OK, so we know Sen. Hillary Clinton is President-elect Obama's choice to be his secretary of state. And we know — since we all read the Nov. 17 edition of the Political Junkie column — back in the days when Junkie was a weekly column (I know, so November 2008) — that the last sitting senator named to the post was Maine's Ed Muskie in 1980, after Cyrus Vance resigned in protest of President Carter's failed attempt to rescue the hostages in Iran.

All this leads to ...

TRIVIA QUESTION! Name the last New York senator who went on to become secretary of state.

First correct answer wins nothing at all.