United States
Government
Vice
Presidents
7 Feb 1936 - 10 Nov 1948
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10 Nov 1948 - 7 Oct 1975
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Adopted 7 Oct 1975
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Vice Presidents¹
21 Apr 1789 - 4 Mar 1797 John
Adams
(b. 1735 - d. 1826) Fed
4 Mar 1797 - 4 Mar 1801
Thomas
Jefferson
(b. 1743 - d. 1826) D-R
4 Mar 1801 - 4 Mar 1805 Aaron
Burr
(b. 1756 - d. 1836) D-R
4 Mar 1805 - 20 Apr 1812 George
Clinton
(b. 1739 - d. 1812) D-R
20 Apr 1812 - 4 Mar 1813 Vacant
4 Mar 1813 - 23 Nov 1814 Elbridge
Gerry
(b. 1744 - d. 1814) D-R
4 Mar 1817 - 4 Mar 1825
Daniel D.
Tompkins
(b. 1744 - d. 1825) D-R
4 Mar 1825 - 28 Dec 1832 John
Caldwell
Calhoun
(b. 1782 - d. 1850) Dem
28 Dec 1832 - 4 Mar 1833 Vacant
4 Mar 1833 - 4 Mar 1837
Martin van
Buren
(b. 1782 - d. 1862) Dem
4 Mar 1837 - 4 Mar 1841
Richard Mentor
Johnson
(b. 1780 - d. 1850) Dem
4 Mar 1841 - 4 Apr 1841 John
Tyler
(b. 1790 - d. 1862) Whg
4 Apr 1841 - 4 Mar 1845 Vacant
4 Mar 1845 - 4 Mar 1849
George Mifflin
Dallas
(b. 1792 - d. 1864) Dem
4 Mar 1849 - 9 Jul 1850
Millard
Fillmore
(b. 1800 - d. 1874) Whg
9 Jul 1850 - 4 Mar 1853 Vacant
4 Mar 1853 - 18 Apr 1853 William
Rufus DeVane King
(b. 1786 - d. 1853) Dem
18 Apr 1853 - 4 Mar 1857 Vacant
4 Mar 1857 - 4 Mar 1861 John
Cabell
Breckinridge
(b. 1821 - d. 1875) Dem
4 Mar 1861 - 4 Mar 1865
Hannibal
Hamlin
(b. 1809 - d. 1891) Rep
4 Mar 1865 - 15 Apr 1865 Andrew
Johnson
(b. 1808 - d. 1875) Dem
15 Apr 1865 - 4 Mar 1869 Vacant
4 Mar 1869 - 4 Mar 1873
Schuyler
Colfax
(b. 1823 - d. 1885) Rep
4 Mar 1873 - 22 Nov 1875 Henry
Wilson
(b. 1812 - d. 1875) Rep
22 Nov 1875 - 4 Mar 1877 Vacant
4 Mar 1877 - 4 Mar 1881
William Almon
Wheeler
(b. 1819 - d. 1887) Rep
4 Mar 1881 - 19 Sep 1881 Chester
Allen
Arthur
(b. 1829 - d. 1886) Rep
19 Sep 1881 - 4 Mar 1885 Vacant
4 Mar 1885 - 25 Nov 1885 Thomas
Andrews
Hendricks
(b. 1819 - d. 1885) Dem
25 Nov 1885 - 4 Mar 1889 Vacant
4 Mar 1889 - 4 Mar 1893 Levi Parsons
Morton
(b. 1824 - d. 1920) Rep
4 Mar 1893 - 4 Mar 1897 Adlai
Ewing
Stevenson
(b. 1835 - d. 1914) Dem
4 Mar 1897 - 21 Nov 1899 Garret
Augustus
Hobart
(b. 1844 - d. 1899) Rep
21 Nov 1899 - 4 Mar 1901 Vacant
4 Mar 1901 - 14 Sep 1901 Theodore
Roosevelt
(b. 1858 - d. 1919) Rep
14 Sep 1901 - 4 Mar 1905 Vacant
4 Mar 1905 - 4 Mar 1909
Charles Warren
Fairbanks
(b. 1852 - d. 1918) Rep
4 Mar 1909 - 30 Oct 1912 James
Schoolcraft
Sherman
(b. 1855 - d. 1912) Rep
30 Oct 1912 - 4 Mar 1913 Vacant
4 Mar 1913 - 4 Mar 1921
Thomas Riley
Marshall
(b. 1854 - d. 1925) Dem
4 Mar 1921 - 2 Aug 1923
Calvin
Coolidge
(b. 1872 - d. 1933) Rep
2 Aug 1923 - 4 Mar 1925 Vacant
4 Mar 1925 - 4 Mar 1929
Charles Gates
Dawes
(b. 1865 - d. 1951) Rep
4 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933
Charles
Curtis
(b. 1860 - d. 1936) Rep
4 Mar 1933 - 20 Jan 1941 John Nance
Garner
(b. 1868 - d. 1967) Dem
20 Jan 1941 - 20 Jan 1945 Henry Agard
Wallace
(b. 1888 - d. 1965) Dem
20 Jan 1945 - 12 Apr 1945 Harry S.
Truman
(b. 1884 - d. 1972) Dem
12 Apr 1945 - 20 Jan 1949 Vacant
20 Jan 1949 - 20 Jan 1953 Alben William
Barkley
(b. 1877 - d. 1956) Dem
20 Jan 1953 - 20 Jan 1961 Richard Milhous
Nixon
(b. 1913 - d. 1994) Rep
20 Jan 1961 - 22 Nov 1963 Lyndon Baines
Johnson
(b. 1908 - d. 1973) Dem
22 Nov 1963 - 20 Jan 1965 Vacant
20 Jan 1965 - 20 Jan 1969 Hubert Horatio
Humphrey, Jr. (b. 1911 - d.
1978) Dem
20 Jan 1969 - 10 Oct 1973 Spiro Theodore
Agnew
(b. 1918 - d. 1996) Rep
10 Oct 1973 - 6 Dec 1973 Vacant
6 Dec 1973 - 9 Aug 1974
Gerald Rudolph
Ford
(b. 1913 - d. 2006) Rep
9 Aug 1974 - 19 Dec 1974 Vacant
19 Dec 1974 - 20 Jan 1977 Nelson Aldrich
Rockefeller (b. 1908 -
d. 1979) Rep
20 Jan 1977 - 20 Jan 1981 Walter
Frederick "Fritz" Mondale (b. 1928 - d.
2021) Dem
20 Jan 1981 - 20 Jan 1989 George Herbert
Walker Bush
(b. 1924 - d. 2018) Rep
20 Jan 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 James Danforth
"Dan" Quayle (b.
1947)
Rep
20 Jan 1993 - 20 Jan 2001 Albert "Al"
Gore,
Jr.
(b.
1948)
Dem
20 Jan 2001 - 20 Jan 2009 Richard "Dick"
Bruce Cheney (b.
1941)
Rep
20 Jan 2009 - 20 Jan 2017 Joseph "Joe" Robinette
Biden, Jr. (b. 1942)
Dem
20 Jan 2017 - 20 Jan 2021
Michael "Mike" Richard Pence (b.
1959) Rep
20 Jan 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Kamala Devi Harris (f)
(b. 1964)
Dem
20 Jan 2025
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James David "J.D." Vance
(b. 1984)
Rep
¹The Vice Presidents formally serve as
presidents of the Senate, but rarely presides
over routine day-to-day debate. Until 1890, the Senate
elected a President Pro Tempore whenever
the Vice President was not in attendance. When the Vice
President returned, the President "Pro Tem" lost his
place, and when the Vice President was again
absent, the Senate again elected a President Pro Tempore.
By the standing order agreed to on 12 Mar
1890, the Senate declared that the President Pro
Tempore shall hold office
during "the pleasure of the Senate and until another is
elected, and shall execute the duties thereof
during all future absences of the Vice President until
the Senate does otherwise order."
Party abbreviations: Dem
= Democratic Party (liberal, center-left, former D-R,
est.1829); Rep = Republican
Party (conservative, center-right, est.1854);
- Former parties:
D-R = Democratic-Republican
Party (pro-states rights, anti-Federalist, 1794-1829,
renamed Dem); Fed = Federalist
Party (conservative, federalist, 1792-1824);
Whg = Whig Party (economic
nationalist, protectionist,
anti-Jacksonian, 1833-1860)
Department of State
Flag of Secretary of State
28 Nov 1920 - 21 Jan 1933 |
Adopted 21 Jan 1933
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Department of State
29 Nov
1775
Committee of Secret Correspondence of the Continental
Congress.
17 Apr 1777
Committee for Foreign Affairs of the
Continental Congress.
10 Jul
1781
Department of Foreign Affairs
15 Sep
1789
Department of State
Secretaries of Foreign Affairs
20 Oct 1781 - 4 Jun 1783 Robert R.
Livingston
(b. 1746 - d. 1813)
7 May 1784 - 15
Sep 1789 John Jay (acting
from 4 Mar 1789) (b.
1745 - d. 1829)
Secretaries of State
15 Sep 1789 - 22 Mar
1790 John Jay (acting)
(s.a.)
22 Mar 1790 - 31 Dec 1793 Thomas
Jefferson
(b. 1743 - d. 1826)
2 Jan 1794 - 20 Aug 1795 Edmund
Randolph
(b. 1753 - d. 1813)
20 Aug 1795 - 12 May 1800 Timothy
Pickering
(b. 1745 - d. 1829)
(acting to 9 Dec 1795)
13 May 1800 - 5 Jun 1800 Charles
Lee (acting)
(b. 1758 - d. 1815)
6 Jun 1800 - 4 Mar 1801 John
Marshall
(b. 1755 - d. 1835)
(acting from 4 Feb 1801)
5 Mar 1801 - 1 May 1801 Levi
Lincoln (acting)
(b. 1749 - d. 1820)
2 May 1801 - 3 Mar 1809 James
Madison
(b. 1751 - d. 1836)
6 Mar 1809 - 1 Apr 1811
Robert
Smith
(b. 1757 - d. 1842)
2 Apr 1811 - 3 Mar 1817 James
Monroe
(b. 1758 - d. 1831)
(acting 1 Oct 1814 - 28 Feb 1815)
4 Mar 1817 - 9 Mar 1817 John
Graham (acting)
(b. 1774 - d. 1820)
10 Mar 1817 - 22 Sep 1817 Richard Rush
(acting)
(b. 1780 - d. 1859)
22 Sep 1817 - 3 Mar 1825 John
Quincy
Adams
(b. 1767 - d. 1848)
4 Mar 1825 - 7 Mar 1825
Daniel Brent (acting)
(b. 1770 - d. 1841)
7 Mar 1825 - 3 Mar 1829 Henry
Clay
(b. 1777 - d. 1852)
4 Mar 1829 - 27 Mar 1829 James A.
Hamilton (acting) (b.
1788 - d. 1878)
28 Mar 1829 - 23 May 1831 Martin Van
Buren
(b. 1782 - d. 1862)
24 May 1831 - 29 May 1833 Edward
Livingstone
(b. 1764 - d. 1836)
29 May 1833 - 30 Jun 1834 Louis
McLane
(b. 1786 - d. 1857)
1 Jul 1834 - 3 Mar 1841 John
Forsyth
(b. 1780 - d. 1841)
4 Mar 1841 - 5 Mar 1841 Jacob
L. Martin (acting)
(b. 1800 - d. 1848)
6 Mar 1841 - 8 May 1843
Daniel Webster (1st time)
(b. 1782 - d. 1852)
9 May 1843 - 20 Jun 1843 Hugh
Swinton Legaré (acting)
(b. 1797 - d. 1843)
21 Jun 1843 - 23 Jun 1843 William S.
Derrick (acting) (b. 1802 -
d. 1852)
24 Jun 1843 - 28 Feb 1844 Abel Parker
Upshur
(b. 1790 - d. 1844)
(acting to 23 Jul 1843)
29 Feb 1844 - 31 Mar 1844 John Nelson
(acting)
(b. 1794 - d. 1860)
1 Apr 1844 - 10 Mar 1845 John
Caldwell Calhoun
(b. 1782 - d. 1850)
10 Mar 1845 - 7 Mar 1849 James
Buchanan
(b. 1791 - d. 1868)
7 Mar 1849 - 22 Jul 1850 John
Middleton Clayton
(b. 1796 - d. 1856)
23 Jul 1850 - 24 Oct 1852 Daniel Webster
(2nd time) (s.a.)
25 Oct 1852 - 5 Nov 1852 Charles M.
Conrad (acting) (b. 1804 -
d. 1878)
6 Nov 1852 - 3 Mar 1853
Edward
Everett
(b. 1794 - d. 1865)
4 Mar 1853 - 7 Mar 1853
William Hunter (1st time)(acting) (b. 1805 - d.
1886)
8 Mar 1853 - 6 Mar 1857 William
Learned Marcy
(b. 1786 - d. 1857)
6 Mar 1857 - 14 Dec 1860 Lewis
Cass
(b. 1782 - d. 1866)
15 Dec 1860 - 16 Dec 1860 William Hunter
(2nd time)(acting) (s.a.)
17 Dec 1860 - 5 Mar 1861 Jeremiah Sullivan
Black (b. 1810
- d. 1883)
6 Mar 1861 - 4 Mar 1869
William Henry Seward
(b. 1801 - d. 1872)
5 Mar 1869 - 16 Mar 1869 Elihu
Benjamin Washburne
(b. 1816 - d. 1887)
17 Mar 1869 - 12 Mar 1877 Hamilton
Fish
(b. 1808 - d. 1893)
12 Mar 1877 - 7 Mar 1881 William
Maxwell Evarts
(b. 1818 - d. 1901)
7 Mar 1881 - 19 Dec 1881 James
Gillespie Blaine (1st time) (b.
1830 - d. 1893)
19 Dec 1881 - 6 Mar 1885 Frederick
Theodore Frelinghuysen
(b. 1817 - d. 1885)
7 Mar 1885 - 6 Mar 1889
Thomas Francis Bayard
(b. 1828 - d. 1898)
7 Mar 1889 - 4 Jun 1892 James
Gillespie Blaine (2nd time)
(s.a.)
4 Jun 1892 - 29 Jun 1892 William F.
Wharton (1st time)
(b. 1847 - d. 1919)
(acting)
29 Jun 1892 - 23 Feb 1893 John Watson
Foster
(b. 1836 - d. 1917)
24 Feb 1893 - 6 Mar 1893 William F.
Warton (2nd time)
(s.a.)
(acting)
7 Mar 1893 - 28 May 1895 Walter
Quintin Gresham
(b. 1832 - d. 1895)
28 May 1895 - 31 May 1895
Edwin F. Uhl (1st time)(acting) (b.
1841 - d. 1901)
31 May 1895 - 1 Jun 1895 Alvey A. Adee
(1st time)(acting) (b. 1842 - d. 1924)
1 Jun 1895 - 9 Jun
1895 Edwin F. Uhl (2nd
time)(acting) (s.a.)
10 Jun 1895 - 5 Mar 1897 Richard
Olney
(b. 1835 - d. 1917)
6 Mar 1897 - 27 Apr 1898 John
Sherman
(b. 1823 - d. 1900)
28 Apr 1898 - 16 Sep 1898 William Rufus
Day
(b. 1849 - d. 1923)
17 Sep 1898 - 29 Sep 1898 Alvey A. Adee
(2nd time)(acting) (s.a.)
30 Sep 1898 - 1 Jul 1905 John
Milton
Hay
(b. 1838 - d. 1905)
1 Jul 1905 - 18 Jul 1905 Francis B.
Loomis (acting) (b. 1861 -
d. 1948)
19 Jul 1905 - 27 Jan 1909 Elihu
Root
(b. 1845 - d. 1937)
27 Jan 1909 - 5 Mar 1909 Robert
Bacon
(b. 1860 - d. 1919)
6 Mar 1909 - 5 Mar 1913
Philander Chase Knox
(b. 1853 - d. 1921)
5 Mar 1913 - 9 Jun 1915
William Jennings Bryan
(b. 1860 - d. 1925)
9 Jun 1915 - 13 Feb 1920 Robert
Lansing
(b. 1864 - d. 1928)
(acting to 23 Jun 1915)
14 Feb 1920 - 14 Mar 1920 Frank Lyon Polk
(acting) (b.
1871 - d. 1943)
23 Mar 1920 - 4 Mar 1921 Bainbridge
Colby
(b. 1869 - d. 1950)
5 Mar 1921 - 4 Mar 1925
Charles Evans Hughes
(b. 1862 - d. 1948)
5 Mar 1925 - 28 Mar 1929 Frank
Billings Kellogg
(b. 1856 - d. 1937)
28 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933 Henry
Lewis Stimson
(b. 1867 - d. 1950)
4 Mar 1933 - 30 Nov 1944 Cordell
Hull
(b. 1871 - d. 1955)
1 Dec 1944 - 27 Jun 1945 Edward
Reilly Stettinius
(b. 1900 - d. 1949)
28 Jun 1945 - 3 Jul 1945 Joseph C.
Grew (acting)
(b. 1880 - d. 1965)
3 Jul 1945 - 21 Jan 1947 James
Francis Byrnes
(b. 1879 - d. 1972)
21 Jan 1947 - 20 Jan 1949 George Catlett
Marshall
(b. 1880 - d. 1959)
20 Jan 1949 - 21 Jan 1949 Robert Lovett
(acting)
(b. 1895 - d. 1986)
21 Jan 1949 - 20 Jan 1953 Dean Gooderham
Acheson
(b. 1893 - d. 1971)
20 Jan 1953 - 21 Jan 1953 H. Freeman
Matthews (acting) (b. 1899 - d.
1986)
21 Jan 1953 - 22 Apr 1959 John Foster
Dulles
(b. 1888 - d. 1959)
22 Apr 1959 - 20 Jan 1961 Christian
Archibald Herter (b. 1895 -
d. 1966)
20 Jan 1961 - 21 Jan 1961 Livingston T.
Merchant (acting) (b.
1903 - d. 1976)
21 Jan 1961 - 20 Jan 1969 Dean
Rusk
(b. 1909 - d. 1994)
20 Jan 1969 - 22 Jan 1969 Charles E.
Bohlen (acting) (b. 1904 -
d. 1974)
22 Jan 1969 - 4 Sep 1973 William
Pierce Rogers
(b. 1913 - d. 2001)
4 Sep 1973 - 21 Sep 1973 Kenneth
Rush (acting)
(b. 1910 - d. 1994)
21 Sep 1973 - 20 Jan 1977 Henry Alfred
Kissinger
(b. 1923 - d. 2023)
20 Jan 1977 - 23 Jan 1977 Philip C. Habib
(acting) (b.
1920 - d. 1992)
23 Jan 1977 - 28 Apr 1980 Cyrus Roberts
Vance
(b. 1917 - d. 2002)
28 Apr 1980 - 2 May 1980 Warren M.
Christopher (1st time)
(b. 1925 - d. 2011)
(acting)
2 May 1980 - 3 May 1980 David
D. Newsom (1st time)(acting) (b. 1918
- d. 2008)
3 May
1980
Richard N. Cooper (acting)
(b. 1934 - d. 2020)
3 May 1980 - 4 May 1980 David
D. Newsom (2nd time)(acting) (s.a.)
4 May 1980 - 8 May 1980
Warren M. Christopher (2nd time)
(s.a.)
(acting)
8 May 1980 - 18 Jan 1981 Edmund
Sixtus Muskie
(b. 1914 - d. 1996)
18 Jan 1981 - 22 Jan 1981 David D. Newsom
(3rd time)(acting) (s.a.)
22 Jan 1981 - 5 Jul 1982 Alexander
Meigs Haig, Jr. (b.
1924 - d. 2010)
5 Jul 1982 - 16 Jul 1982 Walter J.
Stoessel, Jr. (acting) (b. 1920 - d. 1986)
16 Jul 1982 - 20 Jan 1989 George P.
Shultz
(b. 1920 - d. 2021)
20 Jan 1989 - 25 Jan 1989 Michael H.
Armacost (acting) (b. 1937 - d.
2025)
25 Jan 1989 - 23 Aug 1992 James Addison
Baker III
(b. 1930)
23 Aug 1992 - 19 Jan 1993 Lawrence S.
Eagleburger
(b. 1930 - d. 2011)
(acting to 8 Dec 1992)
20 Jan
1993
Arnold L. Kanter (acting)
(b. 1945 - d. 2010)
20 Jan
1993
Frank G. Wisner II (acting)
(b. 1938 - d. 2025)
20 Jan 1993 - 7 Jan 1997 Warren M.
Christopher (3rd time)
(s.a.)
7 Jan 1997 - 23 Jan 1997 Strobe
Talbott (acting)
(b. 1946)
23 Jan 1997 - 20 Jan 2001 Madeleine
Korbel Albright (f) (b. 1937 - d.
2022)
20 Jan 2001 - 26 Jan 2005 Colin Luther
Powell
(b. 1937 - d. 2021)
26 Jan 2005 - 20 Jan 2009 Condoleezza
"Condi" Rice (f) (b. 1954)
20 Jan 2009 - 21 Jan 2009 William J. Burns
(acting) (b. 1956)
21 Jan 2009 - 1 Feb 2013
Hillary Rodham Clinton (f)
(b. 1947)
1 Feb 2013 - 20 Jan 2017 John F. Kerry
(b. 1943)
20 Jan 2017 - 1 Feb 2017 Thomas "Tom"
Shannon, Jr. (acting) (b. 1958)
1 Feb 2017 - 31 Mar 2018 Rex W.
Tillerson
(b. 1952)
1 Apr 2018 - 26 Apr 2018
John J. Sullivan
(acting)
(b. 1959)
26 Apr 2018 - 20 Jan 2021 Michael "Mike" R.
Pompeo
(b. 1963)
20 Jan 2021 - 26 Jan 2021 Daniel Bennett Smith
(acting) (b. 1956)
26 Jan 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Antony "Tony" J.
Blinken (b.
1962)
20 Jan 2025 - 21 Jan 2025 Lisa S. Dougherty Kenna
(f)(acing) (b. 1965)
21 Jan 2025
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Marco Antonio Rubio
(b. 1971)
U.S. Information Agency (USIA)
1 Aug 1953
U.S. Information Agency
(USIA)(known overseas as U.S. Information
Service
[USIS]) established as an independent
agency (from the
International Information Administration branch of the
Department of State).
1 Apr 1978 - 24 Aug 1982 Renamed
International Communication Agency (ICA).
1 Oct
1999
Information and exchange functions incorporated into the
U.S.
Department of State under the Under
Secretary of State for
Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (broadcasting
functions are
consolidated as an independent entity under the
Broadcasting
Board of Governors).
Directors
1 Aug 1953 - 5 Aug 1953 Arthur
Alden Kimball (acting) (b. 1908 - d.
1996)
5 Aug 1953 - 15 Nov 1956 Theodore Cuyler
Streibert
(b. 1899 - d. 1987)
16 Nov 1956 - 18 Dec 1956 Abbott
M. Washburn (1st time)
(b. 1915 - d. 2003)
(acting)
18 Dec 1956 - 27 Oct 1957 Arthur
Larson
(b. 1910 - d. 1993)
27 Oct 1957 - 15 Nov 1957 Abbott
M. Washburn (2nd time)
(s.a.)
(acting)
15 Nov 1957 - 1 Dec 1960 George Venable
Allen
(b. 1903 - d. 1970)
2 Dec 1960 - 15 Mar 1961 Abbott M.
Washburn (3rd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
15 Mar 1961 - 20 Jan 1964 Edward R.
Murrow
(b. 1908 - d. 1965)
20 Jan 1964 - 28 Feb 1964 Donald M. Wilson
(1st time)(acting)(b. 1925 - d. 2011)
28 Feb 1964 - 10 Jul 1965 Carl Thomas Rowan
(b. 1925 - d. 2000)
10 Jul 1965 - 1 Aug 1965 Donald
M. Wilson (2nd time)(acting)(s.a.)
1 Aug 1965 - 2 Sep 1965 Abbott
M. Washburn (4th time)
(s.a.)
(acting)
2 Sep 1965 - 6 Dec 1968 Leonard Harold
Marks
(b. 1916 - d. 2006)
7 Dec 1968 - 14 Feb 1969 Henry Loomis
(acting)
(b. 1919 - d. 2008)
14 Feb 1969 - 7 Feb 1973 Frank Joseph
Shakespeare, Jr. (b. 1925 - d. 2022)
8 Feb 1973 - 30 Nov 1976 James
Keogh
(b. 1916 - d. 2006)
1 Dec 1976 - 23 Mar 1977 Eugene P. Kopp (1st time)(acting)
(b. 1934 - d. 2019)
23 Mar 1977 - 29 Aug 1980 John
Edward Reinhardt
(b. 1920 - d. 2016)
1 Sep 1980 - 9 Jun 1981 John
William Shirley (acting)
(b. 1931)
9 Jun 1981 - 20 Jan 1989 Charles Z.
Wick
(b. 1917 - d. 2008)
20 Jan 1989 - 14 Apr 1989 Marvin L. Stone
(acting)
(b. 1924 - d. 2000)
14 Apr 1989 - 20 Mar 1991 Bruce Stuart Gelb
(b. 1927)
21 Mar 1991 - 7 Jun 1991 Eugene P. Kopp (2nd time)(acting)
(s.a.)
7 Jun 1991 - 19 Jan 1993 Henry Edward
Catto, Jr. (b.
1930 - d. 2011)
20 Jan 1993 - 25 May 1993 John Condayan
(acting)
(b. 1933 - d. 2017)
25 May 1993 - 30 Jun 1999 Joseph Daniel
Duffey
(b. 1932 - d. 2021)
1 Jul 1999 - 1 Oct 1999 Penn
Kemble
(acting)
(b. 1941 - d. 2005)
Defense Department
Flag of Secretary Adopted 7 Oct
1947
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Department of
Defense
18 Sep
1947
Department of Defense (originally designated National
Military
Establishment), including the Departments of the Army,
Navy,
and Air Force.
Secretaries of Defense
17 Sep 1947 - 28 Mar
1949 James V.
Forrestal
(b. 1892 - d. 1949)
28 Mar 1949 - 20 Sep
1950 Louis A. Johnson
(b. 1891 - d. 1956)
21 Sep 1950 - 12 Sep
1951 George C. Marshall
(b.
1880 - d. 1959)
12 Sep 1951 - 20 Jan
1953 Robert A. Lovett
(b.
1895 - d. 1986)
(acting to 16 Sep 1951)
20 Jan 1953 - 28 Jan 1953 Wilfred J. McNeil
(acting) (b. 1901 - d. 1979)
28 Jan 1953 - 8 Oct 1957 Charles E.
Wilson
(b. 1890 - d. 1961)
9 Oct 1957 - 1
Dec 1959 Neil H.
McElroy
(b. 1904 - d. 1972)
2 Dec 1959 - 20 Jan 1961 Thomas S.
Gates, Jr.
(b. 1906 - d. 1983)
21 Jan 1961 - 29 Feb 1968 Robert S.
McNamara
(b. 1916 - d. 2009)
1 Mar 1968 - 20 Jan
1969 Clark M. Clifford
(b. 1906 - d. 1998)
20 Jan 1969 - 22 Jan 1969 Stanley R. Resor
(acting)
(b. 1917 - d. 2012)
22 Jan 1969 - 29 Jan 1973 Melvin R. Laird
(b. 1922 - d. 2016)
30 Jan 1973 - 24 May 1973 Elliot
L. Richardson
(b. 1920 - d. 1999)
24 May 1973 - 2 Jul
1973 William P. Clements, Jr.
(acting) (b. 1917 - d. 2011)
2 Jul 1973 - 19 Nov 1975 James R.
Schlesinger
(b. 1929 - d.
2014)
20 Nov 1975 - 20 Jan
1977 Donald H. Rumsfeld (1st time)
(b. 1932 - d. 2021)
21 Jan 1977 - 20 Jan
1981 Harold
Brown
(b. 1927 - d. 2019)
21 Jan 1981 - 23 Nov
1987 Caspar W.
Weinberger
(b. 1917 - d. 2006)
23 Nov 1987 - 20 Jan
1989 Frank C. Carlucci III
(b. 1930 - d. 2018)
20 Jan 1989 - 21 Mar
1989 William H. Taft IV
(acting) (b.
1945)
21 Mar 1989 - 20 Jan
1993 Richard B.
Cheney
(b. 1941)
21 Jan 1993 - 3 Feb
1994 Leslie "Les"
Aspin
(b. 1938 - d. 1995)
3 Feb 1994 - 23 Jan
1997 William J.
Perry
(b. 1927)
24 Jan 1997 - 20 Jan
2001 William S.
Cohen
(b. 1940)
20 Jan 2001 - 18 Dec
2006 Donald H. Rumsfeld (2nd
time) (s.a.)
18 Dec 2006 - 30 Jun 2011
Robert M.
Gates
(b. 1943)
1 Jul 2011 - 26 Feb 2013
Leon E. Panetta
(b. 1938)
27 Feb 2013 - 17 Feb 2015
Charles "Chuck" T. Hagel
(b. 1946)
17 Feb 2015 - 19 Jan 2017 Ashton "Ash" B.
Carter (b.
1954 - d. 2022)
19 Jan 2017 - 20 Jan 2017 Robert O. Work (acting)
(b. 1953)
20 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2018 James "Jim" N.
Mattis
(b. 1950)
1 Jan 2019 - 24 Jun 2019
Patrick M. Shanahan
(acting) (b. 1962)
24 Jun 2019 - 15 Jul 2019 Mark T. Esper (1st
time)(acting) (b. 1964)
15 Jul 2019 - 23 Jul 2019
Richard V. Spencer (acting)
(b. 1954)
23 Jul 2019 - 9 Nov 2020 Mark T. Esper (2nd
time) (s.a.)
9 Nov 2020 - 20 Jan 2021 Christopher C.
Miller (acting) (b. 1965)
20 Jan 2021 - 22 Jan 2021 David
L. Norquist
(acting)
(b. 1966)
22 Jan 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Lloyd J. Austin
III
(b. 1953)
1 Jan 2024 - 5 Jan 2024 Kathleen H.
Hicks (f)(1st time) (b. 1970)
(acting for Austin)
11 Feb 2024 - 13 Feb 2024 Kathleen H. Hicks
(f)(2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting for Austin)
20 Jan 2025 - 25 Jan 2025 Robert G. Salesses
(acting) (b. 1957)
25 Jan 2025
-
Peter "Pete" B. Hegseth
(b. 1980)
Joint Chiefs
Flag of Chairman Adopted 1949
|
Joint Chiefs of Staff
16 Aug
1949
Office of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff created.
Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief
20 Jul 1942 - 21 Mar 1949 William Daniel
Leahy (Navy)
(b. 1875 - d. 1955)
Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
16 Aug 1949 - 15 Aug 1953 Omar Nelson
Bradley
(Army)
(b. 1893 - d. 1981)
15 Aug 1953 - 15 Aug 1957 Arthur William
Radford (Navy) (b. 1896 -
d. 1973)
15 Aug 1957 - 30 Sep 1960 Nathan Farragut
Twining (Air Force)(b. 1897 - d. 1982)
1 Oct 1960 - 30 Sep 1962 Lyman
Louis Lemnitzer
(Army) (b. 1899 - d.
1988)
1 Oct 1962 - 1 Jul 1964
Maxwell Davenport Taylor (Army) (b.
1901 - d. 1987)
3 Jul 1964 - 2 Jul 1970 Earle
Gilmore Wheeler
(Army) (d. 1908 - d.
1975)
2 Jul 1970 - 1 Jul 1974
Thomas Hinman Moorer
(Navy) (b.
1912 - d. 2004)
1 Jul 1974 - 20 Jun 1978 George
Schratchley
Brown
(b. 1918 - d. 1978)
(Air Force)
21 Jun 1978 - 18 Jun 1982 David Charles
Jones (Air Force) (b. 1921 - d. 2013)
18 Jun 1983 - 30 Sep 1985 John William
Vessey, Jr. (Army) (b. 1922 - d. 2016)
1 Oct 1985 - 30 Sep 1989 William
James Crowe, Jr. (Navy) (b. 1925 - d.
2007)
1 Oct 1989 - 30 Sep 1993 Colin
Luther Powell
(Army)
(b. 1937 - d. 2021)
1 Oct 1993 - 24 Oct 1993 David E.
Jeremiah (Navy) (acting) (b. 1934 - d. 2013)
25 Oct 1993 - 30 Sep 1997 John M.
Shalikashvili (Army) (b.
1936 - d. 2011)
1 Oct 1997 - 30 Sep 2001 Henry H.
Shelton
(Army)
(b. 1942)
1 Oct 2001 - 30 Sep 2005 Richard
"Dick" B. Myers (Air Force)(b. 1942)
1 Oct 2005 - 30 Sep 2007 Peter Pace (Marine
Corps)
(b. 1945)
1 Oct 2007 - 30 Sep 2011
Michael "Mike" Mullen (Navy)
(b. 1946)
1 Oct 2011 - 30 Sep 2015 Martin
"Marty" E. Dempsey (Army) (b. 1952)
1 Oct 2015 - 30 Sep 2019 Joseph
F. Dunford, Jr.
(b. 1955)
(Marine Corps)
1 Oct 2019 - 30 Sep 2023 Mark A.
Milley (Army)
(b. 1958)
1 Oct 2023 - 21 Feb 2025 Charles Q. Brown,
Jr. (Air Force) (b. 1962)
21 Feb 2025 - 12 Apr 2025
Christopher W. Grady (Navy)(acting)(b. 1962)
12 Apr 2025
-
John Daniel "Dan" Caine
(b.
1968)
Department of the Army
1903 - 12 Jun 1956
|
Adopted 12 Jun 1956 |
U.S. Army
12 Jun
1776
Board of War and Ordnance of the Continental Congress.
17 Oct
1777
Board of War of the Continental Congress.
7 Feb
1781
War Office
7 Aug
1789
War Department established.
18 Sep
1947
War Department becomes the Department of the Army, a
branch of the Department of Defense.
President of the
Board of War and Ordnance of the
Continental Congress
13 Jun 1776 - 17 Oct 1777 John
Adams
(b. 1735 - d. 1826)
Presidents of the Board
of War of the Continental Congress
17 Oct 1777 - 27 Nov 1777 John
Adams
(s.a.)
27 Nov 1777 - 30 Oct 1781 Horatio
Gates
(b. 1727 - d. 1806)
Secretaries at War
30 Oct 1781 - 29 Oct 1783 Benjamin
Lincoln
(b. 1733 - d. 1810)
4 Nov 1783 - 8 Mar 1785
Joseph Carleton (acting)
(b. 1754 - d. 1812)
8 Mar 1785 - 12 Sep 1789 Henry
Knox
(b. 1750 - d. 1806)
Secretaries of War
12 Sep 1789 - 31 Dec 1794 Henry
Knox
(s.a.)
2 Jan 1795 - 27 Jan 1796 Timothy
Pickering
(b. 1745 - d. 1829)
27 Jan 1796 - 1 Jun 1800 James
McHenry
(b. 1753 - d. 1816)
1 Jun 1800 - 12 Jun 1800 Benjamin
Stoddert (acting)
(b. 1751 - d.
1813)
12 Jun 1800 - 31 Jan 1801 Samuel
Dexter
(b. 1761 - d. 1816)
3 Feb 1801 - 4 Mar 1801 Roger Griswold
(acting)
(b.
1762 - d. 1812)
5 Mar 1801 - 16 Feb 1809 Henry
Dearborn
(b. 1751 - d. 1829)
17 Feb 1809 - 7 Mar 1809 John A.
Smith (acting)
(b. 1773? - d. 1811)
7 Mar 1809 - 31 Dec 1812 William
Eustis
(b. 1753 - d. 1825)
1 Jan 1813 - 5 Feb 1813 James
Monroe (1st time)(acting) (b. 1758 - d.
1831)
5 Feb 1813 - 27 Sep 1814 John Armstrong,
Jr.
(b. 1758 - d. 1843)
27 Sep 1814 - 2 Mar 1815 James
Monroe (2nd time)
(s.a.)
(acting
to 1 Oct 1814)
2 Mar 1815 - 1 Aug 1815 Alexander J.
Dallas (acting) (b. 1759 - d. 1817)
1 Aug 1815 - 22 Oct 1816 William Harris
Crawford
(b. 1772 - d. 1834)
22 Oct 1816 - 8 Oct 1817 George
Graham (acting)
(b. 1772 - d. 1830)
8 Oct 1817 - 7 Mar 1825 John
Caldwell Calhoun
(b. 1782 - d. 1850)
7 Mar 1825 - 24 May 1828 James
Barbour
(b. 1775 - d. 1842)
26 May 1828 - 20 Jun 1828 Samuel L. Southard
(acting) (b. 1787 -
d. 1842)
21 Jun 1828 - 9 Mar 1829 Peter B.
Porter
(b. 1773 - d. 1844)
9 Mar 1829 - 18 Jun 1831 John
Henry
Eaton
(b. 1790 - d. 1856)
18 Jun 1831 - 21 Jul 1831 Philip G.
Randolph (acting) (b. 1801 -
d. 1836)
21 Jul 1831 - 8 Aug 1831 Roger B. Taney
(acting) (b.
1777 - d. 1864)
8 Aug 1831 - 5 Oct 1836 Lewis
Cass
(b. 1782
- d. 1866)
5 Oct 1836 - 26 Oct 1836 Carey A.
Harris (acting)
(b. 1806 - d. 1842)
25 Oct 1836 - 7 Mar 1837 Benjamin F.
Butler (acting) (b. 1795 - d.
1858)
7 Mar 1837 - 5 Mar 1841 Joel
Roberts Poinsett
(b. 1779 - d. 1851)
5 Mar 1841 - 13 Sep 1841 John
Bell
(b. 1797 - d. 1869)
13 Sep 1841 - 12 Oct 1841 Albert
Miller Lea (acting)
(b. 1809 - d. 1891)
12 Oct 1841 - 3 Mar 1843 John
Cranfield Spencer
(b. 1788 - d. 1858)
8 Mar 1843 - 14 Feb 1844 James
Madison Porter
(b. 1793 - d. 1862)
15 Feb 1844 - 4 Mar 1845 William
Wilkins
(b. 1779 - d.
1865)
6 Mar 1845 - 8 Mar 1849
William Learned Marcy
(b. 1786 - d. 1857)
8 Mar 1849 - 14 Mar 1849 Reverdy
Johnson (acting)
(b. 1796 - d. 1876)
14 Mar 1849 - 23 Jul 1850 George Walker
Crawford
(b. 1798 - d. 1872)
23 Jul 1850 - 24 Jul 1850 Samuel J.
Anderson (acting) (d.
1874)
24 Jul 1850 - 15 Aug 1850 Winfield Scott
(acting)
(b. 1786 - d. 1866)
15 Aug 1850 - 7 Mar 1853 Charles
Magill Conrad
(b. 1804 - d. 1878)
7 Mar 1853 - 3 Mar 1857
Jefferson
Davis
(b. 1808 - d. 1889)
3 Mar 1857 - 6 Mar 1857
Samuel Cooper (acting)
(b. 1798 - d. 1876)
6 Mar 1857 - 29 Dec 1860
John Buchanan Floyd
(b. 1806 - d. 1863)
29 Dec 1860 - 4 Mar 1861 Joseph
Holt
(b. 1807 - d. 1849)
(acting to 18 Jan 1861)
5 Mar 1861 - 15 Jan 1862 Simon
Cameron
(b. 1799 - d. 1889)
15 Jan 1862 - 20 Jan 1862 Thomas
Alexander Scott (acting) (b. 1823 - d.
1881)
20 Jan 1862 - 28 May 1868 Edwin McMasters
Stanton (b.
1814 - d. 1869)
(suspended by President Johnson 12 Aug 1867 - 13
Jan 1868)
12 Aug 1867 - 13 Jan 1868 Ulysses S. Grant
(acting) (b. 1822 - d.
1885)
1 Jun 1868 - 13 Mar
1869 John McAllister Schofield
(b. 1831 - d. 1906)
13 Mar 1869 - 6 Sep 1869 John A.
Rawlins
(b. 1831 - d. 1869)
6 Sep 1869 - 25 Oct 1869 William
Tecumseh Sherman (acting) (b. 1820 - d. 1891)
25 Oct 1869 - 2 Mar 1876 William
Worth Belknap
(b. 1829 - d. 1890)
2 Mar 1876 - 8 Mar 1876 George
Maxwell Robeson (acting) (b. 1829 - d.
1897)
8 Mar 1876 - 22 May 1876 Alphonso
Taft
(b. 1810 - d. 1891)
22 May 1876 - 12 Mar 1877 James Donald
Cameron
(b. 1833 - d. 1918)
12 Mar 1877 - 10 Dec 1879 George Washington
McCrary (b. 1835 - d.
1890)
10 Dec 1879 - 5 Mar 1881 Alexander
Ramsey
(b. 1815 - d. 1903)
5 Mar 1881 - 5 Mar 1885
Robert Todd Lincoln
(b. 1843 - d. 1926)
5 Mar 1885 - 5 Mar 1889
William C. Endicott
(b. 1826 - d. 1900)
5 Mar 1889 - 5 Nov 1891
Redfield
Proctor
(b. 1831 - d. 1908)
5 Nov 1891 - 17 Dec 1891 Lewis A.
Grant (acting)
(b. 1828 - d. 1918)
17 Dec 1891 - 5 Mar 1893 Stephen B.
Elkins
(b. 1841 - d. 1911)
5 Mar 1893 - 5 Mar 1897
Daniel Scott Lamont
(b. 1851 - d. 1905)
5 Mar 1897 - 1 Aug 1899
Russel Alexander Alger
(b. 1836 - d. 1907)
1 Aug 1899 - 31 Jan
1904 Elihu
Root
(b. 1854 - d.
1937)
1 Feb 1904 - 30 Jun 1908 William
Howard Taft
(b. 1857 - d. 1930)
1 Jul 1908 - 11 Mar 1909 Luke
Edward Wright
(b. 1846 - d. 1922)
12 Mar 1909 - 21 May 1911 Jacob McGavock
Dickinson (b.
1851 - d. 1928)
22 May 1911 - 4 Mar 1913 Henry
Lewis Stimson (1st time) (b. 1867 -
d. 1950)
5 Mar 1913 - 10 Feb 1916 Lindley
Miller Garrison
(b. 1864 - d. 1932)
10 Feb 1916 - 9 Mar 1916 Hugh L.
Scott (acting)
(b. 1853 - d. 1934)
9 Mar 1916 - 4 Mar 1921 Newton Diehl
Baker
(b. 1871 - d. 1937)
5 Mar 1921 - 13 Oct 1925 John
Wingate Weeks
(b. 1860 - d. 1926)
14 Oct 1925 - 5 Mar 1929 Dwight
Filley Davis
(b. 1879 - d. 1945)
6 Mar 1929 - 18 Nov 1929 James
William Good
(b. 1866 - d. 1929)
18 Nov 1929 - 3 Mar 1933 Patrick
Jay Hurley
(b. 1883 - d. 1963)
(acting
to 9 Dec 1929)
4 Mar 1933 - 27 Aug 1936 George Henry
Dern
(b. 1862 - d. 1936)
27 Aug 1936 - 20 Jun 1940 Harry H.
Woodring
(b. 1890 - d. 1967)
(acting to 25 Sep 1936)
20 Jun 1940 - 10 Jul 1940 Louis A. Johnson
(acting) (b. 1891 - d.
1936)
10 Jul 1940 - 21 Sep 1945 Henry Lewis Stimson (2nd
time) (s.a.)
21 Sep 1945 - 18 Jul 1947 Robert Porter
Patterson (b.
1891 - d. 1952)
(acting to 27 Sep 1945)
19 Jul 1947 - 17 Sep 1947 Kenneth Claiborne
Royall (b. 1894
- d. 1971)
Secretaries of the Army
18 Sep 1947 - 27 Apr 1949 Kenneth
Claiborne
Royall
(s.a.)
28 Apr 1949 - 12 Apr 1950
Gordon
Gray
(b. 1909 - d. 1982)
(acting to 19 Jun 1949)
12 Apr 1950 - 20 Jan 1953 Frank Pace,
Jr.
(b. 1912 - d. 1988)
20 Jan 1953 - 4 Feb 1953 Earl D.
Johnson (acting) (b.
1905 - d. 1990)
4 Feb 1953 - 21 Jul 1955 Robert TenBroek
Stevens
(b. 1899 - d. 1983)
21 Jul 1955 - 20 Jan 1961 Wilber Marion
Brucker
(b. 1894 - d. 1968)
20 Jan 1961 - 23 Jan 1961 .... (acting)
23 Jan 1961 - 30 Jun 1962 Elvis Jacob Stahr,
Jr.
(b. 1916 - d. 1998)
30 Jun 1962 - 5 Jul 1962 Stephen
Ailes (1st time)(acting) (b. 1912 - d. 2001)
5 Jul 1962 - 21 Jan 1964 Cyrus Roberts
Vance
(b. 1917 - d. 2002)
28 Jan 1964 - 1 Jul 1965 Stephen
Ailes (2nd time)
(s.a.)
2 Jul 1965 - 30 Jun 1971 Stanley R.
Resor
(b. 1917 - d. 2012)
1 Jul 1971 - 14 May 1973 Robert F.
Froehlke
(b. 1922 - d. 2016)
15 May 1973 - 3 Jul 1975 Howard
"Bo" H.
Callaway
(b. 1927 - d. 2014)
3 Jul 1975 - 5 Aug 1975
Norman R. Augustine (acting)
(b. 1935)
5 Aug 1975 - 13 Feb 1977 Martin R.
Hoffmann
(b. 1932 - d. 2014)
14 Feb 1977 - 20 Jan 1981 Clifford L. Alexander,
Jr. (b.
1933 - d. 2022)
21 Jan 1981 - 29 Jan 1981 Percy A. Pierre
(acting) (b. 1939)
29 Jan 1981 - 14 Aug 1989 John O. Marsh,
Jr.
(b. 1926 - d. 2019)
14 Aug 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 Michael P.W.
Stone
(b. 1925 - d. 1995)
20 Jan 1993 - 26 Aug 1993 John W.
Shannon, Sr. (acting) (b. 1933 - d.
2017)
27 Aug 1993 - 21 Nov 1993 Gordon R. Sullivan
(acting) (b. 1937 - d. 2024)
22 Nov 1993 - 2 Jan 1998 Togo D. West,
Jr.
(b. 1942 - d. 2018)
2 Jan 1998 - 2 Jul 1998
Robert M. Walker
(acting)
(b. 1949)
2 Jul 1998 - 20 Jan 2001 Louis
Caldera
(b. 1956)
20 Jan 2001 - 4 Mar 2001 Gregory R.
Dahlberg (acting) (b. 1951)
5 Mar 2001 - 31 May 2001 Joseph W.
Westphal (acting) (b. 1948)
31 May 2001 - 9 May 2003 Thomas E.
White
(b. 1943)
9 May 2003 - 19 Nov 2004 Romer
Leslie "Les"
Brownlee (b.
1939 - d. 2022)
(acting)
19 Nov 2004 - 9 Mar 2007 Francis J.
Harvey
(b. 1944)
9 Mar 2007 - 21 Sep 2009 Preston
"Pete" M. Geren
(b. 1952)
(acting
to 13 Jul 2007)
21 Sep 2009 - 31 Oct 2015 John M.
McHugh
(b. 1948)
3 Nov 2015 - 11 Jan 2016 Eric K. Fanning
(1st time)(acting) (b. 1968)
11 Jan 2016 - 18 May 2016 Patrick J. Murphy
(acting)
(b. 1973)
18 May 2016 - 20 Jan 2017 Eric K.
Fanning (2nd time) (s.a.)
20 Jan 2017 - 2 Aug 2017 Robert M. Speer
(acting)
(b. 1956)
2 Aug 2017 - 20 Nov 2017 Ryan D. McCarthy
(1st time)(acting)(b. 1973?)
20 Nov 2017 - 23 Jul 2019 Mark T.
Esper
(b. 1964)
24 Jun 2019 - 15 Jul 2019 Ryan D. McCarthy (2nd
time) (s.a.)
(acting for Esper)
23 Jul 2019 - 20 Jan 2021 Ryan D. McCarthy (3rd
time) (s.a.)
(acting to 30 Sep 2019)
20 Jan 2021 - 27 May 2021 John
E. Whitley
(acting)
(b. 1970)
27 May 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Christine E. Wormuth
(f) (b. 1969)
20 Jan 2025 - 25 Feb 2025 Mark F. Averill (acting)
25 Feb 2025 -
Daniel "Dan" P. Driscoll
(b. 1986)
Army
Army Chief of Staff Flag
|
19 Jun
1775
Post of Commanding General is created by the
Continental Congress.
9 Aug
1903
Post replaced by that of Chief of Staff of the Army.
General and Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the
United Colonies
(from 9 Sep 1776, of the United States of America)
15 Jun 1775 - 23 Dec 1783 George
Washington
(b. 1732 - d. 1799)
Senior Officers
23 Dec 1783 - 20 Jun 1784 Henry
Knox
(b. 1750 - d. 1806)
20 Jun 1784 - 12 Aug 1784 John
Doughty
(b. 1754 - d. 1826)
12 Aug 1784 - 4 Mar 1791 Josiah
Harmar
(b. 1753 - d. 1813)
4 Mar 1791 - 5 Mar 1792
Arthur St.
Clair
(b. 1763 - d. 1818)
13 Apr 1792 - 15 Dec 1796 Anthony
Wayne
(b. 1745 - d. 1786)
15 Dec 1796 - 13 Jul 1798 James Wilkinson
(1st
time)
(b. 1757 - d. 1825)
13 Jul 1798 - 14 Dec 1799 George
Washington
(s.a.)
14 Dec 1799 - 15 Jun 1800 Alexander
Hamilton
(b. 1757 - d. 1804)
15 Jun 1800 - 27 Jan 1812 James Wilkinson
(2nd
time)
(s.a.)
27 Jan 1812 - 15 Jun 1815 Henry
Dearborn
(b. 1751 - d. 1829)
15 Jun 1815 - 1 Jun 1821 Jacob
Jennings
Brown
(b. 1775 - d. 1828)
Commanding Generals of the Army
1 Jun 1821 - 24 Feb 1828 Jacob
Jennings
Brown
(s.a.)
29 May 1828 - 25 Jun 1841 Alexander
Macomb
(b. 1782 - d. 1841)
5 Jul 1841 - 1 Nov 1861
Winfield
Scott
(b. 1786 - d. 1866)
1 Nov 1861 - 11 Mar 1862 George
Brinton
McClellan
(b. 1826 - d. 1885)
23 Jul 1862 - 9 Mar 1864 Henry
Wagner
Halleck
(b. 1815 - d. 1872)
9 Mar 1864 - 4 Mar 1869
Ulysses S.
Grant
(b. 1822 - d. 1885)
8 Mar 1869 - 1 Nov 1883
William Tecumseh
Sherman
(b. 1820 - d. 1891)
1 Nov 1883 - 5 Aug 1888
Philip Henry
Sheridan
(b. 1831 - d. 1888)
14 Aug 1888 - 29 Sep 1895 John McAllister
Schofield
(b. 1831 - d. 1906)
5 Oct 1895 - 8 Aug 1903
Nelson Appleton
Miles
(b. 1839 - d. 1925)
8 Aug 1903 - 15 Aug 1903
Samuel Baldwin Marks
Young
(b. 1840 - d. 1924)
Chiefs of Staff of the Army
15 Aug 1903 - 8 Jan 1904 Samuel
Baldwin Marks
Young
(s.a.)
