Secretary of the Commonwealth is a variant of Secretary of State in three U.S. state governments.
It may refer to:
- Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Secretary of the Commonwealth in the United Kingdom is also a commonly disused term to refer to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
The term Commonwealth Secretariat refers to the head office of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Famous quotes containing the words secretary of, secretary and/or commonwealth:
“The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It was obviated in the State Department and the War Department under [Secretary of State Elihu] Root and me [Taft was the Secretary of War], because we simply ignored the interference and went on as we chose.... The subordinates gained nothing by his assumption of authority, but it was not so in the other departments.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It was obviated in the State Department and the War Department under [Secretary of State Elihu] Root and me [Taft was the Secretary of War], because we simply ignored the interference and went on as we chose.... The subordinates gained nothing by his assumption of authority, but it was not so in the other departments.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)