USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Thomas Jefferson served as the first Secretary of State from March 22, 1790, to December 31, 1793. Jefferson brought remarkable talents to a long career guiding U.S. foreign affairs.

Detailed explanation-2: -While ambassador to France, he also negotiated a commercial treaty with Prussia (1785). Jefferson brought this experience and expertise to the role of Secretary of State. He successfully balanced the new country’s relatively weak international position with his desire for U.S. territorial and commercial expansion.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first Secretary of State of the United States was Thomas Jefferson, serving from March 22, 1790, to December 31, 1793. Jefferson also became the first of 6 Secretaries of State to become President of the United States, serving as President from 1801 to 1809.

Detailed explanation-4: -His sympathy for the French Revolution led him into conflict with Alexander Hamilton when Jefferson was Secretary of State in President Washington’s Cabinet. He resigned in 1793.

Detailed explanation-5: -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!)