9 Jan 1904 - 14 Jan 1906 Adna Romanza
Chaffee
(b. 1842 - d. 1914)
15 Jan 1906 - 13 Apr 1906 John Coalter
Bates
(b. 1842 - d. 1919)
14 Apr 1906 - 21 Apr 1910 James Franklin
Bell
(b. 1856 - d. 1919)
22 Apr 1910 - 20 Apr 1914 Leonard
Wood
(b. 1860 - d. 1927)
21 Apr 1914 - 15 Nov 1914 William Wallace
Wotherspoon
(b. 1850 - d. 1921)
16 Nov 1914 - 21 Sep 1917 Hugh Lenox
Scott
(b. 1853 - d. 1934)
22 Sep 1917 - 18 May 1918 Tasker Howard
Bliss
(b. 1853 - d. 1930)
19 May 1918 - 30 Jun 1921 Peyton Conway
March
(b. 1864 - d. 1955)
1 Jul 1921 - 13 Sep 1924 John
Joseph
Pershing
(b. 1860 - d. 1948)
14 Sep 1924 - 20 Nov 1926 John Leonard
Hines
(b. 1868 - d. 1968)
21 Nov 1926 - 20 Nov 1930 Charles Pelot
Summerall
(b. 1867 - d. 1955)
21 Nov 1930 - 1 Oct 1935 Douglas
MacArthur
(b. 1880 - d. 1964)
2 Oct 1935 - 31 Aug 1939 Malin
Craig
(b. 1875 - d. 1945)
1 Sep 1939 - 18 Nov 1945 George
Catlett
Marshall
(b. 1880 - d. 1959)
19 Nov 1945 - 7 Feb 1948 Dwight
David
Eisenhower
(b. 1890 - d. 1969)
7 Feb 1948 - 16 Aug 1949 Omar
Nelson
Bradley
(b. 1893 - d. 1981)
16 Aug 1949 - 15 Aug 1953 Joseph Lawton
Collins
(b. 1896 - d. 1987)
16 Aug 1953 - 30 Jun 1955 Matthew Bunker
Ridgway
(b. 1895 - d. 1993)
30 Jun 1955 - 30 Jun 1959 Maxwell
Davenport
Taylor
(b. 1901 - d. 1987)
1 Jul 1959 - 30 Sep 1960 Lyman
Louis
Lemnitzer
(b. 1899 - d. 1988)
1 Oct 1960 - 30 Sep 1962 George
Henry
Decker
(b. 1902 - d. 1980)
1 Oct 1962 - 2 Jul 1964 Earle
Gilmore
Wheeler
(b. 1908 - d. 1975)
3 Jul 1964 - 2 Jul 1968
Harold Keith
Johnson
(b. 1912 - d. 1983)
3 Jul 1968 - 30 Jun 1972 William
Childs
Westmoreland
(b. 1914 - d. 2005)
1 Jul 1972 - 11 Oct 1972 Bruce
Palmer, Jr.
(acting)
(b. 1913 - d. 2000)
12 Oct 1972 - 4 Sep 1974 Creighton
William Abrams, Jr. (b.
1914 - d. 1974)
4 Sep 1974 - 30 Sep
1976 Frederick Carlton
Weyand
(b. 1916 - d. 2010)
(acting to 3 Oct 1974)
1 Oct 1976 - 21 Jun 1979 Bernard William
Rogers
(b. 1921 - d. 2008)
22 Jun 1979 - 21 Jun 1983 Edward Charles
"Shy" Meyer
(b. 1928 - d. 2020)
23 Jun 1983 - 23 Jun 1987 John Adams
Wickham,
Jr.
(b. 1928 - d. 2024)
23 Jun 1987 - 21 Jun 1991 Carl Edward
Vuono
(b. 1934)
21 Jun 1991 - 20 Jun 1995 Gordon Russell
Sullivan
(b. 1937 - d. 2024)
20 Jun 1995 - 22 Jun 1999 Dennis Joe
Reimer
(b. 1939)
22 Jun 1999 - 11 Jun 2003 Eric Ken
Shinseki
(b. 1942)
11 Jun 2003 - 1 Aug 2003 John M.
Keane
(acting)
(b. 1943)
1 Aug 2003 - 10 Apr 2007 Peter J.
Schoomaker
(b. 1946)
10 Apr 2007 - 11 Apr 2011 George William Casey,
Jr. (b. 1948)
11 Apr 2011 - 7 Sep 2011 Martin E.
Dempsey
(b. 1952)
7 Sep 2011 - 14 Aug 2015 Raymond T.
Odierno
(b. 1954 - d. 2021)
14 Aug 2015 - 9 Aug 2019
Mark A. Milley
(b. 1958)
9 Aug 2019 - 4 Aug 2023 James C.
McConville
(b. 1959)
4 Aug 2023
-
Randy A. George
(b. 1964)
(acting to 21 Sep 2023)
Army Corps of Engineers
ACE Organizational Color
|
Adopted 6 Apr 1897 Vessel Flag
|
U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers
16 Jun
1775
Post of Chief Engineer of the Continental Army
created.
11 Mar
1779
Continental Army Corps of Engineers formed.
26 Feb
1783
Disbanded.
9 May
1794
Corps of Artillerists and Engineers in the U.S. Army.
16 Mar
1802
Army Corps of Engineers re-established.
1 Aug
1818
Separate Topographical Bureau of the War Department.
7 Jul
1838
Separate Corps of Topographical Engineers.
3 Mar
1863
Both fully integrated into the Corps of Engineers.
Chief Engineers, Continental Army (from 11 Mar
1779, Continental Army Corps of Engineers)
17 Jun 1775 - 5 Aug 1776 Richard
Gridley
(b. 1710 - d. 1796)
5 Aug 1776 - 1 Dec 1776 Rufus
Putnam
(b. 1738 - d. 1824)
22 Jul 1777 - 10 Oct 1783 Louis Lebègue
Duportail
(b. 1743 - d. 1802)
10 Oct 1783 - 26 Feb 1795 Post
abolished
Commander, Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
26 Feb 1795 - 7 May 1798 Stephen
Rochefontaine
(b. 1755 - d. 1814)
Commander, First Regiment Corps of
Artillerists and Engineers
7 May 1798 - 1 Apr 1802 Henry
Burbeck
(b. 1754 - d. 1848)
Chief Engineers
1 Apr 1802 - 31 Jul 1812 Jonathan
Williams
(b. 1750 - d. 1815)
(principal engineer to 19 Apr 1805)
31 Jul 1812 - 12 Nov 1818 Joseph Gardner
Swift
(b. 1783 - d. 1865)
12 Nov 1818 - 1 Jun 1821 Walker
Keith
Armistead
(b. 1785 - d. 1845)
1 Jun 1821 - 24 May 1828 Alexander
Macomb
(b. 1782 - d. 1841)
24 May 1828 - 6 Dec 1838 Charles
Gratiot
(b. 1786 - d. 1855)
7 Dec 1838 - 22 Apr 1864 Joseph
Gilbert
Totten
(b. 1788 - d. 1864)
Chiefs, Topographical Bureau
1 Aug 1818 - 15 Jan 1829 Issac
Roberdeau
(b. 1763 - d. 1829)
31 Jan 1829 - 11 Apr 1861 John James
Abert
(b. 1788 - d. 1863)
11 Apr 1861 - 9 Sep 1861 Hartman
Bache
(b. 1798 - d. 1872)
9 Sep 1861 - 5 Dec 1862
Stephen H.
Long
(b. 1784 - d. 1864)
5 Dec 1862 - 3 Mar 1863
Israel C. Woodruff
(b. 1815 - d. 1878)
Chiefs, Corps of Topographical Engineers
7 Jul 1838 - 9 Sep 1861 John
James
Abert
(s.a.)
11 Apr 1861 - 11 Dec 1861 Hartman Bache
(s.a.)
12 Dec 1861 - 3 Mar 1863 Stephen H.
Long
(s.a.)
Chief Engineer
22 Apr 1864 - 8 Aug 1866 Richard
Delafield
(b. 1798 - d. 1873)
United States Army Chief of Engineers and
Commanding Generals of the United States
Army Corps of Engineers
8 Aug 1866 - 30 Jun 1879 Andrew
Atkinson
Humphreys
(b. 1810 - d. 1883)
30 Jun 1879 - 6 Mar 1884 Horatio
Gouverneur Wright
(b. 1820 - d.
1899)
6 Mar 1884 - 27 Aug 1886 John
Newton
(b. 1823 - d. 1899)
28 Aug 1886 - 10 Oct 1886 John Moulder
Wilson (1st time) (b. 1837 - d.
1919)
(acting)
11 Oct 1886 - 30 Jun 1888 James Catham
Duane
(b. 1824 - d. 1897)
6 Jul 1888 - 10 May 1895 Thomas
Lincoln
Casey
(b. 1831 - d. 1896)
10 May 1895 - 1 Feb 1897 William
Price
Craighill
(b. 1833 - d. 1909)
1 Feb 1897 - 30 Apr 1901 John
Moulder Wilson (2nd time) (s.a.)
30 Apr 1901 - 2 May 1901 Henry
Martyn
Robert
(b. 1837 - d. 1923)
2 May 1901 - 3 May 1901 John
Whitney
Barlow
(b. 1838 - d. 1914)
3 May 1901 - 22 Jan 1904 George
Lewis Gillespie,
Jr. (b. 1841 -
d. 1913)
23 Jan 1904 - 25 May 1908 Alexander
Mackenzie
(b. 1844 - d. 1921)
26 May 1908 - 1 Jul 1908 ....
(acting)
2 Jul 1908 - 11 Jun 1910 William Louis
Marshall
(b. 1846 - d. 1920)
12 Jun 1910 - 11 Aug 1913 William Herbert
Bixby
(b. 1849 - d. 1928)
12 Aug 1913 - 11 Oct 1913 William Trent
Rossell
(b. 1849 - d. 1919)
12 Oct 1913 - 6 Mar 1916 Dan
Christie
Kingman
(b. 1852 - d. 1916)
7 Mar 1916 - 31 Oct 1919 William
Murray
Black
(b. 1855 - d. 1933)
31 Oct 1919 - 9 Jan 1920 Frederic Vaughan
Abbot (acting) (b. 1858 - d. 1928)
9 Jan 1920 - 18 Jun 1924 Lansing
Hoskins
Beach
(b. 1860 - d. 1945)
19 Jun 1924 - 26 Jun 1926 Harry
Taylor
(b. 1862 - d. 1930)
27 Jun 1926 - 6 Aug 1929 Edgar
Jadwin
(b. 1865 - d. 1931)
7 Aug 1929 - 1 Oct 1929
Herbert Deakyne (acting)
(b. 1867 - d. 1945)
1 Oct 1929 - 1 Oct 1933 Lytle
Brown
(b. 1872 - d. 1951)
1 Oct 1933 - 17 Oct 1937 Edward
Murphy
Markham
(b. 1877 - d. 1950)
18 Oct 1937 - 30 Sep 1941 Julian Larcombe
Schley
(b. 1880 - d. 1965)
1 Oct 1941 - 30 Sep 1945 Eugene
Reybold
(b. 1884 - d. 1961)
1 Oct 1945 - 28 Feb 1949 Raymond A.
Wheeler
(b. 1885 - d. 1974)
1 Mar 1949 - 25 Jan 1953 Lewis A.
Pick
(b. 1890 - d. 1956)
17 Mar 1953 - 30 Sep 1956 Samuel D.
Sturgis,
Jr.
(b. 1897 - d. 1964)
1 Oct 1956 - 31 Mar 1961 Emerson C.
Itschner
(b. 1903 - d. 1995)
1 Apr 1961 - 18 May 1961 Keith R.
Barney (acting) (b.
1904 - d. 1977)
19 May 1961 - 30 Jun 1965 Walter K. Wilson,
Jr.
(b. 1906 - d. 1985)
1 Jul 1965 - 31 Jul 1969 William F.
Cassidy
(b. 1908 - d. 2002)
1 Aug 1969 - 31 Jul 1973 Frederick
J.
Clarke
(b. 1915 - d. 2002)
1 Aug 1973 - 30 Jun 1976 William C.
Gribble,
Jr.
(b. 1917 - d. 1979)
1 Jul 1976 - 30 Sep 1980 John W.
Morris
(b. 1921 - d. 2013)
1 Oct 1980 - 14 Sep 1984 Joseph K.
Bratton
(b. 1926 - d. 2007)
14 Sep 1984 - 5 May 1988 Elvin R.
Heiberg
III
(b. 1932 - d. 2013)
6 May 1988 - 16 Jun 1988 ....
(acting)
17 Jun 1988 - 4 Jun 1992 Henry J.
Hatch
(b. 1935)
5 Jun 1992 - 23 Aug 1992 C. Ernest
Edgar III (acting) (b. 1936)
24 Aug 1992 - 30 Jun 1996 Arthur E.
Williams
(b. 1938)
1 Jul 1996 - 17 Sep 1996 ....
(acting)
18 Sep 1996 - 31 Aug 2000 Joe N.
Ballard
(b. 1942)
1 Sep 2000 - 22 Oct 2000 ....
(acting)
23 Oct 2000 - 1 Jul 2004 Robert B. Flowers
(b. 1947)
1 Jul 2004 - 17 May 2007 Carl A.
Strock
(b. 1948)
18 May 2007 - 17 Jun 2011 Robert L. Van
Antwerp, Jr. (b. 1950)
17 Jun 2011 - 22 May 2012 Merdith W.B. "Bo" Temple
(acting) (b. 1953 - d. 2020)
22 May 2012 - 19 May 2016 Thomas P. Bostick
(b. 1956)
19 May 2016 - 10 Sep 2020 Todd T.
Semonite
(b. 1957)
10 Sep 2020 - 13 Sep 2024 Scott A. Spellmon
(b. 1963)
13 Sep 2024 -
William H. Graham,
Jr.
(b. c.1967)
Women's Army Corps (WAC)
15 May
1942
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC).
1 Jul
1943
Women's Army Corps (WAC).
28 Apr
1978
WAC dis-established, women integrated into regular Army.
Directors
16 May 1942 - 11 Jul 1945 Oveta Culp
Hobby
(f)
(b. 1905 - d. 1995)
12 Jul 1945 - 4 Mar 1947 Westray
Battle Boyce
(f)
(b. 1901 - d. 1972)
5 Mar 1947 - 2 Jan 1953 Mary
A. Hallaren
(f)
(b. 1907 - d. 2005)
(acting to 6 May 1947)
3 Jan 1953 - 2 Jan 1957 Irene
Otillia Galloway
(f) (b.
1908 - d. 1963)
3 Jan 1957 - 31 Jul 1962 Mary
Louise Milligan Rasmuson (f) (b. 1911 - d.
2012)
1 Aug 1962 - 31 Jul 1966 Emily C.
Gorman (f)
(b. 1909 - d. 2005)
1 Aug 1966 - 31 Jul 1971 Elizabeth
P. Hoisington
(f) (b. 1918 -
d. 2007)
1 Aug 1971 - 31 Jul 1975 Mildred
Inez Caroon Bailey (f) (b. 1919 - d. 2009)
1 Aug 1975 - 28 Apr 1978 Mary
Elizabeth Clarke
(f)
(b. 1924 - d. 2011)
National Guard Bureau
NGB Former Flag
|
NGB Flag |
![[Positional
Color, Office of the Chief, National Guard Bureau
1998-2008] [Positional
Color, Office of the Chief, National Guard Bureau
1998-2008]](us-chng2.gif)
Chief's Flag 1998 - 2008
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Chief's Flag Adopted 2008
|
National Guard
Bureau
21 Jan
1903
Section of Militia Affairs within the U.S. Army Adjutant
General's office (within the War Department).
12 Feb
1908
Division of Militia Affairs in the Office of the
Secretary
of War.
25 Jul 1910 - 3 Jun 1916 Division
of Militia Affairs under the U.S. Army Chief of Staff.
3 Jun
1916
Renamed Militia Bureau of the War Department
(within the
War Department).
10 Feb 1920
The War Department granted authority
for the National Guard to
organize
an air unit in each of its infantry divisions.
15 Jun
1933
National Guard Bureau (NGB)(within the War Department).
18 Sep
1947
National Guard Bureau within
the Department of Defense.
1 Oct
1948
Reorganized as a joint Bureau of the Department of the
Army and
an agency (from 10 Jul 1959, bureau) of the Department
of the
Air
Force (within the Department of Defense).
Head of the Section of Militia Affairs
21 Jan 1903 - 13 Feb 1908 James Parker
(b. 1854 - d. 1934)
Chiefs of the Division of Militia Affairs
14 Feb 1908 - 14 Mar 1911 Erasmus Morgan
Weaver,
Jr. (b.
1854 - d. 1920)
15 Mar 1911 - 31 Aug 1912 Robert Kennon
Evans
(b. 1852 - d. 1926)
1 Sep 1912 - 18 Sep 1916 Albert
Leopold
Mills
(b. 1854 - d. 1916)
Chiefs of the Militia Bureau
26 Oct 1916 - 26 Nov 1917 William Abram
Mann
(b. 1854 - d. 1934)
26 Nov 1917 - 15 Aug 1918 Jesse McIlvaine
Carter (b. 1863
- d. 1930)
29 Jun 1921 - 28 Jun 1925 George C.
Rickards
(b. 1860 - d. 1933)
29 Jun 1925 - 28 Jun 1929 Creed Cheshire
Hammond
(b. 1874 - d. 1940)
29 Jun 1929 - 30 Sep 1929 Ernest R. Redmond
(acting) (b. 1883 - d.
1966)
1 Oct 1929 - 30 Nov 1931 William G.
Everson
(b. 1879 - d. 1954)
1 Dec 1931 - 15 Jun 1933 George E.
Leach
(b. 1876 - d. 1955)
Chiefs of the National Guard Bureau
15 Jun 1933 - 30 Nov 1935 George E.
Leach
(s.a.)
1 Dec 1935 - 16 Jan 1936 Harold J.
Weiler (acting) (b. 1886
- d. 1945)
17 Jan 1936 - 30 Jan 1936 John F. Williams
(1st time)(acting)(b. 1887 - d. 1953)
31 Jan 1936 - 30 Jan 1940 Albert Hazen
Blanding
(b. 1876 - d. 1970)
31 Jan 1940 - 31 Jan 1946 John F. Williams
(2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting from 31 Jan 1944)
1 Feb 1946 - 29 Sep 1947 Butler B.
Miltonberger
(b. 1896 - d. 1977)
30 Sep 1947 - 4 Sep 1950 Kenneth F.
Cramer
(b. 1894 - d. 1954)
5 Sep 1950 - 15 Feb 1953 Raymond H.
Fleming
(b. 1889 - d. 1974)
(acting to 13 Aug 1951)
16 Feb 1953 - 21 Jun 1953 Earl T. Ricks
(acting) (b.
1908 - d. 1954)
22 Jun 1953 - 31 May 1959 Edgar C.
Erickson
(b. 1896 - d. 1989)
1 Jun 1959 - 19 Jul 1959 Winston P.
Wilson (1st time) (b.
1911 - d. 1996)
(acting)
20 Jul 1959 - 30 Aug 1963 Donald Wilson
McGowan
(b. 1898 - d. 1967)
31 Aug 1963 - 31 Aug 1971 Winston P. Wilson
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1 Sep 1971 - 23 Jun 1974 Francis S.
Greenlief
(b. 1921 - d. 1999)
1 Jul 1974 - 15 Aug 1982
LaVern E. Weber
(b. 1923
- d. 1999)
(acting to 16 Aug 1974)
16 Aug 1982 - 15 Aug 1986 Emmett H. Walker,
Jr. (b.
1924 - d. 2007)
16 Aug 1986 - 31 Jan 1990 Herbert R.
Temple, Jr.
(b. 1928 - d. 2024)
1 Feb 1990 - 1 Dec 1993 John B.
Conaway
(b. 1934)
1 Jan 1994 - 31 Jul 1994 Raymond F.
Rees (1st
time) (b.
1944)
(acting)
1 Oct 1994 - 31 Jul 1998 Edward D.
Baca
(b. 1938 - d. 2020)
31 Jul 1998 - 3 Aug 2002 Russell C.
Davis
(b. 1938)
(acting to 4 Aug 1998)
4 Aug 2002 - 10 Apr 2003 Raymond F.
Rees (2nd
time)
(s.a.)
(acting)
11 Apr 2003 - 17 Nov 2008 H. Steven
Blum
(b. 1946)
17 Nov 2008 - 7 Sep 2012
Craig R. McKinley
(b. 1952)
7 Sep 2012 - 3 Aug 2016 Frank J.
Grass
(b. 1951)
3 Aug 2016 - 3 Aug 2020 Joseph L.
Lengyel
(b. 1959)
3 Aug 2020 - 3 Aug 2024 Daniel R.
Hokanson
(b. 1963)
3 Aug 2024 - 2 Oct 2024 Jonathan Stubbs
(acting)
(b. 1972)
2 Oct 2024
-
Steven S.
Nordhaus
(b. 1966)
Department of the Navy
![[Flag of Secretary of
Navy Department 1874-1959 (U.S.)] [Flag of Secretary of Navy Department
1874-1959 (U.S.)]](us-nvsc.gif)
4 Jul 1874 - 24 Apr 1959 |
Adopted
24 Apr 1959 |
U.S. Navy
13 Oct
1775
Naval (from 25 Jan 1776, Marine) Committee of
the Continental
Congress established along with the Continental
Navy.
28 Oct 1779
Continental Board of Admiralty (in operation from 8 Dec
1779).
7 Feb 1781
Marine Department
3 Jun 1785
Disbanded, duties turned
over the Board of Treasury.
1 Aug 1785
Last Continental Naval
vessel (the frigate Alliance) sold.
7 Aug 1789 - 30 Apr 1798 Secretary
of War assigned the duties related to naval affairs.
30 Apr
1798
Navy Department established as a cabinet post.
18 Sep
1947
Department of the Navy
becomes a branch of the Department of
Defense.
Chairmen of the Naval Committee
of the Continental Congress
Oct 1775 - Dec 1775
John Adams
(b. 1735 - d. 1826)
Jan 1776 - 25 Jan
1776 Stephen
Hopkins
(b. 1707 - d. 1785)
Chairmen of the Marine
Committee of the Continental Congress
25 Jan 1776 - 1776
Stephen
Hopkins
(s.a.)
1776 - Dec
1777
John Hancock
(b. 1737 - d.
1793)
Dec 1777 - 1778
Henry Laurens
(b.
1723 - d. 1792)
1778 - Dec 1778
Richard Henry Lee
(b. 1732 - d. 1794)
Dec 1778 - Jun
1779 John
Adams
(s.a.)
Jun 1779 - 8 Dec 1779
William Whipple, Jr.
(b. 1730 - d. 1785)
Chairman of the Continental Board of Admiralty
8 Dec 1779 - 17 Jul 1781 Francis
Lewis
(b. 1713 - d. 1802)
11 Jan 1781 - 17 Jul 1781 James Reed
(acting)
Secretary of Marine
7 Feb 1781 – 29 Aug 1781 Alexander McDougall
(b. 1731 - d. 1786)
(declined Congressional appointment)
17 Jul 1781 - 8 Sep 1781 Robert Morris
(acting)
(b. 1734 - d. 1806)
Agent of Marine
8 Sep 1781 - 1 Nov 1784
Robert Morris
(s.a.)
1 Nov 1784 - 3 Jun 1785 James
Reed (de facto acting)
(b. 1736 - d. 1814)
3 Jun 1785 - 3 May 1798 Post
abolished
Secretaries of the Navy
3 May 1798 - 18 Jun 1798 George
Cabot (did not take office) (b. 1752 - d. 1823)
18 Jun 1798 - 31 Mar 1801 Benjamin
Stoddert
(b. 1751 - d. 1813)
31 Mar 1801 - 26 Jul 1801 Henry Dearborn
(acting)
(b. 1751 - d. 1829)
27 Jul 1801 - 7 Mar 1809 Robert
Smith
(b. 1757 - d. 1842)
8 Mar 1809 - 15 May 1809 Charles W.
Goldsborough (1st time) (b. 1779 - d. 1843)
(acting)
15 May 1809 - 31 Dec 1812 Paul
Hamilton
(b. 1762 - d. 1816)
7 Jan 1813 - 18 Jan 1813 Charles W.
Goldsborough (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
19 Jan 1813 - 1 Dec 1814 William
Jones
(b. 1760 - d. 1831)
2 Dec 1814 – 16 Jan 1815 Benjamin Homans
(acting)
(b. 1765 - d. 1823)
16 Jan 1815 - 30 Sep 1818 Benjamin William
Crowninshield (b. 1772 - d.
1851)
1 Oct 1818 - 31 Dec 1818 John C. Calhoun
(acting)
(b. 1782 - d. 1850)
1 Jan 1819 - 31 Aug 1823 Smith
Thompson
(b. 1768 - d. 1843)
1 Sep 1823 – 16 Sep 1823 John Rodgers
(acting)
(b. 1772 – d. 1838)
16 Sep 1823 - 4 Mar 1829 Samuel L.
Southard
(b. 1787 - d. 1842)
4 Mar 1829 - 9 Mar 1829 Charles Hay
(acting)
(b. 1793 - d. 1833)
9 Mar 1829 - 12 May 1831 John
Branch
(b. 1782 - d. 1863)
12 May 1831 – 23 May 1831 John Boyle
(acting)
(b. 1777 – d. 1849)
23 May 1823 - 30 Jun 1834 Levi
Woodbury
(b. 1789 - d. 1851)
1 Jul 1834 - 30 Jun 1838 Mahlon
Dickerson
(b. 1770 - d. 1853)
1 Jul 1838 - 3 Mar 1841 James Kirke
Paulding
(b. 1778 - d. 1860)
4 Mar 1841 - 5 Mar 1841
John D. Simms (1st time)(acting) (b. 1788 - d.
1843)
5 Mar 1841 - 11 Sep 1841 George Edmund
Badger
(b. 1795 - d. 1866)
11 Sep 1841 – 11 Oct 1841 John D. Simms (2nd
time)(acting) (s.a.)
11 Oct 1841 - 23 Jul 1843 Abel Parker
Upshur
(b. 1790 - d. 1844)
24 Jul 1843 - 18 Feb 1844 David
Henshaw
(b. 1791 - d. 1852)
19 Feb 1844 - 28 Feb 1844 Thomas Walker
Gilmer
(b. 1802 - d. 1844)
28 Feb 1844 – 26 Mar 1844 Lewis Warrington (1st
time)(acting)(b. 1782 – d. 1851)
26 Mar 1844 - 10 Mar 1845 John Young Mason (1st
time) (b. 1799
- d. 1859)
11 Mar 1845 - 9 Sep 1846 George
Bancroft
(b. 1800 - d. 1891)
10 Sep 1846 - 7 Mar 1849 John Young Mason
(2nd time)
(s.a.)
8 Mar 1849 - 22 Jul 1850 William Ballard
Preston
(b. 1805 - d. 1862)
23 Jul 1850 – 2 Aug 1850 Lewis Warrington
(2nd time)(acting)(s.a.)
2 Aug 1850 - 25 Jul 1852 William Alexander
Graham
(b. 1804 - d. 1875)
26 Jul 1852 - 7 Mar 1853 John Pendelton
Kennedy
(b. 1795 - d. 1870)
7 Mar 1853 - 6 Mar 1857 James Cochrane
Dobbin
(b. 1804 - d. 1857)
7 Mar 1857 - 6 Mar 1861 Isaac
Toucey
(b. 1796 - d. 1869)
7 Mar 1861 - 3 Mar 1869 Gideon
Welles
(b. 1802 - d. 1878)
4 Mar 1869 - 9 Mar 1869 William Faxon
(acting)
(b. 1822 - d. 1883)
9 Mar 1869 - 25 Jun 1869 Adolph Edward
Borie
(b. 1809 - d. 1880)
26 Jun 1869 - 12 Mar 1877 George Maxwell
Robeson
(b. 1829 - d. 1897)
13 Mar 1877 - 20 Dec 1880 Richard Wigginton
Thompson
(b. 1823 - d. 1900)
20 Dec 1880 - 6 Jan 1881 Alexander Ramsey
(acting)
(b. 1815 - d. 1903)
7 Jan 1881 - 6 Mar 1881 Nathan Goff,
Jr.
(b. 1843 - d. 1920)
7 Mar 1881 - 16 Apr 1882 William Henry
Hunt
(b. 1823 - d. 1884)
17 Apr 1882 - 6 Mar 1885 William Eaton
Chandler
(b. 1835 - d. 1917)
7 Mar 1885 - 5 Mar 1889 William Colins
Whitney
(b. 1841 - d. 1904)
6 Mar 1889 - 6 Mar 1893 Benjamin
Franklin
Tracy
(b. 1830 - d. 1915)
7 Mar 1893 - 6 Mar 1897 Hilary Abner
Herbert
(b. 1834 - d. 1919)
6 Mar 1897 - 30 Apr 1902 John Davis
Long
(b. 1838 - d. 1915)
1 May 1902 – 30 Jun 1904 William Henry
Moody
(b. 1853 - d. 1917)
1 Jul 1904 – 30 Jun 1905 Paul
Morton
(b. 1857 - d. 1911)
1 Jul 1905 - 16 Dec 1906 Charles Joseph
Bonaparte
(b. 1851 - d. 1921)
17 Dec 1906 - 30 Nov 1908 Victor Howard
Metcalf
(b. 1853 - d. 1936)
1 Dec 1908 - 5 Mar 1909 Truman Handy
Newberry
(b. 1864 - d. 1945)
6 Mar 1909 - 4 Mar 1913 George von
Lengerke
Meyer
(b. 1858 - d. 1918)
5 Mar 1913 - 5 Mar 1921 Josephus
Daniels
(b. 1861 - d. 1948)
6 Mar 1921 - 10 Mar 1924 Edwin C.
Denby
(b. 1870 - d. 1929)
10 Mar 1924 - 19 Mar 1924 Theodore Roosevelt III
(acting) (b. 1887 - d. 1944)
19 Mar 1924 - 4 Mar 1929 Curtis Dwight
Wibur
(b. 1867 - d. 1954)
5 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933
Charles Francis
Adams
(b. 1866 - d. 1954)
4 Mar 1933 - 7 Jul 1939
Claude Augustus
Swanson
(b. 1862 - d. 1939)
7 Jul 1939 - 24 Jun 1940 Charles
Edison
(b. 1890 - d. 1969)
(acting to 2 Jan 1940)
24 Jun 1940 - 11 Jul 1940 Lewis Compton (acting)
(b. 1892 - d.
1942)
11 Jul 1940 - 28 Apr 1944 Frank
Knox
(b. 1874 - d. 1944)
28 Apr 1944 - 19 May 1944 Ralph A. Bard
(acting) (b.
1884 - d. 1975)
19 May 1944 - 17 Sep 1947 James V.
Forrestal
(b. 1892 - d. 1949)
18 Sep 1947 - 24 May 1949 John Lawrence
Sullivan
(b. 1899 - d. 1983)
25 May 1949 - 31 Jul 1951 Francis Patrick
Matthews
(b. 1887 - d. 1952)
31 Jul 1951 - 20 Jan 1953 Dan A.
Kimball
(b. 1896 - d. 1970)
20 Jan 1953 - 4 Feb 1953 Francis P.
Whitehair (acting) (b.
1900 - d. 1977)
4 Feb 1953 - 3 May 1954 Robert Bernard
Anderson
(b. 1910 - d. 1989)
3 May 1954 - 1 Apr 1957
Charles Sparks
Thomas
(b. 1897 - d. 1983)
1 Apr 1957 - 8 Jun 1959
Thomas Sovereign Gates, Jr.
(b. 1906 - d. 1983)
8 Jun 1959 - 20 Jan 1961 William B.
Franke
(b. 1894 - d. 1979)
20 Jan 1961 - 25 Jan 1961 .... (acting)
25 Jan 1961 - 20 Dec 1961 John Bowden Connally,
Jr. (b.
1917 - d. 1993)
20 Dec 1961 - 1 Nov 1963
Fred
Korth
(b. 1909 - d. 1998)
(acting
to 4 Jan 1962)
2 Nov 1963 - 28 Nov 1963 Paul B. Fay, Jr.
(acting)
(b. 1918 - d. 2009)
29 Nov 1963 - 30 Jun 1967 Paul H.
Nitze
(b. 1907 - d. 2004)
1 Jul 1967 - 31 Jul 1967 Robert
H.B. Baldwin (acting) (b. 1920 - d.
2016)
1 Aug 1967 - 31 Aug 1967 Charles F. Baird
(acting)
(b. 1922 - d. 2009)
1 Sep 1967 - 24 Jan 1969 Paul R.
Ignatius
(b. 1920)
24 Jan 1969 - 31 Jan 1969
.... (acting)
31 Jan 1969 - 4 May 1972 John H.
Chafee
(b. 1922 - d. 1999)
4 May 1972 - 8 Apr 1974 John
W.
Warner
(b. 1927 - d. 2021)
8 Apr 1974 - 20 Jan 1977 J. William
Middendorf II
(b. 1924)
(acting to 10 Jun 1974)
20 Jan 1977 - 14 Feb 1977 David R. Macdonald
(acting) (b. 1930 - d. 2008)
14 Feb 1977 - 24 Aug 1979 W. Graham Claytor,
Jr.
(b. 1912 - d. 1994)
24 Aug 1979 - 24 Oct 1979 R. James
Woolsey (acting) (b.
1941)
24 Oct 1979 - 29 Jan 1981 Edward
Hidalgo
(b. 1912 - d. 1995)
29 Jan 1981 - 5 Feb 1981 ....
(acting)
5 Feb 1981 - 10 Apr 1987 John F. Lehman, Jr.
(b. 1942)
10 Apr 1987 - 1 May 1987 James F.
Goodrich (acting)
(b. 1913 - d. 2012)
1 May 1987 - 23 Feb 1988 James H. Webb, Jr.
(b. 1946)
23 Feb 1988 - 28 Mar 1988 Henry Lawrence
Garrett III
(b. 1939)
(1st
time)(acting)
28 Mar 1988 - 15 May 1989 William L.
Ball
(b. 1948)
15 May 1989 - 26 Jun 1992 Henry Lawrence
Garrett III (s.a.)
(2nd time)
26 Jun 1992 - 7 Jul 1992 J. Daniel Howard
(acting)
(b. 1943)
7 Jul 1992 - 20 Jan 1993 Sean
O'Keefe
(b. 1956)
(acting to 2 Oct 1992)
20 Jan 1993 - 21 Jul 1993 Frank B. Kelso
II
(acting)
(b. 1933 - d. 2013)
22 Jul 1993 - 16 Nov 1998 John H.
Dalton
(b. 1941)
16 Nov 1998 - 20 Jan 2001 Richard
Danzig
(b. 1944)
20 Jan 2001 - 24 May 2001 Robert B.
Pirie, Jr. (acting) (b.
1933)
24 May 2001 - 24 Jan 2003 Gordon R.
England (1st time)
(b. 1937)
24 Jan 2003 - 7 Feb 2003 Susan
Morrisey Livingstone (f) (b.
1946)
(acting)
7 Feb 2003 - 1 Oct 2003
Hansford T. Johnson
(acting) (b. 1936)
1 Oct 2003 - 28 Dec 2005 Gordon R.
England (2nd time)
(s.a.)
29 Dec 2005 - 3 Jan 2006 Dionel M.
Aviles
(acting)
(b. 1961)
3 Jan 2006 - 13 Mar 2009 Donald C.
Winter
(b. 1948)
13 Mar 2009 - 19 May 2009 B.J. "Buddie" Penn
(acting) (b. 1938)
19 May 2009 - 20 Jan 2017 Raymond "Ray" E.
Mabus, Jr. (b.
1948)
20 Jan 2017 - 3 Aug 2017 Sean J. Stackley
(acting)
(b. 1957)
3 Aug 2017 - 15 Jul 2019 Richard V.
Spencer (1st time) (b. 1954)
15 Jul 2019 - 23 Jul 2019
Thomas B. Modly (1st time)(acting) (b. 1960)
23 Jul 2019 - 24
Nov 2019
Richard V. Spencer (2nd
time) (s.a.)
24 Nov 2019 - 7
Apr 2020 Thomas B. Modly (2nd time)(acting)
(s.a.)
7 Apr 2020 - 29
May 2020 James
E. McPherson
(acting)
(b. 1953)
29 May 2020 - 20 Jan 2021 Kenneth J.
Braithwaite
II
(b. 1960)
20 Jan 2021 - 9 Aug 2021 Thomas W.
Harker (acting)
9 Aug 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Carlos Del
Toro
(b. 1961)
20 Jan 2025 -
25 Mar 2025
Terence G. Emmert (acting)
(b. 1966)
25 Mar 2025
-
John C. Phelan
(b. 1964)
Navy
Chief of Naval Operations Flag
Adopted Oct 1956
|
Commodore and Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet of
the United Colonies
(from 9 Sep 1776, of the United States of America)
22 Dec 1775 - 2 Jan 1778 Esek Hopkins
(b. 1718 - d. 1802)
(suspended from 26 Mar 1777)
Senior Officers
26 Mar 1777 - 25 Jan 1780 James
Nicholson
(b. 1737 - d. 1804)
25 Jan 1780 - 6 Jun 1794 Vacant
6 Jun 1794 - 13 Sep 1803 John
Barry
(b. 1745 - d. 1803)
13 Sep 1803 - 29 Dec 1811 Samuel
Nicholson
(b. 1743 - d. 1811)
29 Dec 1811 - 25 Apr 1815 Alexander Murray
(b. 1755 - d. 1821)
Presidents of the Board of Navy Commissioners
25 Apr 1815 - 15 Dec 1824 John Rodgers
(1st
time)
(b. 1773 - d. 1838)
15 Dec 1824 - 20 Jun 1827 William
Bainbridge
(b. 1774 - d. 1833)
8 Oct 1827 - 1 May 1837 John
Rodgers (2nd
time)
(s.a.)
1 May 1837 - 27 Jan 1840 Isaac
Chauncey
(b. 1772 - d. 1840)
27 Jan 1840 - 1 Jun 1841 Charles
Morris
(b. 1784 - d. 1856)
1 Jun 1841 - 31 Aug 1842 Lewis
Warrington
(b. 1782 - d. 1851)
Senior Officers
1 Sep 1842 - 21 Apr 1851 James Barron
(b. 1768 - d. 1851)
22 Apr 1851 - 14 Sep 1855 Charles Stewart (1st
time) (b. 1778 - d. 1869)
15 Sep 1855 - 27 Jan 1856 Charles
Morris
(s.a.)
28 Jan 1856 - 1 Mar 1859 William
Shubrick
(b. 1790 - d. 1874)
2 Mar 1859 - 21 Dec 1861 Charles Stewart
(2nd time) (s.a.)
22 Dec 1861 - 14 Aug 1870 David Glasgow
Farragut
(b. 1801 - d. 1870)
15 Aug 1870 - 13 Feb 1891 David Dixon
Porter
(b. 1813 - d. 1891)
13 Feb 1891 - 2 Apr 1892 Lewis Ashfield
Kimberly (b.
1830 - d. 1902)
2 Apr 1892 - 10 Nov 1894 Bancroft
Gherardi
(b. 1832 - d. 1903)
10 Nov 1894 - 19 Jun 1897 George Brown
(b. 1835 - d. 1913)
19 Jun 1897 - 3 Jul 1898 William Alexander
Kirkland
(b. 1836 - d. 1898)
3 Jul 1998 - 10 May 1915 George Dewey
(b. 1837 - d. 1917)
Chiefs of Naval Operations
11 May 1915 - 25 Sep 1919 William
Shepherd
Benson
(b. 1855 - d. 1932)
1 Nov 1919 - 21 Jul 1923 Robert
Edward
Coontz
(b. 1864 - d. 1935)
21 Jul 1923 - 14 Nov 1927 Edward Walter
Eberle
(b. 1864 - d. 1929)
14 Nov 1927 - 17 Sep 1930 Charles
Frederick
Hughes
(b. 1866 - d. 1934)
17 Sep 1930 - 30 Jun 1933 William Veazie
Pratt
(b. 1869 - d. 1957)
1 Jul 1933 - 1 Jan 1937
William Harrison
Standley
(b. 1872 - d. 1963)
2 Jan 1937 - 1 Aug 1939
William Daniel
Leahy
(b. 1875 - d. 1959)
1 Aug 1939 - 26 Mar 1942 Harold
Raynsford
Stark
(b. 1880 - d. 1972)
26 Mar 1942 - 15 Dec 1945 Ernest Joseph
King
(b. 1878 - d. 1956)
15 Dec 1945 - 15 Dec 1947 Chester William
Nimitz
(b. 1885 - d. 1966)
15 Dec 1947 - 1 Nov 1949 Louis Emil
Denfeld
(b. 1891 - d. 1972)
2 Nov 1949 - 22 Jul 1951 Forrest
Percival
Sherman
(b. 1896 - d. 1951)
22 Jul 1951 - 16 Aug 1951 Lynde D.
McCormick (acting)
(b. 1895 - d. 1956)
16 Aug 1951 - 17 Aug 1953 William Morrow
Fechteler
(b. 1896 - d. 1967)
17 Aug 1953 - 17 Aug 1955 Robert Bostwick
Carney
(b. 1895 - d. 1990)
17 Aug 1955 - 1 Aug 1961 Arleigh
Albert
Burke
(b. 1901 - d. 1996)
1 Aug 1961 - 1 Aug 1963
George Whelan Anderson,
Jr. (b. 1906 -
d. 1992)
1 Aug 1963 - 1 Aug 1967 David
Lamar
McDonald
(b. 1906 - d. 1997)
1 Aug 1967 - 30 Jun 1970 Thomas
Hinman
Moorer
(b. 1912 - d. 2004)
1 Jul 1970 - 30 Jun 1974 Elmo
Russell Zumwalt,
Jr.
(b. 1920 - d. 2000)
1 Jul 1974 - 30 Jun 1978 James
Lemuel Holloway
III
(b. 1922 - d. 2019)
1 Jul 1978 - 30 Jun 1982 Thomas B.
Hayward
(b. 1924 - d. 2022)
1 Jul 1982 - 30 Jun 1986 James D.
Watkins
(b. 1927 - d. 2012)
1 Jul 1986 - 30 Jun 1990 Carlisle
A.H.
Trost
(b. 1930 - d. 2020)
1 Jul 1990 - 23 Apr 1994 Frank B.
Kelso
II
(b. 1933 - d. 2013)
23 Apr 1994 - 16 May 1996 Jeremy M.
"Mike"
Boorda
(b. 1939 - d. 1996)
17 May 1996 - 21 Jul 2000 Jay
L. Johnson
(b. 1946)
(acting to 2 Aug 1996)
21 Jul 2000 - 22 Jul 2005 Vern
Clark
(b. 1944)
22 Jul 2005 - 29 Sep 2007 Michael
Mullen
(b. 1946)
29 Sep 2007 - 23 Sep 2011 Gary G.
Roughead
(b. 1951)
23 Sep 2011 - 18 Sep 2015 Jonathan W.
Greenert
(b. 1953)
18 Sep 2015 - 22 Aug 2019 John
M. Richardson
(b. 1960)
22 Aug 2019 - 14 Aug 2023 Michael M.
Gilday
(b. 1962)
11 Aug 2020 - 28 Sep 2020 William K.
Lescher
(b. 1958)
(acting for Gilday)
14 Aug 2023 - 21 Feb 2025 Lisa M. Franchetti (f)
(b. 1964)
(acting to 2 Nov 2023)
21 Feb 2025 -
James W. Kilby (acting)
(b. 1963)
Women Accepted for Volunteer
Emergency Service (WAVES)
30 Jul
1942
Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).
12 Jun
1948
Women's Reserve (WAVES)
disestablished and the position of
Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel for Women
created.
Mar 1973
Post of Special
Assistant to the Chief of Navy Personnel
for Women is vacated.
5 Jul 1976
Women are integrated into the regular Navy.
20 Oct 1978
Congress allows Navy to assign women
to fill sea duty billets.
Directors of the Women's Reserve and (from 7 May
1943)
Assistants to the Chief of the Bureau of Naval
Personnel
3 Aug 1942 - Feb
1946 Mildred Helen McAfee (f)
(b. 1900 - d. 1994)
(from Aug 1945, Mildred Helen McAfee Horton)
Feb 1946 - Jul
1946 Jean
Tilford Palmer (f)
(b. 1903 - d. 1992)
26 Jul 1946 - 12 Jun 1948 Joy Bright
Hancock
(f)
(b. 1898 - d. 1986)
Assistant Chiefs of Naval Personnel for Women
12 Jun 1948 - 1 Jun 1953 Joy
Bright Hancock (f)
(s.a.)
Jun 1953 - Aug 1957
Louise K. "Billie" Wilde (f)
(b. 1910 - d. 1979)
Aug 1957 - Apr 1962
Winifred Redden Quick
Collins (f) (b. 1911 - d. 1999)
Apr 1962 - Apr
1966 Viola
Brown Sanders (f)
(b. 1921 - d. 2013)
Apr 1966 - Jan 1971
Rita Lenihan (f)
(b. 1914 - d. 1989)
Jan 1971 - Mar
1973 Robin
Lindsay Catherine Quigley (f)(b. 1929)
Marine Corps
![[U.S. Marine Corps colors c.1830-1850] [U.S. Marine Corps
colors c.1830-1850]](us-mc30.jpg)
c.1830 - 1850
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1850 - 18 Jan 1939
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Adopted 18 Jan 1939
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Flag of the Commandant
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U.S. Marine Corps
10 Nov 1775
Continental Marine Corps established.
30 Nov 1783
Disbanded
11 Jul 1798
United States Marine Corps established.
30 Jun
1834
Within the Department of the Navy.
Captain (from 25 Jun 1776, Major) of the
Continental Marines
28 Nov 1775 - 25 Aug 1781 Samuel
Nicholas¹
(b. 1744 - d. 1790)
25 Aug 1781 - 11 Jul 1798 Post
abolished
Commandants of the Marine Corps (subordinate
to Secretary of the Navy)
12 Jul 1798 - 6 Mar 1804 William Ward
Burrows
(b. 1758 - d. 1804)
7 Mar 1804 - 1 Sep 1818
Franklin
Wharton
(b. 1767 - d. 1818)
2 Sep 1818 - 15 Sep 1818 Samuel
Miller (acting)
(b. 1775 - d. 1855)
16 Sep 1818 - 2 Mar 1819 Archibald
Henderson (1st time) (b. 1783 -
d. 1859)
(acting)
3 Mar 1819 - 16 Oct 1820 Anthony
Gale
(b. 1782 - d. 1843)
17 Oct 1820 - 6 Jan 1859 Archibald
Henderson (2nd time) (s.a.)
7 Jan 1859 - 12 May 1864 John
Harris
(b. 1790 - d. 1864)
13 May 1864 - 9 Jun 1864 Augustus
S. Nicholson (acting) (b. 1830 - d. 1911)
10 Jun 1864 - 31 Oct 1876 Jacob
Zeilin
(b. 1806 - d. 1880)
1 Nov 1876 - 29 Jan 1891 Charles
McCawley
(b. 1827 - d. 1891)
30 Jan 1891 - 2 Oct 1903 Charles
Heywood
(b. 1839 - d. 1915)
3 Oct 1903 - 30 Nov 1910 George
Elliott
(b. 1846 - d. 1931)
1 Dec 1910 - 24 Feb 1914 William
Phillips
Biddle
(b. 1853 - d. 1923)
(acting to 3 Feb 1911)
25 Feb 1914 - 30 Jun 1920 George M.G.
Barnett
(b. 1859 - d. 1930)
1 Jul 1920 - 4 Mar 1929 John
Archer
Lejeune
(b. 1867 - d. 1942)
5 Mar 1929 - 8 Jul 1930
Wendell Cushing
Neville
(b. 1870 - d. 1930)
9 Jul 1930 - 28 Feb 1934 Ben Hebard
Fuller
(b. 1870 - d. 1937)
1 Mar 1934 - 30 Nov 1936 John Herny
Russell
(b. 1872 - d. 1947)
1 Dec 1936 - 31 Dec 1943 Thomas
Holcomb
(b. 1879 - d. 1965)
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1947 Alexander
Archer
Vandegrift (b.
1887 - d. 1973)
1 Jan 1948 - 31 Dec 1951 Clifton B.
Cates
(b. 1893 - d. 1970)
1 Jan 1952 - 31 Dec 1955 Lemuel C.
Shepherd,
Jr.
(b. 1896 - d. 1990)
1 Jan 1956 - 31 Dec 1959 Randolph
McCall
Pate
(b. 1898 - d. 1961)
1 Jan 1960 - 31 Dec 1963 David M.
Shoup
(b. 1904 - d. 1983)
1 Jan 1964 - 31 Dec 1967 Wallace M.
Greene,
Jr.
(b. 1907 - d. 2003)
1 Jan 1968 - 31 Dec 1971 Leonard F.
Chapman,
Jr.
(b. 1913 - d. 2000)
1 Jan 1972 - 30 Jun 1975 Robert E.
Cushman,
Jr.
(b. 1914 - d. 1985)
1 Jul 1975 - 30 Jun 1979 Louis H.
Wilson,
Jr.
(b. 1920 - d. 2005)
1 Jul 1979 - 30 Jun 1983 Robert H.
Barrow
(b. 1922 - d. 2008)
1 Jul 1983 - 30 Jun 1987 Paul X.
Kelley
(b. 1928 - d. 2019)
1 Jul 1987 - 30 Jun 1991 Alfred
"Al" M. Gray,
Jr.
(b. 1928 - d. 2024)
1 Jul 1991 - 30 Jun 1995 Carl E.
Mundy,
Jr.
(b. 1935 - d. 2014)
1 Jul 1995 - 30 Jun 1999 Charles
"Chuck" C.
Krulak
(b. 1942)
1 Jul 1999 - 13 Jan 2003 James L.
Jones
(b. 1943)
13 Jan 2003 - 13 Nov 2006 Michael W.
Hagee
(b. 1944)
13 Nov 2006 - 22 Oct 2010 James T.
Conway
(b. 1947)
22 Oct 2010 - 17 Oct 2014 James F. Amos
(b. 1946)
17 Oct 2014 - 24 Sep 2015 Joseph F.
Dunford, Jr.
(b. 1955)
24 Sep 2015 - 11 Jul 2019 Robert B.
Neller
(b. 1953)
11 Jul 2019 - 10 Jul 2023 David H.
Berger
(b. 1959)
10 Jul 2023 -
Eric M. Smith
(b.
1964?)
(acting to 22 Sep 2023)
30 Oct 2023 - 3 Nov 2023 Karsten S. Heckl
(acting for Smith)(b. 1964)
3 Nov 2023 - 5 Mar 2024 Christopher J.
Mahoney
(b. 1965)
(acting for Smith)
Marine Corps Women's Reserve (MCWR)
29 Jan
1943
Marine Corps Women's Reserve (MCWR) created.
12 Jun
1948
Renamed Women Marines.
1 Jul
1977
Dis-established, women
integrated into the regular Marines.
Directors of Women Marines
29 Jan 1943 - 7 Dec 1945 Ruth
Cheney Streeter
(f)
(b. 1895 - d. 1990)
7 Dec 1945 - 12 Jun 1946 Katherine
Amelia Towle
(f) (b.
1898 - d. 1986)
(1st time)
12 Jun 1946 - 3 Sep 1948 Julia
Estelle Hamblet (f)(1st time)(b. 1916 - d. 2017)
4 Sep 1948 - 30 Apr 1953 Katherine
Amelia Towle
(f)
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
1 May 1953 - 2 Mar 1959 Julia
Estelle Hamblet (f)(2nd time)(s.a.)
2 Mar 1959 - 2 Jan 1964
Margaret Monroe Henderson
(f) (b. 1911 - d. 2004)
3 Jan 1964 - 1 Feb 1969
Barbara Janet Bishop
(f)
(b. 1920 - d. 2005)
1 Feb 1969 - 31 Jan 1973 Jeanette
I. Sustad (f)
(b. 1922 - d. 1978)
1 Feb 1973 - 30 Jun 1977 Margaret
A. Brewer
(f)
(b. 1930 - d. 2013)
¹The resolution of Congress on 10 Nov 1775
provided for a colonel to command two
battalions of Marines authorized, but the
highest rank received by any Marine during
the revolution was major. Samuel Nicholas
(s.a.) was appointed "Captain of Marines" on 28
Nov 1775, and promoted to major on 25 Jun 1776.
Because of his senior status among
other Marine officers of the Revolution, he is
numbered as the first Commandant.
In August 1781 Major Nicholas returned to
private life. By the summer of 1781 there
were only three Marine captains and three
lieutenants on active duty, and the overall organization
had ceased to exist.
Department of the Air
Force
Adopted 26 Mar 1951
|
U.S. Air Force
28 Aug 1918 - 23
Nov 1918 Second Assistant
Secretary of War for Aeronautics (under
the Secretary of War).
2 Jul 1926
Office of
Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics
(under the Secretary of War)(post vacant 1933-1941).
10 Apr 1941 - 17 Sep 1947 Office of Assistant
Secretary of War (Air)(from 28 Jul 1942,
Assistant Secretary of War for
Air).
