{{Infobox personOfficeholder|name=Colin Powell
|image=Colin_Powell.jpg
|office=United States Secretary
|country=State
|term_start=January 20, 2001
|term_end=January 26, 2005
|party=[[Republican]]
|previous=Madeleine Albright
|next=Condoleezza Rice
|birth_date=April 5, 1937
|birth_place=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
|spouse=Alma Vivian Johnson Powell
|religion= Episcopalian|offices= {{Officeholder/secretary (cabinet) |of=State |state=United States |number=65th |deputy=n |president=[[EpiscopalianGeorge W. Bush]] |terms=January 20, 2001-January 26, 2005 |preceded=[[Madeleine Albright]] |former=y |succeeded=[[Condoleezza Rice]] }}
}}
'''General Colin Luther Powell''', United States Army (Ret.) (born April 5, 1937) was the 65th [[United States]] [[Secretary of State]] (2001-05) under President [[George W. Bush]] and is a [[liberal]] member of the [[Republican Party]]. As a General in the [[United States Army]], Powell also served as [[National Security Advisor]] (1987–1989), and as Chairman of the [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]] (1989–1993) he became the highest ranking African American government official in the history of the United States.