Accept additional cookies Reject additional cookies View cookies. Hide this message. Organisations : Home Office. Contents Responsibilities Current role holder Previous holders Announcements. Responsibilities The Secretary of State has overall responsibility for all Home Office business, including: overarching responsibility for the departmental portfolio and oversight of the ministerial team cabinet National Security Council NSC public appointments oversight of the Security Service overall responsibility for the Home Office response to COVID including health measures at the border and police powers to enforce lockdown.
Education Priti attended a comprehensive school in Watford before studying economics at Keele University. He was confirmed on January 26, , by a vote of Thomas Jefferson was the first person appointed to the office of secretary of state. He was appointed by President George Washington to the position in Jefferson and President Washington lobbied Congress for funding to establish overseas consulates and diplomatic missions. As a result, 16 consulates and five diplomatic missions were started outside of the United States by The missions were established as the official diplomatic representatives of the United States.
They sent regular news reports on political and economic developments in their base countries back to the United States and carried out directives sent from the American government.
The consulates were established to assist U. Jefferson's staff included six people working in the United States: a chief clerk who wrote all of the office's correspondence, three more clerks, one translator, and one messenger. Overseas diplomats were paid small amounts and often spent their personal fortunes in order to attain higher status in their stationed countries.
During the early s, purchases made by the Department of State brought significant changes to the geography of the United States. It conducted the Louisiana Purchase and obtained both Florida and land bordering Canada on the 49th parallel west of the Rocky Mountains.
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