general secretary of Chinese Commnist Party, dies 1989 Event Senate rejects George H. W. Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary 1988 Event Secretary of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia 1988 Death Frank Pace, Jr., U.S. Secretary of Army 1950 - 1953, dies at 76 1987 Event President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles 1987 Event Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns 1987 Death L. T. Coggeshall, medical scientist and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1956 - 1958, dies at 86 1987 Death Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce, dies of internal injuries 1987 Event Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall tesifies at Iran-Contra hearing 1986 Event British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns 1984 Death Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of Soviet Communist Party 1982 - 1984, dies at 69 1983 Event Elizabeth Dole, 1st female secretary of transportation, is sworn-in 1982 Event Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Jr. resigns, replaced by George Schultz 1980 Event Alexander Haig named Reagan's Secretary of State 1980 Event Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary" 1980 Event Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns 1976 Event Patricia R. Harris named secretary of Housing and Urban Development 1976 Event Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke 1976 Event Clifford Alexander, Jr. confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army 1975 Death Asa Smith Bushnell, Jr., Secretary of U.S. Olympics 1945 - 1965, dies at 75 1973 Event Henry Kissinger, sworn in as Secretary of State 1971 Event U.N. Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General 1967 Event U.N. Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam 1963 Event Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary 1961 Event General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general 1961 Event U.N. unanimously elects U Thant acting Secretary General of the U.N. 1961 Death Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations Secretary General, dies in an air crash over Congo at 56 1961 Birthday Timothy Geithner, born in Brooklyn, New York, United States Secretary of the Treasury, under President Barack Obama, served as President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, charged with directing financial crisis of December 2007 1961 Birthday William Hague, Secretary of State for Wales 1959 Death John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State 1953 - 1959, dies at 71 1959 Event U.S. Secretary of States John Foster Dulles resigns 1958 Event Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and 1st Secretary of Communist Party 1958 Birthday Alan Milburn, born in Tow Law, County Durham, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Darlington, served in Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health, resigned, rejoined Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1956 Birthday Robin LO Linschoten, Dutch assistant secretary of Social Affairs, VVD 1956 Event E Ochab succeeds Beirut as 1st secretary of Polish CP 1955 Birthday Caleb Carr, born in Manhattan, New York City, author, military historian, wrote, 'The Italian Secretary', 'Casing the Promised Land', 'The Alienist' 1955 Birthday Tony Snow, born in Kentucky, political commentator, columnist, radio, television news anchor, White House Press Secretary 1955 Birthday John Hutton, born in Westcliff-on-Sea, England, politician, Labor Member of Parliament for Secretary of State for Defence 1955 Birthday Benny Alexander, secretary general, South Africa Pan-Africanist Movement 1955 Birthday Ken Salazar, born in Denver, Colorado, politician, Democrat, 50th U.S. Secretary of the Interior, U.S. Senator from Colorado 2005 - 2009 1955 Birthday Kate Ashbrook, general secretary, Open Spaces Society 1953 Event Nikita Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of U.S.S.R. Communist Party 1953 Birthday John Denham, born in Seaton, England, John Yorke Denham, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Southampton Itchen, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, served, then resigned as, Minister of State at the Home Office in 2003, over the Iraq War 1953 Event Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Communist Party 1953 Event Dr. A de Waal appointed as Netherlands 1st female Assistant Secretary of State 1953 Event John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State 1953 Event Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic Commission secretary 1952 Birthday Robert Ainsworth, born in Coventry, England, Robert William Ainsworth, politician, Labor Party, 2009, assumed roles of Secretary of