{"id":6227,"date":"2026-07-27T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6227"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:38:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:38:32","slug":"department-of-state-was-created-in-1789","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6227","title":{"rendered":"Department of State Was Created in 1789"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13491\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13491\" class=\" wp-image-13491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Thomas-Jefferson-portrait-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"224\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peale Portrait of Thomas Jefferson<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Department of State, under the name Department of Foreign Affairs, was created by Congress in 1789<\/strong>. Thomas Jefferson served as the first Secretary of State from March 22, 1790, to December 31, 1793. Older children could visit the department\u2019s website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.state.gov\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of State, under the name Department of Foreign Affairs, was created by Congress in 1789. Thomas Jefferson served as the first Secretary of State from March 22, 1790, to December 31, 1793. Older children could visit the department\u2019s website at: http:\/\/www.state.gov\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4874,887,886,5662,888],"class_list":["post-6227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4874","tag-department-of-foreign-affairs","tag-department-of-state","tag-july-27","tag-secretary-of-state","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6227"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25123,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions\/25123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}