18 Sep
1947
Department of the Air Force created as a separate
military branch
within
the Department of Defense.
Second Assistant Secretary
of War for Aeronautics and
Director of Air Service,
28 Aug 1918 - 27 Nov 1918 John
Dennis
Ryan
(b. 1864 - d. 1933)
27 Nov 1918 - 2 Jul 1926 Post
abolished
Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics
16 Jul 1926 - 4 Mar 1933 Frederick
Trubee Davison
(b. 1896 - d. 1874)
4 Mar 1933 - 10 Apr
1941 Vacant
Assistant Secretaries of War (Air)(from 28 Jul 1942,
Assistant Secretaries
of War for Air)
10 Apr 1941 - 31 Jan 1946
Robert A. Lovett
(b. 1895 - d. 1986)
31 Jan 1946 - 17 Sep 1947 William
Stuart
Symington
(b. 1901 - d. 1988)
Secretaries of the Air Force
18 Sep 1947 - 24 Apr 1950 William Stuart
Symington
(s.a.)
24 Apr 1950 - 20 Jan 1953 Thomas K.
Finletter
(b. 1893 - d. 1980)
20 Jan 1953 - 4 Feb 1953 Roswell L.
Gilpatric (acting) (b. 1906 - d.
1996)
4 Feb 1953 - 13 Aug 1955 Harold Elstner
Talbott
(b. 1888 - d. 1957)
15 Aug 1955 - 30 Apr 1957 Donald Aubrey
Quarles
(b. 1894 - d. 1959)
1 May 1957 - 10 Dec 1959 James
Henderson Douglas, Jr.
(b. 1899 - d. 1988)
11 Dec 1959 - 20 Jan 1961 Dudley Crawford
Sharp
(b. 1905 - d. 1987)
24 Jan 1961 - 30 Sep 1965 Eugene M.
Zuckert
(b. 1911 - d. 2000)
1 Oct 1965 - 14 Feb 1969 Harold
Brown
(b. 1927 - d. 2019)
15 Feb 1969 - 14 May 1973 Robert C.
Seamans,
Jr.
(b. 1918 - d. 2008)
15 May 1973 - 23 Nov 1975 John L.
McLucas
(b. 1920 - d. 2002)
(acting to 18 Jul 1973)
24 Nov 1975 - 1 Jan 1976 James W.
Plummer
(acting)
(b. 1920 - d. 2013)
2 Jan 1976 - 6 Apr 1977
Thomas C.
Reed
(b. 1934 - d. 2024)
6 Apr 1977 - 18 May 1979 John C.
Stetson
(b. 1920 - d. 2007)
18 May 1979 - 9 Feb 1981 Hans M.
Mark
(b. 1929 - d. 2021)
(acting to 26 Jul 1979)
9 Feb 1981 - 30 Nov 1985 Verne
Orr
(b. 1916 - d. 2008)
30 Nov 1985 - 6 Dec 1985 Edward
"Pete"
C. Aldridge, Jr. (b. 1938)
(1st time)(acting)
6 Dec 1985 - 7 Apr 1986 Russell A.
Rourke
(b. 1931 - d. 2003)
8 Apr 1986 - 16 Dec 1988 Edward
"Pete" C. Aldridge, Jr. (s.a.)
(acting to 8 Jun 1986)(2nd time)
16 Dec 1988 - 29 Apr 1989 James F.
McGovern
(acting)
(b. 1946)
29 Apr 1989 - 21 May 1989 John J. Welch,
Jr. (acting) (b.
1930 - d. 2010)
22 May 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 Donald B.
Rice
(b. 1939)
20 Jan 1993 - 13 Jul 1993 Michael B.
Donley (1st time) (b.
1952)
(acting)
14 Jul 1993 - 5 Aug 1993 Merrill A.
McPeak
(acting)
(b. 1936)
6 Aug 1993 - 31 Oct 1997 Sheila
Evans Widnall (f)
(b. 1938)
1 Nov 1997 - 20 Jan 2001 F. Whitten
Peters
(b. 1946)
(acting to 3 Aug 1999)
20 Jan 2001 - 31 May 2001 Lawrence J.
Delaney (acting) (b. 1935)
1 Jun 2001 - 20 Jan 2005 James G.
Roche
(b. 1939)
20 Jan 2005 - 25 Mar 2005 Peter B. Teets
(acting)
(b. 1942)
25 Mar 2005 - 28 Mar 2005 Michael
Montelongo (acting) (b. 1955)
28 Mar 2005 - 28 Jul 2005 Michael L.
Dominguez (acting) (b. 1953)
29 Jul 2005 - 3 Nov 2005 Preston
"Pete" M. Geren (acting) (b. 1952)
3 Nov 2005 - 20 Jun 2008 Michael W.
Wynne
(b. 1944)
21 Jun 2008 - 20 Jun 2013 Michael B. Donley (2nd
time) (s.a.)
(acting
to 2 Oct 2008)
21 Jun 2013 - 20 Dec 2013 Eric K. Fanning (acting)
(b. 1968)
20 Dec 2013 - 20 Jan 2017 Deborah Lee James (f)
(b.
1958)
20 Jan 2017 - 16 May 2017 Lisa S. Disbrow (f)
(acting) (b. 1962)
16 May 2017 - 31 May 2019 Heather A. Wilson
(f) (b.
1960)
1 Jun 2019 - 18 Oct 2019
Matthew P. Donovan (acting)
(b. 1958)
18 Oct 2019 - 19 Jan 2021 Barbara McConnell
Barrett (f) (b. 1950)
20 Jan 2021 - 28 Jul 2021 John
P. Roth (acting)
(b. 1952?)
28 Jul 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Frank Kendall
III
(b. 1949)
20 Jan 2025
-
Gary A. Ashworth (acting)
Air Force
Army Air Corps 1941 - 1947
|
Air Force Chief of
Staff Flag
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1 Aug
1907
Aeronautical Division, Signal Corps (within the U.S. Army).
18 Jul
1914
Renamed Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps.
4 Nov
1915
Renamed Aeronautical Division.
1 Oct
1917
Renamed Air Division (also known as Air Service
Division).
20 May
1918
Division of Military Aeronautics (under Secretary of
War).
24 May 1918
Duties connected with the Aviation Section
of the Signal Corps
transferred to two separate agencies: the Division of
Military
Aeronautics and the Bureau of Aircraft Production (both
under
the
Secretary of War).
24 May
1918
Air Service, U.S. Army.
19 Mar
1919
Division of Military Aeronautics and Bureau of
Aircraft
Production consolidated into the Air Service.
4 Jun
1920
Confirmed as a combat arm by the National
Defense Act.
2 Jul
1926
Renamed U.S. Army Air Corps.
20 Jun
1941
U.S. Army Air Forces.
9 Mar
1942
Post of Commanding General, Army Air Forces created.
18 Sep
1947
U.S. Air Force made a separate branch of Department of
Defense.
Chiefs, Aeronautical
Division, U.S. Signal Corps
1 Aug 1907 - 13 May 1908
Charles deForest
Chandler
(b. 1878 - d. 1939)
(1st time)
14 May 1908 - Dec 1909 Frank P. Lahm
(acting) (b.
1877 - d. 1963)
Dec 1909 – 30 Jun 1910 Benjamin
D. Foulois (acting) (b. 1879 - d.
1967)
1 Jul 1910 - 19 Jun 1911 Arthur S. Cowan
(b. 1875 - d. 1957)
20 Jun 1911 - 1 Apr 1913 Charles deForest
Chandler (s.a.)
(2nd time)
18 Sep 1912 - 14 Dec 1912 Henry Harley "Hap"
Arnold (acting) (b. 1886 - d. 1950)
15 Dec 1912 - 9 Sep 1913 Edgar
Russell
(b. 1862 - d. 1925)
(acting to 1 Apr 1913)
10 Sep 1913 - 17 Jul 1914 Samuel Reber
(b. 1869 - d. 1933)
Chiefs, Aviation Section (4 Nov 1915 - 1 Oct 1917,
Aeronautical Division;
from 1 Oct 1917, Air Division),
U.S. Signal Corps
18 Jul 1914 - 5 May 1916 Samuel
Reber
(s.a.)
17 Mar 1916 - 2 Apr 1916 George S. Gibbs
(acting) (b. 1875 -
d. 1947)
3 Apr 1916 - 20 May 1916 William
"Billy" L. Mitchel (acting)(b. 1879 - d. 1936)
20 May 1916 - 19 Feb 1917 George Owen
Squier
(b. 1865 - d. 1934)
19 Feb 1917 - 30 Jul 1917 John B.
Bennet
(b. 1865 - d. 1930)
30 Jul 1917 - 12 Nov 1917 Benjamin D.
Foulois
(s.a.)
12 Nov 1917 - 27 Feb 1918 Alexander L.
Dade
(b. 1863 - d. 1927)
28 Feb 1918 - 20 May 1918 Laurence C. Brown
Director of Division of Military Aeronautics
21 May 1918 – 24 May 1918 William Lacy
Kenly
(b. 1865 - d. 1928)
Directors of Military Aeronautics
24 May 1918 - 10 Mar 1919 William Lacy
Kenly
(s.a.)
11 Mar 1919 - 19 Mar 1919 William "Billy" Lendrum
Mitchell (b. 1879 - d. 1936)
Directors of Aircraft Production
24 May 1918 - 28 Aug 1918 John Dennis
Ryan
(b. 1864 - d. 1933)
4 Sep 1918 - 20 Dec 1918 William C. Potter
(acting)
20 Dec 1918 - 19 Mar 1919 James Andrew Mars
(acting) (b. 1878 - d. 19..)
Directors of Air Service
28 Aug 1918 - 27 Dec 1918 John Dennis
Ryan
(s.a.)
28 Dec 1918 - 2 Jan 1919 William Lacy Kenly
(acting) (s.a.)
2 Jan 1919 - 20 Jul 1920 Charles
Thomas
Menoher
(b. 1862 - d. 1930)
Chiefs of Air Service
20 Jul 1920 - 14 Oct 1921 Charles Thomas
Menoher
(s.a.)
15 Oct 1921 - 2 Jul 1926 Mason
Matthews
Patrick
(b. 1863 - d. 1942)
Chiefs of Air Corps
2 Jul 1926 - 13 Dec 1927 Mason
Matthews
Patrick
(b. 1863 - d. 1942)
14 Dec 1927 - 19 Dec 1931 James Edmond
Fechet
(b. 1877 - d. 1948)
19 Dec 1931 - 21 Dec 1935 Benjamin
Delahauf
Foulois
(s.a.)
22 Dec 1935 - 21 Sep 1938 Oscar M.
Westover
(b. 1883 - d. 1938)
22 Sep 1938 - 30 May 1941 Henry Harley
"Hap"
Arnold
(s.a.)
31 May 1941 - 20 Jun 1941 George H.
Brett
(b. 1886 - d. 1963)
Chief of Army Air Forces
20 Jun 1941 - 9 Mar 1942 Henry
Harley "Hap"
Arnold
(s.a.)
Commanding Generals, Army Air Forces
9 Mar 1942 - 9 Feb 1946 Henry
Harley "Hap"
Arnold
(s.a.)
9 Feb 1946 - 18 Sep 1947 Carl
Andrew
Spaatz
(b. 1891 - d. 1974)
Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Air Force
18 Sep 1947 - 30 Apr 1948 Carl Andrew
Spaatz
(s.a.)
30 Apr 1948 - 30 Jun
1953 Hoyt Sanford
Vandenberg
(b. 1899 - d. 1954)
30 Jun 1953 - 30 Jun
1957 Nathan Farragut
Twining
(b. 1897 - d. 1982)
1 Jul 1957 - 30 Jun
1961 Thomas Desser
White
(b. 1901 - d. 1965)
30 Jun 1961 - 31 Jan
1965 Curtis Emerson
LeMay
(b. 1906 - d. 1990)
1 Feb 1965 - 31 Jul
1969 John Paul
McConnell
(b. 1908 - d. 1986)
1 Aug 1969 - 31 Jul
1973 John Dale
Ryan
(b. 1915 - d. 1983)
1 Aug 1973 - 30 Jun
1974 George Scratchley
Brown
(b. 1918 - d. 1978)
1 Jul 1974 - 20 Jun
1978 David C.
Jones
(b. 1921 - d. 2013)
20 Jun 1978 - 30 Jun
1982 Lew Allen,
Jr.
(b. 1925 - d. 2010)
(acting to 1 Jul 1978)
1 Jul 1982 - 30 Jun
1986 Charles A.
Gabriel
(b. 1928 - d. 2003)
1 Jul 1986 - 30 Jun
1990 Larry D.
Welch
(b. 1934)
1 Jul 1990 - 17 Sep
1990 Michael J.
Dugan
(b. 1937)
17 Sep 1990 - 27 Oct
1990 John M. Loh
(acting)
(b. 1938)
27 Oct 1990 - 25 Oct
1994 Merrill A.
McPeak
(b. 1936)
26 Oct 1994 - 1 Sep
1997 Ronald R.
Fogleman
(b. 1942)
2 Sep 1997 - 5
Oct 1997 Ralph E. "Ed" Eberhart
(acting) (b. 1946)
6 Oct 1997 - 6
Sep 2001 Michael E.
Ryan
(b. 1941)
6 Sep 2001 - 2 Sep 2005 John
P.
Jumper
(b. 1945)
2 Sep 2005 - 1 Aug 2008 T.
Michael "Buzz"
Moseley
(b. 1949)
1 Aug 2008 - 12 Aug 2008 Duncan J.
McNabb (acting) (b.
1952)
12 Aug 2008 - 10 Aug 2012 Norton A.
Schwartz
(b. 1951)
10 Aug 2012 - 1 Jul 2016 Mark A.
Welsh
III
(b. 1954)
1 Jul 2016 - 6 Aug 2020
David L.
Goldfein
(b. 1959)
6 Aug 2020 - 29 Sep 2023 Charles Q.
Brown, Jr.
(b. 1962)
29 Sep 2023
-
David W.
Allvin
(b. 1963)
(acting to 2 Nov 2023)
Women's Airforce Service Pilots
(WASP) (Women in the Air Force)
10 Sep
1942
Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS).
15 Sep
1942
Women's Flying Training Detachment (WFTD).
5 Aug
1943
Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) formed
consolidating the WAFS and WFTD.
20 Dec
1944
WASP's disbanded.
12 Jun
1948
Women in the Air Force (WAF) created.
31 Jul
1976
WAF disestablished, women integrated into regular Air
Force.
Commander of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying
Squadron
11 Sep 1942 - 4 Aug
1943 Nancy Harkness Love
(f)
(b. 1914 - d. 1976)
Commander of the Women's Flying
Training Detachment
15 Sep 1942 - 5 Aug
1943 Jacqueline Cochran
(f)
(b. 1906 - d. 1980)
Commander of the Women's Air Force
Service Pilots
5 Aug 1943 - 20 Dec
1944 Jacqueline Cochran
(f)
(s.a.)
Directors of Women in the Air
Force
16 Jun 1948 - 29 May
1951 Geraldine Pratt May
(f)
(b. 1895 - d. 1997)
29 May 1951 - 1 Jan
1954 Mary Josephine "Jo" Shelly
(f) (b. 1907 - d. 1979)
1 Jan 1954 - 26 Aug 1957 Phyllis
Dunsmore-Smith Gray (f) (b. 1901 - d. 19..)
26 Aug 1957 - Sep 1961
Emma Jane Riley (f)
(b. 1914 - d. 1999)
Sep 1961 - 1 Nov
1965 Elizabeth "Betty"
Ann Ray (f) (b. 1913 - d. 2011)
1 Nov 1965 - 1
Mar 1973 Jeanne Marjorie Holm
(f)
(b. 1921 - d. 2010)
Mar 1973 - Apr
1975 Billie
Marie Bobbitt (f)
(b. 1923 - d. 2013)
Apr 1975 - 31 Jul
1976 Bianca D. Trimeloni
(f)
(b. 1927 - d. 1989)
U.S. Space Force
Adopted 15 May 2020
|
20 Dec 2019
U.S. Space Force (USSF)
established (from U.S. Space Command and
Air Force Space Command).
Chiefs of Space Operations (subordinate
to the Secretary of the Air Force)
20 Dec 2019 - 2 Nov 2022 John "Jay" W.
Raymond
(b. 1962)
2 Nov 2022
-
B. Chance
Saltzman
(b. 1969)
World-regional commands
Africa Command (AFRICOM)
Commanders, U.S. Africa Command
26 Feb 2007 - 30 Sep 2007 Robert T.
Moeller (acting) (b. 1951 -
d. 2011)
1 Oct 2007 - 9 Mar 2011
William "Kip" E. Ward
(b. 1949)
9 Mar 2011 - 5 Apr 2013 Carter F. Ham
(b. 1952)
5 Apr 2013 - 18 Jul 2016 David M.
Rodriguez
(b. 1954)
18 Jul 2016 - 26 Jul 2019
Thomas D. Waldhauser
(b. 1953)
26 Jul 2019 - 9 Aug 2022 Stephen J. Townsend
(b. 1959)
9 Aug 2022
-
Michael E.
Langley
(b. 1961?)
Central Command (CENTCOM)
Commanders-in-chief, U.S. Central Command
1 Jan 1983 - 27 Nov 1985 Robert C.
Kingston
(b. 1928 - d. 2007)
27 Nov 1985 - 23 Nov 1988 George B.
Crist
(b. 1931 - d. 2024)
23 Nov 1988 - 9 Aug 1991 H. Norman
Schwarzkopf
(b. 1934 - d. 2012)
9 Aug 1991 - 5 Aug 1994
Joseph P.
Hoar
(b. 1934 - d. 2022)
5 Aug 1994 - 13 Aug 1997 James
Henry Binford "Binnie" (b. 1940)
Peay III
13 Aug 1997 - 6 Jul 2000 Anthony
Zinni
(b. 1947)
6 Jul 2000 - 7 Jul 2003 Tommy
Ray
Franks
(b. 1945)
7 Jul 2003 - 24 Oct 2002
John P.
Abizaid
(b. 1951)
Commanders, U.S. Central Command
24 Oct 2002 - 16 Mar 2007 John P.
Abizaid
(s.a.)
16 Mar 2007 - 28 Mar 2008 William J.
Fallon
(b. 1944)
28 Mar 2008 - 31 Oct 2008 Martin E. Dempsey
(acting) (b. 1952)
31 Oct 2008 - 30 Jun 2010 David H. Petraeus
(b. 1952)
30 Jun 2010 - 11 Aug 2010 John R. Allen (acting)
(b. 1953)
11 Aug 2010 - 22 Mar 2013 James N. Mattis
(b. 1950)
22 Mar 2013 - 30 Mar 2016 Lloyd J. Austin III
(b. 1953)
30 Mar 2016 - 28 Mar 2019 Joseph
L.
Votel
(b. 1958)
28 Mar 2019 - 1 Apr 2022 Kenneth F.
McKenzie,
Jr.
(b. 1957)
1 Apr 2022
-
Michael E.
Kurilla
(b. 1966)
European Command (EUCOM)
Commanders-in-chief, European Command
15 Mar 1947 - 23 Aug 1949 Lucius D. Clay
(b. 1898 - d. 1978)
12 Aug 1949 - 1 Aug 1952 Thomas T. Handy
(b. 1892 - d. 1982)
1 Aug 1952 - 11 Jul 1953 Matthew B.
Ridgway
(b. 1895 - d. 1993)
11 Jul 1953 - 20 Nov 1956 Alfred M.
Gruenther
(b. 1899 - d. 1983)
20 Nov 1956 - 1 Nov 1962 Lauris
Norstad
(b. 1907 - d. 1988)
1 Nov 1962 - 5 May 1969 Lyman
L.
Lemnitzer
(b. 1899 - d. 1988)
5 May 1969 - 1 Nov 1974 Andrew
J.
Goodpaster
(b. 1915 - d. 2005)
1 Nov 1974 - 27 Jun 1979 Alexander
M. Haig, Jr.
(b. 1924 - d. 2010)
27 Jun 1979 - 25 Jun 1987 Bernard
Rogers
(b. 1921 - d. 2008)
25 Jun 1987 - 23 Jun 1992 John R.
Galvin
(b. 1929 - d. 2015)
23 Jun 1992 - 21 Oct 1993 John M.
Shalikashvili
(b. 1936 - d. 2011)
21 Oct 1993 - 10 Jul 1997 George A.
Joulwan
(b. 1939)
10 Jul 1997 - 2 May 2000 Wesley K.
Clark
(b. 1944)
2 May 2000 - 24 Oct 2002 Joseph
W.
Ralston
(b. 1943)
Commanders, U.S. European Command
24 Oct 2002 - 16 Jan 2003 Joseph W.
Ralston
(s.a.)
16 Jan 2003 - 4 Dec 2006 James L.
Jones
(b. 1943)
4 Dec 2006 - 30 Jun 2009 Bantz J.
Craddock
(b. 1949)
30 Jun 2009 - 10 May 2013 James G.
Stavridis
(b. 1955)
10 May 2013 - 3 May 2016 Philip M.
Breedlove
(b. 1955)
3 May 2016 - 2 May 2019 Curtis M.
Scaparrotti
(b. 1956)
2 May 2019 - 1 Jul 2022 Tod D.
Wolters
(b. 1960)
1 Jul 2022
-
Christopher G.
Cavoli
(b. 1964)
Indo-Pacific Command
1 Jan
1947
U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM).
30 May 2018
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM).
Commanders-in-chief, U.S. Pacific Command
1 Jan 1947 - 28 Feb 1947 John H.
Towers
(b. 1885 - d. 1955)
28 Feb 1947 - 3 Dec 1947 Louis E.
Denfeld
(b. 1891 - d. 1972)
3 Dec 1947 - 30 Apr 1949 DeWitt C.
Ramsey
(b. 1888 - d. 1961)
30 Apr 1949 - 10 Jul 1953 Arthur W.
Radford
(b. 1896 - d. 1973)
10 Jul 1953 - 31 Jul 1958 Felix B.
Stump
(b. 1894 - d. 1972)
31 Jul 1958 - 30 Jun 1964 Harry D.
Felt
(b. 1902 - d. 1992)
30 Jun 1964 - 31 Jul 1968 Ulysses S.
Grant
Sharp
(b. 1906 - d. 2001)
31 Jul 1968 - 1 Sep 1972 John S.
McCain,
Jr.
(b. 1911 - d. 1981)
1 Sep 1972 - 30 Aug 1976 Noel A.M.
Gayler
(b. 1913 - d. 2011)
30 Aug 1976 - 31 Oct 1979 Maurice F.
Weisner
(b. 1917 - d. 2006)
31 Oct 1979 - 1 Jul 1983 Robert
L.J.
Long
(b. 1920 - d. 2002)
1 Jul 1983 - 18 Sep 1985 William J.
Crowe,
Jr.
(b. 1925 - d. 2007)
18 Sep 1985 - 30 Sep 1988 Ronald J. Hays,
Jr.
(b. 1928 - d. 2021)
30 Sep 1988 - 1 Mar 1991 Huntington
Hardisty
(b. 1929 - d. 2003)
1 Mar 1991 - 11 Jul 1994 Charles R.
Larson
(b. 1936 - d. 2014)
11 Jul 1994 - 19 Jul 1994 Harold T.
Fields, Jr. (acting) (b. 1938)
19 Jul 1994 - 31 Jan 1996 Richard C.
Macke
(b. 1938 - d. 2022)
31 Jan 1996 - 20 Feb 1999 Joseph W.
Prueher
(b. 1942)
20 Feb 1999 - 2 May 2002 Dennis C.
Blair
(b. 1947)
2 May 2002 - 24 Oct 2002
Thomas B.
Fargo
(b. 1948)
Commanders, U.S. Pacific Command
24 Oct 2002 - 26 Feb 2005 Thomas B.
Fargo
(s.a.)
26 Feb 2005 - 12 Mar 2007 William J.
Fallon
(b. 1944)
12 Mar 2007 - 26 Mar 2007 Daniel P. "Fig"
Leaf (acting) (b. 1952)
26 Mar 2007 - 19 Oct 2009 Timothy J. Keating
(b. 1948)
19 Oct 2009 - 9 Mar 2012 Robert F. Willard
(b. 1950)
9 Mar 2012 - 27 May 2015 Samuel J. Locklear
III (b. 1954)
27 May 2015 - 30 May 2018 Harry B. Harris,
Jr.
(b. 1956)
Commanders, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
30 May 2018 - 30 Apr 2021
Philip "Phil" S.
Davidson
(b. 1960)
30 Apr 2021 - 3 May 2024 John C.
Aquilino
(b. 1961)
3 May 2024
-
Samuel J. Paparo, Jr.
(b. 1964)
Alaskan Command (ALCOM)
1 Jan 1947
Alaskan Command (ALCOM).
1 Jul 1975
Dis-established, transferred to
U.S. Pacific Command.
1 Oct
2002
Alaska included in U.S. Northern Command (but Alaskan
command forces remain under U.S.
Pacific Command).
Commanders-in-chief, Alaskan Command
1 Jan 1947 - 17 Oct 1947 Howard A.
"Pinky"
Craig
(b. 1897 - d. 1977)
17 Oct 1947 - 1 Jul 1950 Nathan F.
Twining
(b. 1897 - d. 1982)
1 Jul 1950 - 1 Mar 1953 William E.
Kepner
(b. 1893 - d. 1982)
1 Mar 1953 - 1 Oct 1956 Joseph A.
Atkinson
(b. 1900 - d. 1984)
1 Oct 1956 - 1 Aug 1961 Frank A.
Armstrong, Jr.
(b. 1902 - d. 1969)
1 Aug 1961 - 1 Aug 1963 George W.
Mundy
(b. 1905 - d. 2000)
1 Aug 1963 - 28 Jul 1966 Raymond J.
Reeves
(b. 1909 - d. 1998)
28 Jul 1966 - 3 Jun 1967 Glen R.
Birchard
(b. 1914 - d. 1967)
29 Jun 1967 - 1 Aug 1969 Robert A.
Breitweiser
(b. 1916 - d. 2007)
1 Aug 1969 - 1 Aug 1972 Robert G.
Ruegg
(b. 1914 - d. 2009)
1 Aug 1972 - 1 Sep 1974 James C.
Sherrill
(b. 1920 - d. 2000)
1 Sep 1974 - 1 Jul 1975 James E.
Hill
(b. 1921 - d. 1999)
Far Eastern Command (FECOM)
1 Jan
1947
Far Eastern Command (FECOM).
1 Jul
1957
Dis-established, functions assumed by U.S. Pacific Command.
Commanders-in-chief, Far Eastern Command
(in Tokyo, Japan)
1 Jan 1947 - 11 Apr 1951 Douglas MacArthur
(b. 1880 - d. 1964)
11 Apr 1951 - 12 May 1952 Matthew B. Ridgway
(b. 1895 - d. 1993)
12 May 1952 - 7 Oct 1953 Mark W. Clark
(b. 1896 - d. 1984)
7 Oct 1953 - 1 Apr 1955 John E. Hull
(b. 1895 - d. 1975)
1 Apr 1955 - 5 Jun 1955 Maxwell D.
Taylor
(b. 1901 - d. 1987)
5 Jun 1955 - 1 Jul 1957 Lyman L.
Lemnitzer
(b. 1899 - d. 1988)
Northern Command (NORTHCOM)
Commander-in-chief, U.S. Northern
Command
1 Oct 2002 - 24 Oct
2002 Ralph E. "Ed"
Eberhart
(b. 1946)
Commanders, U.S. Northern
Command
24 Oct 2002 - 5 Nov 2004 Ralph E. "Ed"
Eberhart
(s.a.)
5 Nov 2004 - 23 Mar
2007 Timothy J. Keating
(b. 1948)
23 Mar 2007 - 19 May 2010 Victor E. "Gene"
Renuart, Jr. (b. 1949)
19 May 2010 - 3 Aug 2011 James A.
Winnefeld, Jr.
(b. 1956)
3 Auy 2011 - 5 Dec 2014 Charles
H. Jacoby, Jr.
(b. 1954)
5 Dec 2014 - 13 May 2016 William E.
Gortney
(b. 1955)
13 May 2016 - 24 May 2018 Lori J. Robinson (f)
(b. 1959)
24 May 2018 - 20 Aug 2020 Terrence J.
O'Shaughnessy
(b. 1964)
20 Aug 2020 - 5 Feb 2024 Glen D.
VanHerck
(b. 1962)
5 Feb 2024
-
Gregory M. Guillot
Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)
1 Jul
1917
Panama Canal Department.
10 Feb
1941
Caribbean Defense Command.
1 Nov
1947
U.S. Caribbean Command.
6 Jun
1963
U.S. Southern Command.
Commanders-in-chief, Panama Canal Department
1 Jul 1917 - 14 Aug 1917 Edward H.
Plummer
(b. 1855 - d. 1927)
14 Aug 1917 - 31 Aug 1917 Adelbert
Cronkhite
(b. 1861 - d. 1937)
31 Aug 1917 - 28 Feb 1918 George F.
Landers
(b. 1865 - d. 1939)
28 Feb 1918 - 18 Apr 1919 Richard M.
Blatchford
(b. 1859 - d. 1934)
18 Apr 1919 - 24 May 1921 Chase W.
Kennedy
(b. 1859 - d. 1936)
24 May 1921 - 22 Oct 1921 Edwin B.
Babbitt
(b. 1862 - d. 1939)
22 Oct 1921 - 19 Sep 1924 Samuel D.
Sturgis
(b. 1861 - d. 1933)
19 Sep 1924 - 13 Jun 1926 William
Lassiter
(b. 1867 - d. 1959)
13 Jun 1926 - 2 Oct 1927 Charles H.
Martin
(b. 1863 - d. 1946)
2 Oct 1927 - 1 Apr 1928 William S.
Graves
(b. 1865 - d. 1940)
1 Apr 1928 - 10 Aug 1930 Malin
Craig
(b. 1875 - d. 1945)
10 Aug 1930 - 24 Nov 1930 George LeRoy
Irwin
(b. 1868 - d. 1931)
24 Nov 1930 - 5 Sep 1933 Preston
Brown
(b. 1872 - d. 1948)
5 Sep 1933 - 10 Nov 1935 Harold B.
Fiske
(b. 1871 - d. 1960)
10 Nov 1935 - 30 Jul 1936 Lytle
Brown
(b. 1872 - d. 1951)
30 Jul 1936 - 10 Feb 1937 Henry W.
Butner
(b. 1875 - d. 1937)
10 Feb 1937 - 12 Apr 1937 Frank W.
Rowell
(b. 1880 - d. 1947)
12 Apr 1937 - 8 Jan 1940 David L.
Stone
(b. 1876 - d. 1959)
8 Jan 1940 - 10 Feb 1941 Daniel Van
Voorhis
(b. 1878 - d. 1956)
Commanders-in-chief, Caribbean Defense
Command
10 Feb 1941 - 19 Sep 1941 Daniel Van
Voorhis
(s.a.)
9 Sep 1941 - 9 Nov 1942 Frank M.
Andrews
(b. 1884 - d. 1943)
9 Nov 1942 - 15 Oct 1945 George
Howard
Brett
(b. 1886 - d. 1963)
15 Oct 1945 - 1 Nov 1947 Willis D.
Crittenberger
(b. 1890 - d. 1980)
Commanders-in-chief, U.S. Caribbean
Command
1 Nov 1947 - 28 Jun 1948
Willis D.
Crittenberger
(s.a.)
28 Jun 1948 - 1 Oct 1949 Matthew B.
Ridgway
(b. 1895 - d. 1993)
1 Oct 1949 - 1 Apr 1952
William H.H. Morris, Jr.
(b. 1890 - d. 1971)
1 Apr 1952 - 15 Jun 1954 Horace L.
McBride
(b. 1894 - d. 1962)
15 Jun 1954 - 5 Jan 1957 William K.
Harrison, Jr.
(b. 1895 - d. 1987)
5 Jan 1957 - 20 Feb 1958 Robert M.
Montague
(b. 1899 - d. 1958)
20 Feb 1958 - 1 Apr 1958 Truman H.
Landon (acting)
(b. 1905 - d. 1986)
1 Apr 1958 - 15 Jul 1960 Ridgely
Gaither
(b. 1903 - d. 1992)
15 Jul 1960 - 1 Feb 1961 Robert F.
Sink
(b. 1905 - d. 1965)
1 Feb 1961 - 6 Jun
1963 Andrew P.
O'Meara
(b. 1907 - d. 2005)
Commanders-in-chief, U.S.
Southern Command.
6 Jun 1963 - 22 Feb
1965 Andrew P.
O'Meara
(s.a.)
22 Feb 1965 - 18 Feb 1969 Robert W. Porter,
Jr.
(b. 1908 - d. 2000)
18 Feb 1969 - 20 Sep 1971 George R.
Mather
(b. 1911 - d. 1993)
20 Sep 1971 - 17 Jan 1973 George V.
Underwood, Jr. (b.
1913 - d. 1984)
17 Jan 1973 - 1 Aug 1975 William B.
Rosson
(b. 1918 - d. 2004)
1 Aug 1975 - 1 Oct 1979
Dennis P.
McAuliffe
(b. 1922 - d. 2012)
1 Oct 1979 - 24 May 1983 Wallace H.
Nutting
(b. 1928 - d. 2023)
24 May 1983 - 1 Mar 1985 Paul F.
Gorman
(b. 1927)
1 Mar 1985 - 6 Jun 1987 John
R.
Galvin
(b. 1929 - d. 2015)
6 Jun 1987 - 1 Oct 1989
Frederick F. Woerner, Jr.
(b. 1933 - d. 2023)
1 Oct 1989 - 21 Nov 1990 Maxwell R.
Thurman
(b. 1931 - d. 1995)
21 Nov 1990 - 15 Oct 1993 George A.
Joulwan
(b. 1939)
15 Oct 1993 - 17 Feb 1993 Walter T.
Worthington (acting) (b. 1942 - d. 2004)
17 Feb 1994 - 1 Mar 1996 Barry R.
McCaffrey
(b. 1942)
1 Mar 1996 - 26 Jun 1996 James B.
Perkins III (acting) (b.
1942 - d. 2021)
26 Jun 1996 - 13 Jul 1997 Wesley K.
Clark
(b. 1944)
13 Jul 1997 - 25 Sep 1997 Walter F. Doran
(acting)
(b. 1945)
25 Sep 1997 - 8 Sep 2000 Charles E.
Wilhelm
(b. 1941)
8 Sep 2000 - 30 Sep 2001 Peter
Pace
(b. 1945)
30 Sep 2001 - 18 Aug 2002 Gary D. Speer
(acting)
(b. 1950)
18 Aug 2002 - 24 Oct 2002 James
T.
Hill
(b. 1946)
Commanders, U.S. Southern Command
24 Oct 2002 - 9 Nov 2004 James T.
Hill
(s.a.)
9 Nov 2004 - 19 Oct 2006 Bantz J.
Craddock
(b. 1949)
19 Oct 2006 - 25 Jun 2009 James G.
Stavridis
(b. 1955)
25 Jun 2009 - 19 Nov 2012 Douglas M. Fraser
(b. 1953)
19 Nov 2012 - 14 Jan 2016 John F. Kelly
(b. 1950)
14 Jan 2016 - 26 Nov 2018 Kurt
W. Tidd
(b. 1956)
26 Nov 2018 - 29 Oct 2021 Craig S. Faller
(b. 1961)
29 Oct 2021 - 7 Nov 2024 Laura J. Richardson
(f)
(b. 1963)
7 Nov 2024
-
Alvin Holsey
(b. 1965)
Space Command (USSPACECOM)
1985 - 1 Oct 2002 |
Adopted 29 Aug 2019 |
23 Sep 1985
United States Space Command (USSPACECOM).
1 Oct 2002
Dis-established,
functions assumed by U.S. Strategic
Command
(STRATCOM).
29 Aug 2019
United States Space Command (SPACECOM)[not
the lineal successor
of USSPACECOM].
Commanders-in-chief, United States Space Command
23 Sep 1985 - 5 Feb 1987 Robert
Tralles Herres
(b. 1921 - d. 2008)
6 Feb 1987 - 30 Mar 1990 John L.
"Pete" Piotrowski
(b. 1934)
1 Apr 1990 - 30 Jun 1992
Donald J. Kutyna
(b. 1933)
30 Jun 1992 - 12 Sep 1994 Charles "Chuck"
A. Horner (b. 1936)
13 Sep 1994 - 26 Aug 1996 Joseph W. Ashy
(b. 1940)
27 Aug 1996 - 13 Aug 1998 Howell M. Estes
III
(b. 1941)
14 Aug 1998 - 22 Feb 2000 Richard B. Myers
(b. 1942)
22 Feb 2000 - 1 Oct 2002 Ralph E.
"Ed"
Eberhart
(b. 1946)
1 Oct 2002 - 29 Aug 2019 dis-established
Commanders, United States Space Command
29 Aug 2019 - 20 Aug 2020 John "Jay" W. Raymond
(b. 1962)
20 Aug 2020 - 10 Jan 2024 James H.
Dickinson
(b. 1963?)
10 Jan 2024
-
Stephen N. Whiting
(b. 1967)
Atlantic and Joint Forces Commands (JFCOM)
1993 - 1999 |
1999 -
2011 |
1 Dec 1947
Atlantic Command (LANTCOM).
1 Oct 1993
U.S. Atlantic Command
(USACOM).
7 Oct 1999
Reorganized as U.S. Joint
Forces Command (JFCOM).
31 Aug 2011
Dis-established, essential functions
reassigned
to other
unified combatant commands.
Commanders-in-chief, Atlantic
Command (and also 10 Apr 1952 - 4 Oct
1985,
NATO Supreme Allied Commanders, Atlantic [SACLANT])
1 Dec 1947 - 1 Feb 1950 William H.P.
Blandy
(b. 1890 - d. 1954)
1 Feb 1950 - 15 Aug 1951 William M.
Fechteler
(b. 1896 - d. 1967)
15 Aug 1951 - 12 Apr 1954 Lynde D. McCormick
(b. 1895 - d. 1956)
12 Apr 1954 - 28 Feb 1960 Jerauld Wright
(b. 1898 - d. 1995)
28 Feb 1960 - 30 Apr 1963 Robert L. Dennison
(b. 1901 - d. 1980)
30 Apr 1963 - 30 Apr 1965 Harold Page Smith
(b. 1904 - d. 1993)
30 Apr 1965 - 17 Jun 1967 Thomas H. Moorer
(b. 1912 - d. 2004)
17 Jun 1967 - 30 Sep 1970 Ephraim P. Holmes
(b. 1908 - d. 1997)
30 Sep 1970 - 31 Oct 1972 Charles K. Duncan
(b. 1911 - d. 1994)
31 Oct 1972 - 30 May 1975 Ralph W. Cousins
(b. 1915 - d. 2009)
30 May 1975 - 30 Sep 1978 Isaac C. Kidd, Jr.
(b. 1919 - d. 1999)
30 Sep 1978 - 30 Sep 1982 Harry D. Train II
(b. 1927)
30 Sep 1982 - 27 Nov 1985 Wesley L. McDonald
(b. 1924 - d. 2009)
27 Nov 1985 - 22 Nov 1988 Lee Baggett, Jr.
(b. 1927 - d. 1999)
22 Nov 1988 – 18 May 1990 Frank B. Kelso
II
(b. 1933 - d. 2013)
18 May 1990 – 13 Jul 1992 Leon
A. "Bud" Edney
(b. 1935)
13 Jul 1992 - 31 Oct 1994 Paul D.
Miller
(b. 1941)
31 Oct 1994 – 24 Sep 1997 John J.
Sheehan
(b. 1940)
24 Sep 1997 – 7
Oct 1999 Harold W. Gehman, Jr.
(b.
1942)
Commanders-in-chief, United
States Joint Forces Command
7 Oct 1999 – 5 Sep
2000 Harold W. Gehman, Jr.
(s.a.)
5 Sep 2000 - 2 Oct 2002
William "Buck" F. Kernan
(b. 1946)
2 Oct 2002 - 24 Oct 2002
Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr.
(b. 1948)
Commanders, United States Joint Forces
Command
24 Oct 2002 - 1 Aug 2005 Edmund P.
Giambastiani, Jr. (s.a.)
1 Aug 2005 - 10 Aug 2005 Robert W. Wagner
(acting)
10 Nov 2005 - 9 Nov 2007 Lance L. Smith
(b. 1946)
9 Nov 2007 - 8 Sep 2009 James N.
Mattis
(b. 1950)
8 Sep 2009 - 29 Oct 2010 Keith M. Huber
(acting) (b.
1953?)
29 Oct 2010 - 31 Aug 2011 Raymond T. Odierno
(b. 1954 - d. 2021)
National Security Agency
![[U.S. National Security
Agency (NSA)] [U.S. National
Security Agency (NSA)]](us_nsa.gif)
NSA website
15 Jul
1949
Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA).
4 Nov
1952
National Security Agency (NSA).
Directors of the
Armed Forces Security Agency
15 Jul 1949 - 15 Jul 1951 Earl
E.
Stone
(b. 1895 - d. 1989)
15 Jul 1951 - 4 Nov 1952
Ralph J.
Canine
(b. 1895 - d. 1969)
Directors of the
National Security Agency
4 Nov 1952 - 23 Nov 1956
Ralph J.
Canine
(s.a.)
24 Nov 1956 - 23 Nov 1960 John A.
Samford
(b. 1905 - d. 1968)
24 Nov 1960 - 30 Jun 1962
Laurence H.
Frost
(b. 1902 - d. 1977)
1 Jul 1962 - 31 May 1965
Gordon A.
Blake
(b. 1910 - d. 1997)
1 Jun 1965 - 31 Jul 1969
Marshall S.
Carter
(b. 1909 - d. 1993)
1 Aug 1969 - 31 Jul 1972
Noel
Gayler
(b. 1914 - d. 2011)
1 Aug 1972 - 14 Aug 1973
Samuel C.
Phillips
(b. 1921 - d. 1990)
15 Aug 1973 - 4 Jul 1977
Lew Allen,
Jr.
(b. 1925 - d. 2010)
5 Jul 1977 - 31 Mar 1981
Bobby Ray
Inman
(b. 1931)
1 Apr 1981 - 27 Mar 1985
Lincoln D.
Faurer
(b. 1928 - d. 2014)
27 Mar 1985 - 5 May 1985
Robert E. Rich
(acting)
(b. 1926)
5 May 1985 - 31 Jul 1988 William E.
Odom
(b. 1932 - d. 2008)
1 Aug 1988 - 8 Apr
1992 William O.
Studeman
(b. 1940)
8 Apr 1992 - 22 May 1992
Robert L. Prestel (acting)
(b. 1936)
22 May 1992 - 22 Feb 1996 J. Michael
McConnell
(b. 1943)
23 Feb 1996 - 15 Mar 1999
Kenneth A.
Minihan
(b. 1943)
25 Mar 1999 - 21 Apr 2005
Michael V.
Hayden
(b. 1945)
21 Apr 2005 - 31 Jul 2005
William B. Black, Jr. (acting)
(b. 1936)
1 Aug 2005 - 28 Mar 2014 Keith B.
Alexander
(b. 1951)
2 Apr 2014 - 4 May 2018 Michael
S. Rogers
(b. 1959)
4 May 2018 - 2 Feb 2024 Paul M.
Nakasone
(b. 1963)
2 Feb 2024 - 3 Apr 2025 Timothy D.
Haugh
(b. 1969)
3 Apr 2025 -
William J. Hartman (acting)
Post Office Department
-
- 1903 - 1 Jul 1971?
|
-
- Adopted 1990's
|
United States Postal
Service (USPS)
26 Jul
1775
Office of Postmaster General created by Congress.
22 Sep
1789
Act provided for the temporary establishment of a
general post
office
and authorized the appointment of a Postmaster General.
20 Feb
1792
Post Office Department
2 Mar
1827
Postmaster General placed on an equal basis with that of
other
Department heads.
9 Mar
1829
Postmaster General becomes a cabinet member.
8 Jun
1872
Post Office Department formally established as an
executive department.
1 Jul
1971
U.S. Postal Service (USPS)(no longer a cabinet post).
Postmasters General of the United
States
26 Jul 1775 - 7 Nov
1776 Benjamin
Franklin
(b. 1706 - d. 1790)
7 Nov 1776 - 28 Jan
1782 Richard
Bache
(b. 1737 - d. 1811)
28 Jan 1782 - 26 Sep
1789 Ebenezer
Hazard
(b. 1744 - d. 1817)
26 Sep 1789 - 19 Aug
1791 Samuel
Osgood
(b. 1747 - d. 1813)
19 Aug 1791 - 25 Feb
1795 Timothy
Pickering
(b. 1745 - d. 1829)
25 Feb 1795 - 28 Nov
1801 Joseph
Habersham
(b. 1751 - d. 1815)
28 Nov 1801 - 17 Mar
1814 Gideon
Granger
(b. 1767 - d. 1822)
17 Mar 1814 - 26 Jun
1823 Return Jonathan Meigs,
Jr. (b.
1764 - d. 1825)
26 Jun 1823 - 3 Mar 1829 John
McLean
(b. 1785 - d. 1861)
9 Mar 1829 - 1 May 1835
William Taylor
Barry
(b. 1785 - d. 1835)
1 May 1835 - 19 May
1840 Amos
Kendall
(b. 1789 - d. 1869)
19 May 1840 - 3 Mar
1841 John Milton
Niles
(b. 1787 - d. 1856)
4 Mar 1841 - 6
Mar 1841 Selah R. Hobbie (1st time)(acting) (b.
1797 - d. 1854)
6 Mar 1841 - 13 Oct 1841 Francis
Granger
(b. 1792 - d. 1868)
13 Oct 1841 - 6 Mar
1845 Charles Anderson
Wickliffe
(b. 1788 - d. 1869)
6 Mar 1845 - 5
Mar 1849 Cave
Johnson
(b. 1793 - d. 1866)
6 Mar 1849 - 8
Mar 1849 Selah R. Hobbie (2nd
time)(acting) (s.a.)
8 Mar 1849 - 23 Jul 1850
Jacob
Collamer
(b. 1791 - d. 1865)
23 Jul 1850 - 14 Sep
1852 Nathan Kelsey
Hall
(b. 1810 - d. 1874)
14 Sep 1852 - 7 Mar
1853 Samuel Dickinson
Hubbard
(b. 1799 - d. 1855)
7 Mar 1853 - 6
Mar 1857 James
Campbell
(b. 1812 - d. 1893)
6 Mar 1857 - 8
Mar 1859 Aaron Venable
Brown
(b. 1795 - d. 1859)
9 Mar 1859 - 14 Mar
1859 Horatio King (1st
time)(acting) (b. 1811 - d. 1897)
14 Mar 1859 - 31 Dec 1860 Joseph
Holt
(b. 1807 - d. 1894)
1 Jan 1861 - 9
Mar 1861 Horatio King (2nd time)
(s.a.)
(acting
to 12 Feb 1861)
9 Mar 1861 - 24 Sep 1864 Montgomery
Blair
(b. 1813 - d. 1883)
24 Sep 1864 - 25 Jul 1866 William
Dennison,
Jr.
(b. 1815 - d. 1882)
25 Jul
1866 - 3 Mar 1869 Alexander Williams
Randall
(b. 1819 - d. 1872)
(acting to 25 Jul 1866)
4 Mar 1869 - 5 Mar 1869 St.
John B.L. Skinner (acting) (b. 1797 - d.
1872)
5 Mar 1869 - 7 Jul 1874 John
Angel James
Creswell
(b. 1828 - d. 1891)
7 Jul 1874 - 24 Aug 1874 James W.
Marshall
(b. 1822 - d. 1910)
24 Aug 1874 - 12 Jul 1876 Marshall
Jewell
(b. 1825 - d. 1883)
12 Jul 1876 - 12 Mar
1877 James M. Tyner
(b. 1826 - d. 1904)
12 Mar 1877 - 2 Jun
1880 David McKendree
Key
(b. 1814 - d. 1882)
2 Jun 1880 - 3 Mar 1881
Horace
Maynard
(b. 1814 - d. 1882)
5 Mar 1881 - 20 Dec 1881 Thomas
Lemuel
James
(b. 1831 - d. 1916)
20 Dec 1881 - 26 Mar 1883 Timothy Otis
Howe
(b. 1816 - d. 1883)
26 Mar 1883 - 3 Apr
1883 Frank Hatton (1st time)(acting)
(b. 1846 - d. 1894)
3 Apr 1883 - 25 Sep 1884 Walter
Quintin
Gresham
(b. 1832 - d. 1895)
25 Sep 1884 - 6
Mar 1885 Frank Hatton (2nd time)
(s.a.)
(acting to 14 Oct 1884)
6 Mar 1885 - 6 Jan 1888
William Freeman
Vilas
(b. 1840 - d. 1908)
6 Jan 1888 - 3 Mar 1889
Donald McDonald
Dickinson
(b. 1846 - d. 1916)
5 Mar 1889 - 3
Mar 1893 John
Wanamaker
(b. 1838 - d. 1922)
6 Mar 1893 - 1
Mar 1895 Wilson Shannon
Bissell
(b. 1847 - d. 1903)
1 Mar 1895 - 3 Mar 1897
William Lyne
Wilson
(b. 1843 - d. 1900)
5 Mar 1897 - 21 Apr
1898 James Albert
Gary
(b. 1833 - d. 1920)
21 Apr 1898 - 9 Jan
1902 Charles Emory
Smith
(b. 1842 - d. 1902)
9 Jan 1902 - 10 Oct
1904 Henry Clay
Payne
(b. 1843 - d. 1904)
10 Oct 1904 - 3 Mar
1905 Robert John
Wynne
(b. 1851 - d. 1905)
6 Mar 1905 - 15 Jan 1907 George
Bruce
Cortelyou
(b. 1862 - d. 1940)
15 Jan 1907 - 3 Mar 1909 George
von Lengerke
Meyer
(b. 1858 - d. 1918)
5 Mar 1909 - 3
Mar 1913 Frank Harris
Hitchcock
(b. 1867 - d. 1935)
5 Mar 1913 - 3
Mar 1921 Albert Sidney
Burleson
(b. 1863 - d. 1937)
5 Mar 1921 - 4
Mar 1922 Will Harrison
Hays
(b. 1879 - d. 1954)
4 Mar 1922 - 27 Feb 1923 Hubert
Work
(b. 1860 - d. 1942)
27 Feb 1923 - 3 Mar 1929 Harry S.
New
(b. 1858 - d. 1937)
5 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933
Walter F.
Brown
(b. 1869 - d. 1961)
4 Mar 1933 - 10 Sep
1940 James Aloysius
Farley
(b. 1888 - d. 1976)
10 Sep 1940 - 8 May
1945 Frank Comerford
Walker
(b. 1886 - d. 1959)
8 May 1945 - 16 Dec 1947 Robert
Emmet
Hennegan
(b. 1903 - d. 1949)
16 Dec 1947 - 20 Jan
1953 Jesse Monroe
Donaldson
(b. 1885 - d. 1970)
21 Jan 1953 - 20 Jan
1961 Arthur Ellsworth
Summerfield (b. 1899
- d. 1972)
21 Jan 1961 - 30 Sep
1963 J. Edward
Day
(b. 1914 - d. 1996)
30 Sep 1963 - 3 Nov
1965 John Austin
Gronouski
(b. 1919 - d. 1996)
3 Nov 1965 - 26 Apr
1968 Lawrence Francis
O'Brien
(b. 1917 - d. 1990)
26 Apr 1968 - 20 Jan 1969
W. Marvin Watson
(b. 1924 - d.
2017)
22 Jan 1969 - 1 Jan
1972 Winton M.
Blount
(b. 1921 - d. 2002)
1 Jan 1972 - 16 Feb
1975 E.T. "Ted"
Klassen
(b. 1908 - d. 1990)
16 Feb 1975 - 15 Mar
1978 Benjamin F.
Bailar
(b. 1934 - d. 2017)
15 Mar 1978 - 1 Jan
1985 William F.
Bolger
(b. 1923 - d. 1989)
1 Jan 1985 - 7
Jan 1986 Paul N.
Carlin
(b. 1931 - d. 2018)
7 Jan 1986 - 16 Aug
1986 Albert V.
Casey
(b. 1920 - d. 2004)
16 Aug 1986 - 1 Mar
1988 Preston Robert
Tisch
(b. 1926 - d. 2005)
1 Mar 1988 - 6
Jul 1992 Anthony M.
