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1776-1777

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS
1776	4 july	Federal Republic	John Hancock

1777-1795

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT (OF CONGRESS UNTIL 1789)	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1777	14 january
1777	29 october		Charles Thomson
1777	1 november		Henry Laurens
1778	10 december		John Jay
1779	28 september		Samuel Huntington
1781	10 july		Thomas McKean
1781	20 october			Robert B. Livingston
1781	5 november		John Hanson
1782	4 november		Elias Boudinot
1783	3 september	Independence
1783	3 november		Thomas Mifflin
1784	7 may			John Jay
1784	30 november		Richard Henry Lee
1785	23 november		John Hancock
1786	5 june		Nathaniel Gorham
1787	2 february		Arthur St. Clair
1788	22 january		Cyrus Griffin
1789	1 april		Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg
1789	30 april		George Washington	John Jay	John Adams
1790	22 march			Thomas Jefferson
1794	2 january			Edmund Randolph

1795-1796

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1795	20 august			Timothy Pickering

1796-1818

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1796	4 july
1797	4 march		John Adams		Thomas Jefferson
1800	13 may			Charles Lee
1800	6 june			John Marshall
1801	4 march		Thomas Jefferson	Levi Lincoln	Aaron Burr
1801	2 may			James Madison
1805	20 janaury				George Clinton
1809	4 march		James Madison	Robert Smith
1811	2 april			James Monroe
1812	20 april				Vacant
1813	4 march				Elbridge Gerry
1814	23 november				Vacant
1817	4 march		James Monroe	John Graham	Daniel D. Tompkins
1817	9 march			Richard Rush
1817	22 september			John Quincy Adams

1818-1819

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1818	4 july

1819-1820

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1819	4 july

1820-1822

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1820	4 july

1822-1836

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1822	4 july
1825	4 march		John Quincy Adams	Daniel Brent	John Caldwell Calhoun
1825	7 march			Henry Clay
1829	4 march		Andrew Jackson	James A. Hamilton
1829	28 march			Martin Van Buren
1831	24 may			Edward Livingstone
1832	28 december				Vacant
1833	4 march				Martin Van Buren
1833	29 may			Louis McLane
1834	1 july			John Forsyth

1836-1837

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1836	4 july

1837-1845

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1837	4 march		Martin Van Buren		Richard Mentor Johnson
1841	4 march		William Henry Harrison	Jacob L. Martin	John Tyler
1841	6 march			Daniel Webster (I)
1841	4 april		John Tyler		Vacant
1843	8 may			Hugh Swinton Legaré
1843	21 june			William S. Derrick
1843	24 june			Abel Parker Upshur
1844	29 february			John Nelson
1844	1 april			John Caldwell Calhoun

1845-1846

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1845	4 march		James Knox Polk	James Buchanan	George Mifflin Dallas

1846-1847

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1846	4 july

1847-1851

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1847	4 july
1849	5 march		Zachary Taylor	John Middleton Clayton	Millard Fillmore
1850	9 july		Millard Fillmore		Vacant
1850	23 july			Daniel Webster (II)

1851-1858

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1851	4 july
1852	25 october			Charles M. Conrad
1852	5 november			Edward Everett
1853	4 march		Franklin Pierce	William Hunter (I)	William Rufus de Vane King
1853	7 march			William Learned Marcy
1853	18 april				Vacant
1857	4 march		James Buchanan	Lewis Cass	John Cabell Breckinridge

1858-1859

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1858	4 july

1859-1861

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1859	4 july
1860	14 december			William Hunter (II)
1860	17 december			Jeremiah Sullivan Black

1861-1863

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1861	3 march		Abraham Lincoln	William Henry Seward	Hannibal Hamlin

1863-1865

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1863	4 july

1865-1867

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1865	4 march				Andrew Johnson
1865	15 april		Andrew Johnson		Vacant

1867-1877

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1867
1869	4 march		Ulysses Simpson Grant	Elihu Benjamin Washburne	Schuyler Colfax
1869	17 march			Hamilton Fish
1873	4 march				Henry Wilson
1875	22 november				Vacant

1877-1889

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1877	4 march		Rutherford Birchard Hayes	William Maxwell Evarts	William Almon Wheeler
1881	4 march		James Abraham Garfield	James Gillespie Blaine (I)	Chester Alan Arthur
1881	19 september		Chester Alan Arthur		Vacant
1881	19 december			Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen
1885	4 march		Groover Stephen Cleveland (I)	Thomas Francis Bayard	Thomas Andews Hendricks

1889-1891

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1889	4 march		Benjamin Harrison	James Gillespie Blaine (II)	Levi Parsons Morton

