Timothy Pickering State of Residency: Pennsylvania Appointment: Dec 10, 1795 Entry on Duty: Dec 10, 1795 Termination of Appointment: May 12, 1800 Presidency: Adams

As Secretary of State:

• Opposed French in the "X Y Z Affair" and entered into preparations for war

• Pickering did everything in his power to undermine Adam's efforts to make peace; in May of 1800 President Adams fired Pickering

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Born: July 17, 1745
Died: January 29, 1829
Married: Rebecca White
Education: Harvard College
Occupation: Lawyer

Government Positions: 

• Entered Revolutionary Army as colonel in 1775

• Elected to State Legislature in 1776

• Appointed Adjutant General 1777

• Elected member of the Board of War 1777

• Quartermaster General of the Army 1780-1785

• Organized Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and represented it in the convention of 1787 that ratified the Federal Constitution and in the State constitutional convention of 1789-1790

• Postmaster General 1791-1795

• Secretary of War in President Washington's Cabinet in 1795

• Secretary of State ad interim August 20-December 9, 1795

• Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas in 1802

• Senator for Massachusetts 1803-1800

• Member of State Executive Council 1812-1813

• Representative from Massachusetts 1813-1817

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