Frank
(b. 1931 - d. 2022)
6 Jul 1992 - 16 May
1998 Marvin T.
Runyon
(b. 1924 - d. 2004)
16 May 1998 - 1 Jun
2001 William J.
Henderson
(b. 1947)
1 Jun 2001 - 3 Dec 2010
John E.
Potter
(b. 1956)
3 Dec 2010 - 1 Feb 2015 Patrick R.
Donahoe
(b. 1955)
(acting to 6 Dec 2010)
1 Feb 2015 - 15 Jun 2020
Megan J. Brennan
(f)
(b. 1961)
15 Jun 2020 - 24 Mar 2025 Louis
DeJoy
(b.
1957)
24 Mar 2025 -
Douglas Tulino
(acting)
(b. 1957)
Department of the
Treasury
1887 - 1915 |
1915 - 11 Jan 1963 |
Adopted 11 Jan 1963 |
Department of
Treasury
7 Feb 1781
Office of the Superintendent of
Finance of the United States.
28 May 1784
Board of Treasury
2 Sep
1789
Department of the Treasury
Superintendent of Finance
13 Mar 1781 - 1 Nov 1784 Robert Morris,
Jr.
(b. 1734 - d. 1806)
Commissioners of the Board of Treasury
Nov 1784 - 11 Sep 1789 Samuel Osgood
(b. 1747 - d. 1813)
+ Walter
Livingston
(b. 1740 - d. 1797)
+
Arthur Lee
(b. 1740 - d. 1792)
Secretaries of the Treasury
11 Sep 1789 - 31 Jan 1795 Alexander
Hamilton
(b. 1757 - d. 1804)
2 Feb 1795 - 31 Dec 1800 Oliver
Wolcott,
Jr.
(b. 1760 - d. 1833)
1 Jan 1801 - 13 May 1801 Samuel
Dexter
(b. 1761 - d. 1816)
14 May 1801 - 8 Feb 1814 Albert
Gallatin
(b. 1761 - d. 1849)
21 Apr 1813 - 8 Feb 1814 William
Jones
(b. 1760 - d. 1831)
(acting for absent Gallatin)
9 Feb 1814 - 5 Oct 1814 George W.
Campbell
(b. 1769 - d. 1848)
6 Oct 1814 - 21 Oct 1816 Alexander
J.
Dallas
(b. 1759 - d. 1817)
21 Oct 1816 - 22 Oct 1816 William Jones
(acting)
(s.a.)
22 Oct 1816 - 6 Mar 1825 William H.
Crawford
(b. 1772 - d. 1834)
7 Mar 1825 - 31 Jul 1825
Samuel L. Southard (acting)
(b. 1787 - d. 1842)
1 Aug 1825 - 5 Mar 1829 Richard Rush
(b. 1780 - d. 1859)
6 Mar 1829 - 20 Jun 1831 Samuel D.
Ingham
(b. 1779 - d. 1860)
21 Jun 1831 - 8 Aug 1831 Asbury
Dickens (acting)
(b. 1780 - d. 1861)
8 Aug 1831 - 28 May 1833 Louis
McLane
(b. 1786 - d. 1857)
29 May 1833 - 22 Sep 1833 William J.
Duane
(b. 1780 - d. 1865)
23 Sep 1833 - 25 Jun 1834 Roger B.
Taney
(b. 1777 - d. 1864)
25 Jun 1834 - 1 Jul 1834 McClintock
Young (1st time)(acting)(b. 1810 - d. 1863)
1 Jul 1834 - 3 Mar 1841 Levi
Woodbury
(b. 1789 - d. 1851)
4 Mar 1841 - 5
Mar 1841 McClintock Young (2nd time)(acting)(s.a.)
5 Mar 1841 - 11 Sep 1841 Thomas
Ewing
(b. 1789 - d. 1871)
11 Sep 1841 - 13 Sep 1841
McClintock Young (3rd time)(acting)(s.a.)
13 Sep 1841 - 1 Mar 1843 Walter
Forward
(b. 1786 - d. 1852)
1 Mar 1843 - 8 Mar 1843
McClintock Young (4th time)(acting)(s.a.)
8 Mar 1843 - 2 May 1844 John C.
Spencer
(b. 1788 - d. 1855)
2 May 1844 - 4 Jul 1844
McClintock Young (5th time)(acting)(s.a.)
4 Jul 1844 - 7 Mar 1845 George M.
Bibb
(b. 1776 - d. 1859)
8 Mar 1845 - 5 Mar 1849
Robert J.
Walker
(b. 1801 - d. 1869)
6 Mar 1849 - 8 Mar 1849
McClintock Young (6th time)(acting)(s.a.)
8 Mar 1849 - 22 Jul 1850 William M.
Meredith
(b. 1799 - d. 1873)
23 Jul 1850 - 6 Mar 1853 Thomas
Corwin
(b. 1794 - d. 1865)
7 Mar 1853 - 6 Mar 1857 James
Guthrie
(b. 1792 - d. 1869)
7 Mar 1857 - 8 Dec 1860
Howell
Cobb
(b. 1815 - d. 1868)
9 Dec 1860 - 12 Dec 1860 Isaac
Toucey (acting)
(b. 1796 - d. 1869)
12 Dec 1860 - 14 Jan 1861 Philipp F.
Thomas
(b. 1810 - d. 1890)
15 Jan 1861 - 6 Mar 1861 John A.
Dix
(b. 1789 - d. 1879)
7 Mar 1861 - 30 Jun 1864 Salmon P.
Chase
(b. 1808 - d. 1873)
1 Jul 1861 - 5 Jul 1864
George Harrington (1st time)
(b. 1815 - d. 1892)
(acting)
5 Jul 1864 - 3 Mar 1865 William P.
Fessenden
(b. 1806 - d. 1869)
4 Mar 1865 - 9 Mar 1865
George Harrington (2nd time)
(s.a.)
(acting)
9 Mar 1865 - 5 Mar 1869 Hugh McCulloch
(1st
time)
(b. 1808 - d. 1895)
5 Mar 1869 - 11 Mar 1869 John F.
Hartley (acting) (b.
1809 - d. 1897)
12 Mar 1869 - 16 Mar 1873 George S.
Boutwell
(b. 1818 - d.
1905)
17 Mar 1873 - 3 Jun 1874 William A.
Richardson
(b. 1821 - d. 1896)
4 Jun 1874 - 20 Jun 1876 Benjamin
H.
Bristow
(b. 1832 - d. 1890)
21 Jun 1876 - 30 Jun 1876 Charles F.
Conant (acting) (b. 1835 -
d. 1886)
7 Jul 1876 - 9 Mar 1877 Lot M.
Morrill
(b. 1813 - d. 1883)
10 Mar 1877 - 3 Mar 1881 John
Sherman
(b. 1823 - d. 1900)
4 Mar 1881 - 8 Mar 1881 Henry
F. French (1st time)(acting) (b. 1813 - d. 1885)
8 Mar 1881 - 13 Nov 1881 William H. Windom
(1st time) (b. 1827
- d. 1891)
14 Nov 1881 - 4 Sep 1884 Charles J.
Folger
(b. 1818 - d. 1884)
4 Sep 1884 - 8 Sep 1884
Charles E. Coon (1st time)(acting) (b. 1842 - d.
1920)
8 Sep 1884 - 15 Sep 1884 Henry F.
French (2nd time)(acting) (s.a.)
15 Sep 1884 - 24 Sep 1884 Charles E.
Coon (2nd time)(acting) (s.a.)
24 Sep 1884 - 30 Oct 1884 Walter Q.
Gresham
(b. 1832 - d. 1895)
30 Oct 1884 - 30 Oct 1884
Henry F. French (3rd time)(acting) (s.a.)
31 Oct 1884 - 7 Mar 1885 Hugh McCulloch (2nd
time)
(s.a.)
8 Mar 1885 - 31 Mar 1887 Daniel
Manning
(b. 1831 - d. 1887)
1 Apr 1887 - 6 Mar 1889
Charles S.
Fairchild
(b. 1842 - d. 1924)
7 Mar 1889 - 29 Jan 1891 William H.
Windom (2nd time)
(s.a.)
30 Jan 1891 - 24 Feb 1891 Allured B.
Nettleton (acting) (b. 1840 - d.
1911)
25 Feb 1891 - 6 Mar 1893 Charles
Foster
(b. 1828 - d. 1904)
7 Mar 1893 - 5 Mar 1897 John
G.
Carlisle
(b. 1835 - d. 1910)
6 Mar 1897 - 31 Jan 1902 Lyman J.
Gage
(b. 1836 - d. 1927)
1 Feb 1902 - 3 Mar 1907
Leslie M.
Shaw
(b. 1848 - d. 1932)
4 Mar 1907 - 7 Mar 1909
George B.
Cortelyou
(b. 1862 - d. 1940)
8 Mar 1909 - 5 Mar 1913
Franklin
MacVeagh
(b. 1837 - d. 1934)
6 Mar 1913 - 15 Dec 1918 William G.
McAdoo
(b. 1863 - d. 1941)
16 Dec 1918 - 1 Feb 1920 Carter
Glass
(b. 1858 - d. 1946)
2 Feb 1920 - 3 Mar 1921 David
F.
Houston
(b. 1866 - d. 1940)
4 Mar 1921 - 12 Feb 1932 Andrew W.
Mellon
(b. 1855 - d. 1937)
13 Feb 1932 - 4 Mar 1933 Ogden L.
Mills
(b. 1884 - d. 1937)
5 Mar 1933 - 17 Nov 1933 William H.
Woodin
(b. 1868 - d. 1934)
17 Nov 1933 - 22 Jul 1945 Henry
Morgenthau,
Jr.
(b. 1891 - d. 1967)
(acting to 1 Jan 1934)
23 Jul 1945 - 23 Jun 1946 Fred M.
Vinson
(b. 1890 - d. 1953)
23 Jun 1946 - 25 Jun 1946 O. Max Gardner
(acting) (b.
1882 - d. 1947)
25 Jun 1946 - 20 Jan 1953 John W.
Snyder
(b. 1895 - d. 1985)
21 Jan 1953 - 29 Jul 1957 George M.
Humphrey
(b. 1890 - d. 1970)
29 Jul 1957 - 20 Jan 1961 Robert B.
Anderson
(b. 1910 - d. 1989)
21 Jan 1961 - 1 Apr 1965 C. Douglas
Dillon
(b. 1909 - d. 2003)
1 Apr 1965 - 20 Dec 1968 Henry H.
Fowler
(b. 1908 - d. 2000)
21 Dec 1968 - 20 Jan 1969 Joseph W.
Barr
(b. 1918 - d. 1996)
21 Jan 1969 - 10 Feb 1971 David M.
Kennedy
(b. 1905 - d. 1996)
11 Feb 1971 - 12 Jun 1972 John B.
Connally
(b. 1917 - d. 1993)
12 Jun 1972 - 7 May 1974 George P.
Shultz
(b. 1920 - d. 2021)
7 May 1974 - 20 Jan 1977 William E.
Simon
(b. 1927 - d. 2000)
21 Jan 1977 - 6 Aug 1979 W. Michael
Blumenthal
(b. 1926)
6 Aug 1979 - 20 Jan 1981 G. William
Miller
(b. 1925 - d. 2006)
22 Jan 1981 - 2 Feb 1985 Donald
Thomas
Regan
(b. 1918 - d. 2003)
3 Feb 1985 - 17 Aug 1988 James Addison Baker
III
(b. 1930)
17 Aug 1988 - 15 Sep 1988 M. Peter
McPherson (acting)
(b. 1940)
15 Sep 1988 - 17 Jan 1993 Nicholas F.
Brady
(b. 1930)
20 Jan 1993 - 23 Dec 1994 Lloyd M.
Bentsen
(b. 1921 - d. 2006)
23 Dec 1994 - 11 Jan 1995 Frank N. Newman
(acting) (b.
1942)
11 Jan 1995 - 2 Jul 1999 Robert E.
Rubin
(b. 1938)
2 Jul 1999 - 20 Jan 2001 Lawrence
H.
Summers
(b. 1954)
20 Jan 2001 - 31 Dec 2002 Paul
O'Neill
(b. 1935 - d. 2020)
1 Jan 2003 - 3 Feb 2003
Kenneth W. Dam
(acting)
(b. 1932 - d. 2022)
3 Feb 2003 - 29 Jun 2006 John
Snow
(b. 1939)
29 Jun 2006 - 10 Jul 2006 Robert M.
Kimmitt (acting)
(b. 1947)
10 Jul 2006 - 20 Jan 2009 Henry "Hank"
Merritt Paulson, Jr. (b. 1946)
20 Jan 2009 - 26 Jan 2009 Stuart A. Levey (acting)
(b. 1963)
26 Jan 2009 - 25 Jan 2013
Timothy "Tim" F. Geithner
(b. 1961)
26 Jan 2013 - 28 Feb 2013 Neal Wolin
(acting)
(b. 1961)
28 Feb 2013 - 20 Jan 2017 Jacob "Jack" J. Lew
(b. 1955)
20 Jan 2017 - 13 Feb 2017 Adam J. Szubin (acting)
(b. 1972)
13 Feb 2017 - 20 Jan 2021 Steven "Steve" T.
Mnuchin
(b. 1962)
20 Jan 2021 - 26 Jan 2021
Andrew "Andy" P. Baukol (acting) (b. 1964)
26 Jan 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Janet L. Yellen
(f)
(b. 1946)
20 Jan 2025 - 28 Jan 2025 David A. Lebryk
(acting)
(b. 1961)
28 Jan 2025
-
Scott K. Bessent
(b. 1962)
Treasurers of the United Colonies
29 Jul 1775 - Mar 1778
Michael
Hillegas
(b. 1729 - d. 1804)
+ George Clymer (to 6 Aug 1776) (b. 1739
- d. 1813)
Treasurers of the United States
Mar 1778 - 11 Sep
1789 Michael
Hillegas
(s.a.)
11 Sep 1789 - 31 Oct 1801 Samuel
Meredith
(b. 1741 - d. 1817)
31 Oct 1801 - 1 Dec 1801 Vacant
1 Dec 1801 - 2 May 1828 Thomas T.
Tucker
(b. 1745 - d. 1828)
2 May 1828 - 4 Jun 1828 Vacant
4 Jun 1828 - 26 May 1829 William
Clark
(b. 1774 - d. 1851)
26 May 1829 - 20 Jul 1839 John Campbell
(b. c.1789 - d. 1866)
22 Jul 1839 - 23 Nov 1850 William Selden
(b. 1791 - d. 1874)
27 Nov 1850 - 1 Apr 1853 John
Sloane
(b. 1779 - d. 1856)
4 Apr 1853 - 22 Dec 1859 Samuel L.
Casey
(b. 1821 - d. 1902)
22 Dec 1859 - 28 Feb 1860 Vacant
28 Feb 1860 - 16 Mar 1861 William C. Price
(b. 1816 - d. 1901)
16 Mar 1861 - 30 Jun 1875 Francis E.
Spinner
(b. 1802 - d. 1890)
30 Jun 1875 - 1 Jul 1876 John C.
New
(b. 1831 - d. 1906)
1 Jul 1876 - 30 Jun 1877 Albert U.
Wyman (1st time) (b. 1833 -
d. 1915)
1 Jul 1877 - 31 Mar 1883 James
Gilfillan
(b. 1836 - d. 1929)
1 Apr 1883 - 30 Apr 1885 Albert U.
Wyman (2nd time) (s.a.)
1 May 1885 - 23 May 1887 Conrad N.
Jordan
(b. 1830 - d. 1903)
24 May 1887 - 3 Mar 1889 James W.
Hyatt
(b. 1837 - d. 1893)
3 Mar 1889 - 11 May 1889 Vacant
11 May 1889 - 13 Apr 1891 James N. Huston
(b. 1849 - d. 1927)
13 Apr 1891 - 25 Apr 1891 Vacant
25 Apr 1891 - 31 May 1893 Enos H. Nebecker
(b. 1836 - d. 1913)
1 Jun 1893 - 30 Jun 1897 Daniel N.
Morgan
(b. 1844 - d. 1931)
1 Jul 1897 - 30 Jun 1905 Ellis H.
Roberts
(b. 1827 - d. 1918)
1 Jul 1905 - 30 Oct 1909 Charles H.
Treat
(b. 1842 - d. 1910)
1 Nov 1909 - 21 Nov 1912 Lee
McClung
(b. 1870 - d. 1914)
22 Nov 1912 - 31 Mar 1913 Carmi A.
Thompson
(b. 1870 - d. 1942)
1 Apr 1913 - 5 Jan 1921 John
Burke
(b. 1859 - d. 1937)
5 Jan 1921 - 2 May 1921 Vacant
2 May 1921 - 1 May 1928 Frank
White
(b. 1856 - d. 1940)
1 May 1928 - 31 May 1928 Vacant
31 May 1928 - 17 Jan 1929 Harold Theodore Tate
(b. 1875
- d. 1960)
18 Jan 1929 - 31 May 1933 Walter Orr
Woods
(b. 1873 - d. 1951)
1 Jun 1933 - 29 May 1949 William A.
Julian
(b. 1860 - d. 1949)
29 May 1949 - 21 Jun 1949 Vacant
21 Jun 1949 - 27 Jan 1953 Georgia Neese Clark
(f)
(b. 1900 - d. 1995)
28 Jan 1953 - 20 Jan 1961 Ivy Baker
Priest
(f)
(b. 1905 - d. 1975)
20 Jan 1961 - 31 Jan 1961 Vacant
31 Jan 1961 - 13 Apr 1962 Elizabeth Rudel Smith
(f)
(b. 1911 - d. 1997)
13 Apr 1962 - 9 Jan 1963 Vacant
9 Jan 1963 - 20 Nov 1966 Kathryn O'Hay
Granahan
(f) (b.
1894 - d. 1979)
20 Nov 1966 - 8 May 1969 Vacant
8 May 1969 - 3 Jul 1971 Dorothy
Andrews Elston
(f) (b.
1917 - d. 1971)
(from 17 Sep 1970, Dorothy Andrews
Kabis)
3 Jul 1971 - 17 Dec 1971 Vacant
17 Dec 1971 - 14 Feb 1974 Romana Acosta Bañuelos
(f) (b.
1925 - d. 2018)
14 Feb 1974 - 21 Jun 1974 Vacant
21 Jun 1974 - 19 Jan 1977 Francine Irving Neff
(f)
(b. 1925 - d. 2010)
19 Jan 1977 - 12 Sep 1977 Vacant
12 Sep 1977 - 20 Jan 1981 Azie Taylor Morton
(f)
(b. 1936 - d. 2003)
20 Jan 1981 - 20 Mar 1981 Vacant
20 Mar 1981 - 5 Jul 1983 Angela M. "Bay"
Buchanan (f) (b.
1948)
5 Jul 1983 - 26 Sep 1983 Vacant
26 Sep 1983 - 1 Jul 1989 Katherine Davalos
Ortega (f) (b. 1934)
1 Jul 1989 - 11 Dec 1989 Vacant
11 Dec 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 Catalina Vasquez
Villalpando (f) (b. 1940)
20 Jan 1993 - 1 Mar 1994 Vacant
1 Mar 1994 - 20 Jan 2001 Mary Ellen Hinamon
Withrow (f) (b. 1930)
20 Jan 2001 - 16 Aug 2001 Vacant
16 Aug 2001 - 30 Jun 2003 Rosario Marin
(f)
(b. 1958)
30 Jun 2003 - 19 Jan 2005 Vacant
19 Jan 2005 - 20 Jan 2009 Anna Escobedo Cabral
(f)
(b. 1959)
20 Jan 2009 - 20 Aug 2009 Vacant
20 Aug 2009 - 8 Jul 2016 Rosa
"Rosie" Gumataotao Rios (f) (b. 1966)
8 Jul 2016 - 17 Jun 2017 Vacant
17 Jun 2017 - 14 Jan 2020 Jovita Carranza
(f)
(b. 1949)
14 Jan 2020 - 12 Sep 2022 Vacant
12 Sep 2022 - 15 Nov 2024 Marilynn
"Lynn" Roberge Malerba (f)(b. 1953)
16 Nov 2024 -
Patricia "Patty" S. Collins (f)
(acting)
U.S. Mint
U.S. Mint
2 Apr
1792
Mint of the United States established (within State
Department).
1799 - 3 Mar 1835
Becomes an independent agency.
3 Mar
1835
Under the Department of the Treasury.
12 Feb 1873
Part of the Department of the Treasury (Bureau of the
Mint).
9 Jan 1984
Renamed U.S. Mint.
Directors
13 Apr 1792 - Jun 1795 David
Rittenhouse
(b. 1732 - d. 1796)
Jul 1795 - 27 Oct 1795 Henry
William de
Saussure
(b. 1763 - d. 1839)
28 Oct 1795 - Jul 1805 Elias
Boudinot
(b. 1740 - d. 1821)
Jan 1806 - Jul
1824 Robert
Patterson
(b. 1743 - d. 1824)
Jul 1824 - Jul
1835 Samuel
Moore
(b. 1774 - d. 1861)
Jul 1835 - Jul
1851 Robert
Maskell
Patterson
(b. 1787 - d. 1854)
Jul 1851 - Apr
1853 George
Nicholas
Eckert
(b. 1802 - d. 1865)
Apr 1853 - 30 May 1853 Thomas
McKean
Pettit
(b. 1797 - d. 1853)
Jun 1853 - Apr
1861 James
Ross
Snowden
(b. 1809 - d. 1878)
May 1861 - Sep
1866 James
Pollock (1st
time)
(b. 1811 - d. 1890)
Oct 1866 - Apr
1867 William
Millward
(b. 1822 - d. 1871)
Apr 1867 - Apr
1869 Henry
Richard Linderman (1st time) (b. 1825 - d. 1879)
May 1869 - Mar
1873 James
Pollock (2nd
time)
(s.a.)
Apr 1873 - Dec
1878 Henry
Richard Linderman (2nd time) (s.a.)
Feb 1879 - Jun
1885 Horatio
Chapin
Burchard
(b. 1825 - d. 1908)
Jul 1885 - Oct
1889 James P.
Kimball
(b. 1836 - d. 1913)
Oct 1889 - May
1893 Edward
Owen
Leech
(b. 1850 - d. 1900)
Nov 1893 - Feb
1898 Robert
Edward
Preston
(b. 1836 - d. 1911)
Feb 1898 - Jul
1907 George E.
Roberts (1st time) (b. 1857 - d.
1948)
Sep 1907 - Nov
1909 Frank
Aleomon
Leach
(b. 1846 - d. 1929)
Nov 1909 - Jun
1910 Abram
Piatt
Andrew
(b. 1873 - d. 1936)
Jul 1910 - Nov
1914 George E.
Roberts (2nd time) (s.a.)
Mar 1915 - Jul
1916 Robert W.
Woolley
(b. 1871 - d. 1958)
Sep 1916 - Feb
1917 Friedrich
Johannes Hugo von (b. 1881 -
d. 1930)
Engelken
Mar 1917 - Mar
1922 Raymond
T.
Baker
(b. 1877 - d. 1935)
Mar 1922 - Sep
1923 Frand
Edeard
Scobey
(b. 1866 - d. 1931)
Nov 1923 - May
1933 Robert J.
Grant
(b. 1862 - d. 1949)
May 1933 - Apr
1953 Nellie
Davis Tayloe Ross
(f) (b. 1876 - d.
1977)
Jul 1954 - Jan
1961 William
Howard
Brett
(b. 1893 - d. 1989)
Oct 1961 - Aug
1969 Eva Adams
(f)
(b. 1908 - d. 1991)
Sep 1969 - Feb
1977 Mary
Elizabeth Brooks
(f)
(b. 1907 - d. 2002)
Nov 1977 - Apr
1981 Stella
Bloomberg Hackel Sims (f) (b. 1926)
Jul 1981 - Aug
1991 Donna
Pope
(f)
(b. 1931 - d. 2023)
Sep 1992 - Nov 1993
David J. Ryder (1st time)
(b. 1955)
Jun 1994 - Mar
2000 Philip N.
Diehl
(b. 1951)
31 May 2000 - Aug 2001
Jay W.
Johnson
(b. 1943 - d. 2009)
7 Aug 2001 - Aug 2005
Henrietta Holsman Fore
(f) (b.
1948)
Aug 2005 - 5 Sep 2006
David A. Lebryk (acting)
(b. 1961)
5 Sep 2006 - 9
Jan 2011 Edmund C.
Moy
(b. 1957)
10 Jan 2011 - 14 Jan 2011 Andrew
D. Brunhart (acting)
14 Jan 2011 - 25 Jan 2011 Rosa
Gumataotao Rios (f)(acting) (b. 1966)
25 Jan 2011 - 12 Jan 2015 Richard A.
Peterson (acting) (b. 1959?)
12 Jan 2015 - 20 Jan 2017 Matthew
Rhett Jeppson (acting)
(b. 1974)
20 Jan 2017 - 31 Jan 2018 David Motl (acting)
1 Feb 2018 - 12 Apr 2018 David M. Croft
(acting)
12 Apr 2018 - 30 Sep 2021 David J. Ryder (2nd
time) (s.a.)
1 Oct 2021 - 25 Oct 2021 Alison L. Doone (f)
(acting)
25 Oct 2021 -
Ventris C. Gibson
(f)
(b. 1956)
(acting to 22 Jun 2022)
Internal Revenue Service
Internal Revenue
Service (IRS)
8 May 1792 - 31 Dec 1803 Office of the
Commissioner of Revenue (within
Treasury Department).
31 Jul 1813 - 31 Dec 1820 Office of
the Commissioner of Revenue (restored).
1 Jul
1862
Bureau of Internal Revenue (within
Treasury Department).
9 Jul 1953
Renamed Internal Revenue Service
(IRS) (name in semi-official
use as early as 1918).
Commissioners of the Revenue
8 May 1792 - 16 Jan 1798 Tench
Coxe
(b. 1755 - d. 1825)
16 Jan 1798 - 31 Jan 1798 Doyle Sweeney (acting)
1 Feb 1798 - 31 Dec 1803 William Miller, Jr.
(b. 17.. - d. 1807)
31 Dec 1803 - 31 Jul 1813 Post
abolished
31 Jul 1813 - 31 Dec 1820 Samuel
Harrison
Smith
(b. 1771 - d. 1845)
1 Jan 1821 - 12 Jul 1862 Post
abolished
Commissioners of Internal Revenue
12 Jul 1862 - 4 Mar 1863 George Sewall
Boutwell
(b. 1818 - d. 1905)
5 Mar 1863 - 30 Jun 1865 Joseph J.
Lewis
(b. 1801 - d. 1883)
(acting to 17 Mar 1863)
1 Jul 1865 - 31 Oct 1865 William
Orton
(b. 1826 - d. 1878)
1 Nov 1865 - 10 Mar 1869 Edward
Aashton
Rollins
(b. 1828 - d. 1885)
11 Mar 1869 - 31 Oct 1870 Columbus
Delano
(b. 1809 - d. 1896)
1 Nov 1870 - 2 Jan 1871 John
Watkinson Douglass (1st time) (b. 1827 - d. 1909)
(acting)
3 Jan 1871 - 8 Aug 1871
Alfred
Pleasonton
(b. 1824 - d. 1897)
9 Aug 1871 - 14 May 1875 John
Watinkson Douglass (2nd time) (s.a.)
15 May 1875 - 1 Aug 1876 Daniel
Darwin
Pratt
(b. 1813 - d. 1877)
2 Aug 1876 - 30 Apr 1883 Green
Berry
Raum
(b. 1829 - d. 1909)
1 May 1883 - 10 May 1883 Henry C.
Rogers (1st time)(acting)
11 May 1883 - 20 May 1883 John J. Knox
(acting)
(b. 1828 - d. 1892)
21 May 1883 - 19 Mar 1885 Walter
Evans
(b. 1842 - d. 1923)
20 Mar 1885 - 20 Mar 1889 Joseph S.
Miller (1st time) (b. 1842 -
d. 1922)
21 Mar 1889 - 18 Apr 1893 John W. Mason
(b. 1842 - d. 1917)
19 Apr 1893 - 26 Nov 1896 Joseph S.
Miller (2nd time) (s.a.)
27 Nov 1896 - 31 Dec 1897 Willaim St.
John
Forman
(b. 1847 - d. 1908)
1 Jan 1898 - 28 Feb 1899 Nathan Bay
Scott
(b. 1842 - d. 1924)
1 Mar 1899 - 27 Nov 1900 George
West
Wilson
(b. 1859 - d. 1908)
28 Nov 1900 - 19 Dec 1900 Robert
Williams, Jr. (acting)
20 Dec 1900 - 30 Apr 1907 John Watson
Yerkes
(b. 1854 - d. 1922)
1 May 1907 - 4 Jun 1907 Henry
C. Rogers (2nd time)(acting)
5 Jun 1907 - 31 Aug 1909 John
Gendron
Capers
(b. 1866 - d. 1919)
1 Sep 1909 - 27 Apr 1913 Royal E.
Cabell
(b. 1878 - d. 1950)
28 Apr 1913 - 25 Sep 1917 William H.
Osborn
(b. 1856 - d. 1921)
26 Sep 1917 - 31 Mar 1920 Daniel Calhoun
Roper
(b. 1867 - d. 1943)
1 Apr 1920 - 11 Apr 1921 William M.
Williams
(b. 1877 - d. 1932)
12 Apr 1921 - 26 May 1921 Millard Farror
West (acting) (b. 1877 - d. 1938)
27 May 1921 - 31 May 1929 David H. Blair
(b. 1868 - d. 1945)
1 Jun 1929 - 15 Aug 1930 Robert
Hendry
Lucas
(b. 1888 - d. 1947)
16 Aug 1930 - 19 Aug 1930 Harris F. Mires
(acting) (b.
1879 - d. 1953)
20 Aug 1930 - 15 May 1933 David Burnet
(b. 1886 - d. 1962)
16 May 1933 - 5 Jun 1933 Pressly
Reid Baldridge (acting) (b. 1897 - d.
1956)
6 Jun 1933 - 8 Oct 1943 Guy
Tresilian
Helvering
(b. 1878 - d. 1946)
9 Oct 1943 - 22 Jan 1944 Robert
Emmet
Hannegan
(b. 1903 - d. 1949)
23 Jan 1944 - 29 Feb 1944 Harold N.
Graves (acting) (b.
1887 - d. 1966)
1 Mar 1944 - 30 Jun 1947 Joseph
Daly Nunan,
Jr.
(b. 1897 - d. 1968)
1 Jul 1947 - 31 Jul 1951 George J.
Schoeneman
(b. 1889 - d. 1966)
1 Aug 1951 - 18 Nov 1952 John B.
Dunlap
(b. 1903 - d. 1964)
19 Nov 1952 - 19 Jan 1953 John S. Graham
(acting) (b.
1905 - d. 1976)
20 Jan 1953 - 3 Feb 1953 Justin F.
Winkle (acting) (b.
1911 - d. 1962)
4 Feb 1953 - 31 Oct 1955 T. Coleman
Andrews
(b. 1899 - d. 1983)
1 Nov 1955 - 4 Dec 1955 O.
Gordon Delk (1st time) (acting) (b. 1911 - d. 1990)
5 Dec 1955 - 30 Sep 1958 Russell C.
Harrington
(b. 1890 - d. 1971)
1 Oct 1958 - 4 Nov 1958 O.
Gordon Delk (2nd time) (acting) (s.a.)
5 Nov 1958 - 20 Jan 1961 Dana
Latham
(b. 1898 - d. 1974)
21 Jan 1961 - 6 Feb 1961 Charles I.
Fox (acting)
(b. 1899 - d. 1996)
7 Feb 1961 - 10 Jul 1964 Mortimer
M. Caplin
(b. 1916 - d. 2019)
11 Jul 1964 - 24 Jan 1965 Bertrand M.
Harding (acting) (b. 1919 - d.
2002)
25 Jan 1965 - 20 Jan 1969 Sheldon S.
Cohen
(b. 1927 - d. 2018)
21 Jan 1969 - 31 Mar 1969 William H.
Smith (acting)
1 Apr 1969 - 22 Jun 1971 Randolph
W.
Thrower
(b. 1913 - d. 2014)
23 Jun 1971 - 5 Aug 1971 Harold T.
Swartz
(acting)
(b. 1908 - d. 1986)
6 Aug 1971 - 30 Apr 1973 Johnnie M.
Walters
(b. 1919 - d. 2014)
1 May 1973 - 25 May 1973 Raymond F.
Harless (acting) (b. 1919 -
d. 2001)
25 May 1973 - 26 Feb 1977 Donald C.
Alexander
(b. 1921 - d. 2009)
27 Feb 1977 - 4 May 1977 William E.
Williams (1st time) (b. 1922 - d. 2009)
(acting)
5 May 1977 - 31 Oct 1980 Jerome
Kurtz
(b. 1931 - d. 2015)
1 Nov 1980 - 13 Mar 1981 William E.
Williams (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
14 Mar 1981 - 30 Apr 1986 Roscoe L.
Egger,
Jr.
(b. 1920 - d. 1999)
1 May 1986 - 3 Aug 1986 James
I. Owens
(acting)
(b. 1933 - d. 2019)
4 Aug 1986 - 4 Mar 1989
Lawrence B.
Gibbs
(b. 1938)
5 Mar 1989 - 4 Jul 1989
Michael J. Murphy
(acting)
(b. 1936 - d. 2022)
5 Jul 1989 - 2 Feb 1992 Fred
Goldberg,
Jr.
(b. 1947)
3 Feb 1992 - 20 Jan 1993 Shirley D.
Peterson
(f)
(b. 1941)
21 Jan 1993 - 26 May 1993 Michael P.
Dolan (1st time) (b. 1948)
(acting)
27 May 1993 - 31 May 1997 Margaret Milner
Richardson (f) (b. 1943 - d.
2021)
1 Jun 1997 - 12 Nov 1997 Michael P.
Dolan (2nd
time) (s.a.)
(acting)
13 Nov 1997 - 6 Nov 2002 Charles O.
Rossotti
(b. 1941)
6 Nov 2002 - 1 May 2003
Robert E. Wenzel (acting)
1 May 2003 - 4 May 2007 Mark
W.
Everson
(b. 1954)
4 May 2007 - 10 Sep 2007 Kevin M. Brown
(acting)
10 Sep 2007 - 24 Mar 2008 Linda E. Stiff (f)
(acting) (b. 1952?)
24 Mar 2008 - 9 Nov 2012 Douglas H. Shulman
(b. 1967)
10 Nov 2012 - 22 May 2013 Steven T. Miller
(acting) (b. 1956?)
22 May 2013 - 23 Dec 2013 Daniel I. Werfel (1st
time)(acting)(b. 1971)
23 Dec 2013 - 12 Nov 2017 John A. Koskinen
(b. 1939)
13 Nov 2017 - 1 Oct 2018 David J. Kautter
(acting)
(b. 1948)
1 Oct 2018 - 12 Nov 2022 Charles P.
Rettig
(b. 1956)
13 Nov 2022 - 13 Mar 2023 Douglas O'Donnell (1st
time)(acting)
13 Mar 2023 - 20 Jan 2025 Daniel I. Werfel (2nd
time) (s.a.)
20 Jan 2025 - 28 Feb 2025 Douglas O'Donnell (2nd
time)(acting)
25 Feb 2025 -
Melanie Krause (f) (acting)
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Comptroller of
the Currency
25 Feb 1863
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
established
(within
the Treasury Department).
Comptrollers of the Currency
9 May 1863 - 8 Mar 1865 Hugh McCulloch
(b. 1808 - d. 1895)
21 Mar 1865 - 24 Jul 1866 Freeman Clarke
(b. 1809 - d. 1887)
24 Jul 1866 - 3 Apr 1872 Hiland R. Hulburd
(b. 1829 - d. 1880)
(acting to 1 Feb 1867)
25 Apr 1872 - 30 Apr 1884 John Jay Knox
(b. 1828 - d. 1892)
1 May 1884 - 12 May 1884 John S. Langworthy
(acting) (b.
1832 - d. 1908)
12 May 1884 - 1 Mar 1886 Henry W. Cannon
(b. 1850 - d. 1934)
2 Mar 1886 - 20 Apr 1886 Valentine P. Snyder
(acting) (b. 1850 - d. 1934)
20 Apr 1886 - 30 Apr 1889 William L. Trenholm
(b. 1836 - d. 1901)
1 May 1889 - 30 Jun 1892 Edward S. Lacey
(b. 1835 - d. 1916)
1 Jul 1892 - 2 Aug 1892 Robert M.
Nixon
(acting)
(b. 1842 - d. 1896)
2 Aug 1892 - 25 Apr 1893 A. Barton Hepburn
(b. 1846 - d. 1922)
26 Apr 1893 - 31 Dec 1897 James H. Eckels
(b. 1858 - d. 1907)
1 Jan 1898 - 30 Sep 1901 Charles G. Dawes
(b. 1865 - d. 1951)
1 Oct 1901 - 28 Mar 1908 William Barret
Ridgely (b.
1858 - d. 1920)
29 Mar 1908 - 27 Apr 1908 Thomas P. Kane (1st
time)(acting) (b. 1848 - d. 1923)
27 Apr 1908 - 27 Apr 1913 Lawrence O. Murray
(b. 1864 - d. 1926)
28 Apr 1913 - 2 Feb 1914 Thomas P. Kane (2nd
time)(acting) (s.a.)
2 Feb 1914 - 2 Mar 1921 John Skelton
Williams
(b. 1865 - d. 1926)
17 Mar 1921 - 30 Mar 1923 Daniel Richard
Crissinger
(b. 1860 - d. 1942)
1 May 1923 - 17 Dec 1924 Henry M.
Dawes
(b. 1877 - d. 1952)
20 Dec 1924 - 20 Nov 1928 Joseph W. McIntosh
(b. 1873 - d. 1952)
21 Nov 1928 - 20 Sep 1932 John W.
Pole
(b. 1870 - d. 1958)
20 Sep 1932 - 11 May 1933 Francis G. Awalt
(acting) (b. 1895 - d.
1966)
11 May 1933 - 16 Apr 1938 James Francis Thaddeus
O'Connor (b. 1886 - d. 1949)
17 Apr 1938 - 30 Sep 1938 Marshall R. Diggs
(acting) (b. 1888 - d. 1968)
30 Sep 1938 - 24 Oct 1938 Cyril B. Upham (acting)
(b. 1894 - d.
1988)
24 Oct 1938 - 15 Feb 1953 Preston Delano
(b. 1886 - d. 1961)
15 Feb 1953 - 16 Apr 1953 Lewellyn A. Jennings
(acting) (b. 1906 - d. 1983)
16 Apr 1953 - 15 Nov 1961 Ray M. Gidney
(b. 1887 - d. 1978)
16 Nov 1961 - 15 Nov 1966 James J. Saxon
(b. 1914 - d. 1980)
16 Nov 1966 - 23 Mar 1973 William B. Camp
(b. 1913 - d. 1975)
23 Mar 1973 - 5 Jul 1973 Justin Thomas
Watson (acting) (b. 1920 - d. 1987)
5 Jul 1973 - 31 Jul 1976 James E.
Smith
(b. 1930 - d. 2020)
31 Jul 1976 - 21 Jul 1977 Robert Bloom (acting)
(b. 1922
- d. 2002)
21 Jul 1977 - 15 May 1981 John G. Heimann
(b. 1929 - d. 2024)
16 May 1981 - 15 Dec 1981 Charles E. Lord II
(acting) (b. 1928 - d. 1993)
16 Dec 1981 - 4 May 1985 C. Todd Conover
(b. 1939 - d. 2018)
4 May 1985 - 2 Dec 1985 H. Joe Selby
(acting)
(b. 1931 - d. 2007)
2 Dec 1985 - 29 Feb 1992 Robert L.
Clarke
(b. 1942)
1 Mar 1992 - 5 Apr 1993 Stephen R.
Steinbrink (acting) (b. 1944 - d. 2022)
5 Apr 1993 - 4 Apr 1998 Eugene "Gene"
A. Ludwig (b.
1946)
4 Apr 1998 - 8 Dec 1998 Julie
L. Williams (f)(1st time)
(acting)
8 Dec 1998 - 14 Oct 2004 John D. Hawke, Jr.
(b. 1933 - d. 2022)
14 Oct 2004 - 4 Aug 2005 Julie L. Williams
(f)(2nd time)
(acting)
4 Aug 2005 - 14 Aug 2010 John C. Dugan
(b. 1955)
15 Aug 2010 - 9 Apr 2012 John G. Walsh
(acting)
(b. 1950)
9 Apr 2012 - 5 May 2017 Thomas J.
Curry
(b. 1957)
5 May 2017 - 27 Nov 2017 Keith A. Noreika
(acting)
27 Nov 2017 - 29 May 2020 Joseph M.
Otting
(b. 1962)
29 May 2020 - 14 Jan 2021 Brian P. Brooks (acting)
(b. 1969)
14 Jan 2021 - 10 May 2021 Blake Paulson (acting)
10 May 2021 - 10 Feb 2025
Michael J. Hsu (acting)
10 Feb 2025 -
Rodney E. Hood (acting)
(b. 1967)
Department of
Justice
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Department of Justice] [Flag of U.S.
Department of Justice]](us_just.gif)
Adopted 1932?
|
Department of
Justice (DOJ)
24 Sep
1789
Office of Attorney General
1 Mar
1792
Attorney General becomes a cabinet member.
1 Jul
1870
Department of Justice created.
Attorneys General
26 Sep 1789 - 2 Jan 1794 Edmund
Randolph
(b. 1753 - d. 1813)
29 Jan 1794 – 23 Aug 1795 William
Bradford
(b. 1755 - d. 1795)
10 Dec 1795 – 3 Mar 1801 Charles
Lee
(b. 1758 - d. 1815)
5 Mar 1801 - 31 Dec 1804 Levi
Lincoln
(b. 1749 - d. 1820)
1 Jan 1804 - 7 Aug 1805 Vacant
3 Mar 1805 - 7 Aug 1805 Robert
Smith
(b. 1757 - d. 1842)
(did not
take office)
7 Aug 1805 - 14 Dec 1806 John
Breckinridge
(b. 1760 - d. 1806)
14 Dec 1806 - 20 Jan 1807 Vacant
20 Jan 1807 - 5 Dec 1811 Caesar A.
Rodney
(b. 1772 - d. 1824)
6 Jan 1812 - 10 Feb 1814 William
Pinkney
(b. 1764 - d. 1822)
11 Feb 1814 - 30 Oct 1817 Richard
Rush
(b. 1780 - d. 1859)
15 Nov 1817 - 3 Mar 1829 William
Wirt
(b. 1772 - d. 1834)
9 Mar 1829 - 22 Jun 1831 John M.
Berrien
(b. 1781 - d. 1856)
20 Jul 1831 - 23 Sep 1833 Roger B.
Taney
(b. 1777 - d. 1864)
18 Nov 1833 - 31 Aug 1838 Benjamin F.
Butler
(b. 1795 - d. 1858)
1 Sep 1838 - 14 Dec 1839 Felix
Grundy
(b. 1777 - d. 1840)
11 Jan 1840 - 3 Mar 1841 Henry D.
Gilpin
(b. 1801 - d. 1860)
6 Mar 1841 - 11 Sep 1841 John J. Crittenden
(1st time) (b. 1786 - d.
1863)
13 Sep 1841 - 20 Jun 1843 Hugh S.
Legaré
(b. 1797 - d. 1843)
1 Jul 1843 - 4 Mar 1845 John
Nelson
(b. 1794 - d. 1860)
5 Mar 1845 - 9 Sep 1846 John Y.
Mason
(b. 1799 - d. 1859)
18 Oct 1846 - 18 Mar 1848 Nathan
Clifford
(b. 1803 - d. 1881)
29 Jun 1848 - 7 Mar 1849 Isaac
Toucey
(b. 1792 - d. 1869)
8 Mar 1849 - 22 Jul 1850 Reverdy
Johnson
(b. 1796 - d. 1876)
14 Aug 1850 - 7 Mar 1853 John J. Crittenden
(2nd time) (s.a.)
8 Mar 1853 - 10 Mar 1857 Caleb
Cushing
(b. 1800 - d. 1879)
11 Mar 1857 - 17 Dec 1860 Jeremiah Sullivan
Black
(b. 1810 - d. 1883)
22 Dec 1860 - 5 Mar 1861 Edwin McMasters
Stanton
(b. 1814 - d. 1869)
6 Mar 1861 - 30 Nov 1864 Edward
Bates
(b. 1793 - d. 1869)
22 Jun 1863 - 5 Dec 1864 Titian James
Coffey
(b. 1824 - d. 1867)
(acting [for Bates to 30 Nov 1864])
5 Dec 1864 - 16 Jul 1866 James
Speed
(b. 1812 - d. 1887)
17 Jul 1866 - 24 Jul 1866 J. Hubley Ashton (1st
time)(acting)(b. 1836 - d. 1907)
24 Jul 1866 - 12 Mar 1868 Henry
Stanberry
(b. 1803 - d. 1881)
13 Mar 1868 - 19 Jul 1868 Orville H. Browning
(acting) (b. 1806 -
d. 1881)
20 Jul 1868 - 4 Mar 1869 William M.
Evarts
(b. 1818 - d. 1901)
5 Mar 1869 - 10 Mar 1869 J. Hubley Ashton
(2nd time)(acting)(s.a.)
11 Mar 1869 - 7 Jul 1870 Ebenezer R.
Hoar
(b. 1816 - d. 1895)
8 Jul 1870 - 9 Jan 1872 Amos T.
Akerman
(b. 1821 - d. 1880)
10 Jan 1872 - 15 May 1875 George H.
Williams
(b. 1823 - d. 1910)
15 May 1875 - 31 May 1876 Edwards
Pierrepont
(b. 1817 - d. 1892)
1 Jun 1876 - 11 Mar 1877 Alphonso
Taft
(b. 1810 - d. 1891)
12 Mar 1877 - 7 Mar 1881 Charles
Devens
(b. 1820 - d. 1891)
7 Mar 1881 - 14 Nov 1881 Wayne
MacVeagh
(b. 1833 - d. 1917)
14 Nov 1881 – 2 Jan 1882 Samuel F. Phillips
(acting) (b.
1824 - d. 1903)
3 Jan 1882 - 8 Mar 1885 Benjamin H.
Brewster
(b. 1816 - d. 1888)
9 Mar 1885 - 5 Mar 1889 Augustus H.
Garland
(b. 1832 - d. 1899)
6 Mar 1889 - 6 Mar 1893 William H.H.
Miller
(b. 1840 - d. 1917)
7 Mar 1893 - 9 Jun 1895 Richard
Olney
(b. 1835 - d. 1917)
11 Jun 1895 - 6 Mar 1897 Judson
Harmon
(b. 1846 - d. 1927)
7 Mar 1897 - 26 Jan 1898 Joseph
McKenna
(b. 1843 - d. 1926)
26 Jan 1898 – 31 Jan 1898 John K. Richards (1st
time)(acting)(b. 1856 - d. 1909)
1 Feb 1898 – 31 Mar 1901 John W.
Griggs
(b. 1849 - d. 1927)
1 Apr 1901 - 9 Apr 1901 John K.
Richards (2nd time)(acting)(s.a.)
10 Apr 1901 – 30 Jun 1904 Philander Chase
Knox
(b. 1853 - d. 1921)
1 Jul 1904 - 17 Dec 1906 William H.
Moody
(b. 1853 - d. 1917)
17 Dec 1906 - 4 Mar 1909 Charles J.
Bonaparte
(b. 1851 - d. 1921)
5 Mar 1909 - 5 Mar 1913 George W.
Wickersham
(b. 1858 - d. 1936)
5 Mar 1913 - 29 Aug 1914 James C.
McReynolds
(b. 1862 - d. 1946)
29 Aug 1914 - 4 Mar 1919 Thomas W.
Gregory
(b. 1861 - d. 1933)
5 Mar 1919 - 5 Mar 1921 A.
Mitchell
Palmer
(b. 1872 - d. 1936)
5 Mar 1921 - 28 Mar 1924 Harry M.
Daugherty
(b. 1860 - d. 1941)
7 Apr 1924 - 1 Mar
1925 Harlan Fiske
Stone
(b. 1872 - d. 1946)
1 Mar 1925 - 17 Mar 1925
James Montgomery Beck (acting) (b.
1861 - d. 1936)
17 Mar 1925 - 5 Mar 1929 John G.
Sargent
(b. 1860 - d. 1939)
5 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933
William D.
Mitchell
(b. 1874 - d. 1955)
4 Mar 1933 - 2 Jan 1939 Homer
S.
Cummings
(b. 1870 - d. 1956)
2 Jan 1939 - 18 Jan 1940 Francis W.
Murphy
(b. 1890 - d. 1949)
(acting to 17 Jan 1939)
18 Jan 1940 - 10 Jul 1941 Robert H.
Jackson
(b. 1892 - d. 1954)
11 Jul 1941 - 30 Jun 1945 Francis
Biddle
(b. 1886 - d. 1968)
(acting to 5 Sep 1941)
1 Jul 1945 - 26 Jul 1949 Thomas C.
Clark
(b. 1899 - d. 1977)
27 Jul 1949 - 3 Apr 1952 James
Howard
McGrath
(b. 1903 - d. 1966)
4 Apr 1952 - 20 Jan 1953 James P.
McGranery
(b. 1895 - d. 1962)
21 Jan 1953 - 8 Nov 1957 Herbert
Brownell,
Jr.
(b. 1904 - d. 1996)
8 Nov 1957 - 20 Jan 1961 William P.
Rogers
(b. 1913 - d. 2001)
(acting to 27 Jan 1958)
20 Jan 1961 - 3 Sep 1964 Robert F.
Kennedy
(b. 1925 - d. 1968)
23 Nov 1963 - 4 Dec 1963
Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach (b. 1922 - d.
2012)
(acting for Kennedy)
4 Sep 1964 - 30 Sep 1966 Nicholas de
Belleville Katzenbach (s.a.)
(acting to 28 Jan 1965)
30 Sep 1966 - 20 Jan 1969
William Ramsey
Clark
(b. 1927 - d. 2021)
(acting to 10 Mar 1967)
20 Jan 1969 - 15 Feb 1972 John N.
Mitchell
(b. 1913 - d. 1988)
15 Feb 1972 - 25 May 1973 Richard G.
Kleindienst
(b. 1923 - d. 2000)
(acting
to 12 Jun 1972)
25 May 1973 - 20 Oct 1973 Elliot
Richardson
(b. 1920 - d. 1999)
20 Oct 1973 - 4 Jan 1974 Robert H.
Bork
(acting)
(b. 1927 - d. 2012)
4 Jan 1974 - 14 Jan 1975 William B.
Saxbe
(b. 1916 - d. 2010)
14 Jan 1975 - 20 Jan 1977 Edward H.
Levi
(b. 1911 - d. 2000)
20 Jan 1977 - 26 Jan 1977 Richard L.
Thornburgh (1st time) (b. 1932 - d. 2020)
(acting)
26 Jan 1977 - 16 Aug 1979 Griffin B.
Bell
(b. 1918 - d. 2009)
16 Aug 1979 - 19 Jan 1981 Benjamin R.
Civiletti
(b. 1935 - d. 2022)
20 Jan 1981 - 23 Jan 1981 Charles B.
Renfrew (acting) (b. 1928 -
d. 2017)
23 Jan 1981 - 24 Feb 1985 William F.
Smith
(b. 1917 - d. 1990)
25 Feb 1985 - 12 Aug 1988 Edwin Meese
III
(b. 1931)
12 Aug 1988 - 15 Aug 1991 Richard L.
Thornburgh (2nd time) (s.a.)
15 Aug 1991 - 20 Jan 1993 William P. Barr
(1st time)
(b. 1950)
(acting to 26 Nov 1991)
20 Jan 1993 - 12 Mar 1993 Stuart M.
Gerson
(acting)
(b. 1944)
12 Mar 1993 - 20 Jan 2001 Janet Wood Reno
(f)
(b. 1938 - d. 2016)
20 Jan 2001 - 2 Feb 2001 Eric H.
Holder, Jr. (1st time) (b.
