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Notable Secretaries of State

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Notable Secretaries of State game quiz
"The office of secretary of state has always been an important one in the U.S., and in the early days of the republic it was often a steppingstone to the presidency. Here are questions about ten of the people who have served as secretary of state."

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1. James Monroe had only one secretary of state during his two Presidential terms (1817-1825). Who was this man, who wrote the Monroe Doctrine while secretary of state and then succeeded Monroe as president?
    Martin van Buren
    James Buchanan
    James Madison
    John Quincy Adams


2. This man, though better known for his service as a prominent Senator from Massachusetts, served as secretary of state under three presidents: William Henry Harrison (1841), John Tyler (1841-1843), and Millard Fillmore (1850-1852).
    Henry Clay
    Lewis Cass
    John C. Calhoun
    Daniel Webster


3. This man served two full terms as secretary of state, serving under both Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. He is best known for engineering the purchase of Alaska, called a "folly" by many at the time.
    James G. Blaine
    Hamilton Fish
    William H. Seward
    William M. Evarts


4. This man served as Theodore Roosevelt's secretary of state, and received the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to foster world peace.
    John Sherman
    John Hay
    Philiander C. Knox
    Elihu Root


5. President Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state resigned in 1915 due to differences with Wilson over World War I policies. Who was this principled man, who ran himself for president three times, and at the end of his career assisted the prosecution in the Scopes monkey trial?
    Bainbridge Colby
    Charles Evans Hughes
    William Jennings Bryan
    Robert Lansing


6. Franklin D. Roosevelt called his secretary of state "The Father of the United Nations". Who was this man, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 for his role in establishing the United Nations?
    John Foster Dulles
    Cordell Hull
    Henry L. Stimson
    Frank B. Kellogg


7. The United States efforts to rebuild Europe after World War II were named after this man, who was President Truman's secretary of state from 1947 to 1949.
    Dean Acheson
    George Marshall
    John Foster Dulles
    Adlai Stevenson


8. Which secretary of state was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for his role in ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War?
    Dean Rusk
    Henry Kissinger
    George P. Shultz
    Alexander Haig


9. Cyrus Vance served as Jimmy Carter's secretary of state but he resigned in 1980, in protest of which action undertaken by the Carter administration?
    attempted rescue of the hostages in Iran
    return of the Panama Canal to Panama
    boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics
    support of new Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and West Bank


10. In 2008 Barack Obama appointed his chief challenger for the Democratic nomination for president to be his secretary of state. Who was this person, who gave up a position as a Senator from New York to take on the job of secretary of state?
    Hillary Clinton
    Joe Lieberman
    John Edwards
    Joe Biden


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Compiled Jun 28 12