Subj : Foreign Ministers / Secretary of States To : All From : Mike Dippel Date : Wed Apr 06 2022 08:05:52 Per http://wikitree.com this weeks featured connections are foreign ministers/secretaries of state. I am: 24 degrees from Madeleine Albright Madeleine served as chief legislative assistant to Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine from 1976 to 1978. From 1978 to 1981, she was a staff member in the White House under President Jimmy Carter and on the National Security Council under National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. 27 degrees from Garfield Barwick Sir Garfield Barwick AK GCMG QC was an Australian judge who was the seventh and longest serving Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1964 to 1981. He had earlier been a Liberal Party politician, serving as a minister in the Menzies Government from 1958 to 1964. 25 degrees from Julie Bishop After entering politics she was a delegate to the 1998 constitutional convention, and served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Curtin (in Perth's western suburbs) from 1998 to 2019, and Minister for Women from 2006 to 2007, deputy leader of the Liberal Party from 2007 to 2018 (the first woman to hold the position), and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2018. She has been the chancellor of the Australian National University since January 2020 (the first woman to be in this position). 33 degrees from Helen Clark The 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand, serving three consecutive terms from 1999 to 2008. She was the first woman elected, at a general election, as the Prime Minister, and was the fifth longest serving person to hold that office. She has been Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the third-highest UN position, since 2009. 18 degrees from Thomas Cromwell Earl of Essex, 18 April 1540 29 degrees from Dag Hammarskjÿld In 1951, Hammarskjÿld was vice chairman of the Swedish delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in Paris. He became the chairman of the Swedish delegation to the General Assembly in New York in 1952 and Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1953, a position which he held until his death. 19 degrees from Cordell Hull 1893-1897: Tennessee House of Representatives. 1933-1944: Secretary of State 1945: Nobel Peace Prize for co-initiating the United Nations 16 degrees from Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and one of the most influential of the United States' Founding Fathers. His portrait graces the US two dollar bill and nickel. 22 degrees from Judy LaMarsh A Canadian politician, lawyer, author and broadcaster. She was only the second woman to serve as a federal Cabinet Minister. 29 degrees from Colin Powell Colin Luther Powell was a United States statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State (2001-2005), serving under President George W. Bush. He was the first African American appointed to that position. He was the first, and so far the only, African American to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 26 degrees from Bernhard von Bÿlow Bernhard von Bÿlow was the chancellor of the German Empire from 1900 to 1909. Mike Dippel --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v7.0 * Origin: The Hobby Line! BBS - hobbylinebbs.com (954:895/1) .