1951)
(acting)
2 Feb 2001 - 3 Feb 2005 John
David
Ashcroft
(b. 1942)
3 Feb 2005 - 17 Sep 2007 Alberto
Gonzales
(b. 1955)
17 Sep 2007 - 18 Sep 2007 Paul D. Clement
(acting)
(b. 1966)
18 Sep 2007 - 9 Nov 2007 Peter D.
Keisler
(acting)
(b. 1960)
9 Nov 2007 - 20 Jan 2009 Michael B.
Mukasey
(b. 1941)
20 Jan 2009 - 3 Feb 2009 Mark Filip (acting)
(b. 1966)
3 Feb 2009 - 27 Apr 2015 Eric H.
Holder, Jr. (2nd time)
(s.a.)
27 Apr 2015 - 20 Jan 2017 Loretta E. Lynch
(f)
(b. 1959)
20 Jan 2017 - 30 Jan 2017 Sally Q. Yates (f)
(acting) (b.
1960)
30 Jan 2017 - 9 Feb 2017 Dana J. Boente
(acting) (b.
1954)
9 Feb 2017 - 7 Nov 2018
Jefferson "Jeff" B. Sessions III (b. 1946)
7 Nov 2018 - 14 Feb 2019
Matthew G. Whitaker
(acting) (b. 1969)
14 Feb 2019 - 23 Dec 2020 William P.
Barr (2nd time)
(s.a.)
24 Dec 2020 - 20 Jan 2021 Jeffrey A. Rosen
(acting)
(b. 1958)
20 Jan 2021 - 11 Mar 2021
Robert Montague "Monty" Wilkinson
(acting)
11 Mar 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Merrick B.
Garland
(b. 1952)
20 Jan 2025 - 5 Feb 2025 James R. McHenry
III (acting)
5 Feb 2025
-
Pamela "Pam" Jo Bondi (f)
(b. 1965)
Solicitors General
Office of the
Solicitor General
1 Jul
1870
Office of the Solicitor General created to supervise and
conduct government litigation in the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Solicitors General
11 Oct 1870 - 15 Nov 1872 Benjamin Helm
Bristow
(b. 1832 - d. 1896)
15 Nov 1872 - 1 May 1885 Samuel
Field
Phillips
(b. 1824 - d. 1903)
1 May 1885 - 5 Aug 1886 John
Goode
(b. 1829 - d. 1909)
5 Aug 1886 - 29 May 1889 George
Augustus
Jenks
(b. 1836 - d. 1908)
29 May 1889 - 19 Jan 1890 Orlow W.
Chapman
(b. 1832 - d. 1890)
4 Feb 1890 - 20 Mar 1892 William
Howard
Taft
(b. 1857 - d. 1930)
21 Mar 1892 - 28 May 1893 Charles Henry
Aldrich
(b. 1850 - d. 1929)
28 May 1893 - 30 Jan 1895 Lawrence
Maxwell,
Jr.
(b. 1853 - d. 1927)
6 Feb 1895 - 1 Jul 1897
Holmes
Conrad
(b. 1840 - d. 1916)
1 Jul 1897 - 16 Mar 1903 John
Kelvey
Richards
(b. 1856 - d. 1909)
16 Mar 1903 - 31 Mar 1909 Henry Martyn
Hoyt
(b. 1856 - d. 1910)
1 Apr 1909 - 9 Sep 1910
Lloyd Wheaton
Bowers
(b. 1859 - d. 1910)
12 Dec 1910 - 15 Jul 1912 Frederick
Wheaton
Lehmann
(b. 1853 - d. 1931)
16 Jul 1912 - 11 Mar 1913 William
Marshall
Bullitt
(b. 1873 - d. 1957)
30 Aug 1913 - 26 Nov 1918 John William
Davis
(b. 1873 - d. 1955)
27 Nov 1918 - 23 May 1920 Alexander
Campbell
King
(b. 1856 - d. 1926)
1 Jun 1920 - 30 Jun 1921 William
Little
Frierson
(b. 1869 - d. 1953)
30 Jun 1921 - 7 Jun 1925 James
Montgomery
Beck
(b. 1861 - d. 1936)
8 Jun 1925 - 5 Mar 1929
William De Witt
Mitchell
(b. 1874 - d. 1955)
27 May 1929 - 16 Apr 1930 Charles Evans
Hughes,
Jr.
(b. 1889 - d. 1950)
17 Apr 1930 - 4 May 1933 Thomas Day
Thacher
(b. 1881 - d. 1950)
5 May 1933 - 24 Mar 1935 James
Crawford
Biggs
(b. 1872 - d. 1960)
25 Mar 1935 - 30 Jan 1938 Stanley Forman
Reed
(b. 1884 - d. 1980)
5 Mar 1938 - 17 Jan 1940 Robert
Houghwout
Jackson
(b. 1892 - d. 1954)
22 Jan 1940 - 4 Sep 1941 Francis
Beverley
Biddle
(b. 1886 - d. 1968)
15 Nov 1941 - 27 Sep 1945 Charles
Fahy
(b. 1892 - d. 1979)
8 Oct 1945 - 7 Oct 1946 James
Howard
McGrath
(b. 1903 - d. 1966)
31 Jul 1947 - 15 Aug 1952 Philip Benjamin
Perlman
(b. 1890 - d. 1960)
2 Dec 1952 - 1 Mar 1953
Walter Joseph Cummings,
Jr. (b. 1916 -
d. 1999)
25 Feb 1954 - 19 Jul 1956 Simon Ernest
Sobeloff
(b. 1894 - d. 1973)
4 Aug 1956 - 23 Jan 1961 James Lee
Rankin
(b. 1907 - d. 1996)
24 Jan 1961 - 31 Jul 1965
Archibald
Cox
(b. 1912 - d. 2004)
11 Aug 1965 - 30 Aug 1967 Thurgood
Marshall
(b. 1908 - d. 1993)
12 Oct 1967 - 25 Jun 1973 Erwin Nathaniel
Griswold
(b. 1904 - d. 1994)
27 Jun 1973 - 20 Jan 1977 Robert H.
Bork
(b. 1927 - d. 2012)
20 Jan 1977 - 28 Mar 1977 Daniel M.
Friedman
(acting) (b.
1916 - d. 2011)
28 Mar 1977 - 5 Aug 1981 Wade
Hampton McCree,
Jr.
(b. 1920 - d. 1987)
6 Aug 1981 - 31 May 1985 Rex E.
Lee
(b. 1935 - d. 1996)
1 Jun 1985 - 20 Jan 1989 Charles Anthony
Fried
(b. 1935 - d. 2024)
(acting to 23 Oct 1985)
20 Jan 1989 - 27 May 1989 William C.
Bryson (1st time) (b. 1945)
(acting)
27 May 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 Kenneth "Ken" W.
Starr
(b. 1946 - d. 2022)
20 Jan 1993 - 28 May 1993 William C.
Bryson (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
28 May 1993 - 30 Jun 1996 Drew Saunders Days
III
(b. 1941 - d. 2020)
1 Jul 1996 - 13 Nov 1997 Walter E.
Dellinger III (acting) (b. 1941 - d. 2022)
13 Nov 1997 - 20 Jan 2001 Seth P.
Waxman
(b. 1951)
20 Jan 2001 - 11 Jun 2001 Barbara Dale
Underwood (f) (acting)(b. 1944)
11 Jun 2001 - 12 Jul 2004 Theodore "Ted"
B.
Olson
(b. 1940 - d. 2024)
13 Jul 2004 - 2 Jun 2008 Paul D.
Clement
(b. 1966)
(acting to 13 Jun 2005)
2 Jun 2008 - 20 Jan 2009 Gregory G. Garre
(b. 1964)
(acting
to 6 Oct 2008)
20 Jan 2009 - 20 Mar 2009 Edwin S. Kneedler
(acting) (b. 1946)
20 Mar 2009 - 5 Aug 2010 Elena Kagan (f)
(b. 1960)
10 May 2010 - 9 Jun 2011 Neal K.
Katyal
(b. 1970)
(acting [for Kagan to 5 Aug 2010])
9 Jun 2011 - 24 Jun 2016 Donald
Verrilli
(b. 1957)
25 Jun 2016 - 20 Jan 2017 Ian H. Gershengorn
(acting) (b. 1967)
23 Jan 2017 - 10 Mar 2017 Noel J. Francisco (1st
time) (b. 1969)
(acting)
10 Mar 2017 - 19 Sep 2017 Jeffrey B. Wall (1st
time) (b. 1976)
(acting)
19 Sep 2017 - 3 Jul
2020 Noel J. Francisco
(2nd time) (s.a.)
3 Jul 2020 - 20 Jan 2021 Jeffrey B. Wall
(2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
20 Jan 2021 - 11 Aug 2021
Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar (f) (b.
1980)
(1st time)(acting)
11 Aug 2021 - 28 Oct 2021 Brian H. Fletcher
(acting)
28 Oct 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Elizabeth Barchas
Prelogar (f) (s.a.)
(2nd time)
20 Jan 2025 - 4 Apr
2025 Sarah M. Harris (f)(acting)
4 Apr 2025 -
Dean J. Sauer
(b. 1974)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI)
26 Jul
1908
Office
of the Chief Examiner of the Special Agent Force
of the Department of Justice.
26 Mar
1909
Bureau of Investigation
1 Jul
1932
U.S. Bureau of Investigation
10 Aug
1933
Division of Investigation
1 Jul
1935
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Chief Examiner
26 Jul 1908 - 26 Mar 1909
Stanley Wellington
Finch
(b. 1872 - d. 1951)
Chiefs
26 Mar 1909 - 30 Apr 1912 Stanley Wellington
Finch
(s.a.)
30 Apr 1912 - 10 Feb 1919 Alexander Bruce
Bielaski
(b. 1883 - d. 1964)
10 Feb 1919 - 30 Jun 1919 William E.
Allen (acting)
(b. 1880 - d. 1960)
Directors
1 Jul 1919 - 21 Aug
1921 William James
Flynn
(b. 1867 - d. 1928)
22 Aug 1921 - 10 May
1924 William John
Burns
(b. 1861 - d. 1932)
10 May 1924 - 2 May
1972 John Edgar
Hoover
(b. 1895 - d. 1972)
(acting to 10 Dec 1924)
2 May 1972 - 3 May 1973 Clyde
A. Tolson (acting)
(b. 1900 - d. 1975)
3 May 1972 - 27 Apr 1973 L. Patrick Gray III
(acting) (b. 1916 -
d. 2005)
30 Apr 1973 - 9 Jul
1973 William Doyle Ruckelshaus (acting) (b. 1932 -
d. 2019)
9 Jul 1973 - 15 Feb
1978 Clarence M.
Kelley
(b. 1911 - d. 1997)
15 Feb 1978 - 23 Feb 1978
James B. Adams (acting)
(b. 1926 - d. 2020)
23 Feb 1978 - 25 May 1987 William H.
Webster
(b. 1924)
26 May 1987 - 2 Nov
1987 John E. Otto
(acting)
(b. 1938 - d. 2020)
2 Nov 1987 - 19 Jul
1993 William S.
Sessions
(b. 1930 - d. 2020)
19 Jul 1993 - 1 Sep
1993 Floyd I. Clarke (acting)
(b. 1942)
1 Sep 1993 - 25 Jun
2001 Louis J.
Freeh
(b. 1950)
25 Jun 2001 - 4 Sep
2001 Thomas J. Pickard
(acting)
(b. 1950)
4 Sep 2001 - 4 Sep
2013 Robert S. Mueller III
(b. 1944)
4 Sep 2013 - 9 May 2017 James B.
Comey, Jr.
(b. 1960)
9 May 2017 - 2 Aug 2017 Andrew G.
McCabe
(acting)
(b. 1968)
2 Aug 2017 - 19 Jan 2025 Christopher A. Wray
(b. 1966)
19 Jan 2025 - 20 Jan 2025 Paul M. Abbate
(acting)
(b. 1968)
20 Jan 2025 - 21 Feb 2025 Brian
Driscoll (acting)
(b. 1979?)
21 Feb 2025 -
Kashyap "Kash" P. Patel
(b. 1980)
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Federal Bureau of
Prisons
3 Mar
1891
Three Prisons Act of 1891 creates the federal prison
system
(within Department of Justice, under the General
Agent).
1 Oct 1907
Office of the
Superintendent of Prisons and Prisoners
established (within Department of Justice).
25 Jun 1910
Office of the Superintendent
of Prisons
14 May 1930
Federal Bureau of Prisons (within
Department of Justice).
General Agents, Department of Justice
1889 -
1893
Elijah C.
Foster
(b. 1844 - d. 1906)
1893 - 25 Jul 1903
Frank Strong (2nd
time)
(b. 1838 - d. 1903)
7 Oct 1903 - 23 Sep 1907 Cecil
Clay
(b. 1842 - d. 1907)
Superintendent of Prisons and Prisoners
1 Oct 1907 - 25 Jun 1910 Robert V.
LaDow
(b. 1859 - d. 19..)
Superintendents of Prisons
25 Jun 1910 - 1915
Robert V.
LaDow
(s.a.)
1915 - 1920
Francis Harvey
Duehay
(b. 1863 - d. 1934)
Jan 1920 - 6 Apr 1921
Denver Sylvester
Dickerson (b.
1872 - d. 1925)
6 Apr 1921 - 3 Mar 1925 Heber
H.
Votaw
(b. 1881 - d. 1962)
25 Mar 1925 - 1 Jul 1926 Luther
Clark White
(b. 18.. - d. 1926)
2 Jul 1926 - 2 Jan 1927 William Thomas
Hammack (acting) (b. 1883 - d. 19..)
3 Jan 1927 - 31 May 1929 Albert H.
Conner
1 Jun 1929 - 31 May 1930 Sanford
Bates
(b. 1884 - d. 1972)
Directors, Federal Bureau of Prisons
1 Jun 1930 - 1 Feb 1937
Sanford
Bates
(s.a.)
1 Feb 1937 - 28 Aug 1964 James Van
Bentschoten Bennett (b. 1894 -
d. 1978)
1 Sep 1964 - 31 Jan 1970 Myrl E.
Alexander
(b. 1909 - d. 1993)
25 Mar 1970 - 3 Jul 1987 Norman A. Carlson
(b. 1933 - d. 2020)
7 Jul 1987 - 4 Dec 1992 Joseph Michael
Quinlan (b.
1941 - d. 2023)
4 Dec 1992 - 4 Apr 2003 Kathleen Hawk
Sawyer (f)(1st time)(b. c.1950)
4 Apr 2003 - 7 May 2011 Harley G.
Lappin III
(b. 1956)
7 May 2011 - 21 Dec 2011 Thomas R. Kane (1st
time)(acting)
21 Dec 2011 - 9 Jan 2016 Charles E. Samuels,
Jr. (b. 1966)
10 Jan 2016 - 18 Sep 2017 Thomas R. Kane (2nd
time)(acting)
18 Sep 2017 - 18 May 2018 Mark S. Inch
19 May 2018 - 19 Aug 2019 Hugh
J. Hurwitz (acting)
19 Aug 2019 - 25 Feb 2020 Kathleen Hawk Sawyer
(f)(2nd time)(s.a.)
(acting)
25 Feb 2020 - 2 Aug 2022 Michael D. Carvajal
2 Aug 2022 - 20 Jan 2025 Colette S. Peters
(f)
20 Jan 2025 - 28 Feb 2025 William "Bill" W.
Lothrop (acting)
28 Feb 2025 -
Kathleen "Kathy" Toomey (f)
(acting)
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
![[Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA) flag (U.S.)] [Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) flag (U.S.)]](us_dea.gif)
DEA Flag Adopted c.1973
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Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA)
28 Oct 1919
Office of Prohibition
Commissioner (under Department of Treasury).
1 Apr 1927 - Dec 1933
Bureau of Prohibition (under Department
of Treasury).
14 Jun 1930
Bureau of Narcotics (under Department of Treasury).
28 Apr
1968
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD)(within
Department of Justice).
28 Jan
1972
Office for Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (ODALE)(within
Department of Justice).
1 Jul
1973
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)(within
Department of Justice).
Commissioners of Prohibition
17 Nov 1919 - 1921
John F. Kramer
(b. 1869 - d. 1956)
1921 - 1927
Roy Asa Haynes
(b. 1881 - d. 1940)
1927 - 1930
James J.M. Doran
(b. 1885 - d. 1942)
Director of of Prohibition
1930 - 1933
Amos W.W. Woodcock
(b. 1883 - d. 1964)
Commissioners of Narcotics
1930 -
1962
Harry Jacob
Anslinger
(b. 1892 - d. 1975)
1962 -
1968
Henry L. Giordano
(b. 1914 - d. 2003)
Director of the Bureau
of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
1968 -
1973
John "Jack" E. Ingersoll
(b. 1929 - d. 2023)
Director of the Office
for Drug Abuse Law Enforcement
28 Jan 1972 -
1973
Myles J.
Ambrose
(b. 1926 - d. 2014)
Administrators of the
Drug Enforcement Administration
4 Oct 1973 - 30 May 1975
John R. Bartels, Jr.
(b. 1934 - d. 2025)
30 May 1975 - 23 Jan 1976 Henry S. Dogin
(acting)
(b. 1934)
23 Jan 1976 - 10 Jul 1981 Peter B.
Bensinger
(b. 1936)
(acting to 23 Feb 1976)
10 Jul 1981 - 1 Mar 1985 Francis M.
"Bud" Mullen, Jr. (b. 1934)
(acting to 10 Nov 1983)
1 Mar 1985 - 23 Mar 1990 John
"Jack" C.
Lawn
(b. 1935)
(acting to 26 Jul 1985)
23 Mar 1990 - 12 Aug 1990 Terrence M.
Burke (acting) (b.
1947)
12 Aug 1990 - 31 Oct 1993 Robert C.
Bonner
(b. 1942)
1 Nov 1993 - 15 Apr
1994 Stephen H. Greene (acting)
15 Apr 1994 - 2 Jul 1999 Thomas A.
Constantine
(b. 1938 - d. 2015)
2 Jul 1999 - 30 Jun 2001 Donnie R.
Marshall
(b. 1947)
(acting to 19 Jun 2000)
30 Jun 2001 - 8 Aug 2001 William B.
Simpkins (acting)
8 Aug 2001 - 29 Jan 2003 Asa
Hutchinson
(b. 1950)
29 Jan 2003 - 17 Sep 2003 John B. Brown
III (acting)
17 Sep 2003 - 22 Oct 2007 Karen Pomerantz
Tandy
(f)
(b. 1953)
22 Oct 2007 - 13 May 2015 Michele
M. Leonhart (f)
(b. 1956)
(acting
to 22 Dec 2010)
13 May 2015 - 1 Oct 2017 Charles "Chuck"
Rosenberg (acting) (b. 1960)
2 Oct 2017 - 30 Jun 2018 Robert W. Patterson
(acting)
1 Jul 2018 - 3 Jul 2018 Preston L.
Grubbs (acting)
3 Jul 2018 - 19 May 2020 Uttam Dhillon
(acting)
(b. 1960)
19 May 2020 - 20 Jan 2021 Timothy "Tim" J. Shea
(acting)
20 Jan 2021 - 28 Jun 2021 D.
Christopher Evans (acting)
28 Jun 2021 - Jan 2025 Anne M. Milgram (f)
(b. 1970)
Jan 2025 - 20 Jan 2025 George S.
Papadopoulos (acting)
20 Jan 2025 -
Derek S. Maltz (acting)
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives (ATF)
ATF Flag to 2003
|
Adopted 2003
|
Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF)
10 May 1934
Alcohol Tax Unit (ATU) of the
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
(within
Department of Treasury).
1 Jul 1951
Renamed Alcohol and
Tobacco Tax Division (ATTD) of IRS.
19 Jun 1968
Renamed Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms Division (ATFD) of IRS.
1 Jul
1972
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), separated
from the IRS (within Department of Treasury).
24 Jan
2003
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
(ATF)(within Department of Justice).
Deputy Commissioners of Internal Revenue, Alcohol
Tax Unit
1934 - 1935
Arthur J. Mellott
(b. 1888 - d. 1957)
1 Sep 1935 - 1946
William Stewart
Berkshire
(b. 1891 - d. 1987)
1 Jul 1946 - 5 Oct 1951 Carroll E.
Mealey
(b. 1893 - d. 1963)
Directors of the Alcohol
and Tobacco Tax Division
1951 -
1964
Dwight E.
Avis
(b. 1901 - d. 1982)
1964 - 1968
Harold A.
Serr
(b. 1903 - d. 1997)
Directors
of the Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms Division
1968 - 1970
Harold A.
Serr
(s.a.)
1970 - 1972
Rex D.
Davis
(b. 1924 - d. 2008)
Directors of the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
1972 - Jul 1978
Rex D.
Davis
(s.a.)
1978 -
1982
Glenn Robert Dickerson
(b. 1927 - d. 2019)
1982 -
1993
Stephen E.
Higgins
(b. 1938)
Oct 1993 - 20 Dec 1999
John W.
Magaw
(b. 1935)
20 Dec 1999 - 24 Jan 2003
Bradley A. Buckles
(b. 1949)
Directors of the
Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
24 Jan 2003 -
3 Jan 2004 Bradley A. Buckles
(acting) (s.a.)
4 Jan 2004 - 18 Apr 2004 Edgar A.
Domenech (1st time) (b. 1962?)
(acting)
18 Apr 2004 - 8 Aug 2006 Carl J.
Truscott
(b.
1957)
(acting to 17 May 2004)
8 Aug 2006 - 31 Aug 2006 Edgar A.
Domenech (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
31 Aug 2006 - 20 Jan 2009 Michael J.
Sullivan (acting) (b. 1954)
20 Jan 2009 - 12 Apr 2009 Ronnie A. Carter
(acting) (b. 1953?)
12 Apr 2009 - 30 Aug 2011 Kenneth E. Melson
(acting)
31 Aug 2011 - 1 Apr 2015 B. Todd Jones
(b. 1957)
(acting to 29 Aug 2013)
1 Apr 2015 - 30 Apr 2019 Thomas E. Brandon
(acting)
1 May 2019 - 3 Jun 2021 Regina
"Reggie" Lombardo (f) (b.
1962)
(acting)
4 Jun 2021 - 25 Apr 2022 Marvin G.
Richardson (1st time)
(acting)
25 Apr 2022 - 13 Jul 2022 Gary M. Restaino
(acting)
(b. 1968)
13 Jul 2022 - 18 Jan 2025 Steve M.
Dettelbach
(b. 1965)
18 Jan 2025 - 24 Feb 2025
Marvin G. Richardson (2nd time)
(acting)
24 Feb 2025 - 9 Apr 2025 Kashyap "Kash"
P. Patel (acting) (b. 1980)
9 Apr 2025 -
Daniel "Dan" P. Driscoll
(acting) (b. 1986)
U.S. Marshals Service
Adopted 17 Jan 1986
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![[U.S. Marshals Service Flag
variant] [U.S. Marshals Service
Flag variant]](us_marshal.gif)
USMS Variant
|
U.S. Marshals
Service
24 Sep 1789
Office of the United States
Marshal established by the Judiciary
Act of
1789 (authorizing the appointment of one marshal for
each
federal
judicial district)(within Department of State).
1 Jul
1870
Within the Department of Justice.
17 Dec 1957
Executive Office for the U.S.
Marshals (within Justice Department).
12 May 1969
U.S. Marshals Service (USMS)
established (within Justice
Department).
Chiefs, Executive Office for the
United States Marshals
20 Dec 1957 - 21 Jun 1962 Clive W. Palmer
(b. 1901 - d. 1992)
21 Jun 1962 - 24 Dec 1968 James J.P. McShane
(b. 1909 - d. 1968)
Dec 1968 - Mar 1969 John
"Jack" W. Cameron (acting)
5 Mar 1969 - 4 Sep 1969 Carl C. Turner
(b. 1913 - d. 1996)
Directors of the United States
Marshals Service
Sep 1969 - Mar 1970
Donald "Don" A. Synnott
(acting) (b. 1921 - d. 1992)
16 Jan 1970 - 23 May 1976 Wayne B. Colburn
(b. 1919 - d. 1983)
23 May 1976 - 23 Oct 1983 William E. Hall
(b. 1932 - d. 2019)
23 Oct 1983 - 6 Nov 1989 Stanley E. Morris
(b. 1942)
26 Nov 1989 - 24 Feb 1992 Kevin Michael Moore
(b. 1951)
24 Feb 1992 - 17 Oct 1993 Henry E. Hudson
(b. 1947)
(acting
to 12 Aug 1992)
17 Oct 1993 - 18 Nov 1993 John J. Twomey
(acting) (b.
1936 - d. 2017)
18 Nov 1993 - 19 Jun 1999 Eduardo Gonzalez
(b. 1940 - d. 2014)
21 Jun 1999 - 17 Nov 1999 George R. "Ray"
Havens (acting) (b. 1943?)
17 Nov 1999 - 21 Jan 2001 John W. Marshall
(b. 1958)
21 Jan 2001 - 30 Oct 2001 Louis T. McKinney
(acting)
30 Oct 2001 - 31 Jul 2005 Benigno "Ben" G. Reyna
(b. 1957)
1 Aug 2005 - 31 Dec 2010 John F. Clark
(acting
to 17 Mar 2006)
31 Dec 2010 - 26 Jul 2015 Stacia A. Hylton (f)
(b. 1960)
26 Jul 2015 - 4 Jan 2018 David L. Harlow
(acting)
4 Jan 2018 - 29 Mar 2019 David J. Anderson
(acting)
29 Mar 2019 - 27 Sep 2021 Donald W.
Washington
(b. 1955)
27 Sep 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Ronald L. Davis
(b. c.1964)
20 Jan 2025 -
Mark P. Pittella (acting)
Department of the Interior
to 1917
|
1917 - 1934
|
1934 - c.1949
|
Adopted c.1949
|
|
|
Department of the
Interior (DOI)
3 Mar
1849
Department of the Interior.
Secretaries
8 Mar 1849 - 22 Jul 1850 Thomas
Ewing
(b. 1789 - d. 1871)
23 Jul 1850 - 15 Aug 1850 Daniel C.
Goddard (1st time)
(b. 1822 - d. 1852)
(acting)
15 Aug 1850 - 26 Aug 1850 Thomas M.T.
McKennan
(b. 1794 - d. 1852)
27 Aug 1850 - 16 Sep 1850
Daniel C. Goddard (2nd time)
(s.a.)
(acting)
16 Sep 1850 - 7 Mar 1853 Alexander H.H.
Stuart
(b. 1807 - d. 1891)
8 Mar 1853 - 9 Mar 1857
Robert
McClelland
(b. 1807 - d. 1880)
10 Mar 1857 - 10 Jan 1861 Jacob
Thompson
(b. 1810 - d. 1885)
10 Jan 1861 - 5 Mar 1861 Moses
Kelly (acting)
5 Mar 1861 - 31 Dec 1862
Caleb B.
Smith
(b. 1808 - d. 1864)
1 Jan 1863 - 15 May 1865 John P.
Usher
(b. 1816 - d. 1889)
(acting to 7 Jan 1863)
16 May 1865 - 31 Aug 1866 James
Harlan
(b. 1820 - d. 1899)
1 Sep 1866 - 4 Mar 1869
Orville H.
Browning
(b. 1806 - d. 1881)
5 Mar 1869 - 9 Mar 1869
William T. Otto (acting)
(b. 1816 - d. 1905)
9 Mar 1869 - 31 Oct 1870
Jacob D.
Cox
(b. 1828 - d. 1900)
1 Nov 1870 - 30 Sep 1875 Columbus
Delano
(b. 1809 - d. 1896)
1 Oct 1875 - 19 Oct 1875
Benjamin R. Cowen (acting)
(b. 1831 - d. 1908)
19 Oct 1875 - 11 Mar 1877 Zachariah
Chandler
(b. 1813 - d. 1879)
12 Mar 1877 - 7 Mar 1881 Carl
Schurz
(b. 1829 - d. 1906)
8 Mar 1881 - 17 Apr 1882 Samuel J.
Kirkwood
(b. 1813 - d. 1894)
18 Apr 1882 - 3 Mar 1885 Henry M.
Teller
(b. 1830 - d. 1914)
4 Mar 1885 - 6 Mar 1885
Merritt L. Joslyn (acting)
(b. 1825 - d. 1905)
6 Mar 1885 - 10 Jan 1888 Lucius Q.C.
Lamar
(b. 1825 - d. 1893)
11 Jan 1888 - 16 Jan 1888 Henry L.
Muldrow (acting) (b.
1837 - d. 1905)
16 Jan 1888 - 6 Mar 1889 William F.
Vilas
(b. 1840 - d. 1908)
7 Mar 1889 - 6 Mar 1893 John
W.
Noble
(b. 1831 - d. 1912)
6 Mar 1893 - 1 Sep 1896 M.
Hoke
Smith
(b. 1855 - d. 1931)
1 Sep 1896 - 3 Sep
1896 John M. Reynolds
(acting)
(b. 1848 - d. 1933)
3 Sep 1896 - 5 Mar 1897 David R.
Francis
(b. 1850 - d. 1927)
6 Mar 1897 - 19 Feb
1899 Cornelius N.
Bliss
(b. 1833 - d. 1911)
20 Feb 1899 - 4 Mar 1907 Ethan A.
Hitchcock
(b. 1835 - d. 1909)
5 Mar 1907 - 5 Mar 1909 James
R.
Garfield
(b. 1865 - d. 1950)
6 Mar 1909 - 12 Mar 1911 Richard A.
Ballinger
(b. 1858 - d. 1922)
13 Mar 1911 - 5 Mar 1913 Walter
Lowrie
Fisher
(b. 1862 - d. 1935)
6 Mar 1913 - 29 Feb 1920 Franklin
Knight
Lane
(b. 1864 - d. 1921)
1 Mar 1920 - 15 Mar 1920 Alexander
T. Vogelsang (acting) (b. 1861 - d. 1930)
15 Mar 1920 - 4 Mar 1921 John Barton
Payne
(b. 1855 - d. 1935)
5 Mar 1921 - 4 Mar 1923
Albert B.
Fall
(b. 1861 - d. 1944)
5 Mar 1923 - 24 Jul 1928 Hubert
Work
(b. 1860 - d. 1942)
25 Jul 1928 - 4 Mar 1929 Roy O.
West
(b. 1868 - d. 1958)
(acting
to 21 Jan 1929)
5 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933 Ray Lyman
Wilbur
(b. 1875 - d. 1949)
4 Mar 1933 - 15 Feb 1946 Harold L.
Ickes
(b. 1874 - d. 1952)
15 Feb 1946 - 18 Mar 1946 Oscar
L. Chapman (1st time)(acting)(b. 1896 - d. 1978)
18 Mar 1946 - 1 Dec 1949 Julius A.
Krug
(b. 1907 - d. 1970)
1 Dec 1949 - 20 Jan 1953 Oscar L.
Chapman (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting to 18 Jan 1950)
21 Jan 1953 - 15 Apr 1956 Douglas
McKay
(b. 1893 - d. 1959)
15 Apr 1956 - 8 Jun 1956 Clarence
A. Davis (acting)
(b. 1892 - d. 1974)
8 Jun 1956 - 20 Jan 1961 Fred A.
Seaton
(b. 1909 - d. 1974)
21 Jan 1961 - 20 Jan 1969 Stewart L.
Udall
(b. 1920 - d. 2010)
20 Jan 1969 - 24 Jan 1969 J. Cordell
Moore (acting) (b.
1912 - d. 2001)
24 Jan 1969 - 25 Nov 1970 Walter J.
Hickel
(b. 1919 - d. 2010)
26 Nov 1970 - 29 Jan 1971 Fred J. Russell
(acting) (b.
1916 - d. 2007)
29 Jan 1971 - 30 Apr 1975 Rogers C.B.
Morton
(b. 1914 - d. 1979)
1 May 1975 - 12 Jun 1975 D. Kent
Frizzell (1st time)(acting)(b. 1929 - d. 2016)
12 Jun 1975 - 9 Oct 1975 Stanley K.
Hathaway
(b. 1924 - d. 2005)
9 Oct 1975 - 17 Oct 1975 D. Kent
Frizzell (2nd time)(acting)(s.a.)
17 Oct 1975 - 20 Jan 1977 Thomas S.
Kleppe
(b. 1919 - d. 2007)
20 Jan 1977 - 23 Jan 1977 H. Gregory
Austin (acting) (b. 1936)
24 Jan 1977 - 20 Jan 1981 Cecil D.
Andrus
(b. 1931 - d. 2017)
23 Jan 1981 - 8 Nov 1983 James G.
Watt
(b. 1938 - d. 2023)
8 Nov 1983 - 18 Nov 1983 Joseph
Jacob "Jake" Simmons III (b. 1925
- d. 2002)
(acting)
18 Nov 1983 - 7 Feb 1985 William P.
Clark
(b. 1931 - d. 2013)
8 Feb 1985 - 20 Jan 1989 Donald P.
Hodel
(b. 1935)
20 Jan 1989 - 8 Feb 1989 Earl E.
Gjelde (acting)
(b. 1944)
8 Feb 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 Manuel Lujan,
Jr.
(b. 1928 - d. 2019)
22 Jan 1993 - 20 Jan 2001 Bruce
Babbitt
(b. 1938)
20 Jan 2001 - 31 Jan 2001 Thomas N. Slonaker
(acting) (b. 1934)
31 Jan 2001 - 31 Mar 2006 Gale Norton
(f)
(b. 1954)
1 Apr 2006 - 26 May 2006 P.
Lynn Scarlett (f)(1st time) (b.
1949)
(acting)
26 May 2006 - 19 Jan 2009 Dirk Arthur
Kempthorne
(b. 1951)
19 Jan 2009 - 21 Jan 2009 P. Lynn
Scarlett (f)(2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
21 Jan 2009 - 12 Apr 2013 Kenneth "Ken" Lee
Salazar (b. 1955)
12 Apr 2013 - 20 Jan 2017 Sally R. Jewell (f)
(b. 1956)
20 Jan 2017 - 1 Mar 2017 Kevin
"Jack" Haugrud (acting)
1 Mar 2017 - 2 Jan 2019
Ryan K. Zinke
(b. 1961)
2 Jan 2019 - 20 Jan 2021 David L. Bernhardt
(b. 1969)
(acting
to 11 Apr 2019)
20 Jan 2021 - 16 Mar 2021 Scott
de la Vega (acting)
16 Mar 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Debra "Deb" A. Haaland
(f) (b. 1960)
20 Jan 2025 - 1 Feb 2025 Walter Cruickshank
(acting)
1 Feb 2025
-
Douglas "Doug" J.
Burgum
(b. 1956)
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Bureau of Indian
Affairs (BIA)
20 Aug
1789
Secretaries of War responsible for American
Indian Affairs.
18 Apr 1796 - 21 Apr 1806 Indian Trading
Houses (supervised by War Department).
21 Apr 1806 - 6 May 1822 Office of the
Superintendent of Indian Trade
(under
the War Department).
11 Mar
1824
Bureau of Indian Affairs (within War
Department).
9 Jul
1832
Commissioner of Indian Affairs post established
(within the War Department).
29 Jul
1834
Office of Indian Affairs organized.
3 Mar
1849
Transferred to Department of the Interior.
17 Sep 1947
Renamed Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Administrators of Indian Affairs
20 Aug 1789 - 9 Jul 1832 the
Secretaries of War
Superintendents of the Indian
Trading Houses (Factories)
11 Nov 1796 - 11 May 1801 John
Harris
(b. 1753 - d. 1838)
(keeper of Military Stores and superintendent
for the Indian Trading Houses)
11 May 1801 - 29 Jul 1804 William
Irvine
(b. 1741 - d. 1804)
(superintendent of Military Stores and
superintendent
for the Indian Trading Houses)
29 Jul 1804 - 26 Mar 1805 George W. Ingels
(b. 1746 - d. 1827)
(superintendent of Military Stores and superintendent
for the
Indian Trade)
26 Mar 1805 - 21 Apr 1806 William Davy
(b. 1757 - d. 1827)
(superintendent of the Indian Trade)
Superintendents of Indian Trade
8 Jul 1806 - Oct 1807
John
Shee
(b. 1740 - d. 1808)
Oct 1807 - 1 Apr 1816 John M.
Mason
(b. 1766 - d. 1849)
12 Apr 1816 - 6 May 1822 Thomas
L. McKenny
(b. 1785 - d. 1859)
Superintendents
of the Indian Affairs Office
28 May 1822 - 12 Mar 1824 William Clark
(b. 1770 - d. 1838)
12 Mar 1824 - 16 Aug 1830 Thomas L. McKenny (chief
clerk) (s.a.)
30 Sep 1830 - 31 Aug 1831 Samuel S.
Hamilton (chief clerk) (b.
c.1780 - d. 1832)
31 Aug 1831 - 9 Jul 1832 Elbert
Herring (chief clerk) (b.
1777 - d. 1876)
Commissioners of Indian Affairs
10 Jul 1832 - 2 Jul 1836 Elbert
Herring
(s.a.)
4 Jul 1836 - 19 Oct 1838 Carey
Allen Harris
(b. 1806 - d. 1842)
22 Oct 1838 - 28 Oct 1845 Thomas Hartley
Crawford
(b. 1786 - d. 1863)
28 Oct 1845 - 30 Jun 1849 William Medill
(b. 1802 - d. 1865)
30 Jun 1849 - 1 Jul 1850 Orlando
Brown
(b. 1801 - d. 1867)
1 Jul 1850 - 24 Mar 1853 Luke
Lea
(b. 1810 - d. 1898)
31 Mar 1853 - 30 Mar 1857 George W. Manypenny
(b. 1808 - d. 1892)
17 Apr 1857 - 2 Dec 1857 James
William Denver (1st time) (b. 1817 - d.
1892)
14 Jun 1858 - 8 Nov 1858 Charles E.
Mix (acting)
(b. 1810 - d. 1878)
8 Nov 1858 - 31 Mar 1859 James
William Denver (2nd time) (s.a.)
4 May 1859 - 13 Apr 1861 Alfred
Burton Greenwood
(b. 1811 - d. 1889)
13 Apr 1861 - 11 Jul 1865 William P. Dole
(b. 1811 - d. 1889)
10 Jul 1865 - 1 Nov 1866 Dennis
Nelson Cooley
(b. 1825 - d. 1892)
1 Nov 1866 - 29 Mar 1867 Lewis V.
Bogy
(b. 1813 - d. 1877)
29 Mar 1867 - 21 Apr 1869
Nathaniel Green Taylor
(b. 1819 - d. 1887)
21 Apr 1869 - 24 Jul 1871 Ely S.
Parker
(b. 1828 - d. 1895)
24 Jul 1871 - 27 Nov 1871 Henry R. Clum
(1st time) (acting) (b. 1830 - d. 1896)
27 Nov 1871 - 1 Jan 1873 Francis A.
Walker
(b. 1840 - d. 1897)
(acting to 16 Dec 1871)
1 Jan 1873 - 17 Mar 1873 Henry R.
Clum (2nd time) (acting) (s.a.)
17 Mar 1873 - 11 Dec 1875 Edward P.
Smith
(b. 1827 - d. 1876)
11 Dec 1875 - 21 Sep 1877 John Quincy
Smith
(b. 1824 - d. 1901)
21 Sep 1877 - 29 Jan 1880 Ezra A.
Hayt
(b. 1823 - d. 1902)
(acting to 12 Dec 1877)
30 Jan 1880 - 15 Mar 1880 Edgar M. Marble
(acting) (b. 1838 -
d. 1908)
15 Mar 1880 - 19 Mar 1881 Rowland E.
Trowbridge
(b. 1821 - d. 1881)
14 Apr 1881 - 26 Mar 1885 Hiram Price
(b. 1814 - d. 1901)
(acting to 6 May 1881)
26 Mar 1885 - 14 Jun 1888 John DeWitt
Clinton
Atkins
(b. 1825 - d. 1908)
10 Oct 1888 - 30 Jun 1889 John H. Oberly
(b. 1837 - d. 1899)
1 Jul 1889 - 3 Mar 1893
Thomas Jefferson Morgan
(b. 1839 - d. 1902)
13 Apr 1893 - 3 May 1897 Daniel M.
Browning
(b. 1846 - d. 1903)
3 May 1897 - 1 Jan 1905
William A. Jones
(b. 1849 - d. 1918)
1 Jan 1905 - 18 Jun 1909 Francis E.
Leupp
(b. 1849 - d. 1918)
19 Jun 1909 - 10 Sep 1912 Robert G.
Valentine
(b. 1872 - d. 1916)
2 Jun 1913 - 29 Mar 1921 Cato
Sells
(b. 1859 - d. 1948)
7 May 1921 - 18 Apr 1929
Charles Henry
Burke
(b. 1861 - d. 1944)
18 Apr 1929 - 20 Apr 1933 Charles James
Rhoads
(b. 1872 - d. 1956)
21 Apr 1933 - 22 Jan 1945 John
Collier
(b. 1884 - d. 1968)
6 Mar 1945 - 3 Jun 1948
William A.
Brophy
(b. 1903 - d. 1962)
Jan 1947 - 13 Apr 1949
William R. Zimmerman, Jr.
(b. 1890 - d. 1967)
(acting [for Brophy to 3 Jun 1948])
13 Apr 1949 - 23 Mar 1950 John R.
Nichols
(b. 1889 - d. 1968)
5 May 1950 - 19 Mar 1953 Dillon S.
Myer
(b. 1891 - d. 1982)
10 Aug 1953 - 7 Jan 1961 Glenn L.
Emmons
(b. 1895 - d. 1980)
10 Feb 1961 - Sep 1961 John
Orien Crow (acting)
(b. 1912 - d. 1994)
26 Sep 1961 - 15 Mar 1966 Philleo
Nash
(b. 1909 - d. 1987)
27 Apr 1966 - 31 May 1969 Robert LaFollette
Bennett (b. 1912 - d.
2002)
8 Aug 1969 - 20 Jan 1973 Louis
Rook Bruce, Jr.
(b. 1905 - d. 1989)
7 Feb 1973 - 4 Dec 1973
Marvin Lyle Franklin
(acting) (b. 1916 - d.
2016)
(assistant to the Secretary for Indian Affairs)
4 Dec 1973 - 3 Nov 1976 Morris
Thompson
(b. 1939 - d. 2000)
Nov 1976 - 7 Dec 1976
Raymond V. Butler (1st time)(acting)
7 Dec 1976 - 28 Jan 1977 Benjamin "Ben"
Reifel
(b. 1906 - d. 1990)
Jan 1977 - 15 Sep 1977
Raymond V. Butler (2nd time)(acting)
27 Oct 1978 - 30 Jul 1979 Martin E. Seneca, Jr.
(1st time) (b. 1941 - d. 2008)
(acting)
30 Jul 1979 - 16 Nov 1979 Sidney "Sid"
Leroy Mills (acting) (b. 1925 -
d. 2020)
16 Nov 1979 - 19 Jan 1981 William Edward Hallett
(b. 1942 - d.
1992)
1981
Martin E. Seneca, Jr.
(2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
1981
Theodore C. Krenzke
(acting) (b. 1930)
1981 - 20 Apr 1981
Maurice W. "Bill" Babby (acting) (b. 1934)
20 Apr 1981 - 13 Dec 1981 Kenneth L. Payton
(acting)
(b. 1926 - d. 1995)
(acting deputy assistant secretary-Indian Affairs for
Operations)
Assistant Secretaries of the Interior for Indian
Affairs
13 Oct 1977 - 19 Jan 1980 Forrest J.
Gerard
(b. 1925 - d. 2013)
19 Jan 1980 - Jul 1980 Sidney "Sid"
Leroy Mills (acting) (s.a.)
Aug 1980 - 16 Jan 1981 Thomas W.
Fredericks
(b. 1943)
(acting to 2 Jan 1981)
16 Jan 1981 - 15 May 1981 James F. Canan
(acting)
(b. 1926 - d. 2009)
15 May 1981 - 7 Dec 1984 Kenneth "Ken"
L. Smith
(b. 1935 - d. 2020)
7 Dec 1984 - 5 Dec 1985 John W. Fritz
(acting) (b.
1948 - d. 2006)
5 Dec 1985 - 29 Jan 1989 Ross O.
Swimmer
(b. 1943)
29 Jan 1989 - 26 Jun 1989 William Patrick
"Pat" Ragsdale
(acting)
26 Jun 1989 - 16 Jul 1993 Eddie Frank
Brown
(b. 1945)
16 Jul 1993 - 12 Nov 1997 Ada E. Deer
(f)
(b. 1935 - d. 2023)
12 Nov 1997 - 3 Jan 2001 Kevin
Gover
(b. 1955)
4 Jan 2001 - 21 Jan 2001 Michael J.
Anderson (acting) (b. 1958?)
22 Jan 2001 - 3 Jul 2001 James "Jim" H.
McDivitt (acting)
4 Jul 2001 - 5 Jan 2003 Neal
A. "Chief" McCaleb
(b. 1935 - d. 2025)
5 Jan 2003 - 2 Feb 2004
Aurene Michele Martin (f)(acting) (b. 1965)
2 Feb 2004 - 12 Feb 2005 David
Wayne
Anderson
(b. 1953)
13 Feb 2005 - 8 Mar 2007 James
"Jim" E. Cason (acting)
8 Mar 2007 - 23 May 2008 Carl Joseph Artman
III (b. 1965)
23 May 2008 - 22 May 2009 George T. Skibine
(acting) (b. 1952)
22 May 2009 - 27 Apr 2012 Larry Echo Hawk
(b. 1948)
27 Apr 2012 - 9 Oct 2012 Donald "Del"
Laverdure (acting)
9 Oct 2012 - 31 Dec 2015
Kevin K. Washburn
(b. 1967)
1 Jan 2016 - 20 Jan 2017 Lawrence S. Roberts
(acting)
20 Jan 2017 - 11 Jun 2017 Michael S. Black
(acting) (b. c.1964)
11 Jun 2017 - 3 Sep 2017 Gavin Clarkson
(acting)
3 Sep 2017 - 30 Jul 2018 John Tahsuda III
(acting)
(b. 1966)
30 Jul 2018 - 20 Jan 2021 Tara Katuk MacLean
Sweeney (f) (b. 1973)
20 Jan 2021 - 22 Feb 2021
Darryl D. LaCounte II (acting)
22 Feb 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Bryan Todd
Newland
(b. c.1980)
(acting to 8 Sep 2021)
20 Jan 2025
-
Bryan Mercier (acting)
Bureau of Land Management
Bureau of Land
Management (BLM)
13 May 1796 - 11 May 1857 Post of Surveyor
General of Territory Northwest of the River
Ohio
created (moved to Detroit Jun 1845).
25 Apr 1812
General Land Office (GLO) created (within
Department of Treasury).
3 Mar 1849
GLO transferred to the Department of
Interior.
28 Jun 1934
Division of Grazing created (within Department
of Interior).
26 Aug 1939
Division of Grazing renamed
U.S. Grazing Service.
16 Jul 1946
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
formed by merger of Grazing Service
and
General Land Office (within Department
of Interior).
Surveyors General of the of the Territory Northwest
of the River Ohio
5 Nov 1796 – 1803
Rufus Putnam
(b. 1738 - d. 1824)
3 Nov 1803 – 1813
Jared Mansfield
(b. 1759 - d. 1830)
24 Nov 1812 – 1814 Josiah
Meigs
(b. 1757 - d. 1822)
Nov 1814 – 9 Aug 1829 Edward Tiffin
(b. 1766 - d. 1829)
3 Jul 1829 - 1831
William Lytle II
(b. 1770 - d. 1831)
23 Apr 1831 - 1835
Micajah T. Williams
(b. 1792 - d. 1844)
13 Apr 1835 - 1838
Robert Todd
Lytle
(b. 1804 - d. 1839)
6 Jun 1838 - 1842
Ezekiel S.
Haines
(d. 1865)
11 Jun 1842 - 1845 William
Johnston
(b. 1804 - d. 1891)
23 Jun 1845 - 1850
Lucius Lyon
(b. 1800
- d. 1851)
14 Jan 1850 - 1853
Charles Noble
(b. 1797 - d. 1874)
1 Apr 1853 - 11 May 1857 Leander Chapman
(b. 1809 - d. 1872)
Commissioners of the General Land Office
7 May 1812 – 1814
Edward Tiffin
(s.a.)
11 Oct 1814 – 1822 Josiah
Meigs
(s.a.)
11 Sep 1822 – 1823 John
McLean
(b. 1785 – d. 1861)
26 Jun 1823 – 1830 George
Graham
(b. 1772 - d. 1830)
30 Sep 1830 – 1835
Elijah Hayward
(b. 1786 - d. 1864)
24 Jul 1835 – 1836 Ethan A.
Brown
(b. 1776 - d. 1852)
21 Oct 1836 – 1841 James
Whitcomb
(b. 1795 - d. 1852)
3 Jul 1841 – 1842
Elisha M. Huntingdon
(b. 1806 - d. 1862)
19 May 1842 – 1845 Thomas H.
Blake
(b. 1792 - d. 1849)
16 Apr 1845 - 1847 James
Shields
(b. 1810 - d. 1879)
6 Jan 1847 – 1849
Richard M. Young
(b. 1798 - d. 1861)
1 Jul 1849 - 1852
Justin Butterfield
(b. 1790 - d. 1855)
16 Sep 1852 – 1855 John
Wilson
(b. 1807 - d. 1876)
6 Aug 1855 – 1859
Thomas A. Hendricks
(b. 1819 - d. 1885)
13 Oct 1859 - 1860 Samuel A.
Smith
(b. 1822 - d. 1863)
23 Feb 1860 – 1861 Joseph S.
Wilson (1st time)(acting)(b. 1808 - d. 1871)
16 Mar 1861 – 1866 James N.
Edmunds
(b. 1810 - d. 1879)
1 Sep 1866 – 1871
Joseph S. Wilson (2nd time)
(s.a.)
4 Feb 1871 – 1874
Willis Drummond
(b. 1808 - d. 1879)
1 Jun 1874 – 1876
Samuel S. Burdett
(b. 1836 - d. 1914)
24 Jun 1876 – 1881 James A.
Williamson
(b. 1829 - d. 1902)
17 Jun 1881 – 1885 Noah
C. McFarland
(b. 1822 - d. 1897)
1885 - 1887
William A.J. Sparks
(b. 1828 - d.
1904)
1888 - 1889
Strother M. Stockslager
(b. 1842 - d. 1903)
26 Sep 1889 - Mar 1891 Lewis A. Groff
(b. 1841 - d. 1928)
1891 - 1892
Thomas Carter
(b. 1854
- d. 1911)
1892 - 1893
William Stone
(b. 1827
- d. 1893)
1893 - 1897
Silas W. Lamoreaux
(b. 1843 - d.
1909)
1897 - 1903
Binger Hermann
(b. 1843 - d.
1926)
1903 - 1907
William A. Richard
(b. 1849 - d. 1912)
1907 - 1908
Richard A. Ballinger
(b. 1858 - d. 1922)
1908 - 1913
Fred Dennett
(b.
1863 - d. 1928)
1913 - 1921
Clay Tallman
(b.
1874 - d. 1949)
1921 - 21 Apr 1929
William Spry
(b. 1864 - d.
1929)
1929 - 1933
Charles C. Moore
(b. 1866 - d.
1958)
1933 - 16 Jul 1946
Fred W. Johnson
(b. 1881? - d. 1955)
Directors of the Division of Grazing (from 26 Aug
1939, U.S. Grazing
Service)
1934 – 1938
Farrington "Ferry" R. Carpenter
(b. 1886 - d. 1980)
1938 – 1944
Richard H. Rutledge
(b. 1873
- d. 1957)
1944 – 16 Jul 1946
Clarence Luther Forsling
(b. 1893 – d. 1981)
Directors of the Bureau of Land Management
16 Jul 1946 - 1948 Fred
W. Johnson
(s.a.)
1948 - 1953
Marion Clawson
(b. 1905
- d. 1998)
1953 - 1961
Edward Woozley
(b. 1902 - d.
1995)
1961 - 1963
Karl S. Landstrom
(b. 1909 - d.
1998)
1963 - 1966
Charles H. Stoddard
(b. 1912 - d. 1997)
1966 - 1971
Boyd L. Rasmussen
(b. 1913 - d.
1998)
1971 - 1973
Burton "Burt" W. Silcock
(b. 1922 - d. 2008)
1973 - 1977
Curtis J. Berklund
(b. 1929 - d.
2013)
1977 - 1981
Raymond "Frank" Gregg
(b. 1925 - d. 2013)
1981 - 1989
Robert F. Burford
(b. 1923 - d.
1993)
1989 – 1992
Delos Cy Jamison
(b.