1891-1896

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1891	4 jult
1892	4 june			William F. Wharton (I)
1892	29 june			John Watson Foster
1893	24 february			William F. Wharton (II)
1893	4 march		Groover Stephen Cleveland (II)	Walter Quintin Gresham	Adlai Ewing Stevenson
1895	28 may			Edwin F. Uhl
1895	10 june			Richard Olney

1896-1908

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1896	4 july
1897	4 march		William McKinley	John Sherman	Garret Augustus Hobart
1898	27 april			William Rufus Day
1898	17 september			Alvey A. Adee
1898	30 september			John Milton Hay
1899	21 november				Vacant
1901	4 march				Theodore Roosvelt
1901	14 september		Theodore Roosvelt		Vacant
1905	4 march				Charles Warren Fairbanks
1905	1 july			Francis B. Loomis
1905	18 july			Elihu Root

1908-1912

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1908
19059	27 january			Robert Bacon
1909	4 march		William Howard Taft	Philander Chase Knox	James Schoolcraft Sherman

1912-1959

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1912	30 october				Vacant
1913	4 march		Woodrow Thomas Wilson	William Jenings Bryan	Thomas Riley Marshall
1915	9 june			Robert Lansing
1920	13 february			Frank Lyon Polk
1920	22 march			Bainbridge Colby
1921	4 march		Warren Gemaliel Harding	Charles Evans Huges	John Calvin Coolidge
1923	2 august		John Calvin Coolidge		Vacant
1925	4 march			Frank Billings Kellogg	Charles Gates Dawes
1929	4 march		Herbert Clark Hoover	Henry Lewis Stimson	Charles Curtis
1933	4 march		Franklin Delano Roosvelt	Cordell Hull	John Nance Garner
1941	20 january				Henry Agard Wallace
1944	1 december			Edward Reilly Stettinius
1945	20 january				Harry S. Truman
1945	12 april		Harry S. Truman		Vacant
1945	28 june			Joseph C. Grew
1945	3 july			James Francis Byrnes
1947	21 january			George Catlett Marshall
1949	20 january			Dean Gooderham Acheson	Alban William Barkley
1953	20 january		Dwight David Eisenhower	H. Freeman Matthews	Richard Mulhouse Nixon
1953	21 january			John Foster Dulles

1959-1960

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1959	22 april			Christian Archibald Herter

1960-

YEAR	DATE	EVENT	PRESIDENT	SECRETARY OF STATE	VICEPRESIDENT
1960
1961	20 janaury		John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Livingston T. Merchant	Lyndon Baines Johnson
1961	21 janaury			Dean Rusk
1963	22 november		Lyndon Baines Johnson		Vacant
1965	20 janaury				Hubert Horatio Humphrey
1969	20 janaury		Richard Mulhouse Nixon	Charles E. Bohlen	Spiro Theodore Agnew
1969	22 janaury			William Pierce Rogers
1973	3 september			Kenneth Rush
1973	22 september			Henry Alfred Kissinger
1973	10 october				Vacant
1973	6 december				Gerald Rudolph Ford
1974	9 august		Gerald Rudolph Ford		Vacant
1974	19 december				Nelson Aldrich Rockerfeller
1977	20 janaury		James Earl Carter	Philip C. Habib	Walter Frederick 'Fritz' Mondale
1977	23 janaury			Cyrus Roberts Vance
1980	28 april			Warren M. Christopher (I)
1980	2 may			David Newsom (I)
1980	3 may			Richard N. Cooper
1980	3 may			David Newsom (II)
1980	4 may			Warren M. Christopher (II)
1980	8 may			Edmund Sixtus Muskie
1981	18 january			David Newsom (III)
1981	20 janaury		Ronald Wilson Reagan	Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr.	George Herbert Walker Bush
1982	5 july			Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
1982	16 july			George P. Shultz
1989	20 janaury		George Herbert Walker Bush	Michael Hayden Armacost	Danforth 'Dan' James Quayle
1989	25 janaury			James Addison Baker III
1992	23 august			Lawrence S. Eagleburger
1993	20 janaury		William Jefferson Clinton	Arnold Lee Kantor	Albert 'Al' Gore, Jr.
1993	20 janaury			Frank G. Wisner
1993	20 janaury			Warren M. Christopher (III)
1997	23 january			Madeleine Korbel Albright
2001	20 janaury		George Walker Bush jr	Colin Luther Powell	Richard Bruce Cheney
2005	20 janaury			Condoleezza Rice
2009	20 janaury		Barack Hussein Obama	Hillary Rodham Clintom	Joe Biden

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