Timeline for Why are US cabinet ministers called secretaries?
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| Oct 11, 2016 at 9:34 | answer | added | WS2 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 27, 2016 at 15:23 | answer | added | SoylentGray | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 15, 2015 at 17:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPolitics/status/654712818927730688 | ||
| S Oct 12, 2015 at 15:00 | history | suggested | Jasper | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarified title.
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| Oct 11, 2015 at 23:06 | comment | added | cpast | @Anixx Ah. Wikipedia is likely wrong, then, since the UK certainly had secretaries at the time. | |
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| Oct 11, 2015 at 20:22 | comment | added | Anixx | @cpast Here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_%28title%29 "This usage derives in part from the desire of the founders of the United States to differentiate the country from the United Kingdom, which denoted such offices as Ministers." | |
| Oct 11, 2015 at 19:52 | answer | added | Relaxed | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 11, 2015 at 19:34 | answer | added | Lostinfrance | timeline score: 8 | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 21:20 | comment | added | cpast | @Anixx Where? The UK had Secretaries when the US was formed (the colonies were handled by the Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1768 till independence, and by the Secretary of State for the Southern Department until 1768). The title originated as one of the staff of the British monarch. | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 20:38 | comment | added | Anixx | @Steve Melnikoff strange. wikipedia says the US called their ministers secretaries so to be different from the UK. | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 19:56 | comment | added | Steve Melnikoff | @Anixx: he's right. Collectively, they're referred to as ministers, but most heads of department are secretaries: gov.uk/government/ministers | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 19:49 | comment | added | Anixx | @Relaxed are u sure? | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 19:28 | comment | added | Relaxed | It's the case in Britain too. | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 18:42 | comment | added | Publius | Surely this belongs in the English SE? | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 18:14 | comment | added | Bobson | I don't yet have an answer as to why, but it goes back to the 1789 founding of the State department (originally the Departmnet of Foreign Affairs) | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 18:05 | history | asked | Anixx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |