Cyrus Roberts Vance

(March 27, 1917, Clarksburg, West Virginia-January 12, 2002, New York, New York). 57th U.S. Secretary of State, 1977-1980. Attorney. U.S. Secretary of the Army, 1961-1962. Deputy U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1964-1967. Special U.S. Envoy to Cyprus, 1967. Special U.S. Envoy to Korea, 1968. U.S. Secretary of State, 1977-1980. U.S. Negotiator, Paris Peace Conference, 1968-1969. First cousin of John William Davis. Received Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1969. Opposed U.S. efforts to rescue American hostages in Iran and resigned as Secretary of State after the mission failed. Headed United Nations' mission to negotiate an end to the violence following the dissolution of Yugoslavia, 1991-1992.

Edmund Sixtus Muskie

(March 28, 1914, Rumford, Maine-March 26, 1996, Washington, D.C.). 58th U.S. Secretary of State, 1980-1981. Attorney. Governor of Maine, 1955-1959. U.S. Senator (Democrat-Maine), January 3, 1959-May 7, 1980. Democratic candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1968. Candidate for Democratic nomination for President of the United States, 1972. U.S. Secretary of State, 1980-1981. Member, President's Special Review Board (Tower Commission), 1987. Received Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1981.

Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr.

(December 2, 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-Alive). 59th U.S. Secretary of State, 1981-1982. Soldier. Military Adviser, National Security Council, 1969-1973. Chief of Staff of the White House, 1973-1974. General, U.S. Army. Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1974-1979. U.S. Secretary of State, 1981-1982. Candidate for Republican nomination for President of the United States, 1988. Presided over White House staff during the last days of the Nixon Presidency. Suspected by some as being "Deep Throat" of Watergate fame.

George Pratt Shultz

(December 13, 1920, New York, New York-Alive). 60th U.S. Secretary of State, 1982-1989. Industrial economist. Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Chicago, 1957-1962, Dean, Graduate School of Business, 1962-1968. U.S. Secretary of Labor, January 22, 1969-1970. First Director, Office of Management and Budget, 1970-1972. 62nd U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, June 12, 1972-May 8, 1974. 60th U.S. Secretary of State, 1982-1989. Survived assassination attempt in South America, 1988. Received Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1989. Author.

James Addison Baker III

(April 28, 1930, Houston, Texas-Alive). 61st U.S. Secretary of State, 1989-1992. Corporate Attorney. Under U.S. Secretary of Commerce, August, 1975-May, 1976. Campaign Manager, Gerald R. Ford for President campaign, 1976. Campaign Manger, George H. W. Bush for President, 1980, 1988. Chief of Staff of the White House, January, 1981-January, 1985, 1992. 67th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, February 3, 1985-1988. Delegate, Republican National Convention, 1988. U.S. Secretary of State, 1989-1992. Leader, George W. Bush challenge team in Florida, 2000. Received Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1991. Noted for negotiating arms reductions with the Soviet Union, supporting German reunification, and marshaling international opposition to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, 1990. Special United Nations Envoy to the Western Sahara, 1997.