State for Defense, since 1992, serves as a Member of Parliament for Coventry North East 1951 Birthday Dirk Kempthorne, born in San Diego, California, U.S. Secretary of the Interior 2006 - 2009, U.S. Senator from Idaho 1999 - 2006 1951 Birthday Yvonne MCT van Rooy, Dutch Secretary of State Secretary, CDA 1950 Birthday Alan Keyes, born in Long Island, New York, politician, Republican party, 16th Assistant Secretary of State for international Organization Affairs 1950 Event John F. Dulles becomes advisor to U.S. Secretary of State Acheson 1949 Death Laszlo Rajk, Hungarian Secretary of State/Foreign minister, hanged 1949 Birthday David Mellor, secretary of the British treasury and MP 1948 Event W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party 1948 Birthday Anthony Nelson, British Secretary of Treasury 1948 Birthday Virginia Bottomley, secretary, Heritage 1948 Birthday Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of state/supplied arms to the Contras 1947 Event James Forrestal sworn in as 1st U.S. Secretary of Defense 1947 Event Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlines Marshall Plan 1947 Birthday John Reid, born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, politician, Member of Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts, public service includes Secretary of State for Scotland, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1947 Event General George Marshall becomes Secretary of State 1946 Birthday Robert Reich, U.S. Secretary of Labor, Clinton 1946 Birthday Malcolm Rifkind, British QC MP, Secretary of State for Defense 1946 Birthday Clare Short, born in Birmingham, England, politician, left wing, Secretary of State for Internal Development, supports legislating cannabis, critical of Israel 1946 Birthday Annette Penhaligon, born in England, politician, secretary for Member of Parliament for Truro, in Cornwall, England, knighted for services to politics and public service 1945 Birthday Tom Ridge, born in Munhall, Pennsylvania, Representative-R-Pennsylvania 1983 - 1995, Governor Pennsylvania 1995 - 2001, 1st Secretary of Homeland Security 1944 Birthday Canon P B Price, general secretary, USPG 1943 Birthday Alun Michael, born in Bryngwran, Anglesey, politician, Labor Co-operative party, 1st Secretary for Wales 1999 - 2000 1943 Birthday William Bennett, U.S. Secretary of Education, 1985 - 1988, drug tsar 1943 Event William H. Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces 1942 Birthday Marlin Fitzwater, press secretary, George Bush 1942 Birthday Michiel Patijn, Dutch Assistant Secretary of State of Foreign affairs, 1994- 1942 Death Jean F van Royen, German secretary PTT (camp Amersfoort), dies 1942 Birthday David Hunt, Wales Secretary of State 1942 Birthday Dick K J Tommel, chemist, Dutch Assistant Secretary of State, 1994- 1941 Birthday Ann Dore McLaughlin, U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1987 - 1989 1941 Birthday Ian McGarry, general secretary, British Actors' Equity Association 1941 Birthday Dick Cheney, born in Lincoln Nebraska, Representative-R-Wyoming 1979 - 1989, George H. W. Bush's Secretary of Defense, 1989 - 1993, vice president 2001 - 2009 1940 Event Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in U.S. history 1940 Birthday James Brady, press secretary, wounded during Reagan assassin attempt 1940 Birthday Jan Schaefer, Dutch Assistant Secretary of state, PvdA 1939 Birthday Lynn Martin, U.S. secretary of Labor, 1991 - 1993 1939 Birthday Larry Speakes, presidential press secretary 1939 Birthday Ronald Ziegler, press secretary, Nixon 1939 Birthday Ruth Ashton, general secretary, Royal College of Midwives 1939 Birthday Bryan Gould, born in New Zealand, politician, Rhodes Scholar, Labor Member of Parliament for Southampton Test, served as Shadow Chief Secretary 1938 Death Emile Vandervelde, Belgian Secretary of State (BWP), dies at 72 1938 Birthday Les Aspin, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Representative-D-Wisconsin 1971 - 1993, Secretary of Defense 1993 - 1994 1938 Birthday Bruce Babbitt, Gov-D-AL, secretary of interior 1938 Birthday William J Bennett, U.S. Secretary of Education, 1985 - 1988 1938 Event U.K. Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says Prime Minister Chamberlain appeased Germany 1938 Birthday James G Watt, born in Colorado, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1981 - 1983 1938 Birthday Aad Kosto, Dutch theologist, actor, Assistant Secretary of Justice 1937 Birthday Colin Powell, born in Bronx, New York, general and Secretary of State 1936 Birthday Elizabeth Hanford Dole, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, 1983 - 1987 1935 Birthday Jack Kemp, born in Los Angeles, California, Representative-R-New York 1971 - 1989, U.S. Secretary of Housing, 1989 - 1993 1935 Birthday Norman Ralph Augustine, American businessman and Under Secretary of the Army 1975 - 1977 1935 Birthday Donald P Hodel, Portland, Oregon, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1985 - 1989 1935 Birthday Hodding Carter III, press secretary, Jimmy Carter 1935 Birthday John R Block, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1981 - 1986 1934 Birthday Ron Nesson, press secretary, Gerald Ford 1934 Birthday Christopher France, British permanent secretary, Department of Health 1934 Birthday Peter Middleton, British permanent secretary, Treasury 1934 Birthday David Hancock, secretary, British Department of Education and Science 1934 Birthday Roger Nicholas Edwards, born in England, born Roger Nicholas Edwards, Lord Crickhowell, Baron Crickhowell, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire, Secretary of State for Wales 1933 Birthday Louis W. Sullivan, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1989 - 1993 1933 Event Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler 1933 Event 1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor 1932 Birthday Bernard Ingham, press secretary, Margaret Thatcher 1932 Death Theodorus Heemskerk, lawyer and Dutch Secretary of State1866 - 1888, dies at 79 1932 Birthday John Nott, born in Bideford, Devon, Sir John William Frederic Nott, Conservative Party, served as Secretary of State for Defense 1981 - 1983, was Member of Parliament for St. Ives in Cornwall 1966 - 1983 1931 Birthday Norman Mineta, born in San Jose, California, Representative-R-California 1975 - 1995, U.S. Secretary of Commerce 2000 - 2001, U.S. Secretary of Transportation 2001 - 2006 1931 Birthday Gerald Warner, deputy secretary, Cabinet Office 1931 Event Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as Assistant Secretary 1931 Birthday Margaret Heckler, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1983-85 1931 Birthday Mikhail Gorbachev, born in Privolnoye, U.S.S.R., Soviet Secretary General from 1985 - 1991 1931 Birthday J R Stephenson, Lt-colonel/Secretary, MCC 1930 Birthday Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, secretary of Council of Churches 1930 Event James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP 1930 Birthday William E. Brock, Sen-D, U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1985 - 1987 1930 Birthday Frank Carlucci, National Security Adviser and Secretary of Defense, 1987 - 1989 1930 Birthday Karoly Grosz, born in Miskolc, Hungary, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism 1930 Birthday Gerald Kaufman, British MP, shadow Foreign Secretary 1930 Birthday James Baker III, Houston, Secretary of Treasury, 1985 - 1988, Secretary of State, 1989 - 1992 1930 Birthday Lou A de Graaf, Dutch Assistant Secretary of Social Affairs, VDA 1930 Birthday James Alan Ferman, secretary, British Board of Film Classification 1930 Birthday Nicholas F. Brady, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1988 - 1993 1929 Birthday V N M Korte-van Hemel, Dutch Secretary of Justice, CDA 1929 Birthday Ho Dam, North Korean Secretary of State, 1970 - 1983 1929 Birthday James R. Schlesinger, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1973 - 1975 1928 Birthday John Keith Wright, English economist and Assistant Secretary of State, 1971 - 1984 1928 Birthday Herbert Klein, newscaster and press secretary 1928 Birthday Martin Sinnatt, Major-General/secretary, Kennel Club 1926 Birthday Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary, TUC 1925 Birthday Ruth Mompati, South Africa secretary of Nelson Mandela/W Sisulu 1925 Event Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in U.K. 1925 Birthday Pierre Salinger, newsman, ABC, press secretary, John Kennedy 1925 Event Franc B. Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes on as U.S. Secretary of State 1924 Birthday Alexander Haig, Pennsylvania, U.S. Secretary of State, 1981 - 1982, General 1924 Birthday Lord Mason of Barnsley, MP, Lab, British defense secretary 1923 Birthday Mary Jane Odell, Iowa, Secretary of State 1923 Birthday Peter Carey, permanent secretary, DTI 1923 Birthday Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State, 1973 - 1977, Nobel Peace Prize, 1973 1922 Birthday Malcolm Baldrige, Conn, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1981 - 1987 1922 Birthday Melvin R. Laird, born in Omaha, Nebraska, Representative-R-Michigan 1953 - 1969, U.S. Secretary of Defense 1969 - 1973 1922 Birthday Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary, TUC 1922 Event Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party 1922 Event Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference 1920 Birthday George P Schultz, U.S. Secretary of State, 1982 - 1989 1920 Birthday Elliot L. Richardson, Attorney General, 1973, Secretary of Defense, 1973 1920 Birthday Stewart L Udall, St. Johns Ariz, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1961 - 1969 1919 Birthday Wally Hickel, bron in Ellinwood, Kansas, Alaska Governor 1966 - 1969, Republican, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1969 - 1971 1919 Event Secretary of state proclaims 18th amendment, prohibition 1918 Birthday Donald Regan, White House staffer and U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1981 - 1985 1918 Event Washington catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Secretary of War Newton D. Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt 1918 Birthday Orville Freeman, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Governor-D-Minnesota 1955 - 1961, Secretary of Agriculture, 1961 - 1969 1918 Birthday Otis R Bowen, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1985 - 1989 1917 Birthday Rosemary Woods, Nixon's secretary, keep her away from your tapes 1917 Birthday Casper Weinberger, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1981 - 1987 1917 Birthday Cyrus R. Vance, U.S. Secretary of State, 1977 - 1980 1917 Birthday J. A. Mommersteeg, Dutch assistant secretary of Defense, KVP 1917 Death Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle, dies at 70 1916 Birthday Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1961 - 1968, head World Bank 1915 Event William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State 1914 Birthday Rogers Morton, born in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1968 - 1975 1914 Birthday Sidney George Gray, company secretary 1914 Birthday Stewart Griffith, secretary, MCC 1914 Birthday Yuri Andropov, Russian KGB chief/1st secretary 1914 Birthday Claude Mauriac, born in France, writer, journalist, author, personal secretary to Charles de Gaulle1944 - 1949, co-scripted his father's novel titled Therese Desqueyroux, wrote study of Marcel Proust 1914 Birthday Edmund Muskie, born in Rumford, Maine, Governor of Maine 1955 - 1959, Senator-D-Maine 1959 - 1980, U.S. Secretary of State 1980 - 1981 1913 Birthday William P. Rogers, born in Norfolk, New York, U.S. Secretary of State, 1969 - 1973 1912 Birthday Frank Pace, Jr., U.S. Secretary of Army, 1950 - 1953 1911 Birthday Bentley Bridgewater, British Museum secretary 1911 Birthday Ferdinand J. Kranenburg, Dutch Secretary of Defense, soc dem 1910 Birthday Baroness Phillips, president and general secretary, National Association of Women 1909 Birthday C. Dillon Douglas, born in Geneva, Switzerland, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1961 - 1965 1909 Birthday Earl Butz, born in Indiana, served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture during the Nixon and Ford administrations 1909 Birthday Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State, 1961 - 1969 1908 Birthday John Volpe, Gov-Mass, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1969 - 1973 1908 Birthday Maurice Stans, born in Shaokopee, Minnesota, Maurice Hubert Stans, President Richard Nixon's finance chairmen, acquitted in Watergate, U.S. Deputy Postmaster General 1955 - 57, U.S. Secretary of Commerce 1969 - 1972 1907 Birthday Denis Rickett, private secretary to Clement Attlee 1907 Birthday George W. Romney, Gov-R-Michigan, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1969 - 1973 1906 Birthday Clark M. Clifford, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1968 - 1969 1906 Birthday Leonid I Brezhnev, Ukraine, 1st Secretary of U.S.S.R., 1964 - 1982 1906 Event Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Secretary of Commerce 1904 Death William GGVV Harcourt, historian/English Secretary of State, dies at 76 1901 Birthday L T Coggeshall, medical scientist/ U.S. Secretary of HEW, 1956 - 1958 1900 Birthday Asa Smith Bushnell, Jr., Springfield Ohio, Secretary of U.S. Olympics, 1945 - 1965 1896 Birthday Trygve Halvdan Lie, born in Norway, 1st United Nations secretary general, 1946-52 1895 Birthday John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker, Secretary of War 1941 - 1945, President Chase Man 1894 Birthday Nikita Khrushchev, born in Kalinovka, Russia, 1st secretary U.S.S.R., 1953 - 1964 1893 Birthday Dean Acheson, statesman and U.S. Secretary of State, 1949 - 1953 1892 Death John G. Whittier, U.S. poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, dies 1891 Birthday Henry Morgenthau, Jr., U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1934 - 1945 1890 Birthday Charles Wilson, President of General Motors, 1940 - 1953, Secretary of Defense, 1953 - 1957 1888 Birthday John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State, 1953 - 1959 1878 Birthday Jean F van Royen, Dutch German secretary, PTT 1876 Death Giacomo Antonelli, Secretary of State of Pius IX, dies at 70 1873 Birthday Freiherr