VII. SECRETARIES FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND SEC RETARIES OF STATE. THE following have been the actual incumbents of the office of Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Secretary of State: ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON, New York, Secretary for Foreign Affairs* September 23, 1781, to June 4, 1783. JOHN JAY, New York, Secretary to the United States of America for the Department of Foreign Affairs †-September 21, 1784, to September 15, 1789, when the Department of State was organized. JOHN JAY, New York, Secretary of State by continuance- * Resolutions of Congress, February 22, 1782, changed the title to "Secretary to the United States of America for the Department of Foreign Affairs " (p. 26). †A resolution of Congress of February 11, 1785, gave the title " Secretary for the Department of Foreign Affairs" (p. 36), and it was so called after the adoption of the Constitution (p. 48). See pp. 58 and 67. TIMOTHY PICKERING, Pennsylvania-December 10, 1795. MARTIN VAN BUREN, New York-March 6, 1829. JEREMIAH S. BLACK, Pennsylvania-December 17, 1860. HAMILTON FISH, New York-March 11, 1869. WILLIAM M. EVARTS, New York-March 12, 1877. JAMES G. BLAINE, Maine-March 5, 1881. FREDERICK T. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey-December 12, 1881. THOMAS F. BAYARD, Delaware-March 6, 1885. JAMES G. BLAINE, Maine-March 5, 1889. INDEX. Accounts, Bureau of. (See Bureau | Book of foreign letters, 39. of Accounts.) Adams, John, 5, 8, 19, 33, 41, 43. Alden, Roger, 59, 60, 63, 64. Armorial achievement, seal of the United States, 100. Barbary Coast, Consuls to, 69. Berlin, Commissioner to, 6. Biennial register, 87. Books for Library, how purchased, 171. Buchanan, James, 204. Buildings occupied by the Depart- ment of State, 199. Bureau of Accounts, 96, 167, Bureau of Commissions and Par- Bureau of Indexes and Archives, 94, 194. Bureau of Rolls and Library, 94, 152, 169. Bureau of Statistics, 95, 152. Bills on Europe, purchase of, 72. Burke, Edmund, 2. Bioren & Co., 158. Bioren, Duane & Weightman, 157. Cadwalader, John L., 137. |