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A person who was in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, etc at a particular time to which you are referring. Also: A person employed to handle correspondence and do routine work in a business office at the time to which you were referring.

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  • In Crater v. Lucent , it was Richard J. Danzig, then-secretary of the Navy, who did the honors.
  • Robin Wright, you were in North Korea six years ago with Madeleine Albright, then-secretary of state.
  • In 1975 in Harpers, then-secretary of state Henry Kissinger authored under a pseudonym an article, “Seizing Arab Oil.”
  • (At a reporter's suggestion that Powell use this sobriquet as a title for his memoirs, the then-secretary of state laughed uncontrollably.)
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