United States Department of State

United States Department of State
Furnished:	July 27, 1789
Seat:	Harry S. Truman Building , Washington, DC
supervisory authority:	President of the United States
minister	Antony Blink
deputy	Wendy Sherman, Deputy Secretary Brian P. McKeon, Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources
Household:	$ 9.96 billion (2004).
Employee:	30,266 (2004)
home page:	state.gov

The United States Department of State ( or State Department ) is responsible for US foreign policy . It has existed since July 27, 1789 and is based in Washington, D.C. , at 2201 C Street NW.

The Harry S. Truman Building , the headquarters of the United States Department of State.

seat and location

The State Department's headquarters are in the Harry S. Truman Building at 2201 C Street NW in Washington, DC The neighborhood is nicknamed Foggy Bottom (roughly "foggy depression" or "foggy lowland") - largely because of the smog that used to be there established factories caused. The term was soon used and understood in a figurative sense as a nickname for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Other important institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), George Washington University and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts are also located in Foggy Bottom . The Watergate Hotel is also well known .

organization

The foreign service is referred to as the United States Foreign Service .

The organizational structure at the end of President Barack Obama's administration is shown in the organizational chart below.

From 2017, the new Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, pushed for a sharp reduction in staff through layoffs and a virtual hiring freeze with far-reaching consequences for the work of the ministry.

As a result, power within the US government shifted to the Pentagon, and foreign policy became militarized. The office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan is vacant, as are the ambassadorial posts in Afghanistan , Pakistan and India (as of July 2017).

Organization Chart : The Administrative Organization of the Department of State November 2016

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From 1782 to about 1789/90 there was a foreign ministry established by the Continental Congress , which also bore the name Department of Foreign Affairs in English . Under the presidency of George Washington in 1789, this was expanded to include further domestic political powers, so it was renamed the Department of State and transferred to Thomas Jefferson when he returned from France in 1790 . Until then, the previous Secretary of Foreign Affairs, John Jay , was in office . Among the US secretaries of state are six future US presidents : Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren and James Buchanan.

