Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State planned to testify herself in January. The Benghazi matter also had an effect on Clinton's successor as Secretary of State. Obama's first choice was Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, but she came under heavy criticism from Congressional Republicans for what they felt were incorrect or deceptive statements in the aftermath of the attack, and by mid-December she withdrew her name from consideration. Obama then nominated Senator John Kerry for the position instead. By one report, Clinton had preferred Kerry over Rice all along anyway. Although still not well enough to attend the December 21 announcement of Kerry's nomination, Clinton
William White (Secretary of State) The legislature elected his former clerk, William Hill, to succeed him. White's father-in-law was Governor Richard Caswell. White's daughter, Eleanor, married Governor David L. Swain in 1826. William White (Secretary of State) William White (1762–1811) was the second North Carolina Secretary of State, serving from 1798 until 1811. White represented Lenoir County in the state legislature, first in the North Carolina House of Commons and then in the North Carolina Senate, from the county's creation in 1792 until the legislature appointed him Secretary of State in 1798. The same year he built the White-Holman House, listed on the National Register