1949)
1993 - 1994
Jim Baca
(b. 1945)
Feb 1994 - 1997
Michael P. Dombeck (acting)
(b. 1948)
1997 - 1998
Patrick "Pat" A. Shea
(b. 1948)
(acting
to 23 Jul 1997)
Nov 1998 - Nov 2001 Thomas
"Tom" A. Fry III
(b. 1944)
(acting
to 24 May 2000)
2 Jan 2002 - Feb 2007 Kathleen
Burton Clarke (f) (b.
c.1951)
7 Feb 2007 - 3 Aug 2007 James "Jim" M.
Hughes (acting)
3 Aug 2007 - 20 Jan 2009 James "Jim" LeRoy
Caswell
20 Jan 2009 - 1 Mar 2009 Ronald "Ron" Wenker
(acting)
1 Mar 2009 - 7 Aug 2009 Mike Pool (1st
time)(acting) (b. 1954?)
7 Aug 2009 - 31 May 2012 Robert V. Abbey
(b. 1951)
31 May 2012 - 28 Feb 2013 Mike Pool (2nd
time)(acting) (s.a.)
1 Mar 2013 - 20 Jan 2017 Neil G. Kornze
(b.
1978)
(acting to 11 Apr 2014)
20 Jan 2017 - 15 Mar 2017 Kristin Bail (f)
(acting)
15 Mar 2017 - 17 Dec 2017 Michael D. Nedd (1st
time)(acting)
17 Dec 2017 - 11 May 2019 Brian
C. Steed (acting)
11 May 2019 - 29 Jul 2019 Casey B. Hammond
(acting)
29 Jul 2019 - 20 Jan 2021 William Perry Pendley
(acting) (b. 1945)
20 Jan 2021 - 1 Mar 2021 Michael
D. Nedd (2nd time)(acting)
1 Mar 2021 - 7 Oct 2021 Nada Wolff
Culver (f) (1st time)
(acting)
7 Oct 2021 - 13 Jan 2025 Tracy Stone-Manning
(f)
(b. 1965)
13 Jan 2025 - 20 Jan 2025 Nada Wolff
Culver (f) (2nd time)
(acting)
20 Jan 2025 - 28 Jan 2025 Michael D. Nedd (3rd
time)(acting)
28 Jan 2025 -
Jon K. Raby (acting)
Bureau of Reclamation
1994 - 1 Nov 2019
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Reclamation (Department of Interior)(U.S.)] [Flag of Bureau of Reclamation (Department of
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Bureau of Reclamation
8 Jul
1902
Service of Reclamation within U.S. Geological
Survey.
9 Mar
1907
Reclamation Service (within Department
of Interior).
30 Jun
1923
Renamed Bureau of Reclamation.
Chief Engineer in Charge of the Service of
Reclamation
1902 - 8 Mar
1907
Frederick Haynes
Newell
(b. 1862 - d. 1932)
Directors of the Service of Reclamation
9 Mar 1907 - Dec
1914 Frederick Haynes
Newell
(s.a.)
Dec 1914 - 19 Jun 1923
Arthur Powell
Davis
(b. 1861 - d. 1933)
19 Jun 1923 - 30 Jun 1923 David William
Davis
(b. 1873 - d. 1959)
Commissioners of Reclamation
30 Jun 1923 - 2 Jun 1924 David
William
Davis
(s.a.)
1924 - 26 Jan
1936
Elwood
Mead
(b. 1858 - d. 1936)
2 Feb 1936 -
1936 Mae
A. Schnurr (f)
(acting) (b.
1896 - d. 1996)
1936 -
1943
John Catfield
Page
(b. 1887 - d. 1955)
Aug 1943 -
1945
Harry W.
Bashore
(b. 1880 - d. 1973)
1945 -
1953
Michael W.
Straus
(b. 1897 - d. 1970)
1953
Goodrich W. Lineweaver (acting) (b. 1887 -
d. 1961)
1953 -
1959
Wilbur A.
Dexheimer
(b. 1901 - d. 1974)
1 May 1959 - 1 Dec 1969 Floyd
E.
Dominy
(b. 1909 - d. 2010)
1969 -
1973
Ellis Leroy
Armstrong
(b. 1914 - d. 2001)
1973 -
1977
Gilbert G.
Stamm
(b. 1911 - d. 1989)
1977
Donald D. Anderson (acting)
1977 -
1981
R. Keith Higginson
(b. 1930 - d. 2007)
1981
Clifford I. Barrett (1st time) (b. 1933)
(acting)
1981 -
1984
Robert N.
Broadbent
(b. 1926 - d. 2003)
Dec 1984 - 31 Jul 1985
Robert A. Olson (acting)
(b. 1933 - d. 2021)
1985 - Dec 1985
Clifford I. Barrett (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
Dec 1985 - 6 Jul
1989 C. Dale
Duvall
(b. 1933 - d. 2020)
7 Jul 1989 - 13 Nov 1989 Joe D.
Hall (acting)
14 Nov 1989 -
1993
Dennis B.
Underwood
(b. 1944 - d. 2005)
1993
Lawrence F. Hancock (acting)
May 1993 - Sep
1995 Daniel P.
Beard
(b. 1943)
Sep 1995 - Dec
1995 Stephen
V. Magnussen (acting) (b. 1941 - d.
2008)
Dec 1995 - Jan
2001 Eluid L.
Martinez
(b. 1944)
Jan 2001 - 17 Jul 2001
J. William "Bill" McDonald
(1st
time) (acting)
17 Jul 2001 - 14 Apr 2006 John W. Keys
III
(b. 1942 - d. 2008)
14 Apr 2006 - 17 Oct 2006 William E.
Rinne
(acting)
(b. 1945 - d. 2013)
17 Oct 2006 - 2 Jan 2009 Robert
"Bob" W. Johnson
(b. 1951)
2 Jan 2009 - 1 Jun 2009 J.
William "Bill" McDonald
(2nd
time) (acting)
1 Jun 2009 - 27 Feb 2014 Michael L. Connor
(b. 1963)
28 Feb 2014 - 19 Dec 2014 Lowell Pimley (acting)
(b. 1956)
19 Dec 2014 - 20 Jan 2017 Estevan R. López
20 Jan 2017 - 20 Apr 2017 David Murillo (acting)
20 Apr 2017 - 17 Nov 2017 Alan Mikkelsen (acting)
17 Nov 2017 - 20 Jan 2021 Brenda W. Burman (f)
(b.
1967)
20 Jan 2021 - 10 Aug 2021 Maria Camille
Calimlim
Touton (f) (1st time)(acting)
10 Aug 2021 - 15 Dec 2021 David Palumbo (1st
time)(acting)
15 Dec 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Maria Camille
Calimlim
Touton (f) (2nd time)
20 Jan 2025 -
David Palumbo (2nd time)(acting)
Fish and Wildlife Service
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- 1915 - 1940
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- 1940 - 13 Dec 1991
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-
- 13 Dec 1991 - c.2019
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- Adopted c.2019
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U.S. Fish &
Wildlife Service (FWS)
9 Feb
1871
U.S. Commission on Fish and Fisheries (an independent
agency).
1 Jul
1903
U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (within Department of Commerce
& Labor).
4 Mar
1913
Transferred to Department of Commerce.
30 Jun
1940
Fish and Wildlife Service (within the Department of
Interior).
Commissioners of Fish and Fisheries
1871 - 19 Aug
1887
Spencer Fullerton
Baird
(b. 1823 - d. 1887)
1887 -
1888
George Brown Goode
(acting) (b.
1851 - d. 1896)
1888 - 1 Sep
1895
Marshall
McDonald
(b. 1835 - d. 1895)
1895 -
1896
Herbert A. Gill (acting)
1896 -
1898
John J.
Brice
(b. 1842 - d. 1912)
1898 -
1903
George Meade
Bowers
(b. 1863 - d. 1925)
Chiefs of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries
1903 -
1913
George Meade
Bowers
(s.a.)
1913 -
1922
Hugh M. Smith
(b. 1865 - d. 1941)
13 May 1922 - 15 Apr 1933 Henry O'Malley
(b. 1876 - d. 1936)
1933 -
1939
Frank T. Bell
(b. 1883 - d. 1970)
1939 -
1940
Charles E. Jackson (acting)
Chiefs of the Bureau of Biological Survey
(1885-86 Office of Economic Ornithology and
Mammalogy; 1886-96 Division of Economic
Ornithology and Mammalogy; 1896-1905 Division
of Biological Survey)
1885 -
1910
Clinton Hart
Merriam
(b. 1855 - d. 1942)
1910 -
1916
Henry Wetherbee Henshaw
(b. 1850 - d. 1930)
1916 -
1927
Edward William
Nelson
(b. 1855 - d. 1934)
1927 -
1934
Paul Goodwin Redington
(b. 1878 - d. 1942)
1934 -
1935
Jay Norwood
Darling
(b. 1876 - d. 1962)
16 Nov 1935 -
1940 Ira
Noel
Gabrielson
(b. 1889 - d. 1977)
Directors of the Fish and Wildlife Service
1940 - 1 Apr
1946 Ira
Noel
Gabrielson
(s.a.)
1 Apr 1946 - May
1953 Albert M.
Day
(b. 1897 - d. 1979)
25 May 1953 - Jun 1956 John
L. Farley
(b. 1892 - d. 1983)
Commissioners of the Fish and Wildlife Service
Jul 1956 - Jun
1961 Arnie J.
Suomela
(b. 1902 - d. 1992)
Jun 1961 -
1969
Clarence F. Pautzke
(b. 1907 - d. 1971)
Chiefs of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
25 Apr 1957 - 5 Nov 1966 Donald L.
McKernan
(b. 1918 - d. 1979)
6 Nov 1966 - 1969
Harold E.
Crowther
(b. 1910 - d. 1985)
(acting to 1967)
1969 - 1970
Dayton L. Alverson (acting)
(b. 1924 - d. 2013)
Chiefs of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
14 Mar 1957 - 15 Oct 1964 Daniel Hugo
Janzen
(b. 1906 - d. 1970)
1 Dec 1964 - Oct
1970 John S. Gottschalk
(b.
1912 - d. 1999)
Dec 1970 - Aug 1973
Spencer H.
Smith
(b. 1923 - d. 2017)
(acting to 27 Apr 1972)
Oct 1973 - 30 Jun 1974 Lynn
Adams Greenwalt
(b. 1931 - d. 2025)
Directors of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1 Jul 1974 - Jan
1981 Lynn Adams
Greenwalt
(s.a.)
9 Nov 1981 - 28 Sep 1985 Robert A.
Jantzen
(b. 1928 - d. 2001)
29 Sep 1985 - 7 May 1986 F. Eugene Hester
(acting)
(b. 1931 - d. 2024)
8 May 1986 - 15 Mar 1989 Frank H.
Dunkle
(b. 1924 - d. 1993)
16 Mar 1989 - 11 Jun 1989 Susan Recce Lamson (f)
(acting)
12 Jun 1989 - 3 Aug 1989 Steve Robinson
(acting)
4 Aug 1989 -
1993
John F.
Turner
(b. 1942)
10 Sep 1993 - 5 Jun 1996 Mollie H.
Beattie
(f)
(b. 1947 - d. 1996)
5 Jun 1996 - 31 Jul 1997 John G.
Rogers (acting)
31 Jul 1997 - 20 Jan 2001 Jamie Rappaport Clark
(f)
(b. 1958?)
20 Jan 2001 - 21 Feb 2002 Marshall Jones
(acting)
21 Feb 2002 - 16 Mar 2005 Steven A.
Williams
(b. 1957?)
16 Mar 2005 - 12 Oct 2005 Matthew "Matt"
J. Hogan (acting) (b. 1967?)
12 Oct 2005 - 3 Jan 2009 H. Dale
Hall
3 Jan 2009 - 1 Sep 2009
Rowan W. Gould (1st time)(acting)
1 Sep 2009 - 20 Feb 2010 Samuel D.
Hamilton
(b. 1955 - d. 2010)
21 Feb 2010 - 1 Jul 2011 Rowan W. Gould
(2nd time)(acting)
1 Jul 2011 - 20 Jan 2017 Daniel M.
Ashe
20 Jan 2017 - 19 Jun 2017 Jim Kurth (1st
time)(acting)
19 Jun 2017 - 16 Aug 2018 Greg Sheehan (acting)
16 Aug 2018 - 13 Nov 2018 Jim Kurth (2nd
time)(acting)
13 Nov 2018 - 6 Jan 2020 Margaret Everson
(f) (acting)
6 Jan 2020 - 19 Jan 2021 Aurelia Skipwith
(f) (b.
1980)
20 Jan 2021 - 19 Jan 2025 Martha Williams (f)
(acting to 8 Mar 2022)
20 Jan 2025 -
Paul Souza (acting)
U.S. Geological Survey
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Survey (USGS) flag 1903-1966] [U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS) flag 1903-1966]](us_gs.gif)
1903 - 1966
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Adopted 1966
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U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS)
3 Mar
1879
U.S. Geological Survey (within Department of Interior).
1 Jul
1879
Earlier surveys discontinued.
Director of the Geographical Surveys West of the
100th Meridian¹
1872 - 30 Jun
1879
George Montague
Wheeler
(b. 1842 - d. 1902)
Director of the Geological Exploration of the
Fortieth Parallel¹
1867 -
1879
Clarence Rivers
King
(b. 1842 - d. 1901)
Director of the U.S. Geographical and Geological
Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region2
1869 - 30 Jun
1879
John Wesley
Powell
(b. 1834 - d. 1902)
Director of the U.S. Geological and Geographical
Survey of the Territories2
1867 - 30 Jun
1879
Ferdinand Vandiveer
Hayden
(b. 1829 - d. 1887)
Directors of the U.S. Geological Survey
24 May 1879 - Mar 1881
Clarence Rivers
King
(s.a.)
Mar 1881 - 30 Jun 1894
John Wesley
Powell
(s.a.)
30 Jun 1894 - Apr 1907
Charles Doolittle
Walcott
(b. 1850 - d. 1927)
(acting to 1 Jul 1894)
May 1907 - Dec
1930 George
Otis
Smith
(b. 1871 - d. 1944)
Dec 1930 -
1943
Walter Curran
Mendenhall
(b. 1871 - d. 1957)
1943 - Jan
1956
William Embry
Wrather
(b. 1883 - d. 1963)
Jan 1956 - Sep
1965 Thomas
Brennan
Nolan
(b. 1901 - d. 1992)
Sep 1965 - Apr
1971 William
Thomas
Pecora
(b. 1913 - d. 1972)
1971 - Apr
1978
Vincent Ellis
McKelvey
(b. 1916 - d. 1987)
Apr 1978 - Jan
1981 Henry
William
Menard
(b. 1920 - d. 1986)
30 Sep 1981 -
1993
Dallas Lynn
Peck
(b. 1929 - d. 2005)
24 Mar 1994 -
1997
Gordon Pryor
Eaton
(b. 1929 - d. 2022)
13 Nov 1998 - 20 Jun 2005 Charles "Chip"
G.
Groat
(b. 1940 - d. 2025)
20 Jun 2005 - 26 Sep 2006 P. Patrick
Leahy (acting) (b.
1947)
26 Sep 2006 - 20 Jan 2009 Mark D. Myers
(b. 1955?)
20 Jan 2009 - 22 Oct 2009 Suzette M.
Kimball (f)(1st time) (b. 1952?)
(acting)
22 Oct 2009 - 15 Feb 2013 Marcia
Kemper McNutt (f)
(b. 1952)
15 Feb 2013 - 20 Jan
2017 Suzette M. Kimball (f)(2nd time)
(s.a.)
(acting to 8 Jan 2016)
20 Jan 2017 - 14 May 2018
William "Bill" Werkheiser (acting)
14 May 2018 - 20 Jan 2021 James F. Reilly II
(b. 1954)
20 Jan 2021 - 21 Jan 2021 Cynthia "Cindy"
Lodge (f)(acting)
21 Jan 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 David "Dave" Applegate
(acting to 16 Aug 2022)
20 Jan 2025
-
Sarah J. Ryker (f)(acting)
¹Survey dependent on the Department of
War/Office of the Chief Engineer.
2Survey dependent on
the Department of the Interior.
National Park Service
NPS Flag
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NPS Guidon
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National Park
Service (NPS)
25 Aug
1916
National Park Service (NPS)(within Interior Department).
General Superintendent and Landscape Engineer for
the National Parks
10 Jul 1914 - 9 Dec 1915 Mark Roy
Daniels
(b. 1881 - d. 1952)
General Superintendent of National Parks
10 Dec 1915 - 31 Dec 1916 Robert Bradford
Marshall
(b. 1867 - d. 1949)
Directors of the National Park Service
16 May 1917 - 8 Jan 1929 Stephen
Tyng Mather
(b. 1867 - d. 1930)
12 Jan 1929 - 9 Aug 1933 Horace
Marden
Albright
(b. 1890 - d. 1987)
10 Aug 1933 - 9 Aug 1940 Arno
Berthold
Cammerer
(b. 1860 - d. 1940)
20 Aug 1940 - 31 Mar 1951 Newton Bishop
Drury
(b. 1889 - d. 1978)
1 Apr 1951 - 8 Dec 1951
Arthur Edward
Demaray
(b. 1887 - d. 1958)
9 Dec 1951 - 7 Jan 1964
Conrad Louis
Wirth
(b. 1899 - d. 1933)
9 Jan 1964 - 31 Dec 1972 George
Benjamin Hartzog, Jr. (b.
1920 - d. 2008)
7 Jan 1973 - 3 Jan 1975
Ronald H. Walker
(b. 1937)
4 Jan 1975 - 12 Jan 1975 Russell
Errett Dickenson (1st time)(b. 1923 - d. 2008)
(acting)
13 Jan 1975 - 27 May 1977 Gary E.
Everhardt
(b. 1934 - d. 2020)
28 May 1977 - 4 Jul 1977 William J.
Briggle (acting) (b. 1925 -
d. 2017)
5 Jul 1977 - 13 May 1980 William
Joseph Whalen III (b.
1940 - d. 2006)
15 May 1980 - 3 Mar 1985 Russell
Errett Dickenson (2nd time)(s.a.)
4 Mar 1985 - 16 May 1985 Mary Lou
Grier (f)(acting) (b. 1925 -
d. 2013)
17 May 1985 - 15 Apr 1989 William Penn
Mott, Jr.
(b. 1909 - d. 1992)
16 Apr 1985 - 17 Apr 1989 Denis P. Galvin
(1st time)(acting) (b. 1938)
17 Apr 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 James Michael
Ridenour (b.
1942)
20 Jan 1993 - 1 Jun 1993 Herbert S.
Cables, Jr. (acting) (b. 1931?)
1 Jun 1993 - 29 Mar 1997 Roger G.
Kennedy
(b. 1926 - d. 2011)
30 Mar 1997 - 3 Aug 1997 Denis P.
Galvin (2nd time) (s.a.)
+ Jacqueline Lowery (f)
(acting)
4 Aug 1997 - 20 Jan 2001 Robert
"Bob" George Stanton
(b. 1940)
20 Jan 2001 - 18 Jul 2001 Denis P. Galvin
(3rd
time)
(s.a.)
18 Jul 2001 - 16 Oct 2006 Fran P. Mainella
(f)
(b. 1947)
17 Oct 2006 - 20 Jan 2009 Mary Amelia
Bomar
(f)
(b. 1944 - d. 2022)
20 Jan 2009 - 2 Oct 2009 Daniel N. Wenk
(acting) (b.
1953?)
2 Oct 2009 - 3 Jan 2017 Jonathan
"Jon" B. Jarvis
(b. 1953)
3 Jan 2017 - 9 Jan 2018 Michael T.
Reynolds (acting)
9 Jan 2018 - 30 Sep 2019 Paul Daniel Smith
(acting)
1 Oct 2019 - 7 Aug 2020 Raymond David
Vela (acting)
7 Aug 2020 - 20 Jan 2021 Margaret Everson
(f) (acting)
20 Jan 2021 - 16 Dec 2021 Shawn T. Benge (acting)
16 Dec 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Charles F. "Chuck" Sams
III
20 Jan 2025
-
Jessica Bowron (f) (acting)
War Relocation Authority (WRA)
11 Mar 1942
Wartime Civil Control Administration
(WCCA)(under Department
of the
Army).
18 Mar 1942
War Relocation Authority (WRA)(within
the Office for Emergency
Management in the Executive Office of the President).
16 Feb 1944
Transferred to the
Department of the Interior.
30 Jun 1946
Abolished.
Directors
18 Mar 1942 – 17 Jun 1942 Milton S.
Eisenhower
(b. 1899 – d. 1985)
17 Jun 1942 – 30 Jun 1946 Dillon
S. Myer
(b. 1891 - d. 1982)
Department of Agriculture
![[U.S. Department of
Agriculture flag] [U.S. Department of
Agriculture flag]](us_usda.gif)
Adopted 21 Jun 1895
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Department of
Agriculture (USDA)
3 Mar 1839
Agricultural Division of the Patent Office, within
the
Department of State.
3 Mar 1849
Transferred to the Department
of Interior.
15 May
1862
Department of Agriculture created.
13 Feb
1889
Commissioner becomes a cabinet secretary.
Superintendents of the Agricultural Division
of the Patent Office
3 Mar 1839 - 1849 the
Commissioners of Patents
1849 - 1853
Daniel Lee
(b. 1802 - d. 1890)
9 Jun 1853 - Oct 1859 Daniel Jay
Browne
(b. 1804 - d. 1867)
3 Feb 1860 - 4 Mar 1861 Thomas
Green Clemson
(b. 1807 - d. 1888)
Aug 1861 - 1 Jul 1862
Isaac
Newton
(b. 1800 - d. 1867)
Commissioners of Agriculture
1 Jul 1862 - 19 Jun 1867 Isaac
Newton
(s.a.)
20 Jun 1867 - 4 Dec 1867 John W.
Stokes
(acting)
(b. 1813 - d. 1888)
4 Dec 1867 - 1 Aug 1871
Horace L.
Capron
(b. 1804 - d. 1885)
1 Aug 1871 - 30 Jun 1877 Frederick
Watts
(b. 1801 - d. 1889)
1 Jul 1877 - 30 Jun 1881 William
Gates Le
Duc
(b. 1823 - d. 1917)
1 Jul 1881 - 3 Apr 1885
George Bailey
Loring
(b. 1817 - d. 1891)
3 Apr 1885 - 13 Feb 1889 Norman Jay
Coleman
(b. 1827 - d. 1911)
Secretaries
13 Feb 1889 - 7 Mar 1889 Norman Jay
Coleman
(s.a.)
7 Mar 1889 - 6 Mar 1893
Jeremiah McLain
Rusk
(b. 1830 - d. 1893)
6 Mar 1893 - 5 Mar 1897
Julius Sterling
Morton
(b. 1832 - d. 1902)
5 Mar 1897 - 6 Mar 1913 James
Wilson
(b. 1835 - d. 1920)
6 Mar 1913 - 2 Feb 1920 David
Franklin
Houston
(b. 1866 - d. 1940)
2 Feb 1920 - 5 Mar 1921 Edwin
T.
Meredith
(b. 1876 - d. 1928)
5 Mar 1921 - 25 Oct 1924 Henry C.
Wallace
(b. 1866 - d. 1924)
26 Oct 1924 - 5 Mar 1925 Howard M.
Gore
(b. 1877 - d. 1947)
(acting to 22 Nov 1924)
5 Mar 1925 - 6 Mar 1929 William M.
Jardine
(b. 1879 - d. 1955)
6 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933
Arthur M.
Hyde
(b. 1877 - d. 1947)
4 Mar 1933 - 5 Sep 1940 Henry
A.
Wallace
(b. 1888 - d. 1965)
5 Sep 1940 - 30 Jun 1945 Claude R.
Wickard
(b. 1893 - d. 1953)
30 Jun 1945 - 10 May 1948 Clinton P.
Anderson
(b. 1895 - d. 1975)
10 May 1948 - 20 Jan 1953 Charles F.
Brannan
(b. 1903 - d. 1992)
(acting to 2 Jun 1948)
21 Jan 1953 - 20 Jan 1961 Ezra Taft
Benson
(b. 1899 - d. 1994)
21 Jan 1961 - 20 Jan 1969 Orville L.
Freeman
(b. 1918 - d. 2003)
21 Jan 1969 - 17 Nov 1971 Clifford M.
Hardin
(b. 1915 - d. 2010)
17 Nov 1971 - 2 Dec 1971 J. Phil
Campbell, Jr. (acting)
(b. 1917 - d. 1998)
2 Dec 1971 - 5 Oct 1976 Earl L.
Butz
(b. 1909 - d. 2008)
5 Oct 1976 - 20 Jan 1977 John A. Knebel
(b. 1936)
(acting to 3 Nov 1976)
21 Jan 1977 - 20 Jan 1981 Robert S.
Bergland
(b. 1928 - d. 2018)
20 Jan 1981 - 23 Jan 1981 James "Jim" H.
Williams II (acting)(b. 1926 - d. 2016)
23 Jan 1981 - 14 Feb 1986 John R.
Block
(b. 1935)
14 Feb 1986 - 20 Feb 1986 John
R. Norton III (acting)
(b. 1929 - d. 2016)
20 Feb 1986 - 7 Mar 1986 Frank W.
Naylor, Jr. (acting) (b. 1939 - d.
2020)
7 Mar 1986 - 20 Jan 1989 Richard E.
Lyng
(b. 1918 - d. 2003)
20 Jan 1989 - 16 Feb 1989 Peter C. Myers,
Sr. (acting) (b. 1931 - d. 2012)
16 Feb 1989 - 1 Mar 1991 Clayton K.
Yeutter
(b. 1930 - d. 2017)
1 Mar 1991 - 12 Mar 1991 Jack
Callihan Parnell
(acting) (b. 1935 - d. 2023)
12 Mar 1991 - 20 Jan 1993 Edward
Madigan
(b. 1936 - d. 1994)
22 Jan 1993 - 31 Dec 1994 Mike
Espy
(b. 1953)
1 Jan 1995 - 30 Mar 1995 Bob Nash
(acting)
(b. 1947)
30 Mar 1995 - 20 Jan 2001 Dan
Glickman
(b. 1944)
20 Jan 2001 - 21 Jan 2005 Ann Veneman
(f)
(b. 1949)
21 Jan 2005 - 20 Sep 2007
Michael "Mike" Owen
Johanns (b.
1950)
20 Sep 2007 - 28 Jan 2008 Chuck Conner
(acting)
(b. 1957)
28 Jan 2008 - 20 Jan 2009 Edward "Ed"
Thomas Schafer (b.
1946)
21 Jan 2009 - 13 Jan 2017 Thomas "Tom" J.
Vilack (1st time) (b. 1950)
13 Jan 2017 - 20 Jan 2017 Michael T. Scuse
(acting) (b. 1954)
20 Jan 2017 - 25 Apr 2017 Michael "Mike" L. Young
(acting)
25 Apr 2017 - 20 Jan 2021 George E. "Sonny" Perdue
III (b. 1946)
20 Jan 2021 - 24 Feb 2021 Kevin
Shea (acting)
24 Feb 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Thomas "Tom" J. Vilack
(2nd time) (s.a.)
20 Jan 2025 - 13 Feb 2025 Gary
S. Washington (acting)
13 Feb 2025
-
Brooke Leslie Rollins (f)
(b. 1972)
Forest Service
Adopted 1909
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Variant from 1981
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Forest Service
15 Aug 1876
Forestry Office (within Department of
Agriculture).
1881
Division of Forestry (provisional to 30 Jun 1886).
2 Mar
1901
Bureau of Forestry
1 Jul
1905
Forest Service (USFS)
Special Forestry Agent
30 Aug 1876 - 1881
Franklin
Benjamin
Hough
(b. 1822 - d. 1885)
Chiefs
1881 - May
1883
Franklin Benjamin
Hough
(s.a.)
May 1883 -
1886
Nathaniel Hillyer
Egleston
(b. 1822 - d. 1912)
15 Mar 1886 -
1898
Bernhard Eduard
Fernow
(b. 1851 - d. 1923)
Foresters
1 Jul 1898 -
1910
Gifford
Pinchot
(b. 1865 - d. 1946)
1910 -
1920
Henry "Harry" Solon
Graves
(b. 1871 - d. 1951)
1920 -
1928
William Buckhout
Greeley
(b. 1879 - d. 1955)
1 May 1928 - 23 Oct 1933 Robert
Young
Stuart
(b. 1883 - d. 1933)
1933 -
1935
Ferdinand Augustus
Silcox
(b. 1882 - d. 1939)
Chiefs
1935 -
1939
Ferdinand Augustus
Silcox
(s.a.)
1939 -
1943
Earle Hart Clapp
(acting)
(b. 1877 - d. 1970)
1943 -
1952
Lyle Ford
Watts
(b. 1890 - d. 1962)
Jul 1952 - Mar
1962 Richard
Edwin
McArdle
(b. 1899 - d. 1983)
1962 -
1972
Edward Parley
Cliff
(b. 1909 - d. 1987)
1972 -
1979
John R.
McGuire
(b. 1916 - d. 2002)
27 Jun 1979 - 2 Feb 1987 Ralph Max
Peterson
(b. 1927 - d. 2024)
Feb 1987 - 28 Oct 1993
F. Dale
Robertson
(b. 1940)
28 Oct 1993 - 1 Dec 1993 Dave G. Unger (1st
time) (acting) (b. 1932 - d. 2019)
1 Dec 1993 - 2 Dec 1996
Jack Ward
Thomas
(b. 1934 - d. 2016)
2 Dec 1996 - 6 Jan 1997 Dave G. Unger
(2nd time) (acting) (s.a.)
6 Jan 1997 - 31 Mar 2001 Michael P.
Dombeck
(b. 1948)
31 Mar 2001 - 12 Apr 2001 Phil J. Janik
(acting)
(b. 1945 - d. 2006)
12 Apr 2001 - 2 Feb 2007 Dale N.
Bosworth
(b. 1945)
4 Feb 2007 - 3 Jul 2009
Abigail "Gail" R. Kimbell (f)
(b. 1953)
3 Jul 2009 - 1 Sep 2017 Thomas "Tom"
L. Tidwell
(b. 1954?)
1 Sep 2017 - 8 Mar 2018 Tony L.
Tooke
(b. 1962?)
8 Mar 2018 - 26 Jul 2021 Victoria "Vicki"
Christiansen (f) (b. 1959?)
(acting
to 11 Oct 2018)
26 Jul 2021 - 10 Mar 2025 Randy Moore
(b. 1954?)
10 Mar 2025 -
Tom Schultz
U.S. Food Administration
10 Aug
1917
U.S. Food Administration
established as an independent agency
(responsible for the administration of the U.S. army
overseas
and
Allies food reserves).
21 Aug
1920
Abolished.
Food Administrators
21 Aug 1917 - 1 Jul 1919 Herbert Clark
Hoover
(b. 1874 - d. 1964)
1 Jul 1919 - 21 Aug 1920 Edgar Rickard
(b. 1874 - d. 1951)
Department of Commerce and Labor
14 Feb
1903
Department of Commerce and Labor
4 Mar
1913
Divided into Department of Commerce
and Department of Labor.
Secretaries
16 Feb 1903 - 30 Jun
1904 George B.
Cortelyou
(b. 1862 - d. 1940)
1 Jul 1904 - 16 Dec
1906 Victor H.
Metcalf
(b. 1853 - d. 1936)
17 Dec 1906 - 5 Mar
1909 Oscar S.
Straus
(b. 1850 - d. 1926)
6 Mar 1909 - 4 Mar 1913
Charles
Nagel
(b. 1849 - d. 1940)
Department of Commerce
15 Jun 1915 - 26 Jun 1968
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Adopted 26 Jun 1968
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Department of
Commerce
4 Mar
1913
Department of Commerce
Secretaries
5 Mar 1913 - 31 Oct
1919 William Cox
Redfield
(b. 1858 - d. 1932)
1 Nov 1919 - 16 Dec 1919
Edwin F. Sweet (acting)
(b. 1847 - d. 1935)
16 Dec 1919 - 5 Mar 1921 Joshua
Willis
Alexander
(b. 1852 - d. 1936)
5 Mar 1921 - 21 Aug
1928 Herbert
Hoover
(b. 1874 - d. 1964)
21 Aug 1928 - 4 Mar
1929 William F.
Whiting
(b. 1864 - d. 1936)
(acting to 1 Dec 1928)
5 Mar 1929 - 7 Aug 1932 Robert
P.
Lamont
(b. 1867 - d. 1948)
8 Aug 1932 - 3
Mar 1933 Roy D.
Chapin
(b. 1880 - d. 1936)
(acting to 14 Dec 1932)
4 Mar 1933 - 23 Dec 1938 Daniel C.
Roper
(b. 1867 - d. 1943)
24 Dec 1938 - 18 Sep
1940 Harry L.
Hopkins
(b. 1890 - d. 1946)
(acting to 23 Jan 1939)
19 Sep 1940 - 1 Mar 1945 Jesse H.
Jones
(b. 1874 - d. 1956)
2 Mar 1945 - 20 Sep
1946 Henry A.
Wallace
(b. 1888 - d. 1965)
20 Sep 1946 - 7 Oct 1946
Alfred E. Schindler (acting)
(b. 1894 - d. 1987)
7 Oct 1946 - 22 Apr 1948 W. Averell
Harriman
(b. 1891 - d. 1986)
(acting to 28 Jan 1947)
22 Apr 1948 - 6 May 1948 William C.
Foster
(acting)
(b. 1897 - d. 1984)
6 May 1948 - 20 Jan 1953 Charles
Sawyer
(b. 1887 - d. 1979)
21 Jan 1953 - 10 Nov
1958 Sinclair
Weeks
(b. 1893 - d. 1972)
10 Nov 1958 - 27 Jun
1959 Lewis L. Strauss (acting)
(b.
1896 - d. 1974)
27 Jun 1959 - 19
Jan 1961 Frederick H.
Muller
(b. 1893 - d. 1976)
(acting to 10 Aug 1959)
21 Jan 1961 - 18 Jan 1965 Luther H.
Hodges
(b. 1898 - d. 1974)
18 Jan 1965 - 31 Jan
1967 John T.
Connor
(b. 1914 - d. 2000)
31 Jan 1967 - 6 Mar 1968
Alexander B.
Trowbridge
(b. 1929 - d. 2006)
(acting to 14 Jun 1967)
6 Mar 1968 - 20 Jan 1969 Cyrus R.
Smith
(b. 1899 - d. 1990)
21 Jan 1969 - 29 Feb
1972 Maurice H.
Stans
(b. 1908 - d. 1998)
29 Feb 1972 - 1 Feb
1973 Peter G.
Peterson
(b. 1926 - d. 2018)
2 Feb 1973 - 26 Mar
1975 Frederick B.
Dent
(b. 1922 - d. 2019)
26 Mar 1975 - 1 May
1975 John K. Tabor (acting)
(b. 1921 - d. 1999)
1 May 1975 - 2 Feb 1976 Rogers
C.B.
Morton
(b. 1914 - d. 1979)
2 Feb 1976 - 20 Jan 1977 Elliot
Richardson
(b. 1920 - d. 1999)
20 Jan 1977 - 23 Jan 1977
Robert M. White (acting)
(b. 1923 - d. 2015)
23 Jan 1977 - 31 Oct 1979 Juanita Morris
Kreps
(f)
(b. 1921 - d. 2010)
31 Oct 1979 - 9 Jan 1980
Luther H. Hodges, Jr. (acting)
(b. 1936)
9 Jan 1980 - 20 Jan 1981 Philip M.
Klutznick
(b. 1907 - d. 1999)
23 Jan 1981 - 25 Jul
1987 Malcolm
Baldrige
(b. 1922 - d. 1987)
25 Jul 1987 - 19 Oct 1987
Clarence J. "Bud" Brown (acting)
(b. 1927 - d. 2022)
19 Oct 1987 - 20 Jan 1989 C. William
Verity
(b. 1917 - d. 2007)
20 Jan 1989 - 30 Jan 1989
Donna F. Tuttle (f)(acting)
(b. 1947)
31 Jan 1989 - 15 Jan 1992 Robert A.
Mosbacher
(b. 1927 - d. 2010)
16 Jan 1992 - 27 Jan
1992 Rockwell A. Schnabel (acting)
(b. 1936)
27 Jan 1992 - 20 Jan 1993 Barbara H.
Franklin
(f)
(b. 1940)
22 Jan 1993 - 3 Apr
1996 Ron
Brown
(b. 1941 - d. 1996)
3 Apr 1996 - 12 Apr 1996 Mary Lowe
Good (f) (acting) (b. 1931 -
d. 2019)
12 Apr 1996 - 21 Jan 1997 Mickey
Kantor
(b. 1939)
21 Jan 1997 - 30 Jan 1997
Stuart E. Eizenstat (acting)
(b. 1943)
30 Jan 1997 - 19 Jul 2000 William M.
Daley
(b. 1948)
19 Jul 2000 - 21 Jul
2000 Robert L. Mallett
(acting)
(b. 1957)
21 Jul 2000 - 20 Jan
2001 Norman Y.
Mineta
(b. 1931 - d. 2022)
20 Jan 2001 - 7 Feb
2005 Don
Evans
(b. 1946)
7 Feb 2005 - 20 Jan
2009 Carlos M.
Gutierrez
(b. 1953)
20 Jan 2009 - 26 Mar 2009 Otto
J. Wolff (acting)
(b. 1942)
26 Mar 2009 - 1 Aug 2011
Gary
Locke
(b. 1950)
1 Aug 2011 - 21 Oct 2011 Rebecca M.
Blank (f)(1st time) (b. 1955
- d. 2023)
(acting)
21 Oct 2011 - 20 Jun 2012 John E. Bryson
(b. 1943)
11 Jun 2012 - 1 Jun 2013 Rebecca M. Blank
(f)(2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting
[for Bryson to 20 Jun 2012])
1 Jun 2013 - 26 Jun 2013 Cameron F. Kerry
(acting)
(b. 1950)
26 Jun 2013 - 20 Jan 2017 Penny S. Pritzker
(f)
(b. 1959)
20 Jan 2017 - 28 Feb 2017 Kenneth E. Hyatt
(acting)
28 Feb 2017 - 20 Jan 2021 Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.
(b. 1937)
20 Jan 2021 - 3 Mar 2021 Wynn W. Coggins (f)
(acting)
3 Mar 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Gina Marie Raimondo
(f) (b. 1971)
20 Jan 2025 - 21 Feb 2025 Jeremy E. Pelter
(acting)
21 Feb 2025 -
Howard W. Lutnick
(b. 1961)
U.S. Census Bureau
Bureau of the Census
4 Mar 1789
U.S. Constitution, Article
I, Section 2, establishes that
representation in the U.S. House of
Representatives is based on
population determined by a census taken at 10 year
intervals.
1 Mar 1790
The decennial census
is assigned to the U.S. Marshals (then under
the Department of State) by Congress ("An Act
providing for the
enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States").
2 Aug
1790
First decennial census begun
by the U.S. Marshals for each
Federal judicial district.
26 Feb
1840
Congress authorizes the creation of a centralized Census
Office
during each enumeration.
3 Mar 1849
Census
Board (within the Department of Interior).
1 Jul 1902
Census Office, made a permanent agency.
14 Feb
1903
Census Office (within the Department of
Commerce and Labor).
1 Jul 1903
Renamed Bureau of the Census.
4 Mar
1913
Under the Department of Commerce.
1 Jan 1972 - 4 Aug 1975 Part of the
Social and Economic Statistics Administration (SESA)
(within the Department of Commerce).
Superintendents of the Census
1840 - 18 Mar 1842
William Augustus Weaver
(b. 1797 - d. 1846)
(superintending clerk)
18 Mar 1842 - 31 May 1850 Vacant
31 May 1850 - 18 Mar 1853 Joseph Camp
Griffith Kennedy (b. 1813 - d.
1887)
(superintending clerk to 185.)
(1st time)
18 Mar 1853 - 31 Dec 1854 James Dunwoody
Brownson DeBow (b. 1820 - d. 1867)
(1st time)
31 Dec 1854 - 1855 Vacant
1855 - Nov 1855
James Dunwoody Brownson
DeBow (s.a.)
(2nd time)
Nov 1855 - 12 Jun 1858
Vacant
12 Jun 1858 - Dec 1859
Joseph Camp Griffith Kennedy
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
Dec 1859 - 31 May 1860
Vacant
31 May 1860 - 31 May 1865 Joseph
Camp Griffith Kennedy (s.a.)
(3rd time)
31 May 1865 - 7 Feb 1870 Vacant
7 Feb 1870 - 3 Nov 1881 Francis
Amasa Walker
(b. 1840 - d. 1897)
(acting
Nov 1871 - 1 Apr 1879)
4 Nov 1881 - 3 Mar 1885
Charles William Seaton
(b. 1831 - d. 1885)
3 Mar 1885 - 1 Jul 1886 Vacant
1 Jul 1886 - 17 Apr 1889 the
clerk of Census Division
(acting)
17 Apr 1889 - 31 Jul 1893 Robert Percival Porter
(b. 1852
- d. 1917)
5 Oct 1893 - 4 Mar 1895
Carroll Davidson Wright
(b. 1840 - d. 1909)
(also commissioner of Labor)
4 Mar 1895 - 1 Jul 1897 Vacant
1 Jul 1897 - 7 Mar 1899 William
Alexander King (acting) (b. 1855 - d.
1905)
7 Mar 1899 - 1 Jul 1902 William Rush
Merriam
(b. 1849 - d. 1931)
Directors of the U.S. Census
Bureau (until 1 Jul 1903, Office Office)
1 Jul 1902 - 8 Jun 1903
William Rush Merriam
(s.a.)
9 Jun 1903 - 15 Jun 1909 Simon Newton Dexter
North (b. 1848 - d.
1924)
16 Jun 1909 - 30 Jun 1913 Edward Dana
Durand
(b. 1870 - d. 1960)
1 Jul 1913 - 15 Mar 1915 William J.
Harris
(b. 1868 - d. 1932)
16 Mar 1915 - 13 Apr 1921 Samuel Lyle
Rogers
(b. 1859 - d. 1925)
10 May 1921 - 7 Apr 1933 William Mott
Steuart
(b. 1861 - d. 1956)
8 Apr 1933 - 21 May 1941 William
Lane Austin
(b. 1871 - d. 1949)
22 May 1941 - 17 Aug 1949 James Clyde
Capt
(b. 1888 - d. 1949)
Aug 1949 - Mar
1950 Philip M.
Hauser (acting)
(b. 1909 - d. 1994)
10 Mar 1950 - 3 Feb 1953 Roy Victor
Peel
(b. 1896 - d. 1978)
4 Feb 1953 - 3 Mar 1961
Robert Wilbur Burgess
(b. 1887 - d. 1969)
4 Mar 1961 - 1 Feb 1965
Richard Montgomery Scammon
(b. 1915 - d. 2001)
Jan 1965 - Aug
1969 A. Ross
Eckler
(b. 1901 - d. 1991)
(acting to Jul 1965)
Aug 1969 - Jan
1973 George
Hay Brown
(b. 1910 - d. 1991)
Jan 1973 - Mar
1973 Joseph R.
Wright, Jr. (acting) (b. 1938)
Mar 1973 - May 1973
Robert L. Hagan (1st time) (acting)(b. 1924 - d. 2014)
May 1973 - Sep
1976 Vincent
P. Barabba (1st time) (b. 1934)
(acting to Aug 1973)
Sep 1976 - Apr 1977
Robert L. Hagan (2nd time) (acting)(s.a.)
Apr 1977 - Mar
1979 Manuel D.
Plotkin
(b. 1923 - d. 2011)
(acting
to Jun 1977)
Apr 1979 - May 1979
Robert L. Hagan (3rd time)
(acting)(s.a.)
May 1979 - Jul 1979
Daniel B. Levine (1st time)(acting)(b. 1925
- d. 2014)
Jul 1979 - Jan 1981
Vincent P. Barabba (2nd time)
(s.a.)
Jan 1981 - Sep 1981
Daniel B. Levine (2nd time)(acting)(s.a.)
Oct 1981 - Jul
1983 Bruce K.
Chapman
(b. 1940)
Jul 1983 - Mar
1984 Charles
Louis Kincannon
(b. 1940 - d. 2012)
(1st time) (acting)
20 Mar 1984 - Jan 1989 John
G. Keane
(b. 1930 - d.
2019)
Jan 1989 - 7 Dec
1989 Charles Louis Kincannon
(s.a.)
(2nd time) (acting)
7 Dec 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 Barbara
Everitt Bryant (f) (b. 1926
- d. 2023)
20 Jan 1993 - 6 Oct 1994 Harry A.
Scarr (acting)
(b. 1934 - d. 1995)
6 Oct 1994 - 30 Jan 1998 Martha
Farnsworth Riche (f) (b.
1939)
30 Jan 1998 - 21 Oct 1998 James F. Holmes
(acting) (b.
1945)
21 Oct 1998 - 20 Jan 2001 Kenneth Prewitt
(b. 1936)
20 Jan 2001 - 13 Mar 2002 William G.
Barron, Jr. (acting) (b. 1946)
13 Mar 2002 - 20 Dec 2007 Charles Louis
Kincannon (3rd time) (s.a.)
20 Dec 2007 - 9 Jan 2009 Steve H. Murdock
(b. 1948 - d. 2023)
9 Jan 2009 - 22 Jul 2009 Thomas L.
Mesenbourg, Jr. (b.
1946)
(1st
time) (acting)
22 Jul 2009 - 12 Aug 2012 Robert M. Groves
(b. 1948)
12 Aug 2012 - 8 Aug 2013 Thomas L.
Mesenbourg, Jr. (s.a.)
(2nd
time) (acting)
8 Aug 2013 - 30 Jun 2017 John H. Thompson
(b. 1951)
30 Jun 2017 - 7 Jan 2019
Ron S. Jarmin (1st time)(acting) (b. 1964)
7 Jan 2019 - 20 Jan 2021 Steven D.
Dillingham
(b. 1952)
20 Jan 2020 - 5 Jan 2022 Ron S. Jarmin (2nd
time)(acting) (s.a.)
5 Jan 2022 - 31 Jan 2025 Robert Luis
Santos
(b. 1957)
31 Jan 2025 -
Ron S. Jarmin (3rd time)(acting)
(s.a.)
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Patent and
Trademark Office (PTO)
10 Apr 1790 - 21 Feb 1793 Patent Board
(consisting of Secretaries of State, War,
and the Attorney General).
21 Feb 1793 - 1 Jun 1802 Secretary of
State also the Commissioner of Patents.
1 Jun 1802
Patent and Trademark Office
(within Department of State).
3 Mar 1849
Transferred to the Department of
Interior.
1 Jul 1862
Agricultural Section of the Patent
Office is separated
and formed into the Department
of Agriculture.
1 Apr 1925
Transferred to the Department of
Commerce.
2 Jan 1975
Renamed U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office (USPTO).
Under Secretaries of
Commerce for Intellectual Property and
Directors of the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office
29 Nov 1999 - 20 Jan 2001 Q. Todd Dickinson
(acting) (b.
1952 - d. 2020)
21 Jan 2001 - 30
Nov 2001
Nicholas P. Godici II (acting)
(b. 1950)
1 Dec 2001 - 9 Jan
2004 James E. Rogan
(b.
1957)
12 Jan 2004 - 14 Nov 2008 Jonathan "Jon" Ward
Dudas (b. 1968)
(acting to 30
Jul 2004)
15
Nov 2008 - 12 Aug
2009 John J. Doll
(acting)
(b. 1948 - d. 2021)
13 Aug 2009 - 31 Jan 2013 David J. Kappos
(b. 1961)
1 Feb 2013 - 21 Nov 2013 Teresa "Terry"
Stanek Rea (f)
(acting)
21 Nov 2013 - 13 Jan 2014 Margaret A. "Peggy"
Focarino (f) (b. 1955)
(acting)
13 Jan 2014 - 7 Jun 2017 Michelle K. Lee
(f)
(b. 1965)
(acting to 12 Mar 2015)
7 Jun 2017 - 8 Feb 2018 Joseph D.
Matal (acting)
8 Feb 2018 - 19 Jan 2021 Andrei
Iancu
(b. 1968)
20 Jan 2021 - 13 Apr 2022 Drew Hirshfeld (acting)
13 Apr 2022 - 12 Dec 2024 Katherine "Kathi" Vidal
(f) (b. 1968)
(under secretary from 19 Apr 2022)
13 Dec 2024 - 20 Jan 2025 Derrick Brent (acting)
20 Jan 2025 -
Coke Morgan Stewart (f)(acting)
Commissioners of Patents
10 Apr 1790 - 21 Feb 1793
the Patent Board
21 Feb 1793 - 1 Jun 1802
the Secretaries of State
Chiefs of Patents (unofficially titled Superintendents)
1 Jun 1802 - 28 Mar 1828 William
Thornton
(b. 1759 - d. 1828)
12 Apr 1828 - 10 Jun 1829 Thomas P. Jones
(b. 1774 - d. 1848)
11 Jun 1829 - 1 Jan 1830 John
D. Craig
(b. 1766 - d. 1846)
Superintendents of Patents
1 Jan 1830 - 31 Jan 1835 John D. Craig
(s.a.)
1 Feb 1835 - 30 Apr 1835 James
Chamberlayne Pickett (b.
1793 - d. 1872)
1 May 1835 - 1 Jul 1835
Thomas Johns (acting)
1 Jul 1835 - 11 Jul 1836 Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth
(b. 1791 - d. 1858)
Commissioners of Patents (from 2 Jan 1975, and
Trademarks)(from 25 Oct 1982,
Assistant Secretaries of Commerce and Commissioners
of Patents and Trademarks)
11 Jul 1836 - 6 May 1845 Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth
(s.a.)
7 May 1845 - 10 May 1849 Edmund Burke
(b. 1809 - d. 1882)
10 May 1849 - 8 Nov 1852 Thomas Ewbank
(b. 1792 - d. 1870)
8 Nov 1852 - 25 Mar 1853 Silas Henry
Hodges
(b. 1804 - d. 1875)
25 Mar 1853 - May 1853 Richard C.
Weightman (acting)
16 May 1853 - 4 Aug 1857 Charles Mason
(b. 1804 - d. 1882)
10 Sep 1857 - 14 Mar 1859 Joseph Holt
(b. 1807 - d. 1894)
15 Mar 1859 - 22 May 1861 Samuel
T. Shugert (1st time) (b. 1809 -
d. 1895)
(acting)
23 May 1859 - 15 Feb 1860 William Darius Bishop
(b.
1827 - d. 1904)
16 Feb 1860 - 10 Dec 1860 Philip Francis Thomas
(b.
1810 - d. 1890)
14 Dec 1860 - 27 Mar 1861 Samuel T. Shugert (2nd
time) (s.a.)
(acting)
28 Mar 1861 - 16 Aug 1865 David
P. Holloway
(b. 1809 - d. 1883)
16 Aug 1865 - 20 Jan 1868 Thomas Clarke
Theaker
(b. 1812 - d. 1883)
20 Jan 1868 - 24 Jul 1868 Alexander M. Stout
(acting) (b. 1820 - d.
1895)
1 Aug 1868 - 25 Apr 1869 Elisha Foote
(b. 1809 - d. 1883)
26 Apr 1869 - 10 Nov 1870 Samuel Sparks Fisher
(b.
1832 - d. 1874)
10 Nov 1870 - 16 Jan 1871 Samuel A. Duncan
(acting) (b. 1836 -
d. 1895)
16 Jan 1871 - 31 Oct 1874 Mortimer D. Leggett
(b. 1821 - d. 1896)
1 Nov 1874 - 30 Sep 1875 John Marshall
Thacher
(b. 1836 - d. 1897)
1 Oct 1875 - 31 Dec 1876 Robert Holland
Duell
(b. 1824 - d. 1891)
29 Jan 1877 - 31 Oct 1878 Ellis Spear
(b. 1834 - d. 1917)
1 Nov 1878 - 6 May 1880 Halbert
Eleazer Paine
(b. 1826 - d. 1905)
7 May 1880 - 31 Oct 1883 Edgar M. Marble
(b. 1838 - d. 1908)
1 Nov 1883 - 3 Mar 1885 Benjamin
Butterworth (1st time) (b. 1837 - d.
1898)
18 Mar 1885 - 11 Apr 1887 Martin Van Buren
Montgomery (b. 1840 - d.
