Who do you think were the best Secretaries of State and why?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

I'll offer up George Marshall and successor Dean Acheson for the 'Marshall Plan' and general post-war mop-up.
Who else stands out to you?

[BlooInBloo]

1. I'll say Thomas Jefferson. Because he's... well... Thomas Jefferson.

[Mojambo]

2. He was a superb diplomat.

He'd be my choice as well.

[BlooInBloo]

5. Well of course he was. TJ is basically the political equivalent of Chuck Norris.

:rofl:

[vanderBeth]

3. Henry Kissinger

kidding!

[fujiyama]

15. I saw the name and was ready to give you a smackdown!

:spank:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. William Seward

for his work with Lincoln in keeping Europe out of the Civil War and buying Alaska after the Civil War.

[PBS Poll-435]

7. But he did give us Sarah Palin...

:shrug:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. I was waiting for something like that

knowing how liberal Seward was for the time in which he lived, I doubt seriously that he would have approved of Palin.

[PBS Poll-435]

9. psst

I was kidding. :-)


And I admire Seward and that buying Alaska thingy was kind of cool.

Now we can keep an eye on Russia.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. Seward is certainly a prominent one.

Interesting now with all the talk of Lincoln's 'team of rivals'

[PBS Poll-435]

6. Not exactly a Secretary of State, as the position had not been created yet...

But...

Benjamin Franklin

[Captain Hilts]

10. I also adore Marshall. nt

[Art_from_Ark]

12. General "I'm in charge here"

Al Haig!

:rofl:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

13. Did you also have a serious suggestion?

[Art_from_Ark]

14. Marshall and Acheson would be among my candidates

but there would also be Thomas Jefferson, William Seward, and Cordell Hull, the longest-serving Sec of State who helped establish the UN.

[Midwestern Democrat]

16. John Quincy Adams is considered by historians to be one of the nation's

greatest Secretaries of State.