Over in Foggy Bottom, the diplomatic establishment is rooting for one of its own.

There’s Bill Burns, a distinguished ex-diplomat and Clinton’s former deputy at State who now leads the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. There’s also Nick Burns (no relation), a former undersecretary for political affairs at State who now teaches at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Both have been touted as potential State Department heads, particularly if Clinton wants to bring a nonpartisan sensibility to the job. (As career foreign service officers, Burns and Burns worked for both Republican and Democratic presidents.)

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These aren’t the only names floating around in diplomatic circles. Jim Steinberg, another former Clinton deputy at State, and Wendy Sherman, a top negotiator of the Iran nuclear deal, are also in the mix, though seen as less likely picks for Clinton.

The person getting the most attention, we’ve saved for last.

That’s Tom Donilon, President Obama’s former national security adviser and co-chairman of Clinton’s transition. Attend any foreign policy event in town and you will hear the talk about Donilon in the slot. Some see him as just another candidate among equals; others insist he’s a shoo-in for the job.

The conventional wisdom is that Donilon would bring a measure of political acumen to the role of secretary and that this quality could set him apart from others. Not only has he worked in every Democratic administration since President Jimmy Carter’s, but Donilon was reportedly offered the job of Obama’s chief of staff — a sign, allies said, of the breadth of his skills. As Vice President Biden once told The Post, Donilon “does [politics and policy] better than anyone I have ever dealt with … including [Henry] Kissinger.”

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A protege of Warren Christopher, Donilon served as the late secretary of state’s chief of staff in the mid-90s before leaving government to return to legal practice at the Washington office of O’Melveny & Myers. He came to the Obama White House in 2009 as deputy national security adviser, and after losing the “deputy” title, he gained a reputation among admirers for his “low-key but thoughtful, strategic, and activist role” in shaping Obama’s foreign policy.

All of these would-be candidates are peers who have worked together in D.C.’s foreign policy establishment.

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For example, while Donilon and Sherman are known for serving on Obama’s 2008 transition, their working relationship actually dates back at least as far as the Clinton State Department. During that time, Steinberg was serving as State’s director of policy planning. He later became Clinton’s deputy national security adviser, a role Donilon would eventually take under Obama.

To go a bit further, Nick Burns, Bill Burns and Sherman served consecutively as undersecretary of state for political affairs over a period of 10 years starting in 2005. And Steinberg, Bill Burns and Sherman served consecutively as deputy secretary of state over a period of six years starting in 2009.