1898)
11 Apr 1887 - 31 Mar 1889 Benton Jay Hall
(b. 1835 - d. 1894)
1 Apr 1889 - 31 Jul 1891
Charles Elliott
Mitchell
(b. 1837 - d. 1911)
1 Aug 1891 - 15 Apr 1893 William Edgar
Simmonds
(b. 1842 - d. 1903)
16 Apr 1893 - 12 Apr 1897 John Sammis
Seymour
(b. 1848 - d. 1931)
13 Apr 1897 - 16 Jan 1898 Benjamin Butterworth
(2nd time) (s.a.)
5 Feb 1898 - 31 Mar 1901 Charles
Holland
Duell
(b. 1850 - d. 1920)
1 Apr 1901 - 31 Mar 1907 Frederick Innes
Allen
(b. 1859 - d. 1938)
1 Jun 1907 - 14 Aug 1913 Edward Bruce
Moore
(b. 1851 - d. 1915)
15 Aug 1913 - 15 Aug 1917 Thomas Ewing III
(b. 1862 - d. 1942)
27 Aug 1917 - 19 Jun 1920 James T. Newton
(b. 1862 - d. 1935)
10 Aug 1920 - 5 Feb 1921 Robert Frederick
Whitehead (b. 1869 - d.
1951)
3 Mar 1921 - 5 Apr 1921 Melvin H.
Coulston
(b. 1877 - d. 1952)
6 Apr 1921 - 25 Jun 1933 Thomas E. Robertson
(b. 1871 - d. 1957)
26 Jun 1933 - 15 Jun 1945 Conway Payton
Coe
(b. 1897 - d. 1982)
20 Jul 1945 - 9 Sep 1947 Casper W. Ooms
(b. 1902 - d. 1961)
10 Sep 1947 - 2 Dec 1949 Lawrence C.
Kingsland
(b. 1884 - d. 1970)
2 Dec 1949 - 3 Feb 1953 John A.
Marzall
(b. 1896 - d. 1959)
18 Feb 1953 - 1 Mar 1961 Robert C. Watson
(b. 1890 - d. 1983)
17 Apr 1961 - 1 Oct 1963 David Lowell Ladd
(b. 1926 - d. 1994)
11 Mar 1964 - 6 May 1969 Edward J. Brenner
(b. 1923 - d. 1992)
7 May 1969 - 25 Aug 1971 William E.
Schuyler, Jr. (b.
1914 - d. 2007)
25 Aug 1971 - 20 Jun 1973 Robert Gottschalk
(b. 1911 - d. 1994)
(acting
to 7 Jan 1972)
11 Feb 1974 - 31 Aug 1977 C. Marshall Dann
(b. 1915 - d. 2002)
31 Aug 1977 - 5 Jun 1978 Lutrelle F. Parker,
Sr. (acting) (b. 1924 - d. 1994)
5 Jun 1978 - 30 Jun 1979 Donald W. Banner
(b. 1924 - d. 2006)
29 Nov 1979 - 17 Jan 1981 Sidney A. Diamond
(b. 1914 - d. 1983)
8 Jul 1981 - 21 Jan 1985 Gerald J.
Mossinghoff
(b. 1935 - d. 2020)
17 Oct 1985 - 31 Oct 1989 Donald J. Quigg
(b. 1916 - d. 2014)
1 Nov 1989 - 12 Mar 1990 Jeffrey M. Samuels
(acting) (b. 1950)
12 Mar 1990 - 1 May 1992 Harry F.
Manbeck, Jr.
(b. 1926 - d. 2025)
1 May 1992 - 15 Feb 1993 Douglas B. Comer
(acting)
(b. 1949)
15 Feb 1993 - 11 Aug 1993 Michael K. Kirk (acting)
(b. 1937)
11 Aug 1993 - 31 Dec 1998 Bruce A. Lehman
(b. 1945)
1 Jan 1999 - 29
Nov 1999 Q. Todd Dickinson (acting)
(s.a.)
Commissioners of Patents
29 Nov 1999 - 20 Jan 2001 Q. Todd Dickinson
(s.a.)
21 Jan 2001 - 29 Mar 2005 Nicholas P.
Godici II
(s.a.)
(acting
to 2003)
1 Apr 2005 - 15 Nov 2008 John J.
Doll (1st time)
(s.a.)
(acting
to 17 Aug 2005)
15 Nov 2008 - 13 Aug 2009 Margaret A. "Peggy"
Focarino (f) (s.a.)
(1st
time) (acting)
13 Aug 2009 - 5 Oct 2009 John J.
Doll (2nd time)
(s.a.)
5 Oct 2009 - 31 Dec 2011 Robert L.
Stoll
(b. 1963?)
1 Jan 2012 - 1 Jul 2015
Margaret A. "Peggy" Focarino (f) (s.a.)
(2nd
time)
1 Jul 2015 - 30 Jul 2015 Andrew I. Faile
(1st time)(acting)
30 Jul 2015 - 20 Jan 2021 Drew
Hirshfeld
20 Jan 2021 - 17 Jan 2023 Andrew I.
Faile (2nd time)(acting)
17 Jan 2023 - 6 Feb 2025 Vaishali Udupa
(f)
6 Feb 2025
-
Valencia Martin Wallace (f)(acting)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA)
![[U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
flag, 1899-1965] [U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey flag,
1899-1965]](us-cgds.gif)
U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey
Flag
1899 - 1965
|
ESSA Flag 1965 - 1970 |
NOAA Flag Adopted 1970
|
NOAA
10 Feb
1807
U.S. Survey of the Coast (operations began 3 Aug 1816)
(under Department of the Treasury).
14 Apr 1818 - 9 Aug
1832 Operations suspended.
10 Jul
1832
Survey revived with Department of Treasury.
11 Mar
1834
Transferred to the Department of the Navy.
27 Mar
1836
Returned to Treasury Department, renamed U.S. Coastal
Survey.
20 Jun
1878
Renamed U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
14 Feb
1903
Transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor.
4 Mar
1913
Under the Department of Commerce.
13 Jul
1965
Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA)
created
(combining Coast & Geodetic Survey and Weather
Bureau)
(within the
Department of Commerce).
3 Oct
1970
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
(within Department of
Commerce).
Superintendents of the Coastal Survey
(from 20 Jun 1878, Coast and Geodetic Survey)
3 Aug 1816 - 14 Apr 1818 Ferdinand
Rudolph
Hassler
(b. 1770 - d. 1843)
(1st time)
9 Aug 1832 - 20 Nov 1843 Ferdinand
Rudolph
Hassler
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
11 Dec 1843 - 17 Feb 1867 Alexander
Dallas
Bache
(b. 1806 - d. 1867)
1864 - Feb
1867
Julius Erasmus
Hilgard
(b. 1825 - d. 1890)
(acting for Bache)
26 Feb 1867 -
1874
Benjamin
Peirce
(b. 1809 - d. 1880)
1874 - 15 Aug
1881
Carlile Pollock
Patterson
(b. 1816 - d. 1881)
Aug 1881 - Jul
1885 Julius
Erasmus
Hilgard
(s.a.)
Jul 1885 -
1889
Frank Manly
Thorn
(b. 1836 - d. 1889)
9 Jul 1889 - 20 Sep 1894 Thomas
Corwin
Menderhall
(b. 1841 - d. 1924)
Sep 1894 - 30 Nov 1897
William Ward
Duffield
(b. 1804 - d. 1907)
1 Dec 1897 - 30 Nov 1900 Henry
Smith
Pritchett
(b. 1857 - d. 1939)
1 Dec 1880 - 15 Apr 1915 Otto
Hilgard
Tittmann
(b. 1850 - d. 1938)
15 Apr 1915 -
1919
Ernest Lester
Jones
(b. 1876 - d. 1929)
Directors of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
(from 13 Jul 1965, Deputy Administrator of
ESSA)
1919 - 9 Apr
1929
Ernest Lester
Jones
(s.a.)
29 Apr 1929 - 5 Nov 1937 Raymond
Stanton
Patton
(b. 1882 - d. 1937)
1938 - 7 Apr
1950 Leo
Otis
Colbert
(b. 1883 - d. 1968)
May 1950 - Aug
1955 Robert
Francis Anthony Studds (b.
1896 - d. 1962)
13 Aug 1955 - 12 Jul 1965 H. Arnold
Karo
(b. 1903 - d. 1986)
13 Jul 1965 - 1 Apr 1968 James C.
Tison, Jr.
(b. 1908 - d. 1991)
(acting to 1 Sep 1965)
Apr 1968 -
1970
Don A. Jones
(b. 1912 - d.
2000)
Administrator of Environmental Science
Services Administration
13 Jul 1965 - 3 Oct 1970 Robert
M. White
(b. 1923 - d. 2015)
Under Secretaries of Commerce for Oceans and
Atmosphere and Administrators of NOAA
3 Oct 1970 - Jul
1977 Robert M. White
(s.a.)
(acting to Dec 1971)
13 Jul 1977 - 20 Jan 1981 Richard A.
Frank
(b. 1936 - d. 2014)
20 Jan 1981 - 10 Jun 1981 James "Bud" P. Walsh
(acting)
10 Jun 1981 - 15 Nov 1984 John Vincent
Byrne
(b. 1928 - d. 2024)
15 Nov 1984 - 15 Sep 1987 Anthony J.
Calio
(b. 1929 - d. 2012)
(acting to 4 Oct 1985)
15 Sep 1987 - 31 Mar 1988 J. Curtis Mack II
(acting)
(b. 1944)
31 Mar 1988 - 7 Aug 1989 William E.
Evans
(b. 1930 - d. 2010)
7 Aug 1989 - 26 Feb 1993 John A.
Knauss
(b. 1925 - d. 2015)
26 Feb 1993 - 28 May 1993 Diana H. Josephson (f)
(acting) (b. 1936 - d. 2006)
28 May 1993 - 20 Jan 2001 Donald James
Baker
(b. 1937)
20 Jan 2001 - 10 Dec 2001 Scott B. Gudes
(acting) (b.
1956)
10 Dec 2001 - 31 Oct 2008 Conrad C. Lautenbacher,
Jr. (b. 1942)
1 Nov 2008 - 20 Jan 2009 William J. Brennan
(acting)
20 Jan 2009 - 19 Mar 2009 Mary M. Glackin (f)
(acting)
20 Mar 2009 - 28 Feb 2013
Jane Lubchenco (f)
(b. 1947)
28 Feb 2013 - 20 Jan 2017 Kathryn D. Sullivan
(f) (b.
1951)
(acting to 6 Mar 2014)
20 Jan 2017 - 25 Oct 2017 Benjamin P. Friedman
(1st time) (b. 1966)
(acting)
25 Oct 2017 - 25 Feb 2019
Timothy Cole Gallaudet (acting) (b. 1967)
25 Feb 2019 - 20 Jan 2021 Neil A. Jacobs, Jr.
(acting) (b. 1973)
20 Jan 2021 - 22 Jun 2021
Benjamin P. Friedman (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
22 Jun 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Richard "Rick" W.
Spinrad
(b. 1954)
20 Jan 2025 -
Nancy A. Hann (f)(acting)
(b.
1973)
National Weather Service
(NWS)
National Weather
Service
1849
Smithsonian Institution supplies weather
instruments to telegraph
companies and establishes extensive observation network.
9 Feb
1870
Army Weather Bureau (within War
Department, under the
U.S.
Army Signal Corps).
1 Jul 1891
U.S.
Weather Bureau (within Department of Agriculture).
3 Jun
1940
Transferred to the Department of Commerce.
13 Jul
1965
Weather Bureau, part of Environmental Science Services
Administration (within Department of Commerce).
3 Oct
1970
National Weather Service of NOAA (part of NOAA).
Chief Signal Officers, U.S. Army
9 Feb 1870 - 24 Aug 1880 Albert
James Myer
(b. 1829 - d. 1880)
17 Dec 1880 - 16 Jan 1887 William Babcock
Hazen
(b. 1830 - d. 1887)
3 Mar 1887 -
1891
Adolphus Washington
Greely
(b. 1844 - d. 1935)
Chiefs of the U.S. Weather Bureau
1891 -
1895
Mark Walrod
Harrington
(b. 1848 - d. 1926)
1895 -
1913
Willis Luther
Moore
(b. 1856 - d. 1927)
1913 -
1934
Charles Frederick
Marvin
(b. 1858 - d. 1943)
1934 - 14 Sep
1938
Willis Ray
Gregg
(b. 1880 - d. 1938)
15 Dec 1938 -
1963 Francis
Wilton Reichelderfer
(b. 1895 - d. 1983)
Oct 1963 - 13 Jul 1965
Robert M. White
(b. 1923 - d.
2015)
Director of the U.S. Weather Bureau
1965 - 3 Oct 1970
George P.
Cressman
(b. 1919 - d. 2008)
Directors of the National Weather Service
and NOAA Assistant
Administrators for Weather Services
3 Oct 1970 -
1979 George P.
Cressman
(s.a.)
Feb 1979 - Mar
1988 Richard
E. Hallgren
(b. 1932 - d. 2023)
Mar 1988 - Jun
1997 Elbert
"Joe" W. Friday, Jr. (b.
1939)
Jun 1997 - 26 Feb 1998
Robert S. Winokur (acting)
26 Feb 1998 - 9 Jan 2004 John
"Jack" J. Kelly, Jr.
(b. 1940)
9 Jan 2004 - 12 Jun 2007 David L.
Johnson
(b. c.1951)
12 Jun 2007 - 2 Sep 2007 Mary M. Glackin (f)
(acting)
2 Sep 2007 - 29 May 2012 John "Jack" L.
Hayes
29 May 2012 - 10 Feb 2013 Laura K. Furgione
(f)(acting) (b. c.1971)
10 Feb 2013 - 1 Jan 2022 Louis W. Uccellini
(b. 1949)
1 Jan 2002 - 7 Jun 2022 Mary C.
Erickson (f) (acting)
7 Jun 2022 -
Kenneth "Ken" Graham
NOAA Commissioned Corps
Adopted 7 Mar 2002
|
NOAA
Commissioned Corps
22 May
1917
Commissioned Officer Corps of the U.S. Coast
and Geodetic Survey.
13 Jul 1965
Environmental Science Services Administration
Commissioned
Corps
(within ESSA).
3 Oct
1970
NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps.
(within NOAA).
Superintendents, Commissioned
Officer Corps of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
22 May 1917 - 1919
the Superintendent
of the U.S. Coast
and Geodetic Survey
Directors, Commissioned Officer Corps
of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
1919 - 12 Jul 1965
the Directors of the U.S.
Coast
and
Geodetic Survey
Directors, Environmental
Science Services Administration Commissioned Corps.
13 Jul 1965 - 3 Oct 1970 the Directors
of U.S. Coast
and Geodetic Survey
1965 -
1967
Henry Arnold
Karo
(b. 1903 - d. 1986)
(deputy administrator of ESSA)
1967 - 1968
Werner A.
Baum
(b. 1923 - d. 1999)
(deputy administrator of ESSA)
1968 -
1970
John W. Townsend, Jr.
(b. 1924 - d. 2011)
(deputy administrator of ESSA)
Directors, NOAA
Commissioned Officer Corps and Commanders,
NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations
1970 - 1 Jan 1981
Harley D. Nygren
(b. 1924 - d. 2019)
1981 - 1986
Kelly E. Taggart
(b.
1932 - d. 2014)
1986 - 1990
Francis D. "Bill" Moran
(b. 1935)
1990 – 1994
Sigmund R. Petersen
22 May 1995 - 1 Mar 1999 William
L. Stubblefield
(b. 1940)
27 Jul 1999 – 1 Dec 2003 Evelyn J.
Fields (f)
(b. 1949)
2 Aug 2004 – 5 Oct 2007
Samuel P. De Bow, Jr.
(b. 1953)
5 Oct 2007 - 14 Aug 2012 Jonathan
W. Bailey
14 Aug 2012 - 1 Jan 2014
Michael S. Devany
2 Jan 2014 - 6 Sep 2017 David
A. Score
6 Sep 2017 - 1 Apr 2021 Michael J.
Silah
(b. 1970)
1 Apr 2021 - 15 Jul 2024 Nancy A. Hann (f)
(b. 1973)
(acting to 16 Nov 2021)
15 Jul 2024
-
Chad M. Cary
(acting to Sep 2024)
National Recovery Administration
![[National Recovery Administration flag
1933-1935 (U.S.)] [National
Recovery Administration flag 1933-1935 (U.S.)]](us-nra33.jpg)
16 Jun 1933
National Recovery Administration
established, as an independent
agency, to administer the National Industrial
Recovery Act.
15 Jun 1935
Office of the
Administrator, National Recovery Administration.
1 Apr 1936
Dissolved, remaining
functions transferred to Departments of
Commerce and Labor.
Administrator for National Recovery
16 Jun 1933 - 24 Sep 1934 Hugh
S. Johnson
(b. 1881 - d. 1942)
Chairmen of the National Industrial
Recovery
Board
27 Sep 1934 - 22 Mar 1935 Samuel
Clay Williams
(b. 1884 - d. 1949)
22 Mar 1935 - 15 Jun 1935 Donald
R. Richberg (acting)
(b. 1881 - d. 1960)
Administrators of
the Office of National Recovery Administration
15 Jun 1935 - 24 Aug 1935
James L. O'Neill (acting)
(b. 1881 - d. 1945)
24 Aug 1935 - 31 Dec 1935 Laurence J. Martin
(acting) (b. 1888 -
d. 1956)
1 Jan 1936 - 1 Apr 1936 Earle W.
Dahlberg (acting) (b.
1893 - d. 1958)
Department of Labor
![[Flag of U.S.
Department of Labor 1915-1963] [Flag of U.S. Department
of Labor 1915-1963]](us_dol15.gif)
15 Oct 1915 - 1963
|
Adopted 1963
|
Department of Labor
(DOL)
27 Jun 1884
Bureau of Labor (within the Department of
Interior).
21 Mar 1888
Department of Labor established
as a non-cabinet agency.
14 Feb 1903 - 4 Mar 1913 Part of
Department of Commerce
and Labor as Bureau of
Labor.
4 Mar
1913
Department of Labor (a cabinet
post).
Commissioners of Labor
31 Jan 1885 - 31 Jan 1905 Carroll D.
Wright
(b. 1840 - d. 1909)
1 Feb 1905 - 4 Mar 1913
Charles P.
Neill
(b. 1865 - d. 1942)
Secretaries of Labor
5 Mar 1913 - 4
Mar 1921 William B.
Wilson
(b. 1862 - d. 1934)
5 Mar 1921 - 9
Dec 1930 James J.
Davis
(b. 1873 - d. 1947)
9 Dec 1930 - 4
Mar 1933 William N.
Doak
(b. 1882 - d. 1933)
4 Mar 1933 - 30 Jun
1945 Frances Perkins
(f)
(b. 1880 - d. 1965)
1 Jul 1945 - 10 Jun
1948 Lewis B.
Schwellenbach
(b. 1894 - d. 1948)
11 Jun 1948 - 13 Aug 1948
David A. Morse (acting)
(b. 1907 - d. 1990)
13 Aug 1948 - 20 Jan 1953 Maurice J.
Tobin
(b. 1901 - d. 1953)
(acting to 1 Feb 1949)
21 Jan 1953 - 8 Oct 1953 Martin P.
Durkin
(b. 1894 - d. 1955)
9 Oct 1953 - 20 Jan
1961 James P.
Mitchell
(b. 1900 - d. 1964)
(acting to 19 Jan 1954)
21 Jan 1961 - 25 Sep 1962 Arthur J.
Goldberg
(b. 1908 - d. 1990)
25 Sep 1962 - 20 Jan
1969 W. Willard
Wirtz
(b. 1912 - d. 2010)
21 Jan 1969 - 2 Jul 1970 George P.
Shultz
(b. 1920 - d. 2021)
2 Jul 1970 - 2
Feb 1973 James D.
Hodgson
(b. 1915 - d. 2012)
2 Feb 1973 - 15 Mar
1975 Peter J.
Brennan
(b. 1918 - d. 1996)
12 Mar 1975 - 18 Mar
1975 Richard F. Schubert (acting)
(b. 1936 - d. 2024)
18 Mar 1975 - 31 Jan 1976 John T.
Dunlop
(b. 1914 - d. 2003)
1 Feb 1976 - 10 Feb 1976 Robert O.
Aders
(acting)
(b. 1927 - d. 2020)
10 Feb 1976 - 20 Jan 1977 William "Willie" J.
Usery, Jr. (b. 1923 -
d. 2016)
20 Jan 1977 - 26
Jan 1977 Alfred Gerhardt Albert (acting)
(b. 1920 - d. 2005)
26 Jan 1977 - 20 Jan 1981 "Freddie" Ray
Marshall
(b. 1928)
20 Jan 1981 - 4 Feb
1981 Alfred M. Zuck (acting)
(b. 1934 - d. 2024)
4 Feb 1981 - 15 Mar 1985 Raymond
"Ray" J.
Donovan
(b. 1930 - d. 2021)
(on leave from 1 Oct 1984)
1 Oct 1984 - 29 Apr 1985 Ford Barney
Ford
(b. 1922 - d. 2015)
(acting [for Donovan
to 15 Mar 1985])
29 Apr 1985 - 31 Oct 1987 William E. Brock
III
(b. 1930 - d. 2021)
31 Oct 1987 - 14 Dec
1987 Dennis E. Whitfield (1st time)
(b. 1948)
(acting)
14 Dec 1987 - 20 Jan 1989 Ann Dore
McLaughlin
(f)
(b. 1941 - d. 2023)
20 Jan 1989 - 25 Jan 1989
Dennis E. Whitfield (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
25 Jan 1989 - 24 Nov
1990 Elizabeth Dole
(f)
(b. 1936)
24 Nov 1990 - 7 Feb
1991 Roderick A. DeArment
(acting) (b. 1948)
7 Feb 1991 - 20 Jan 1993
Lynn Morley Martin
(f)
(b. 1939)
22 Jan 1993 - 20 Jan
1997 Robert
Reich
(b. 1946)
20 Jan 1997 - 9 May
1997 Cynthia A. Metzler
(f)(acting) (b. 1948)
9 May 1997 - 20 Jan 2001
Alexis Herman
(f)
(b. 1947)
20 Jan 2001 - 29 Jan 2001 Henry
L. Solano (acting)
(b. 1950)
29 Jan 2001 - 20 Jan 2009 Elaine L. Chao
(f)
(b.
1953)
20 Jan 2009 - 2 Feb 2009 Howard M. Radzely
(acting) (b. 1970)
2 Feb 2009 - 24 Feb 2009 Edward C. Hugler
(1st time)(acting)(b. 1950)
24 Feb 2009 - 22 Jan 2013 Hilda L. Solis (f)
(b. 1957)
23 Jan 2013 - 23 Jul 2013 Seth D. Harris (acting)
(b. 1962)
23 Jul 2013 - 20 Jan 2017 Thomas E.
Perez
(b. 1961)
20 Jan 2017 - 28 Apr 2017 Edward
C. Hugler (2nd time)(acting)(s.a.)
28 Apr 2017 - 19 Jul 2019 Alexander "Alex"
Acosta
(b. 1969)
19 Jul 2019 - 30 Sep 2019 Patrick Pizzella
(acting)
(b. 1954)
30 Sep 2019 - 20 Jan 2021 Eugene Scalia
(b. 1963)
20 Jan 2021 - 23 Mar 2021
Milton Al Stewart (acting)
(b. 1955)
23 Mar 2021 - 11 Mar 2023 Martin "Marty" J.
Walsh
(b. 1967)
11 Mar 2023 - 20 Jan 2025 Julie A. Su (f)
(acting)
(b. 1969)
20 Jan 2025 - 11 Mar 2025
Vincent "Vince" Micone (acting)
11 Mar 2025
-
Lori M. Chavez-DeRemer (f)
(b. 1968)
Department of Housing
and Urban Development
13 Jan 1967 - c.2008
|
Adopted c.2008
|
Department
of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
9 Sep
1965
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Secretaries
18 Jan 1966 - 7 Jan
1969 Robert C.
Weaver
(b. 1907 - d. 1997)
7 Jan 1969 - 21 Jan 1969 Robert C.
Wood (acting)
(b. 1923 - d. 2005)
22 Jan 1969 - 2 Feb
1973 George W.
Romney
(b. 1907 - d. 1995)
2 Feb 1973 - 10 Mar
1975 James T.
Lynn
(b. 1927 - d. 2010)
10 Mar 1975 - 20 Jan
1977 Carla A. Hills
(f)
(b. 1934)
21 Jan 1977 - 3 Aug 1979 Patricia
Roberts Harris
(f) (b. 1924 -
d. 1985)
3 Aug 1979 - 14 Sep 1979
Jay Janis (acting)
(b. 1932 - d. 1992)
14 Sep 1979 - 20 Jan 1981 Maurice E.
"Moon" Landrieu
(b. 1930 - d. 2022)
23 Jan 1981 - 20 Jan
1989 Samuel R. Pierce,
Jr.
(b. 1922 - d. 2000)
20 Jan 1989 - 13 Feb 1989
J. Michael Dorsey (acting)
(b. 1943)
13 Feb 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 Jack F.
Kemp
(b. 1935 - d. 2009)
22 Jan 1993 - 29 Jan
1997 Henry G.
Cisneros
(b. 1947)
29 Jan 1997 - 20 Jan
2001 Andrew M.
Cuomo
(b. 1957)
20 Jan 2001 - 24 Jan 2001
William C. Apgar, Jr. (acting)
(b. 1946)
24 Jan 2001 - 12 Dec 2003 Melquiades "Mel"
R. Martinez Ruiz (b. 1946)
12 Dec 2003 - 18 Apr 2008
Alphonso
Jackson
(b. 1945)
(acting to 1 Sep 2004)
18 Apr 2008 - 4 Jun 2008 Roy A.
Bernardi (acting) (b.
1942)
5 Jun 2008 - 20 Jan 2009 Steven C.
Preston
(b. 1960)
20 Jan 2009 - 26 Jan 2009 Brian D.
Montgomery (acting)
(b. 1956)
26 Jan 2009 - 28 Jul 2014 Shaun Lawrence
Sarda Donovan (b. 1966)
28 Jul 2014 - 20 Jan 2017 Julián Castro
(b. 1974)
20 Jan 2017 - 2 Mar 2017 Craig T. Clemmensen
(acting) (b. 1958)
2 Mar 2017 - 20 Jan 2021 Benjamin "Ben" S.
Carson, Sr. (b. 1951)
20 Jan 2021 - 10 Mar 2021
Matthew "Matt" E. Ammon (1st time)
(acting)
10 Mar 2021 - 22 Mar 2024 Marcia L. Fudge (f)
(b. 1952)
22 Mar 2024 - 20 Jan 2025 Adrianne R. Todman (f)
(acting)
20 Jan 2025 - 5 Feb 2025 Matthew "Matt" E.
Ammon (2nd time)
(acting)
5 Feb 2025 -
Eric S. Turner
(b. 1972)
Department
of Transportation
1 Apr 1968 - 5 Feb 1982
|
Adopted 5 Feb 1982
|
DOT Variant from
c.2009
|
Department
of Transportation (DOT)
15 Oct
1966
Department of Transportation (DOT) established.
Secretaries
16 Jan 1967 - 20
Jan 1969 Alan Stephenson
Boyd
(b. 1922 - d. 2020)
21 Jan 1969 - 1 Feb 1973
John Anthony
Volpe
(b. 1908 - d. 1994)
2 Feb 1973
- 1 Feb 1975 Claude Stout
Brinegar
(b. 1926 - d. 2009)
2 Feb 1975
- 6 Mar 1975 John Wallace Barnum (acting)
(b. 1928 - d. 2018)
7 Mar 1975 - 20 Jan 1977 William
Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. (b.
1920 - d. 2017)
21 Jan 1977 - 20
Jul 1979 Brockman
Adams
(b. 1927 - d. 2004)
21 Jul 1979 - 15
Aug 1979 W. Graham Clayton, Jr.
(acting) (b. 1912 - d. 1994)
15 Aug 1979 - 20
Jan 1981 Neil Edward
Goldschmidt
(b. 1940 - d. 2024)
(acting to 21 Sep
1979)
23 Jan 1981 - 1 Feb 1983
Andrew "Drew" Lindsay Lewis, Jr. (b. 1931 -
d. 2016)
1 Feb 1983 - 7
Feb 1983 Darrell Melvin Trent (acting)
(b. 1938)
7 Feb 1983 - 30 Sep 1987
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
(f) (b.
1936)
1 Oct 1987
- 20 Jan 1989 James Horace Burnley
IV
(b. 1948)
(acting to 2 Dec 1987)
20 Jan 1989
- 6 Feb 1989 Mimi Weyforth Dawson (f)
(acting) (b. 1944)
6 Feb 1989 - 16 Dec
1991 Samuel Knox
Skinner
(b. 1938)
16 Dec 1991 - 23
Feb 1992 James Buchanan Busey IV
(acting) (b. 1932 - d. 2023)
24 Feb 1992 - 20
Jan 1993 Andrew Hill Card,
Jr.
(b. 1947)
21 Jan 1993 - 14
Feb 1997 Federico Fabian
Peña
(b. 1947)
14 Feb 1997 - 20
Jan 2001 Rodney Earl
Slater
(b. 1955)
20 Jan 2001 - 25
Jan 2001 Mortimer "Mort" Leo Downey III
(b. 1936 - d. 2023)
(acting)
25 Jan 2001
- 7 Jul 2006 Norman Y.
Mineta
(b. 1931 - d. 2022)
8 Jul 2006
- 17 Oct 2006 Maria Cino (f)
(acting)
(b. 1957)
17 Oct 2006 - 20 Jan 2009 Mary
Peters
(f)
(b. 1948)
20 Jan 2009 - 23 Jan 2009 Thomas J. Barrett
(acting) (b. 1947)
23 Jan 2009 - 2 Jul 2013 Raymond "Ray" H.
LaHood (b.
1945)
2 Jul 2013 - 20 Jan 2017 Anthony
Foxx
(b. 1971)
20 Jan 2017 - 31 Jan 2017 Michael Peter Huerta
(acting) (b. 1956)
31 Jan 2017 - 11 Jan 2021 Elaine Lan
Chao (f)
(b. 1953)
11 Jan 2021 - 20 Jan 2021
Steven G. Bradbury (acting)
(b. 1958)
20 Jan 2021 - 3 Feb 2021 Lana T. Hurdle (f)
(acting)
3 Feb 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Peter "Pete"
Buttigieg
(b. 1982)
20 Jan 2025 - 28 Jan 2025 Judith S. Kaleta
(f)(acting)
28 Jan 2025 -
Sean P.
Duffy
(b. 1971)
Federal Aviation Administration
1958 - 1967
|
Adopted 20 May 1967
|
Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA)
20 May
1926
Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce.
1 Jul
1934
Bureau of Air Commerce under Department of Commerce.
22 Aug
1938
Civil Aeronautics Authority (CAA)(an independent
agency).
30 Jun
1940
Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) under Department
of Commerce
31 Dec
1958
Federal Aviation Agency (FAA)(an independent agency).
1 Apr
1967
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under Department
of
Transportation.
Assistant Secretaries of Commerce for Aeronautics
11 Aug 1926 - 1 Oct 1929 William
Patterson MacCracken, Jr. (b. 1888 - d. 1969)
1 Oct 1929 - 15 Jun 1933 Clarence
Marshall
Young
(b. 1889 - d. 1973)
16 Jun 1933 - 15 Jun 1935 Ewing Y. Mitchell,
Jr.
(b. 1873 - d. 1954)
Director of Aeronautics
15 Jun 1933 - 19 Sep 1933 Vacant
19 Sep 1933 - 30 Jun 1934 Eugene Luther
Vidal
(b. 1895 - d. 1969)
Directors of Air Commerce
1 Jul 1934 - 28 Feb 1937 Eugene
Luther
Vidal
(s.a.)
1 Mar 1937 - 15 Apr 1938 Frederick
D. Fagg, Jr.
(b. 1896 - d. 1981)
16 Apr 1938 - 21 Aug 1938 Denis
Mulligan
(b. 1900 - d. 1983)
Chairmen of the Civil
Aeronautics Authority
22 Aug 1938 - 12 Apr 1939 Edward John
Noble
(b. 1882 - d. 1958)
12 Apr 1939 - 30 Jun 1940 Robert Henry
Hinckley
(b. 1891 - d. 1988)
Administrator of the Bureau of Air Commerce
22 Aug 1934 - 30 Jun 1940 Clinton Monroe
Hester
(b. 1895 - d. 1971)
Administrators of Civil Aeronautics
11 Jul 1940 - 15 Jan 1942 Donald Hilary
Connolly
(b. 1886 - d. 1969)
15 Jan 1942 - 23 Sep 1944 Charles Ingram
Stanton
(b. 1893 - d. 1986)
(acting
to 20 Jul 1942)
23 Sep 1944 - 1 Mar 1948 Theodore Paul
Wright
(b. 1895 - d. 1970)
1 Mar 1948 - 1 Jun 1948 Frederick
B. Lee (1st time)(acting)(b. 1906 - d. 1992)
1 Jun 1948 - 4 Oct 1950 Delos
W.
Rentzel
(b. 1909 - d. 1991)
4 Oct 1950 - 18 May 1951 Donald W.
Nyrop
(b. 1912 - d. 2010)
18 May 1951 - 6 Mar 1953 Charles
Frederick
Horne
(b. 1906 - d. 1990)
6 Mar 1953 - 10 Dec 1955 Frederick
B. Lee (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting to 27
Apr 1953)
12 Dec 1955 - 5 Sep 1956 Charles J.
Lowen,
Jr.
(b. 1915 - d. 1956)
6 Sep 1956 - 30 Dec 1958 James T.
Pyle
(b. 1913 - d. 1998)
(acting to 26 Dec 1956)
Administrators of the Federal Aviation
Administration
31 Dec 1958 - 20 Jan 1961 Elwood R.
Quesada
(b. 1904 - d. 1993)
20 Jan 1961 - 3 Mar 1961 James T.
Pyle
(acting)
(s.a.)
3 Mar 1961 - 1 Jul 1965
Najeeb E.
Halaby
(b. 1915 - d. 2003)
1 Jul 1965 - 31 Jul 1968 William F.
McKee
(b. 1906 - d. 1987)
31 Jul 1968 - 24 Mar 1969 David Duvall
Thomas (acting) (b. 1913 - d.
1998)
24 Mar 1969 - 14 Mar 1973 John H. Shaffer
(b. 1919 - d. 1997)
14 Mar 1973 - 31 Mar 1975 Alexander P.
Butterfield (b.
1926)
31 Mar 1975 - 24 Nov 1975 James E. Dow
(acting)
(b. 1921 - d. 1988)
24 Nov 1975 - 1 Apr 1977 John L.
McLucas
(b. 1920 - d. 2002)
1 Apr 1977 - 4 May 1977
Quentin S. Taylor (acting)
(b. 1936 - d. 2010)
4 May 1977 - 20 Jan 1981 Langhorne McCook
Bond
(b. 1937 - d. 2022)
20 Jan 1981 - 22 Apr 1981 Charles E.
Weithoner (acting) (b. 1931 - d.
2011)
22 Apr 1981 - 31 Jan 1984 J. Lynn
Helms
(b. 1925 - d. 2011)
31 Jan 1984 - 10 Apr 1984 Michael J.
Fenello
(acting) (b.
1916 - d. 1997)
10 Apr 1984 - 2 Jul 1987 Donald D.
Engen
(b. 1924 - d. 1999)
2 Jul 1987 - 22 Jul 1987 Robert E.
Whittington (1st time) (b. 1929 - d. 2012)
(acting)
22 Jul 1987 - 17 Feb 1989 T. Allan
McArtor
(b. 1942)
17 Feb 1989 - 30 Jun 1989 Robert
E. Whittington (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
30 Jun 1989 - 4 Dec 1991 James Buchanan
Busey
IV
(b. 1932 - d. 2023)
4 Dec 1991 - 27 Jun 1992 Barry
Lambert Harris (acting) (b.
1939 - d. 2023)
27 Jun 1992 - 20 Jan 1993 Thomas C.
Richards
(b. 1930 - d. 2020)
20 Jan 1993 - 10 Aug 1993 Joseph M. Del
Balzo (acting) (b. 1936 - d.
2022)
10 Aug 1993 - 9 Nov 1996 David R.
Hinson
(b. 1933 - d. 2023)
9 Nov 1996 - 31 Jan 1997
Linda Hall Daschle (f) (acting) (b.
1955)
1 Feb 1997 - 4 Aug 1997 Barry
L. Valentine (acting)
(b. 1943)
4 Aug 1997 - 2 Aug 2002 Jane
F. Garvey (f)
(b. 1944)
2 Aug 2002 - 13 Sep 2002 Monte R.
Belger (acting)
(b. 1946)
13 Sep 2002 - 13 Sep 2007 Marion Blakey
(f)
(b. 1948)
13 Sep 2007 - 16 Jan 2009 Robert "Bobby" A.
Sturgell (acting)(b. 1959)
16 Jan 2009 - 1 Jun 2009 Lynne A. Osmus (f)
(acting)
1 Jun 2009 - 6 Dec 2011 J. Randolph
"Randy" Babbitt (b. 1946)
6 Dec 2011 - 7 Jan 2018 Michael Peter
Huerta
(b. 1956)
(acting to 7 Jan 2013)
7 Jan 2018 - 12 Aug 2019
Daniel "Dan" K. Elwell (acting) (b. 1960)
12 Aug 2019 - 31 Mar 2022 Stephen M.
Dickson
(b. 1957)
1 Apr 2022 - 8 Jun 2023 Billy Nolen
(acting)
8 Jun 2023 - 27 Oct 2023 Polly E.
Trottenberg (f) (acting) (b. 1964)
27 Oct 2023 - 20 Jan 2025 Michael G.
Whitaker
(b. 1961)
20 Jan 2025 - 30 Jan 2025 Mark S. House (acting)
30 Jan 2025
-
Chris J. Rocheleau (acting)
Maritime Administration (and
Merchant Marine)
-
- U.S. Shipping Board Flag
- 1917 - 1933
|
-
- U.S. Shipping Board Bureau
Flag
- 1933 - 1936
|
-
- U.S. Maritime Commission
Flag
- 1936 - 1950
-
|
-
- U.S. Maritime Administration
Flag
- Adopted 27 Dec 1950
|
-
- U.S. Maritime Service Flag
- 1938 - 24 May 1950
|
-
- U.S. Merchant Marine Flag
- Adopted 24 May 1994
|
Maritime
Administration (MARAD)
12 Jun
1775
U.S. Merchant Marine founded (no centralized
administration).
30 Jan 1917 - 10 Aug 1933 U.S. Shipping
Board (an independent agency).
10 Aug 1933 - 29 Jun 1936 U.S. Shipping
Board Bureau (within the Department of Commerce).
29 Jun 1936 - 24 May 1950 U.S. Maritime
Commission (an independent agency).
15 Mar 1938
U.S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps and
U.S. Maritime Service
officially founded (under U.S. Maritime
Commission).
7 Feb 1942 - 1 Sep 1946 Fleet
operations transferred from the Maritime Commission to
the
War
Shipping Administration (WSA).
24 May
1950
Maritime
Commission is abolished and functions divided between
the
U.S.
Federal Maritime Commission (an
independent agency) and the
U.S.
Maritime Administration (responsible for administering
the
operating programs, the National Defense Reserve Fleet,
and
the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy).
24 May
1950
Maritime Administration (MARAD)(under Department of
Commerce).
6 Aug
1981
Under the Department of Transportation.
Chairmen of the U.S. Shipping Board
30 Jan 1917 - 24 Jul 1917 William
Denman
(b. 1872 - d. 1959)
27 Jul 1917 - 31 Jul 1919 Edward Nash
Hurley
(b. 1864 - d. 1933)
5 Aug 1919 - 13 Mar 1920 John
Barton Payne
(b. 1855 - d. 1935)
13 Mar 1920 - 13 Jun 1921 William Shepherd
Benson
(b. 1855 - d. 1932)
13 Jun 1921 - 30 Jun 1923 Albert Davis
Lasker
(b. 1880 - d. 1952)
1 Jul 1923 - 28 Jan 1924 Edward P.
Farley
(b. 1886 - d. 1956)
5 Feb 1924 - 4 Mar 1933
Thomas V.
O'Connor
(b. 1870 - d. 1935)
15 Mar 1933 - 9 Aug 1933 Hutchinson
Ingham
Cone
(b. 1871 - d. 1941)
Directors of the U.S. Shipping Board Bureau
10 Aug 1933 - 10 Jan 1934 Hutchinson
Ingham
Cone
(b. 1871 - d. 1941)
10 Jan 1934 - 1 May 1934 Henry H. Heimann
(b. 1891 - d. 1958)
1 May 1934 - 25 Sep 1936 James
Craig Peacock
(b. 1888 - d. 1977)
(acting to 13 Sep 1934)
Chairmen of the U.S. Maritime
Commission
26 Sep 1936 - 15 Apr 1937 Henry Aristo
Wiley
(b. 1867 - d. 1943)
16 Apr 1937 - 17 Feb 1938 Joseph Patrick
Kennedy
(b. 1888 - d. 1969)
18 Feb 1938 - 15 Jan 1946 Emory Scott
Land
(b. 1879 - d. 1971)
(from 7 Feb 1942, administrator
of
War Shipping Administration)
15 Jan 1946 - 1 Sep 1946
Granville Conway
(b. 1898 - d. 1969)
(administrator of War Shipping
Administration;
acting to Jul 1946)
15 Jan 1946 - 3 Jun 1946
Edward Macauley
(acting)
(b. 1875 - d. 1964)
3 Jun 1946 - 16 Apr
1949 William Ward Smith
(b. 1888 - d.
1966)
16 Apr 1949 - 6 Jun 1949 J. Grenville Mellen
(acting) (b. 1888 - d. 1960)
6 Jun 1949 - 23 May 1950 Philip B. Fleming
(b. 1877 - d. 1955)
Administrators of the U.S.
Maritime Administration
24 May 1950 - 7 Aug 1950 John T. Koehler
(acting)
(b. 1904 - d. 1989)
7 Aug 1950 - 1 Oct 1952 Edward L.
Cochrane
(b. 1892 - d. 1959)
2 Oct 1952 - 30 Jun 1953 Albert W.
Gatov
(b. 1907 - d. 1978)
1 Jul 1953 - 25 Feb 1955 Louis S.
Rothschild
(b. 1900 - d. 1984)
25 Feb 1955 - 16
Mar 1955 Walter C. Ford (1st
time)(acting) (b. 1903 - d. 1999)
16 Mar 1955 - 1 May 1960 Clarence G.
Morse
(b. 1904 - d. 1985)
1 May 1960 - 1 Jul 1960
Walter C. Ford (2nd time)(acting) (s.a.)
1 Jul 1960 - 22 Feb 1961 Ralph E. Wilson
(b. 1902 - d. 1990)
23 Feb 1961 - 8 Oct 1961 Thomas E.
Stakem (acting) (b.
1907 - d. 1995)
9 Oct 1961 - 31 Oct 1963 Donald W.
Alexander
(b. 1904 - d. 1994)
31 Oct 1963 - 2
Mar 1964 James W. Gulick
(1st time)(acting) (b. 1910 - d. 2012)
2 Mar 1964 - 30 Jun 1966 Nicholas Johnson
(b. 1934)
30 Jun 1966 - Mar 1969 James
W. Gulick (2nd time)(acting) (s.a.)
25 Mar 1969 - 6 Jul 1972 Andrew E. Gibson
(b. 1922 - d. 2001)
7 Jul 1972 - 9 Apr 1979
Robert J. Blackwell
(b. 1925 - d. 2024)
9 Apr 1979 - 31 Jul 1981 Samuel B. Nemirow
(acting to 1980) (b. 1940)
1981
Warren G. Leback (1st time)(acting)(b.
1924 - d. 2019)
19 Oct 1981 - 31 May 1985 Harold E.
Shear
(b. 1918 - d. 1999)
1 Jun 1985 - 1985
Garrett E. Brown, Jr. (acting)
(b. 1943)
26 Nov 1985 - 19 Mar 1989 John A.
Gaughan
(b. 1947)
Mar 1989 - 1989
William A. Creelman, Jr. (acting)
(b. 1928 - d. 2023)
11 Oct 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 Warren G. Leback (2nd
time) (s.a.)
20 Jan 1993 - 1993
Richard E. Bowman
(acting)
(b. 1935 - d. 2007)
Jun 1993 - 14 Sep 1993 Joan B. Yim (f)
(acting) (b. 1944)
14 Sep 1993 - 30 Jun 1997 Albert J. Herberger
(b. 1931 - d. 2022)
30 Jun 1997 - 6 Aug 1998 John E.
Graykowski (1st time) (b. 1953)
(acting)
6 Aug 1998 - May 2000
Clyde J. Hart,
Jr.
(b. 1946)
22 May 2000 - 4 Nov 2000 John E.
Graykowski (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
4 Nov 2000 - 6 Dec 2001 Bruce
J. Carlton (acting)
6 Dec 2001 - 12 Feb 2005 William G.
Schubert
(b. 1952)
12 Feb 2005 - 1 May 2006 John E.
Jamian (acting)
(b. 1954)
1 May 2006 - 6 Sep 2006 Julie
A. Nelson (f)(acting)
6 Sep 2006 - 20 Jan 2009 Sean T.
Connaughton
(b. 1961)
20 Jan 2009 - 30 Jul 2009 James E. Caponiti
(acting)
30 Jul 2009 - 4 Jun 2013 David T. Matsuda
(b. 1972)
(acting to 25 Jun 2010)
4 Jun 2013 - 7 Jan 2017 Paul N. "Chip"
Jaenichen, Sr. (b.
1960)
(acting to 25 Jul 2014)
7 Jan 2017 - 23? Jan 2017 Michael J. Rodriguez
(acting)
23? Jan 2017 - 8 Aug 2017 Joel M. Szabat
(acting)
(b. 1959)
8 Aug 2017 - 11 Jan 2021 Mark H. "Buz"
Buzby
(b. 1956)
12 Jan 2021 - 21 Jan 2021 Douglas Burnett
(acting)
21 Jan 2021 - 16 May 2022 Lucinda Davis Lessley
(f) (acting) (b. 1973)
16 May 2022 - 12 Jan 2025 Ann
Claire Phillips (f)
(b. 1970)
13 Jan 2025 -
Charles Makings (acting)
Department of Energy
![[U.S. Department of Energy
flag] [U.S. Department of
Energy flag]](us_ener.gif)
Adopted 15 May 1978
|
Department of Energy
(DOE)
4 Aug
1977
Department of Energy (merger of ERDA and
Federal Energy
Administration).
Secretaries
5
Aug 1977 - 24 Aug 1979 James R.
Schlesinger
(b. 1929 - d. 2014)
24
Aug 1979 - 20 Jan 1981 Charles W. Duncan,
Jr.
(b. 1926 - d. 2022)
20
Jan 1981 - 23 Jan 1981 William W. Lewis (acting)
(b. 1942)
23 Jan 1981 - 5 Nov
1982 James B.
Edwards
(b. 1927 - d. 2014)
5
Nov 1982 - 7 Feb 1985 Donald P.
Hodel
(b. 1935)
(acting to 8 Dec 1982)
7
Feb 1985 - 20 Jan 1989 John S.
Herrington
(b. 1939)
20
Jan 1989 - 1 Mar 1989 Donna R. Fitzpatrick
(f) (acting) (b. 1948)
1 Mar 1989 - 20 Jan
1993 James D.
Watkins
(b. 1927 - d. 2012)
20
Jan 1993 - 22 Jan 1993 Linda G. Stuntz (f)
(acting) (b. 1954)
22 Jan 1993 - 12 Mar
1997 Hazel O'Leary
(f)
(b. 1937)
12
Mar 1997 - 30 Jun 1998 Federico F.
Peña
(b. 1947)
1 Jul 1998 - 18 Aug
1998 Elizabeth A. Moler (f) (acting)
(b. 1949)
18 Aug 1998 - 20 Jan 2001
William "Bill"
Richardson
(b. 1947 - d. 2023)
20
Jan 2001 - 1 Feb 2005 Spencer
Abraham
(b. 1952)
1 Feb 2005 - 20 Jan 2009
Samuel Wright
Bodman
(b. 1938 - d. 2018)
21 Jan 2009 - 23 Apr 2013 Steven Chu
(b. 1948)
23 Apr 2013 - 21 May 2013 Daniel B. Poneman
(acting)
(b. 1956)
21 May 2013 - 20 Jan 2017 Ernest J.
Moniz
(b. 1944)
20 Jan 2017 - 2 Mar 2017 Grace M. Bochenek
(f) (acting) (b. 1961)
2 Mar 2017 - 1 Dec 2019 James Richard
"Rick"
Perry
(b. 1950)
2 Dec 2019 - 20 Jan 2021 Danny Ray
Brouillette
(b. 1962)
(acting
to 4 Dec 2019)
20 Jan 2021 - 25 Feb 2021 David
G. Huizenga (acting)
25 Feb 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Jennifer Mulhern
Granholm (f) (b. 1959)
20 Jan 2025 - 3 Feb 2025 Ingrid Ann
Christner Kolb (f) (b.
1958?)
(acting)
3 Feb 2025 -
Christopher "Chris" A. Wright
(b. 1965)
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
1949 - 18 Jan 1975
|
1 Aug 1946
Atomic Energy Commission (an
independent agency).
18 Jan 1975
Divided in two, with its research
and development
responsibilities assumed by the Energy Research and
Development
Administration (ERDA),
and its regulatory ones by the
Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC).
Chairmen
1 Nov 1946 - 15 Feb
1950 David Eli
Lilienthal
(b. 1899 - d. 1981)
15 Feb 1950 - 11 Jul
1950 Sumner T. Pike (acting)
(b. 1891 - d. 1976)
11 Jul 1950 - 30 Jun 1953 Gordon Evans
Dean
(b. 1905 - d. 1958)
2 Jul 1953 - 30 Jun 1958 Lewis Lichtenstein
Strauss
(b. 1896 - d. 1974)
1 Jul
1958 - 14 Jul 1958 Willard F. Libby (acting)
(b. 1908 - d. 1980)
14 Jul 1958 - 20 Jan 1961 John Alex
McCone
(b. 1902 - d. 1991)
20 Jan 1961 - 1 Mar
1961 John S. Graham (acting)
(b. 1905 - d. 1976)
1 Mar 1961 - 16 Aug 1971 Glenn
Theodore
Seaborg
(b. 1912 - d. 1999)
17 Aug 1971 - 5 Feb
1973 James Rodney
Schlesinger
(b. 1929 - d. 2014)
6 Feb 1973 - 18 Jan
1975 Dixy Lee Ray
(f)
(b. 1914 - d. 1994)
Federal Energy Administration
18 Apr 1973
National Energy Office (in
Executive Office of the President).
29 Jun
1973
Renamed Energy Policy Office.
4 Dec 1973
Renamed Federal Energy Office.
28 Jun
1974
Federal Energy Administration (FEA)(an
independent agency).
1 Oct 1977
Merged into the Department of
Energy.
Special Assistant to the President for
Energy
18 Apr 1973 - 16 Jul 1973 Charles J.
DiBona
(b. 1932)
Director of the Energy Policy Office
16 Jul 1973 - 4 Dec 1973 John A. Love
(b. 1916 - d. 2002)
Directors of the Federal
Energy Office
4 Dec 1973 - 9 May 1974 William
E. Simon
(b. 1927 - d. 2000)
9 May 1974 - 28 Jun 1974 John C.
Sawhill
(b. 1936 - d. 2000)
Administrator of the Federal
Energy Administration
28 Jun 1974 - 18 Dec 1974 John C.
Sawhill
(s.a.)
18 Dec 1974 - 15 Jan 1977 Frank G. Zarb
(b. 1935)
15 Jan 1977 - 5 Feb 1977 Gorman C.
Smith
(acting)
(b. 1928 - d. 1988)
5 Feb 1977 - 30 Sep 1977 John O'Leary
(b. 1926 - d. 1987)
Energy Research and Development Administration
(ERDA)
![[Energy Research and Development Administration
(ERDA) flag 1975-1977] [Energy Research and
Development Administration (ERDA) flag 1975-1977]](us-erda.jpg)
19 Jan 1975
Energy Research and Development
Administration (ERDA)(an
independent agency) created from the research and
development
responsibilities of the Atomic Energy Commission.
1 Oct 1977
Merged into the Department of Energy.