List of US Secretary of State

No.	image	Surname	tenure	under US President
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
01		Robert R Livingston	October 20, 1781 – June 4, 1783	continental congress
02		John Jay	May 7, 1784 – March 4, 1789 July 27, 1789 – September 15, 1789 (acting)	Continental Congress George Washington 0
Secretary of State
0–		John Jay	September 15, 1789 – March 22, 1790 (executive)	george washington 0
01		Thomas Jefferson	March 22, 1790 – December 31, 1793	george washington
02		Edmund Randolph	January 2, 1794 – August 20, 1795	george washington
03		Timothy Pickering	December 10, 1795 – May 12, 1800	George Washington, John Adams
04		John Marshall	June 6, 1800 – February 4, 1801	John Adams
05		JamesMadison	May 2, 1801 – March 3, 1809	Thomas Jefferson
06		RobertSmith	March 6, 1809 – April 1, 1811	JamesMadison
07		James Monroe	April 6, 1811 – September 30, 1814 February 28, 1815 – March 3, 1817
08th		John Quincy Adams	September 22, 1817 – March 3, 1825	James Monroe
09		Henry Clay	March 7, 1825 – March 3, 1829	John Quincy Adams
10		Martin Van Buren	March 28, 1829 – March 23, 1831	Andrew Jackson
11		Edward Livingston	March 24, 1831 – May 29, 1833
12		Louis McLane	May 29, 1833 – June 30, 1834
13		John Forsyth	July 1, 1834 – March 3, 1841	Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren
14		Daniel Webster	March 6, 1841 – May 8, 1843	William Henry Harrison , John Tyler
15		Abel P Upshur	July 24, 1843 – February 28, 1844	John Tyler
16		John C Calhoun	April 1, 1844 – March 10, 1845	John Tyler, James K Polk
17		James Buchanan	March 10, 1845 – March 7, 1849	James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor
18		John Clayton	March 8, 1849 – July 22, 1850	Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore
19		Daniel Webster	July 23, 1850 – October 24, 1852	Millard Fillmore
20		Edward Everett	November 6, 1852 – March 3, 1853	Millard Fillmore
21		William L Marcy	March 8, 1853 – March 6, 1857	Franklin Pierce , James Buchanan
22		Lewis Cass	March 6, 1857 – December 14, 1860	James Buchanan
23		Jeremiah S Black	December 17, 1860 – March 5, 1861	James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln
24		William H Seward	March 6, 1861 – March 4, 1869	Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson
25		Elihu Benjamin Washburne	March 5, 1869 – March 16, 1869	Ulysses S Grant
26		Hamilton Fish	March 17, 1869 – March 12, 1877	Ulysses S Grant, Rutherford B Hayes
27		William M Evarts	March 12, 1877 – March 7, 1881	Rutherford B Hayes, James A Garfield
28		James G Blaine	March 7, 1881 – December 19, 1881	James Garfield, Chester A Arthur
29		Frederick T Frelinghuysen	December 19, 1881 – March 6, 1885	Chester A Arthur, Grover Cleveland
30		Thomas F Bayard	March 7, 1885 – March 6, 1889	Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison
31		James G Blaine	March 7, 1889 – June 4, 1892	Benjamin Harrison
32		John W Foster	June 2, 1892 – February 23, 1893
33		Walter Q Gresham	March 7, 1893 – May 28, 1895	Grover Cleveland
34		Richard Olney	June 10, 1895 – March 5, 1897	Grover Cleveland, William McKinley
35		John Sherman	March 6, 1897 – April 27, 1898	William McKinley
36		William R Day	April 28, 1898 – September 16, 1898
37		John Hay	September 30, 1898 – July 1, 1905	William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt
38		Elihu Root	July 19, 1905 – January 27, 1909	Theodore Roosevelt
39		Robert Bacon	January 27, 1909 – March 5, 1909	Theodore Roosevelt, William H Taft
40		Philander C Knox	March 6, 1909 – March 5, 1913	William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson
41		William Jennings Bryan	March 5, 1913 – June 9, 1915	Woodrow Wilson
42		Robert Lansing	June 24, 1915 – February 13, 1920
43		Bainbridge Colby	March 23, 1920 – March 4, 1921
44		Charles Evans Hughes	March 5, 1921 – March 4, 1925	Warren G Harding , Calvin Coolidge
45		Frank B Kellogg	March 5, 1925 – March 28, 1929	Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover
46		Henry L Stimson	March 28, 1929 – March 4, 1933	Herbert Hoover
47		Cordell Hull	March 4, 1933 – November 30, 1944	Franklin D Roosevelt
48		Edward Stettinius Jr.	December 1, 1944 – June 27, 1945	Franklin D Roosevelt, Harry S Truman
49		James F Byrnes	July 3, 1945 – January 21, 1947	Harry S Truman
50		George C Marshall	January 21, 1947 – January 20, 1949
51		Dean Acheson	January 21, 1949 – January 20, 1953
52		John Foster Dulles	January 21, 1953 – April 22, 1959	Dwight D Eisenhower
53		Christian Herter	April 22, 1959 – January 20, 1961
54		Dean Rusk	January 21, 1961 – January 20, 1969	John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson
55		William P Rogers	January 22, 1969 – September 3, 1973	Richard Nixons
56		Henry Kissinger	September 22, 1973 – January 20, 1977	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
57		Cyrus Vance	January 23, 1977 – April 28, 1980	Jimmy Carter
58		Edmund Muskie	May 8, 1980 – January 18, 1981
59		Alexander Haig	January 22, 1981 – July 5, 1982	Ronald Reagan
60		George P Shultz	July 16, 1982 – January 20, 1989
61		James Baker	January 25, 1989 – August 23, 1992	George HW Bush
62		Lawrence Eagleburger	December 8, 1992 – January 19, 1993
63		Warren Christopher	January 20, 1993 – January 17, 1997	bill clinton
64		Madeleine Albright	January 23, 1997 – January 19, 2001
65		Colin Powell	January 20, 2001 – January 25, 2005	George W Bush
66		Condoleezza Rice	January 26, 2005 – January 20, 2009
67		Hillary Clinton	January 21, 2009 – February 1, 2013	Barack Obama
68		John Kerry	February 1, 2013 – January 20, 2017
69		Rex Tillerson	February 1, 2017 – March 13, 2018	donald trump
70		Mike Pompeo	April 26, 2018 – January 20, 2021
71		Antony Blink	since January 26, 2021	Joe Biden

See also

• International Religious Freedom Report
• United States Deputy Secretary of State

web links

Commons : United States Department of State  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

General

• US Department of State
• William Z. Slany: A History of the United States Department of State 1789-1996.
• USA/United States: Foreign Policy ( Foreign Office , Germany - official assessment of the federal government)
• Dossier on the United States (aussenpolitik.net, DGAP , June 16, 2009)
• Monika Schneider/Patrick Hahne: US foreign policy in the 20th century (Historical Institute of the RWTH Aachen, October 15, 2006 - good overview for the introduction; with glossary and chronicle)
• Foreign policy of the USA ( From politics and contemporary history , APuZ 14/2006, BPB , April 3, 2006 - PDF download, 3.71 MB )
• Scott Bittle and Jonathan Rochkind with Amber Ott, Public Agenda Confidence in US Foreign Policy Index, Vol. 4: Anxious Public Pulling Back From Use of Force (2007 – PDF download available; cf. Public to Bush: Enough Already ( Foreign Affairs , May/June 2007))
• Public Agenda Confidence in US Foreign Policy Index. (In: Foreign Affairs . March 30, 2006 – PDF download of the study possible, 421 kB)

Representations of the USA in German-speaking countries

• US Embassy in Germany
• US Embassy in Belgium
• US Embassy in Austria
• US Embassy in Switzerland (it also represents US interests in Liechtenstein )

itemizations

1. ↑ Politico June 29, 2017: "Present at the Destruction: How Rex Tillerson Is Wrecking the State Department"
2. ↑ Bod Dreyfuss: How Rex Tillerson Turned the State Department Into a Ghost Ship . Rolling Stone, July 13, 2017.

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