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Because citizens give the power to be government, and they need information in order to vote and participate wisely...
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The leader of the Department of State is the Secretary of State and the first Secretary of State was future President Thomas Jefferson who held the role from 1790-1793.
Jefferson's time as Secretary of State was marked by an intense rivalry with Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and a growing divide between the parties in the capital.