Konstantin von Neurath, German Secretary of State, 1932 - 1938 1871 Birthday Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State, 1933 - 1944, lowered tariffs, Nobel 1945 1869 Death Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, U.S. Secretary of War 1861 - 1865, dies at 55 1867 Event President A Johnson defies Congress suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton 1867 Birthday Jose de Diego, Puerto Rico, patriot and Puerto Rico Secretary of Justice 1864 Birthday George Barbier, Philadelphia, actor, Tarzan's Revenge, Wife vs Secretary 1863 Birthday Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, Nobel 1925 1862 Event Confederate Secretary of War George B. Randolph resigns 1862 Event Secretary of War authorizes General Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves 1861 Event Secretary of U.S. Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves 1856 Birthday Frank Kellogg, Secretary of State, 1925 - 1929, try to outlaw war, Nobel 1929 1855 Birthday Andrew W. Mellon, founder, Mellon Bank, U.S. Secretary of Treasury 1846 Birthday Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle 1845 Birthday Elihu Root, R, U.S. Secretary of State, 1905 - 1909, Nobel Peace Prize, 1912 1844 Death Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton 1844 Death Thommas W. Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton 1837 Birthday Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA 1823 Birthday Thomas Alexander Scott, Assistant Secretary War, Union 1822 Death Hendrik van Stralen, Secretary of Interior, dies at 71 1821 Birthday Gustavus Woodson Smith, Secretary War, Confederacy 1821 Birthday Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary, Union 1820 Birthday James Harlan, Rep-Iowa, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1865 - 1866 1819 Birthday Charles Anderson Dana, Assistant Secretary War, Union 1818 Birthday George Wythe Randolph, Secretary War Confederacy 1817 Event John Quincy Adams becomes Secretary of State 1816 Birthday John Palmer Usher, Secretary Int, Union 1815 Birthday James Alexander Seddon, Secretary War, Confederacy 1814 Birthday Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, Ohio, U.S. Secretary of War, 1861 - 1865 1813 Birthday Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa Governor, U.S. Secretary of Interior 1881 - 1882 1811 Birthday John Archibald Campbell, Assistant Secretary War, Confederacy 1810 Birthday Robert Augustus Toombs, Secretary State, Confederacy 1810 Birthday Walter White, secretary, NAACP 1809 Birthday Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Assistant Secretary War, Confederacy 1809 Birthday Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Secretary State, Confederacy 1808 Birthday Hugh McCulloch, U.S. Secretary of Treasury 1808 Birthday Caleb Blood Smith, Secretary Int, Union 1807 Birthday George Alfred Trenholm, Secretary Treasury, Confederacy 1806 Birthday William Pitt Fessenden, Secretary Treasury, Union 1803 Birthday Christopher Gustavus Memminger, Secretary Treasury, Confederacy 1802 Birthday Gideon Welles, Secretary Navy, Union 1801 Birthday William Henry Seward, Secretary of State, 1861 - 1869, buys Alaska at 2 cents per acre 1799 Birthday Simon Cameron, Secretary War Union 1796 Birthday John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, Sen-Del, U.S. Secretary of State, 1849 - 1850 1790 Event Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st U.S. Secretary of State 1790 Event Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State 1789 Event Jefferson appointed 1st Secretary of State; John Jay 1st chief justice; 1789 Event Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury 1784 Event John Jay becomes 1st U.S. Secretary of State 1784 Birthday George HG earl of Aberdeen, English Secretary of State 1755 Event Henry Fox appointed English Secretary of State 1755 Birthday Alexander Hamilton, West Indies, 1st U.S. Secretary of Treasury, face is on the $10 bill 1751 Birthday Hendrik van Stralen, Dutch MP and secretary of Interior 1736 Birthday Laurens P van de Spiegel, Dutch regent and secretary of State 1787 - 1795 1719 Death Joseph Addison, English poet, writer, and secretary of state, dies at 47 1618 Death Gilles van Ledenberg, Secretary of Utrecht States 1588 - 1618, suicide at 68 1611 Death Antonio Perez, secretary of Spanish king Philip II and rebel, dies at 71 1590 Event King Philip Ii's secretary Antonio Perez escapes jail 1590 Death Francis Walsingham, English Secretary of State, dies at about 57 1578 Death Juan de Escobedo, secretary of Spanish land guardian Don Juan, murdered 1566 Death David Riccio, Italian singer/secretary of Mary Stuart, murdered 1550 Death Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle, Charles V's Assistant Secretary of State, dies
