... 1929, delegates concluded a 7-month diplomatic
conference in Geneva, Switzerland, by adopting the
Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field, a revision of 1864 and 1906 treaties on the same subject, and the
Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, which operated to "complet[e]" the effort begun in the Hague Regulations of 1899 and 1907. Neither of the 1929 conventions is any longer in force, given the
universal acceptance of the Geneva Conventions of 1949.
... 1789, President George Washington signed into law an act establishing a U.S.
Department of Foreign Affairs, with
a principal Officer therein, to be called the Secretary for the depa
rtment of 
foreign Affairs, who shall perform and execute such duties as shall from time to time be enjoined on, or intrusted to him by the President of the United States, agreeable to the Constitution, relative to correspondences, commissions, or instructions to, or with public Ministers or Consuls from the United States, or to negociations with public Ministers from foreign States or princes ....
Of the last 3 Secretaries of executive agency now known as the U.S.
Department of State, 2,
Madeleine Albright (left) and
Condoleezza Rice (right), are women.
