Secretary of State of the War

The Secretary of State to the War is a title which was allotted or which is still allotted to an important member of the government of certain countries. Its role is in general to direct the department, the service or the ministry in charge of the military businesses and the army.

The United States

To the the United States, the Secretary of State to the War ( United States Secretary off War ) directed the Département of the War and belonged to the cabinet of the president. The first to occupy this station was Henry Knox, under the presidency of George Washington, starting from the September 12th 1789. The last to occupy it was Kenneth Claiborne Royall, under the presidency of Harry S. Truman, until the September 18th 1947. Between its two dates, it were 56 to occupy this station. The function was then renamed Secretary off the Army and lost its seat with the cabinet of the president, with the profit of the Secrétaire to the Defense to which it was consequently subordinate.

France

In France, under the Old Mode, he was the person in charge and adviser of the king about the military businesses.

List

1570-1579 : Simon Fizes, baron de Sauve (at the same time with the House of the King)
1588-1594: Louis Revol (at the same time with the Foreign affairs)
1594-1617: Nicolas de Neufville, lord of Villeroy (at the same time with the Foreign affairs)
1606-1617: Pierre Brulart, lord of Puylzieulx (at the same time with the Foreign affairs)
1616: Claude Mangot (at the same time with the Foreign affairs)
1616-1617: Armand Jean of Plessis de Richelieu (at the same time with the Foreign affairs)
1617-1624: Pierre Brulart, lord, then marquis de Puyzieulx (at the same time with the Foreign affairs)
1630-1636: Abel Servien
1636-1643: François Sublet, lord of Walnut trees
1643-1677: Michel Tellier (at the same time Chancellor of France)

1677-1691 : François-Michel Tellier, marquis de Louvois

1685-1701 : Louis François Marie Tellier, marquis de Barbezieux
1701-1709: Michel Chamillart (at the same time General inspector of finances)
1709-1715: Daniel Close François, lord of Noraye and Plessis-Bourée (at the same time Chancellor of France)

Between 1715 and 1718 under the mode of the Polysynodie, the load of Secretary of State to the war is removed. Its attributions are given to a Conseil of the War directed by the Duc of Villars.

1718-1723 : Claude the White

1723-1726 : François Victor the Wet cooper, marquis de Breteuil
1726-1728: Claude the White
1728-1740: Nicolas Prosper Bauyn d' Angervilliers
1740-1743: François Victor the Wet cooper, marquis de Breteuil
1743-1757: Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy, count d' Argenson
1757-1758: Marc-Antoine-Rene de Voyer de Paulmy d' Argenson, marquis de Paulmy (since 1751 it with the survival of his/her uncle the precedent)
1758-1761: Charles Louis Fouquet, duke of Beautiful-Isle Marshal of France, assisted by Louis Boyer de Crémilles
1761-1770: Etienne François de Choiseul-Stainville, duke of Choiseul (at the same time with the Foreign affairs and the House of the King)
1771-1774: Louis Francois, marquis de Monteynard
1774: Emmanuel Armand de Vignerot of Plessis, duke of Pivot
1774-1775: Louis Nicolas Victor of Felix, count of Muy Marshal of France
1775-1777: Claude Louis, count of Saint-Germain
1777-1780: Alexandre Marie Eléonor de Saint-Mauris, prince de Montbarrey
1780-1787: Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur, Marshal of France
1787: Louis Auguste the Wet cooper of Breteuil, baron de Breteuil
1787-1788: Louis Marie Athanase de Loménie, count de Brienne
1788-1789: Louis Pierre de Chastenet, count de Puységur
1789: Victor Francois, duke of Broglie

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