List of First Secretaries of State
Colour key
(for political parties)
Name | Picture | Term of Office | Political party and position | Other Ministerial Offices | Prime Minister | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
R. A. Butler | 13 July 1962 | 18 October 1963 | Conservative | Deputy Prime Minister | Harold Macmillan | |||
Office not in use | 1963–1964 | Alec Douglas-Home | ||||||
George Brown | 16 October 1964 | 11 August 1966 | Labour (Deputy Leader) | Economic Secretary | Harold Wilson | |||
Michael Stewart | 11 August 1966 | 6 April 1968 | Labour | Economic Secretary Foreign Secretary |
||||
Barbara Castle | 6 April 1968 | 19 June 1970 | Labour | Employment and Productivity Secretary | ||||
Office not in use | 1970–1995 | Edward Heath | ||||||
Harold Wilson | ||||||||
James Callaghan | ||||||||
Margaret Thatcher | ||||||||
John Major | ||||||||
Michael Heseltine | 20 July 1995 | 2 May 1997 | Conservative | Deputy Prime Minister | ||||
Office not in use | 1997–2001 | Tony Blair | ||||||
John Prescott | 8 June 2001 | 27 June 2007 | Labour (Deputy Leader) | Deputy Prime Minister |
||||
Office not in use | 2007–2009 | Gordon Brown | ||||||
The Lord Mandelson | 5 June 2009 | 11 May 2010 | Labour | Business Secretary Lord President of the Council |
||||
William Hague | 12 May 2010 | Incumbent | Conservative | Foreign Secretary | David Cameron |
Read more about this topic: First Secretary Of State
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list and/or state:
“The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (18411935)
“Sheathey call him Scholar Jack
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passersall.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (18461925)
“A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (19211990)