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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Mike Pompeo
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Ryan Zinke
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Wilbur Ross.
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R. Alexander Acosta.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Antony J. Blinken was sworn in as the 71st U.S. Secretary of State on January 26, 2021.
Detailed explanation-2: -Michael R. Pompeo was sworn in as the 70th U.S. Secretary of State on April 26, 2018. The Secretary of State, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, is the President’s chief foreign affairs adviser.
Detailed explanation-3: -John Quincy Adams has been called “one of the greatest secretaries of state” in the history of the United States and is often credited with “the greatest diplomatic victory ever won by a single individual in the history of the U.S.” Do you know what that victory was? (Hint: It’s not the Monroe Doctrine!)
Detailed explanation-4: -Former Secretary of State and Senator from Pennsylvania James Buchanan would become President of the United States in 1857. He had served as Secretary of State from 1845 to 1849. To date, Buchanan would be the last Secretary of State to become President of the United States.
Detailed explanation-5: -SECRETARY OF EMBASSY or OF LEGATION. An officer appointed by the sovereign power, to accompany a minister of first or second rank, and sometimes, though not often, of an inferior rank.