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Per http://wikitree.com this weeks featured connections are foreign 
ministers/secretaries of state.

I am: 

24 degrees from Madeleine Albright
Madeleine served as chief legislative assistant to Senator Edmund Muskie of
Maine from 
1976 to 1978. From 1978 to 1981, she was a staff member in the White House
under 
President Jimmy Carter and on the National Security Council under National
Security 
Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski.

27 degrees from Garfield Barwick
Sir Garfield Barwick AK GCMG QC was an Australian judge who was the seventh
and 
longest serving Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1964 to 1981. He
had earlier 
been a Liberal Party politician, serving as a minister in the Menzies
Government from 
1958 to 1964.

25 degrees from Julie Bishop
After entering politics she was a delegate to the 1998 constitutional
convention, and 
served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Curtin (in Perth's western
suburbs) from 
1998 to 2019, and Minister for Women from 2006 to 2007, deputy leader of the
Liberal 
Party from 2007 to 2018 (the first woman to hold the position), and Minister
for Foreign 
Affairs from 2013 to 2018. She has been the chancellor of the Australian
National 
University since January 2020 (the first woman to be in this position).

33 degrees from Helen Clark
The 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand, serving three consecutive terms from
1999 to 
2008. She was the first woman elected, at a general election, as the Prime
Minister, and 
was the fifth longest serving person to hold that office. She has been
Administrator of 
the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the third-highest UN
position, 
since 2009.

18 degrees from Thomas Cromwell
Earl of Essex, 18 April 1540

29 degrees from Dag Hammarskjÿld
In 1951, Hammarskjÿld was vice chairman of the Swedish delegation to the
United 
Nations General Assembly in Paris. He became the chairman of the Swedish
delegation 
to the General Assembly in New York in 1952 and Secretary-General of the
United 
Nations in 1953, a position which he held until his death.

19 degrees from Cordell Hull
1893-1897: Tennessee House of Representatives.
1933-1944: Secretary of State
1945: Nobel Peace Prize for co-initiating the United Nations

16 degrees from Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States, the principal
author of 
the Declaration of Independence, and one of the most influential of the United
States' 
Founding Fathers. His portrait graces the US two dollar bill and nickel.

22 degrees from Judy LaMarsh
A Canadian politician, lawyer, author and broadcaster. She was only the second
woman 
to serve as a federal Cabinet Minister.

29 degrees from Colin Powell
Colin Luther Powell was a United States statesman and a retired four-star
general in the 
United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State
(2001-2005), 
serving under President George W. Bush. He was the first African American
appointed to 
that position. He was the first, and so far the only, African American to
serve on the 
Joint Chiefs of Staff.

26 degrees from Bernhard von Bÿlow
Bernhard von Bÿlow was the chancellor of the German Empire from 1900 to 1909.

Mike Dippel
 
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