HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?

1. Last year, there was talk of secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a Republican presidential candidate in 2008. Who was the last former secretary of State to seek a major party nomination for President?

2. Who was the last secretary of State to go on to be President?

3. Who was the last major party nominee for President to go on to be secretary of State?

4. Who was the last secretary of State to have held elective office?

5. Who was the last secretary of State to go on to another major government position after leaving the State Department?

1. Alexander Haig, who sought the Republican nomination in 1988.

2. John Quincy Adams, who had been secretary of State from 1816-24.

3. Charles Evans Hughes, Republican nominee in 1916, who was named secretary of State in 1921.

4. Edmund Muskie, secretary of State from 1980-81, who was previously a Democratic senator from Maine from 1958-80.

5. Christian A. Herter, secretary of State from 1959-61, who went on to serve as U.S. trade representative from 1963-66.

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