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Who was Stimson a Secretary of State under?

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • William Howard Taft

  • Herbert Hoover

  • Calvin Coolidge

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Henry L. Stimson was the Secretary of State under President Herbert Hoover from 1929 to 1933. He was a Republican who believed in limited government and a strong national defense. Stimson worked to reduce the size of the federal government and to improve relations with other countries. He also helped to negotiate the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which outlawed war as an instrument of national policy.
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