Cordell Hull State Office Building Cordell Hull State Office Building The Cordell Hull State Office Building is a historic building in Nashville, Tennessee. The building is located on the grounds of the Tennessee State Capitol, at 425 5th Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. The building was constructed from 1952 to 1954. It is 36.58 metre high and 348,606 square feet, with ten storeys. It was designed in the Art Deco architectural style. It was named in honor of Cordell Hull (1871–1955), a Tennessean who served as the 47th United States Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 2013, Jones
Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt of the Navy while former Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson became Secretary of War. Roosevelt began convening a "war cabinet" consisting of Hull, Stimson, Knox, Chief of Naval Operations Harold Rainsford Stark, and Army Chief of Staff George Marshall. In 1942, Roosevelt set up the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which made the final decisions on American military strategy. Admiral Ernest J. King (Stark's successor) led the navy and the marines. Marshall was in charge of the army and nominally led the air force, which in practice was commanded by General Hap Arnold. The Joint Chiefs was a White House