Quick! Name the last white male Secretary of State.

[Scuba]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/in-remaking-his-cabinet-obama-has-an-opportunity-to-break-barriers/

Cabinet Diversity Poses a Question for Obama

It has been 15 years since a white man served as secretary of state or secretary of labor.

Yet no woman or minority member has ever led the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency or the Treasury Department. The White House chief of staff has also always been a white man.

As President Obama ponders how to shuffle his cabinet for a second term, he faces decisions that could continue these patterns — in which some cabinet jobs remain the domain of white men, while others endure as bastions of diversity — or that could break them.

...

Mr. Obama might also make history by nominating the first openly gay cabinet member. John Berry, the director of the president’s Office of Personnel Management, is said to be a candidate for interior secretary when Ken Salazar departs. And Fred P. Hochberg, the chairman and president of the Export-Import Bank, could get the nod as commerce secretary.

Interesting perspectives on historical appointments and informed speculation about current candidates.

Warren Christopher, who stepped down in 1997, was the last white man to serve as SOS (Albright, Powell, Rice, Clinton).

[onenote]

1. Christopher, although there is a trick answer to the question

William Joseph Burns served as Acting Secretary of State from January 20, 2008 (the date on which President Obama was inaugurated) until January 21, 2008 (the date on which Hilary Clinton was confirmed).

[MiniMe]

2. Never mind, missed the "white" part of the question

[Auntie Bush]

3. How does James Baker fit in there?

[Scuba]

4. Baker was SOS under GHW Bush, stepped down in 1992.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baker