Administrators
19 Jan 1975 - 20 Jan 1977
Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
(b. 1918 - d. 2008)
20 Jan 1977 - 30 Sep 1977
Robert W. Fri (acting)
(b. 1935 - d.
2014)
Department of Health
and Human Services
-
- 1939 - 1953
|
-
- 17 Dec 1953 - 4 May 1980
|
-
- Adopted 28 Nov 1980
|
Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS)
1 Jul
1939
Federal Security Agency (FSA)(an independent
agency).
11 Apr
1953
Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), a
cabinet
level
department.
4 May 1980
Divided into Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS), and Department of Education (signed 27
Sep 1979).
Administrators of the Federal Security Agency
12 Jul 1939 - 14 Sep 1945 Paul Vories
McNutt
(b. 1891 - d. 1955)
14 Sep 1945 - 18 Aug 1947 Watson B.
Miller
(b. 1878 - d. 1961)
(acting to 11 Oct 1945)
19 Aug 1947 - 20 Jan 1953 Oscar R.
Ewing
(b. 1889 - d. 1980)
21 Jan 1953 - 11 Apr 1953 Oveta Culp
Hobby
(f)
(b. 1905 - d. 1995)
Secretaries of Health, Education and Welfare
11 Apr 1953 - 31 Jul 1955 Oveta Culp
Hobby
(f)
(s.a.)
1 Aug 1955 - 31 Jul 1958 Marion B.
Folsom
(b. 1893 - d. 1976)
1 Aug 1958 - 20 Jan 1961 Arthur S.
Flemming
(b. 1905 - d. 1996)
21 Jan 1961 - 13 Jul 1962 Abraham A.
Ribicoff
(b. 1910 - d. 1998)
13 Jul 1962 - 31 Jul 1962 Ivan A.
Nestingen (acting) (b. 1921
- d. 1978)
31 Jul 1962 - 18 Aug 1965 Anthony J.
Celebrezze
(b. 1910 - d. 1998)
18 Aug 1965 - 2 Mar 1968 John W.
Gardner
(b. 1912 - d. 2002)
2 Mar 1968 - 20 Jan 1969 Wilbur J.
Cohen
(b. 1913 - d. 1987)
(acting to 16 May 1968)
21 Jan 1969 - 24 Jun 1970 Robert H.
Finch
(b. 1925 - d. 1995)
24 Jun 1970 - 29 Jan 1973 Elliot L.
Richardson
(b. 1920 - d. 1999)
29 Jan 1973 - 8 Feb 1973 Frank C.
Carlucci III (acting) (b. 1930
- d. 2018)
8 Feb 1973 - 8 Aug 1975 Caspar W.
Weinberger
(b. 1917 - d. 2006)
8 Aug 1975 - 20 Jan 1977 Forrest D.
Mathews
(b. 1935)
25 Jan 1977 - 3 Aug 1979 Joseph A.
Califano,
Jr.
(b. 1931)
3 Aug 1979 - 4 May 1980
Patricia Roberts Harris
(f) (b. 1924 -
d. 1985)
Secretaries of Health and Human Services
4 May 1980 - 20 Jan 1981 Patricia
Roberts Harris
(f) (s.a.)
22 Jan 1981 - 3 Feb
1983 Richard S.
Schweiker
(b. 1926 - d. 2015)
4 Feb 1983 - 9 Mar 1983
Thomas R. Donnelly, Jr. (acting)
(b. 1939)
9 Mar 1983 - 13 Dec 1985 Margaret M.
Heckler
(f)
(b. 1931 - d. 2018)
13 Dec 1985 - 20 Jan
1989 Otis R.
Bowen
(b. 1918 - d. 2013)
20 Jan 1989 - 1 Mar
1989 Don M. Newman (acting)
(b. 1923 - d. 2021)
1 Mar 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 Louis W.
Sullivan
(b. 1933)
22 Jan 1993 - 19 Jan
2001 Donna E. Shalala
(f)
(b. 1941)
20 Jan 2001 - 2 Feb
2001 David Satcher
(acting)
(b. 1941)
2 Feb 2001 - 26 Jan
2005 Tommy George
Thompson
(b. 1941)
26 Jan 2005 - 20 Jan 2009
Michael "Mike" O. Leavitt
(b. 1951)
20 Jan 2009 - 28 Apr 2009 Charles E.
Johnson (acting) (b. 1936)
28 Apr 2009 - 9 Jun 2014
Kathleen G. Sebelius (f)
(b. 1948)
9 Jun 2014 - 20 Jan 2017 Sylvia
Mathews Burwell (f) (b.
1965)
20 Jan 2017 - 10 Feb 2017 Norris W. Cochran IV
(1st time) (b. 1968)
(acting)
10 Feb 2017 - 29 Sep 2017 Thomas "Tom" E.
Price
(b. 1954)
29 Sep 2017 - 10 Oct 2017 Donald "Don" J. Wright
(acting)
10 Oct 2017 - 29 Jan 2018 Eric D. Hargan (acting)
(b. 1968)
29 Jan 2018 - 20 Jan 2021 Alex Michael Azar II
(b.
1967)
20 Jan 2021 - 19 Mar 2021
Norris W. Cochran IV (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
19 Mar 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Xavier Becerra
(b. 1958)
20 Jan 2025 - 13 Feb 2025 Dorothy A. Fink (f)
(acting)
13 Feb 2025
-
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
(b. 1954)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Food and Drug
Administration (FDA)
15 May
1862
Division of Chemistry (within Department of
Agriculture).
1 Jul
1901
Bureau of Chemistry (within Department of Agriculture).
1 Jul
1927
Renamed
Food, Drug and Insecticide Administration (FDIA).
27 May
1930
Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
30 Jun
1940
Under the Federal Security Agency.
11 Apr
1953
Under the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
1 Jul 1970
Under the Public Health Service.
4 May
1980
Under the Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS).
Chiefs
1862 -
1864
Charles Mayer Wetherill
(b. 1825 - d. 1871)
1864 - 1866
Henri Erni
(b. 1822 - d. 1885)
1866 -
1871
Thomas Antisell
(b. 1817 - d.
1893)
1872 -
1873
Ryland T. Brown
(b. 1807 - d. 1890)
1873 -
1878
William McMurtrie
(b. 1851 - d. 1913)
1878 -
1883
Peter Collier
(b. 1835 - d. 1896)
1883 - 15 Mar
1912
Harvey Washington
Wiley
(b. 1844 - d. 1930)
16 Dec 1912 - 15 Jul 1921 Carl Lucas
Alsberg
(b. 1877 - d. 1940)
16 Jul 1921 - 30 Jun 1924 Walter Gilbert
Campbell (1st time) (b. 1877 - d. 1963)
(acting)
1 Jul 1924 - 30 Jun 1927 Charles
Albert
Browne
(b. 1870 - d. 1947)
1 Jul 1927 - 30 Jun 1940 Walter
Gilbert Campbell (2nd time) (s.a.)
Commissioners
30 Jun 1940 - 30 Apr 1944 Walter Gilbert
Campbell
(s.a.)
1 May 1944 - 31 May 1951
Paul Brown
Dunbar
(b. 1882 - d. 1968)
(acting
to 6 May 1944)
1 Jun 1951 - 31 Jul 1954 Charles W.
Crawford
(b. 1888 - d. 1957)
1 Aug 1954 - 27 Dec 1965 George P.
Larrick
(b. 1901 - d. 1968)
(acting to 12 Aug 1954)
28 Dec 1965 - 17 Jan 1966 Winton B. Rankin
(acting)
(b. 1916 - d. 2015)
17 Jan 1966 - 1 Jul 1968 James L.
Goddard
(b. 1923 - d. 2009)
1 Jul 1968 - 12 Dec 1969 Herbert
Ley,
Jr.
(b. 1923 - d. 2001)
13 Dec 1969 - 15 Mar 1973 Charles C.
Edwards
(b. 1923 - d.
2011)
16 Mar 1973 - 20 Jul 1973 Sherwin Gardner
(1st time) (b. 1928)
(acting)
20 Jul 1973 - 30 Nov 1976 Alexander M.
Schmidt
(b. 1930 - d. 1991)
1 Dec 1976 - 3 Apr 1977
Sherwin Gardner (2nd time)
(s.a.)
(acting)
4 Apr 1977 - 30 Jun 1979 Donald
Kennedy
(b. 1931 - d. 2020)
30 Jun 1979 - 20 Oct 1979 Sherwin Gardner
(3rd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
21 Oct 1979 - 20 Jan 1981 Jere E.
Goyan
(b. 1927 - d. 2007)
20 Jan 1981 - 13 Apr 1981 Mark Novitch
(1st time) (acting) (b. 1932 - d. 2019)
13 Apr 1981 - 11 Sep 1983 Arthur Hull
Hayes,
Jr.
(b. 1933 - d. 2010)
11 Sep 1983 - 15 Jul 1984 Mark Novitch
(2nd time) (acting) (s.a.)
15 Jul 1984 - 17 Dec 1989 Frank E.
Young
(b. 1931 - d. 2019)
18 Dec 1989 - 7 Nov 1990 James S.
Benson (acting)
(b. 1939 - d. 2018)
8 Nov 1990 - 28 Feb 1997 David A.
Kessler
(b. 1951)
1 Mar 1997 - 16 Jan 1999 Michael A.
Friedman (acting) (b. c.1944)
17 Jan 1999 - 19 Jan 2001 Jane E. Henney
(f)
(b. 1947)
20 Jan 2001 - 24 Feb 2002 Bernard A.
Schwetz
(acting) (b.
1940 - d. 2023)
25 Feb 2002 - 14 Nov 2002 Lester M.
Crawford (1st time) (b.
1938 - d. 2021)
(acting)
14 Nov 2002 - 26 Mar 2004 Mark B.
McClellan
(b. 1963)
26 Mar 2004 - 23 Sep 2005 Lester M.
Crawford (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting to 18 Jul 2005)
23 Sep 2005 - 20 Jan 2009 Andrew C. von
Eschenbach (b. 1941)
(acting to 13 Dec 2006)
20 Jan 2009 - 29 Mar 2009 Frank M. Torti (acting)
(b. 1947)
30 Mar 2009 - 21 May 2009 Joshua M. Sharfstein
(acting) (b. 1970)
22 May 2009 - 4 Apr 2015 Margaret A. Hamburg
(f) (b. 1955)
5 Apr 2015 - 23 Feb 2016 Stephen M. Ostroff
(1st time)
(acting)
24 Feb 2016 - 20 Jan 2017 Robert M. Califf (1st
time) (b. 1951)
21 Jan 2017 - 10 May 2017 Stephen M.
Ostroff (2nd time)
(acting)
11 May 2017 - 5 Apr 2019
Scott
Gottlieb
(b. 1972)
5 Apr 2019 - 5 Nov 2019 Norman
E. "Ned" Sharpless (acting) (b. 1966)
6 Nov 2019 - 16 Dec 2019 Brett P. Giroir
(acting)
(b. 1960)
17 Dec 2019 - 20 Jan 2021 Stephen M.
Hahn
(b. 1960)
20 Jan 2021 - 16 Feb 2022 Janet
Woodcock (f)
(acting) (b.
1948)
17 Feb 2022 - 20 Jan 2025 Robert M. Califf (2nd
time) (s.a.)
24 Jan 2025 - 26 Mar 2025
Sara Brenner (f) (acting)
26 Mar 2025
-
Martin "Marty" A.
Makary
(b. 1970)
Public Health Service (PHS)
![[U.S. Marine
Hospital Service flag 1871-1902] [U.S. Marine Hospital
Service flag 1871-1902]](us-phs-mhs.gif)
1871 - 1902
|
1902 -
14 Aug 1912
|
![[U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) flag] [U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) flag]](us_phs.gif)
Adopted 14 Aug 1912 |
Office of
the Surgeon General
16 Jul
1798
U.S. Marine Hospital Service established.
29 Mar
1871
First Supervising Surgeon
appointed.
4 Jan
1889
Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Marine Hospital Service
established.
1 Jul
1902
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service (an
independent agency).
14 Aug
1912
Public Health Service (PHS)(an independent
agency).
25 Apr
1939
Under the Federal Security Agency.
11 Apr
1953
Under the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
4 May 1980
Under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Supervising Surgeon
29 Mar 1871 - 3 Mar 1875 John Maynard
Woodworth
(b. 1837 - d. 1879)
Supervising Surgeons General
3 Mar 1875 - 14 Mar 1879 John Maynard
Woodworth
(s.a.)
3 Apr 1879 - 1 Jun 1891 John Brown
Hamilton
(b. 1847 - d. 1898)
1 Jun 1891 - 30 Jun 1902 Walter
Wyman
(b. 1848 - d. 1911)
Surgeons General
1 Jul 1902 - 21 Nov 1911
Walter
Wyman
(s.a.)
22 Nov 1911 - 13 Jan 1912 Arthur Henry
Glennan (acting) (b. 1853 - d. 1926)
13 Jan 1912 - 3 Mar 1920 Rupert
Blue
(b. 1868 - d. 1948)
3 Mar 1920 - 31 Jan 1936 Hugh Smith
Cumming
(b. 1869 - d. 1948)
6 Apr 1936 - 6 Apr 1948
Thomas Parran,
Jr.
(b. 1892 - d. 1968)
6 Apr 1948 - 8 Aug 1956
Leonard Andrew
Scheele
(b. 1907 - d. 1993)
8 Aug 1956 - 29 Jan 1961 LeRoy Edgar
Burney
(b. 1906 - d. 1998)
29 Jan 1961 - 2 Mar 1961 Arnold B.
Kurlander (acting)
(b. 1915 - d. 1998)
2 Mar 1961 - 1 Oct 1965 Luther
Leonidas
Terry
(b. 1911 - d. 1985)
1 Oct 1965 - 1 Aug 1969
William H.
Stewart
(b. 1921 - d. 2008)
1 Aug 1969 - 18 Dec 1969 Richard A.
Prindle (acting) (b. 1925 -
d. 2001)
18 Dec 1969 - 30 Jan 1973 Jesse Leonard
Steinfeld
(b. 1927 - d. 2014)
31 Jan 1973 - 13 Jul 1977 S. Paul
Ehrlich, Jr. (acting) (b.
1932 - d. 2005)
13 Jul 1977 - 20 Jan 1981 Julius B.
Richmond
(b. 1916 - d. 2008)
21 Jan 1981 - 14 May 1981 John C. Greene
(acting)
(b. 1936 - d. 2016)
14 May 1981 - 21 Jan 1982 Edward Brandt, Jr.
(acting) (b. 1933 - d. 2007)
21 Jan 1982 - 1 Oct 1989 C. Everett
Koop
(b.
1916 - d. 2013)
1 Oct 1989 - 9 Mar 1990 James
O. Mason (acting)
(b. 1930 - d. 2019)
9 Mar 1990 - 30 Jun 1993 Antonia
Coello Novello
(f) (b.
1944)
1 Jul 1993 - 8 Sep 1993
Robert A. Whitney (acting)
(b. 1935)
8 Sep 1993 - 31 Dec 1994 Joycelyn
Elders
(f)
(b. 1933)
1 Jan 1995 - 1 Jul 1997
Audrey Forbes Manley (f) (acting) (b. 1934)
1 Jul 1997 - 12 Feb 2002 David
Satcher
(b. 1941)
(acting
to 13 Feb 1998)
13 Feb 2002 - 4 Aug 2002 Kenneth
P. Moritsugu (1st time) (b. 1945)
(acting)
5 Aug 2002 - 31 Jul 2006 Richard H.
Carmona
(b. 1949)
1 Aug 2006 - 30 Sep 2007 Kenneth
P. Moritsugu (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
1 Oct 2007 - 1 Oct 2009 Steven K.
Galson (acting) (b.
1956)
1 Oct 2009 - 3 Nov 2009 Donald L.
Weaver (acting)
3 Nov 2009 - 16 Jul 2013 Regina M. Benjamin
(f) (b. 1956)
17 Jul 2013 - 18 Dec 2014 Boris D. Lushniak
(acting)
(b. 1959)
18 Dec 2014 - 21 Apr 2017 Vivek H. Murthy (1st
time) (b.
1977)
21 Apr 2017 - 5 Sep 2017 Sylvia Trent-Adams
(f) (acting) (b. 1965)
5 Sep 2017 - 20 Jan 2021 Jerome M. Adams
(b. 1974)
21 Jan 2021 - 26 Jan 2021 Felicia L. Collins (f)
(acting)
26 Jan 2021 - 25 Mar 2021 Susan M.
Orsega (f) (acting)
(b. 1968)
25 Mar 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Vivek H. Murthy (2nd
time) (s.a.)
20 Jan 2025 -
Denise Hinton (f)(acting)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National
Institutes of Health
Aug 1887
Hygienic Laboratory established
(within Marine Hospital Service).
1 Jul
1902
Under the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service.
14 Aug
1912
under the Public Health Service.
26 May 1930
Re-designated as National
Institute of Health (NIH).
25 Apr
1939
Under the Federal Security Agency.
16 Jun 1948
Renamed the National
Institutes of Health (NIH).
11 Apr
1953
Under the Department of Health, Education and
Welfare.
4 May 1980
Under the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Directors
Aug 1887 - 30 Apr 1899 Joseph
J. Kinyoun
(b. 1860 - d. 1919)
1 May 1899 - 30 Sep 1909 Milton J.
Rosenau
(b. 1869 - d. 1946)
1 Oct 1909 - 19 Nov 1915 John F.
Anderson
(b. 1873 - d. 1958)
20 Nov 1915 - 31 Jan 1937 George W. McCoy
(b. 1876 - d. 1952)
1 Feb 1937 - 31 Jan 1942 Lewis R.
Thompson
(b. 1883 - d. 1954)
1 Feb 1942 - 30 Sep 1950 Rolla E.
Dyer
(b. 1886 - d. 1971)
1 Oct 1950 - 31 Jul 1955 William H.
Sebrell, Jr. (b.
1901 - d. 1992)
1 Aug 1955 - 31 Aug 1968 James
Augustine Shannon
(b. 1904 - d. 1994)
1 Sep 1968 - 21 Jan 1973 Robert Q.
Marston
(b. 1923 - d. 1999)
21 Jan 1973 - 28 May 1973 John F. Sherman
(acting) (b.
1919 - d. 2015)
29 May 1973 - 31 Jan 1975 Robert S.
Stone
(b. 1922 - d. 2016)
1 Feb 1975 - 30 Jun 1975 Ronald W.
Lamont-Havers (acting) (b.
1920 - d. 2019)
1 Jul 1975 - 30 Jun 1981 Donald "Don"
S. Fredrickson (b. 1924 - d.
2002)
1 Jul 1981 - 28 Apr 1982 Thomas E.
Malone
(acting)
(b. 1926 - d. 2011)
29 Apr 1982 - 31 Jul 1989 James B.
Wyngaarden
(b. 1924 - d. 2019)
1 Aug 1989 - 8 Apr 1991 William
F. Raub (acting)
(b. 1939)
9 Apr 1991 - 30 Jun 1993 Bernadine
Healy (f)
(b. 1944 - d. 2011)
1 Jul 1993 - 23 Nov 1993 Ruth
L. Kirschstein (f)(1st time) (b.
1926 - d. 2009)
(acting)
23 Nov 1993 - 31 Dec 1999 Harold
E. Varmus
(b. 1939)
1 Jan 2000 - 2 May 2002 Ruth L.
Kirschstein (f)(2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
3 May 2002 - 31 Oct 2008 Elias A.
Zerhouni
(b. 1951)
1 Nov 2008 - 16 Aug 2009 Raynard S.
Kington (acting)
17 Aug 2009 - 19 Dec 2021 Francis S. Collins
(b. 1950)
20 Dec 2021 - 8 Nov 2023 Lawrence A. Tabak
(1st time) (b. 1951)
(acting)
9 Nov 2023 - 17 Jan 2025 Monica M.
Bertagnolli
(f)
(b. 1959)
17 Jan 2025 - 22 Jan 2025
Lawrence A. Tabak (2nd
time) (s.a.)
(acting)
22 Jan 2025 - 26 Mar 2025
Matthew J. Memoli (acting)
(b. 1973)
26 Mar 2025
-
Jayanta
Bhattacharya
(b. 1968)
Civilian Conservation Corps
5 Apr
1933
Emergency Conservation Work (an
independent agency).
28 Jun
1937
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)(an independent
agency).
25 Apr
1939
Under the Federal Security Agency.
30 Jun
1943
Abolished.
National Directors
5 Apr 1933 - 31 Dec
1939 Robert
Fecher
(b. 1876 - d. 1939)
31 Dec 1939 - 30 Jun
1943 James Joseph
McEntee
(b. 1884 - d. 1957)
(acting to 26 Feb 1940)
Department of
Education
Adopted 31 Dec 1980
|
Department of Education
2 Mar
1867
Department of Education established as a non-cabinet
agency.
20 Jul
1868
Office of Education (within the Department
of Interior).
1 Jul
1869
Bureau of Education (within Department of Interior).
14 May
1930
Office of Education (within Department of Interior).
1 Jul
1939
Under the Federal Security Agency.
11 Apr
1953
Under the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
17 Oct
1979
Department of Education (a cabinet post).
Commissioners of Education
14 Mar 1867 - 15 Mar 1870 Henry
Barnard
(b. 1811 - d. 1900)
16 Mar 1870 - 5 Aug 1886 John
Eaton,
Jr.
(b. 1820 - d. 1906)
6 Aug 1886 - 3 Sep 1889
Nathaniel H.R. Dawson
(b. 1829 - d. 1895)
12 Sep 1889 - 30 Jun 1906 William T.
Harris
(b. 1835 - d. 1909)
1 Jul 1906 - 30 Jun 1911 Elmer E.
Brown
(b. 1861 - d. 1934)
1 Jul 1911 - 2 Jun 1921
Philander P.
Claxton
(b. 1862 - d. 1957)
2 Jun 1921 - 31 Aug 1928 John J.
Tigert
IV
(b. 1882 - d. 1965)
31 Aug 1928 - 11 Feb 1929 Lewis A.
Kalbach (acting) (b.
1866 - d. 1952)
11 Feb 1929 - 10 Jul 1933 William J. Cooper
(b. 1882 - d. 1935)
10 Jul 1933 - 1 Jul 1934 George F.
Zook
(b. 1885 - d. 1951)
1 Jul 1934 - 15 Jul 1948 John W.
Studebaker
(b. 1887 - d. 1989)
1948 -
1949
Rall I. Grigsby (acting)
(b. 1897 - d. 1975)
1949 -
1953
Earl J.
McGrath
(b. 1902 - d. 1993)
1953 - 4 Sep 1953
Lee M. Thurston
(b. 1895 - d.
1953)
1953 -
1956
Samuel M.
Brownell
(b. 1900 - d. 1990)
1956 -
1961
Lawrence G.
Derthick
(b. 1905 - d. 1992)
3 Feb 1961 - 8 Sep 1962
Sterling M.
McMurrin
(b. 1914 - d. 1996)
1962
Wayne O. Reed
(acting) (b.
1911 - d. 1974)
10 Dec 1962 - 21 May 1965 Francis C.
Keppel
(b. 1916 - d. 1990)
1965 -
1968
Harold Howe
II
(b. 1918 - d. 2002)
5 May 1969 - 10 Jun 1970 James E.
Allen,
Jr.
(b. 1911 - d. 1971)
1970
Terrel H. Bell (1st
time)(acting) (b. 1921 - d. 1996)
1970 - 1973
Sidney P.
Marland
(b. 1914 - d. 1992)
1973 - 1974
John R. Ottina
(b. 1932 - d. 2008)
Jun 1974 - Jul
1976 Terrel H.
Bell (2nd time)
(s.a.)
Jul 1976 - Oct 1976
William F. Pierce (acting)
(b. 1932)
1976 - 1977
Edward Aguirre
(b. 1929 - d.
2015)
31 Mar 1977 - 30 Jun 1979 Ernest L.
Boyer
(b. 1928 - d. 1995)
Dec 1979 - May 1980 William
L. Smith
(b. 1929 - d.
2008)
Secretaries
6 Dec 1979 - 20 Jan 1981 Shirley M.
Hufstedler (f)
(b. 1925 - d. 2016)
22 Jan 1981 - 31 Dec 1984
Terrel H.
Bell
(s.a.)
31 Dec 1984 - 6 Feb 1985 Gary L. Jones
(acting)
(b. 1944)
6 Feb 1985 - 20 Sep 1988 William
"Bill"
Bennett
(b. 1943)
20 Sep 1988 - 15 Dec 1990 Lauro F.
Cavazos
(b. 1927 - d. 2022)
15 Dec 1990 - 22 Mar 1991 Ted Sanders
(acting)
(b. 1941)
22 Mar 1991 - 20 Jan 1993 Lamar
Alexander
(b. 1940)
21 Jan 1993 - 20 Jan 2001 Richard W.
Riley
(b. 1933)
21 Jan 2001 - 31 Jan 2005 Roderick "Rod"
Paige
(b. 1933)
31 Jan 2005 - 20 Jan 2009 Margaret
Spellings
(f)
(b. 1957)
21 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2015 Arne Duncan
(b. 1964)
1 Jan 2016 - 20 Jan 2017 John B. King, Jr.
(b. 1975)
(acting
to 14 Mar 2016)
20 Jan 2017 - 7 Feb 2017 Philip "Phil" H.
Rosenfelt
(b. 1945)
(1st time) (acting)
7 Feb 2017 - 8 Jan 2021 Elisabeth
"Betsy" Prince DeVos (f) (b. 1958)
8 Jan 2021 - 20 Jan 2021
Mitchell "Mick" M. Zais (acting) (b. 1946)
20 Jan 2021 - 2 Mar 2021 Philip
"Phil" H.
Rosenfelt
(s.a.)
(2nd time) (acting)
2 Mar 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Miguel Angel
Cardona
(b. 1975)
20 Jan 2025 - 3 Mar 2025
Denise L. Carter (f) (acting)
3 Mar 2025
-
Linda M. McMahon (f)
(b. 1948)
Department of
Veterans Affairs
c.1930 - 15 Mar 1989
|
Adopted 15 Mar 1989 |
Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA)
9 Aug 1921
Veterans Bureau established (merger of Bureau
of War Risk
Insurance, Rehabilitation Division, and Federal Board
for
Vocational Education), an independent agency.
24 Aug
1921
Renamed U.S. Veterans Bureau.
21 Jul
1930
Veterans Administration (merger of U.S.
Veterans Bureau, Bureau
of
Pensions, and National Home for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers),
an independent
agency.
15 Mar
1989
Department of Veterans Affairs (a cabinet post).
Directors of the Veterans Bureau
9 Aug 1921 - 28 Feb
1923 Charles R.
Forbes
(b. 1877 - d. 1952)
1 Mar 1923 - 21 Jul
1930 Frank T.
Hines
(b. 1879 - d. 1960)
Administrators of Veterans
Administration
21 Jul 1930 - 15 Aug
1945 Frank T.
Hines
(s.a.)
15 Aug 1945 - 30 Nov
1947 Omar N.
Bradley
(b. 1893 - d. 1981)
1 Dec 1947 - 31 Dec 1947 Omer W.
Clark (acting)
(b. 1887 - d. 1970)
1 Jan 1948 -
1953
Carl R.
Gray
(b. 1889 - d. 1955)
22 Jul 1953 - 13 Nov
1957 Harvey V.
Higley
(b. 1892 - d. 1986)
13 Nov 1957 - 18 Dec
1957 John Sutton Patterson
(acting) (b. 1902 - d. 1983)
18 Dec 1957 - 20 Jan 1961 Sumner G.
Whittier
(b. 1911 - d. 2010)
30 Jan 1961 - 1 Jan
1965 John S. Gleason
(b. 1915 - d.
1993)
1965 -
1969
William J.
Driver
(b. 1918 - d. 1985)
1969 -
1974
Donald E.
Johnson
(b. 1924 - d. 1999)
12 Oct 1974 - 20 Jan
1977 Richard L.
Roudebush
(b. 1918 - d. 1995)
20 Jan 1977 - 20 Jan
1981 J. Max
Cleland
(b. 1942 - d. 2021)
15 Jul 1981 - 5 Jan
1983 Robert P.
Nimmo
(b. 1922 - d. 2005)
5 Jan 1983 - 21 Mar 1986
Harry N.
Walters
(b. 1936 - d. 2019)
1986 -
1989
Thomas K.
Turnage
(b. 1923 - d. 2000)
1 Mar 1989 - 15 Mar 1989
Edward J.
Derwinski
(b. 1926 - d. 2012)
Secretaries of Veterans
Affairs
15 Mar 1989 - 26 Sep
1992 Edward J.
Derwinski
(s.a.)
26 Sep 1992 - 22 Jan
1993 Anthony J. Principi (1st
time) (b. 1944)
(acting)
22 Jan 1993 - 3 Jul
1997 Jesse
Brown
(b. 1944 - d. 2002)
3 Jul 1997 - 2 Jan
1998 Hershel W. Gober (1st
time) (b. 1936
- d. 2024)
(acting)
2 Jan 1998 - 10 Jul
2000 Togo D. West,
Jr.
(b. 1942 - d. 2018)
(acting to 5 May 1998)
10 Jul 2000 - 20 Jan
2001 Hershel W. Gober (2nd
time) (s.a.)
(acting)
23 Jan 2001 - 1 Feb
2005 Anthony J. Principi (2nd
time) (s.a.)
1 Feb 2005 - 1
Oct 2007 R. James "Jim"
Nicholson
(b. 1938)
1 Oct 2007 - 20 Dec 2007
Gordon H. Mansfield (acting)
(b. 1941 - d. 2013)
20 Dec 2007 - 20 Jan 2009 James B.
Peake
(b. 1944)
21 Jan 2009 - 30 May 2014 Eric K. Shinseki
(b. 1942)
30 May 2014 - 30 Jul 2014 Sloan D. Gibson IV
(acting) (b. 1952?)
30 Jul 2014 - 20 Jan 2017 Robert "Bob" A.
McDonald
(b. 1953)
20 Jan 2017 - 14 Feb 2017 Robert "Bob" T. Snyder
(acting)
14 Feb 2017 - 28 Mar 2018 David
J. Shulkin
(b. 1959)
28 Mar 2018 - 29 May 2018
Robert L. Wilkie, Jr. (1st time) (b. 1962)
(acting)
29 May 2018 - 30 Jul 2018 Peter O'Rourke (acting)
(b. 1966)
30 Jul 2018 - 20 Jan 2021 Robert L.
Wilkie, Jr. (2nd time) (s.a.)
20 Jan 2021 - 9 Feb 2021 Dat P. Tran
(acting)
9 Feb 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Denis R. McDonough
(b. 1969)
20 Jan 2025 - 5 Feb 2025 Todd B.
Hunter (acting)
5 Feb 2025 -
Douglas A.
Collins
(b. 1966)
Department of Homeland
Security
2001 - 19 Jun 2003
|
Adopted 19 Jun 2003 |
Department of Homeland
Security (DHS)
8 Oct
2001
Office of Homeland Security (within Executive Office
of
the President).
24 Jan
2003
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established.
Director of the Office of Homeland Security
8 Oct 2001 - 24 Jan 2003 Thomas
"Tom" Joseph
Ridge
(b. 1945)
Secretaries of the Department of Homeland Security
24 Jan 2003 - 1 Feb 2005 Thomas
"Tom" Joseph Ridge
(s.a.)
2 Feb 2005 - 15 Feb 2005 James
Milton Loy (acting)
(b. 1942)
15 Feb 2005 - 21 Jan 2009 Michael
Chertoff
(b. 1953)
21 Jan 2009 - 6 Sep 2013 Janet Ann
Napolitano (f) (b.
1957)
6 Sep 2013 - 23 Dec 2013 Rand Beers (acting)
(b. 1942)
23 Dec 2013 - 20 Jan 2017 Jeh Charles Johnson
(b. 1957)
20 Jan 2017
Chip Fulghum
(acting)
(b. c.1962)
20 Jan 2017 - 31 Jul 2017 John
F. Kelly
(b. 1950)
31 Jul 2017 - 6 Dec 2017 Elaine Costanzo
Duke (f)(acting) (b. 1958)
6 Dec 2017 - 10 Apr 2019 Kirstjen Michele
Nielsen (f) (b.
1972)
10 Apr 2019 - 13 Nov 2019 Kevin K. McAleenan
(acting) (b. 1971)
13 Nov 2019 - 11 Jan 2021 Chad F. Wolf
(acting)
(b. 1976)
12 Jan 2021 - 20 Jan 2021 Peter T. Gaynor
(acting) (b.
1958)
20 Jan 2021 - 2 Feb 2021 David P. Pekoske
(acting)
(b.
1955)
2 Feb 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Alejandro N.
Mayorkas
(b. 1959)
20 Jan 2025 - 25 Jan 2025 Benjamine C. "Carry"
Huffman
(acting)
25 Jan 2025 -
Kristi L. Arnold Noem (f)
(b. 1971)
U.S. Coast Guard
-
- 1 Aug 1799
- 1910 U.S.Revenue Marine Ensign
|
-
- c.1815 - c.1868
Revenue Marine Variant
|
-
- c.1868 - 1910 Revenue
Marine Variant
|
-
- U.S.
Life-Saving Service 1878 - 1915
|
-
- 7 Jul 1910 - 1915 U.S. Revenue
Marine Ensign
|
-
- 1915 - 1953 U.S. Coast Guard Ensign
|
-
- Adopted 1953 U.S. Coast Guard Ensign
|
-
- Coast Guard Service Standard
- Adopted 28 Jan 1964
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|
U.S. Coast Guard
4 Aug
1790
Congress creates a service to enforce customs
laws;
alternately known as the System of Cutters,
Revenue
Service, and later U.S. Revenue-Marine (USRM).
Cutters are
controlled by the Collector of Customs at the port to
which
they are
assigned (within the Treasury Department).
1812 -
1814
System of Cutters placed under the command of the U.S.
Navy.
1 Nov
1843
Revenue-Marine Bureau created (within the Treasury
Department).
1846 -
1848
Revenue-Marine placed under the command of the U.S.
Navy.
3 Mar 1849 - 1 Jul 1869 Revenue-Marine
Bureau is dissolved and the Revenue Marine are
placed under the direct control of U.S. Commissioner of
Customs
(within the Treasury Department).
1 Jul
1869
Revenue-Marine Bureau is re-established on an interim
basis.
1 Feb 1871
Revenue Marine Division
(within the Treasury Department).
18 Jun
1878
U.S. Life-Saving Service established as a separate
agency
(under
supervision of the Treasury Department).
31 Jul 1894
U.S. Revenue
Cutter Service (USRCS).
28 Jan
1915
United States Coast Guard created (by merger
of U.S. Revenue
Cutter
Service and the U.S. Life-Saving Service).
6 Apr 1917 - 28 Aug
1919 Transferred to the control of the Navy
Department.
1 Jul
1939
U.S. Lighthouse Service merged with U.S. Coast Guard.
28 Feb
1942
Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation merged into
U.S.
Coast Guard.
1 Nov 1941 - 1 Jan 1946 Transferred to
control of the Navy Department.
1 Apr 1967
Transferred to the Department of Transportation.
1 Mar
2003
Transferred to the Department of Homeland Security.
Chiefs of the Service of Cutters
1790 -
1843
the Secretaries of Treasury
Chiefs, Revenue-Marine Bureau
1843 -
1848
Alexander V. Fraser
(b. 1804 - d. 1868)
1848 -
1849
Richard Evans
3 Mar 1849 - 1 Jul 1869 the
Commissioners of Customs
1 Jul 1869 -
1871 N.
Broughton Devereux (interim)
Chiefs, Revenue
Marine Division
1 Feb 1871 -
1878
Sumner Increase
Kimball
(b. 1834 - d. 1923)
1878 - 1881
Ezra W. Clark
(b. 1839 - d.
1915)
1881 -
1883
James H. Merryman
(b. 1827 - d. 1890)
(general superintendent)
1883 -
1886
John W.
White
(b. 1829 - d. 1892)
1886 -
1889
Peter Bonnet
General Superintendent of the U.S. Life-Saving
Service
18 Jun 1878 - 28 Jan 1915 Sumner Increase
Kimball
(s.a.)
Captain-Commandant of the Revenue Marine Service
28 Dec 1889 - 31 Jul 1894 Leonard Griffin
Shepard
(b. 1846 - d. 1895)
Captain-Commandants of the U.S. Revenue Cutter
Service
31 Jul 1894 - 1 Mar 1895 Leonard
Griffin
Shepard
(s.a.)
19 Mar 1895 - 27 Mar 1905 Charles
Frederic
Shoemaker
(b. 1841 - d. 1913)
25 Apr 1905 - 8 May 1908 Worth
Gwynn
Ross
(b. 1854 - d. 1916)
Captain-Commandants of the U.S. Revenue Cutter
Service
8 May 1908 - 30 Apr 1911 Worth
Gwynn
Ross
(s.a.)
19 Jun 1911 - 28 Jan 1915 Ellsworth Price
Bertholf
(b. 1866 - d. 1921)
Captain-Commandants of the United
States Coast Guard
28 Jan 1915 - 30 Jun 1919 Ellsworth Price
Bertholf
(b. 1866 - d. 1921)
30 Jun 1919 - 2 Oct 1919 Daniel P.
Foley (acting)
(b. 1857 - d. 1932)
2 Oct 1919 - 12 Jan 1923 William Edward
Reynolds
(b. 1860 - d. 1944)
Commandants, United States Coast Guard
12 Jan 1923 - 11 Jan 1924
William Edward
Reynolds
(s.a.)
11 Jan 1924 - 17 May 1932 Frederick C.
Billard
(b. 1873 - d. 1932)
17 May 1932 - 14 Jun 1932 Leon Claude
Covell
(acting) (b.
1877 - d. 1960)
14 Jun 1932 - 14 Jun 1936 Harry Gabriel
Hamlet
(b. 1874 - d. 1954)
14 Jun 1936 - 1 Jan 1946 Russell
Randolph
Waesche
(b. 1886 - d. 1946)
1 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1949 Joseph
Francis
Farley
(b. 1889 - d. 1974)
1 Jan 1950 - 31 May 1954 Merlin
O'Neill
(b. 1898 - d. 1981)
1 Jun 1954 - 31 May 1962 Alfred
Caroll
Richmond
(b. 1902 - d. 1984)
1 Jun 1962 - 31 May 1966 Edwin John
Roland
(b. 1905 - d. 1985)
1 Jun 1966 - 31 May 1970 Willard
John
Smith
(b. 1910 - d. 2000)
1 Jun 1970 - 31 May 1974 Chester R.
Bender
(b. 1914 - d. 1996)
1 Jun 1974 - 31 May 1978 Owen
Wesley
Siler
(b. 1922 - d. 2007)
1 Jun 1978 - 28 May 1982 John
Briggs
Hayes
(b. 1924 - d. 2001)
28 May 1982 - 30 May 1986 James Steele
Gracey
(b. 1927 - d. 2020)
30 May 1986 - 31 May 1990 Paul Alexander
Yost,
Jr.
(b. 1929 - d. 2022)
31 May 1990 - 31 May 1994 John William
Kime
(b. 1934 - d. 2006)
1 Jun 1994 - 31 May 1998 Robert
Edward
Kramek
(b. 1939 - d. 2016)
1 Jun 1998 - 30 May 2002 James Milton Loy
(b. 1942)
30 May 2002 - 25 May 2006 Thomas Hansen
Collins
(b. 1946)
25 May 2006 - 25 May 2010 Thad William
Allen
(b. 1949)
25 May 2010 - 30 May 2014 Robert J. Papp, Jr.
(b. 1953)
30 May 2014 - 1 Jun 2018 Paul F. Zukunft
(b. 1955)
1 Jun 2018 - 1 Jun 2022 Karl L.
Schultz
(b. 1961)
1 Jun 2022 - 21 Jan 2025
Linda Lee Fagan (f)
(b. 1963)
21 Jan 2025
-
Kevin E. Lunday
(acting)
(b. 1965)
Women's Reserve of U.S. Coast
Guard (SPARs)
23 Nov
1942
Women's Reserve of the U.S. Coast Guard (WORCOGS).
Dec
1942
Abbreviation changed to SPARs (from the motto "Semper
Paratus
- Always Ready").
25 Jul
1947
Women's Reserve deactivated.
4 Aug
1949
U.S. Coast Guard Women's Volunteer Reserve (USCGRW)
activated
(effective Jan 1950).
7 Dec
1973
USCGRW abolished, women integrated into
regular Coast Guard.
Aug
1978
All personnel restrictions based solely on sex are
lifted.
Directors of the Women's
Reserve of the U.S. Coast Guard
24 Nov 1942 - 16
Jan 1946 Dorothy Constance Stratton
(f) (b. 1899 - d. 2006)
Jan 1946 - 25
Jul 1947 Helen B. Schleman
(f)
(b. 1902 - d. 1992)
25 Jul 1947 - 1950
Post abolished
Commanders, U.S. Coast Guard Women's Volunteer
Reserve, Senior SPAR Officer
1951 - 24 May 1961
Beatrice "Billy" V. Ball
(f) (b. 1902 - d. 1963)
1961 - 1964?
Elizabeth "Betty" F. Splaine (f)
(b. 1920 - d. 2009)
1 Jan 1964
- 196.
Pearl Elinor Faurie (f)
(b. 1911 - d. 2008)
196. -
c.1968
Elizabeth B. Hall (f)
(b. 1918 - d. 1994)
196. - 1969?
Alice Theresa Jefferson (f)
(b. 1922 - d. 2019)
1969 - 1 Jul
1971
Valeria Louise Berg
(f)
(b. 1910 - d. ....)
1971 - 7 Dec
1973
Eleanor Creed L'Ecuyer
(f) (b.
1922 - d. 2020)
U.S. Light House Service
Lighthouse Service Vessel Pennant
1888 - 1939 |
![[U.S. Commissioner of
Lighthouses flag c.1903-1939] [U.S. Commissioner of Lighthouses flag
c.1903-1939]](us_lhsc.gif)
Commissioners Flag c.1910 - 1939
|
7 Aug
1789
U.S. Light-House Establishment (USLHE) established
(within
the Treasury Department, under the Secretary of
Treasury).
9 May 1792 - 6 Apr 1802
Transferred to Office of the Commissioner of Revenue
(within the Treasury Department).
31 Jul 1813 - 31 Dec 1819 Again
transferred to Office of the Commissioner of Revenue.
9 Oct 1852
U.S. Light-House Board created
to administer to the Light-House
Establishment (within the
Treasury Department).
1 Jul 1903
Transferred to the Department
of Commerce and Labor.
1 Jul 1910
U.S. Light House Service (USLHS)
administered by the Bureau
of Lighthouses (within Department of Commerce and Labor;
from 4 Mar 1913, Department of Commerce).
11 Apr 1917 - 1 Jul 1919 Most
lighthouse tenders, lightships and primary lighthouses
transferred to the command of the Navy
Department.
1 Jul 1939
Incorporated
into the U.S. Coast Guard.
Commissioners of the U.S.
Light-House Establishment
11 Sep 1789 - 8 May 1792 the
Secretary of Treasury
9 May 1792 - 6 Apr 1802 the
Commissioners of the Revenue
7 Apr 1802 - 30 Jul 1813 the
Secretaries of Treasury
31 Jul 1813 - 31 Dec 1819 the
Commissioner of the Revenue
7 Jan 1820 - 8 Oct 1852
Stephen
Pleasonton
(b. 1776 - d. 1855)
(fifth auditor of the Treasury
Department)
Chairmen of the Light-House Board
9 Oct 1852 - 7 Feb 1859
William B. Shubrick (1st time) (b.
1790 - d. 1874)
7 Feb 1859 - 6 Jun 1859
Lawrence
Kearny
(b. 1789 - d. 1868)
6 Jun 1859 - 30 Oct 1871
William B. Shubrick (2nd time)
(s.a.)
30 Oct 1871 - 13 May 1878 Joseph
Henry
(b. 1799 - d. 1878)
23 Jun 1878 - 5 May 1882 John Rodgers
(b. 1812 - d. 1882)
5 Jun 1882 - 2 Dec 1882 Robert
Harris Wyman
(b. 1822 - d. 1882)
18 Jan 1883 - 26 Feb 1889 Stephen Clegg
Rowan
(b. 1808 - d. 1890)
27 Feb 1889 - 29 May 1891 David B. Harmony
(b. 1832 - d. 1917)
1 Jun 1891 - 1 Dec 1894 James A.
Greer
(b. 1833 - d. 1904)
4 Dec 1894 - 23 Mar 1897 John G. Walker
(b. 1835 - d. 1907)
5 Apr 1897 - 25 Mar 1898 Winfield Scott
Schley
(b. 1839 - d. 1911)
4 Apr 1898 - 5 Jul 1898 Frederick V.
McNair, Sr. (b.
1839 - d. 1900)
11 Jul 1898 - 3 Oct 1898 Rush R.
Wallace
(b. 1835 - d. 1914)
3 Oct 1898 - 22 Apr 1901 Francis J.
Higginson
(b. 1843 - d. 1931)
2 May 1901 - 11 Apr 1902 Norman H.
Farquhar
(b. 1840 - d. 1907)
6 May 1902 - 8 Aug 1903 George
Collier Remey
(b. 1841 - d. 1928)
8 Aug 1903 - 17 Jun 1904 John Joseph
Read
(b. 1842 - d. 1910)
20 Jun 1904 - 5 Jan 1905 Robley D. Evans
(b. 1846 - d. 1912)
6 Jan 1905 - 25 Feb 1906 Benjamin P.
Lamberton
(b. 1844 - d. 1912)
25 Feb 1906 - 31 Dec 1907 George C.
Reiter
(b. 1845 - d. 1930)
6 Jan 1908 - 30 Jun 1910 Adolph Marix
(b. 1848 - d. 1919)
Commissioners of the Bureau of
Lighthouses
1 Jul 1910 - 31 May 1935 George R. Putnam
(b. 1865 - d. 1953)
31 May 1935 - 1 Jul 1939 Harold D.
King
(b. 1879 - d. 1956)
(acting to Jun 1935)
Customs Service
1 Aug
1799 - 1953 |
![[U.S.
Customs Service Flag] [U.S. Customs Service Flag]](us-uscs.gif)
Adopted 1953 |
![[U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(CBP) flag] [U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
flag]](us-cpb.png)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
|
Customs Service
31 Jul
1789
U.S. Customs created (within the Department of Treasury).
2 Sep 1789
Administration of customs
laws placed under the Secretary
of the
Treasury.
25 Oct 1792
Financial responsibility for customs
collection placed under
the
Comptroller of the Treasury (to 3 Mar 1849).
3 Mar 1849 - 30 Sep 1894 Office of
Commissioner of Customs.
3 Mar
1875
Division of Customs
3 Mar
1927
Bureau of Customs
4 Apr 1973
U.S. Customs Service
1 Mar
2003
Transferred to the Department of Homeland Security (as
the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection [CBP]). The
Department of Treasury retained the power to delegate
customs
revenue
functions.
31 Mar
2007
Renamed U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Commissioners of Customs (primarily
auditors of the Customs
accounts within Treasury
Department)
16 Mar 1849 - 24 Dec
1852 Charles William Rockwell
(b. 1799 - d. 1866)
25 Dec 1852 - 24 Apr
1853 James Nelson Barker
(acting) (b. 1784 -
d. 1858)
25 Apr 1853 - 4 Dec 1857 Hugh Johnston
Anderson (b.
1801 - d. 1881)
5 Dec 1857 - 19 May 1861 Samuel
Ingham
(b. 1793 - d. 1881)
20 May 1861 - 31 May
1871 Nathan Sargent
(b. 1794 - d.
1875)
1 Jun 1871 - 2 Jul
1871 Henry A. Lockwood (acting)
3 Jul 1871 - 30 Apr 1874 William Tilghman
Haines (b. 1833
- d. 1884)
1 May 1874 - 7 Apr
1885 Henry Clay Johnson
(b. 1845 - d. 1914)
8 Apr 1885 - 14 Jun 1889
John Swayze McCalmont
(b. 1822 - d. 1906)
15 Jun 1889 - 31 May
1893 Samuel V. Holliday
(b. 1841 - d.
1900)
1 Jun 1893 - 30 Sep 1894 William Henry
Pugh
(b. 1836 - d. 1917)
Chiefs, Division of Customs
1871 -
1875
Henry B. James (1st time)
1 Jul 1875 -
1879
William F. Clarke
1879 - May 1885
Henry B.
James (2nd time)
19 Dec 1885 -
1893
John G. MacGregor
1893 - 4 Feb
1899
John M. Comstock
(b. 1824 - d. 1899)
1899 -
1903
Andrew Johnson
1903 -
1905
John R. Garrison
(b. 1838 - d. 1908)
1905 - 1 May
1909
James L.
Gerry
(b. 1868? - d. 1951)
1 May 1909 -
1911
Charles P. Montgomery
(b. 1864? - d 1929)
1911 -
1919
Frank M.
Halstead
(b. 1872 - d. 1925)
1919 -
1922
George W. Ashworth
(b. 1860 - d. 1924)
1922 - 1923
Ernest W. Camp
(b. 1887 - d. 1938)
Director, Division of
Customs
1923 - 15 Apr
1927
Ernest W. Camp
(s.a.)
Commissioners of Customs
16 Apr 1927 - 15 May 1929 Ernest W.
Camp
(s.a.)
8 Jul 1929 - 2 Jul 1933
Francis Xavier A. Eble
(b. 1879 - d. 1952)
18 Jul 1933 - 6 Sep 1939 James
Henry Moyle
(b. 1858 - d. 1946)
7 Sep 1939 - 15 Jul 1940 Basil
Harris
(b. 1889 - d. 1948)
19 Jul 1940 - 17 Jun 1947 William Roy
Johnson
(b. 1896 - d. 1977)
1947 - 31 Mar
1953
Frank Dow (acting to 29 Jun 1949) (b. 1888 - d.
1956)
29 Mar 1954 - 20 Jan 1961 Ralph
Kelly
(b. 1888 - d. 1962)
24 Mar 1961 - 1 Oct 1964 Philip
Nichols, Jr.
(b. 1907 - d. 1990)
1 Oct 1964 - 3 Aug 1969
Lester Dechman Johnson
(b. 1907 - d. 1977)
(acting to 3 Aug 1965)
5 Aug 1969 - 5 Feb 1972 Myles Joseph
Ambrose
(b. 1926 - d. 2014)
Feb 1972 - May 1972
Edwin F. Rains (acting)
(b. 1915 - d. 1983)
2 May 1972 - 30 Apr 1977 Vernon Darrell
Acree
(b. 1939 - d. 2013)
15 Jul 1977 - 13 Dec 1980 Robert E.
Chasen
(b. 1916 - d. 2005)
13 Dec 1980 - 13 Oct 1981 William T.
Archey (acting) (b. 1943 -
d. 2017)
13 Oct 1981 - 31 Jul 1989 William "Willy" von Raab
(b. 1942 - d. 2019)
1 Aug 1989 - 2 Nov 1989
Michael H. Lane (1st time)(acting) (b. 1942 - d. 2024)
3 Nov 1989 - 18 Jan 1993 Carol Boyd Hallett
(f) (b. 1937)
19 Jan 1993 - 12 May 1993 Michael
H. Lane (2nd time)(acting) (s.a.)
12 May 1993 - 18 Apr 1997 George J. Weise
(b. 1949)
19 Apr 1997 - 30 Jul 1998 Samuel
Hobart Banks (acting) (b. 1945)
31 Jul 1998 - 19 Jan 2001 Raymond W. Kelly
(b. 1941)
20 Jan 2001 - 19 Sep 2001 Charles W.
Winwood
(acting) (b.
1946)
19 Sep 2001 - 1 Mar 2003 Robert C.
Bonner
(b. 1942)
Commissioners, U.S.
Customs and Border Protection
1 Mar 2003 - 24 Nov 2005 Robert C.
Bonner
(s.a.)
25 Nov 2005 - 25 May
2006 Deborah J. Spero (f)(acting)
26 May 2006 - 1 Mar 2009 W. Ralph
Basham
(b. 1943)
1 Mar 2009 - 3 Jan 2010 Jayson
P. Ahern (acting)
3 Jan 2010 - 27 Mar 2010
David V. Aguilar (1st time)(acting)(b. 1955)
27 Mar 2010 - 30 Dec 2011 Alan
D. Bersin
(b. 1946)
30 Dec 2011 - 30 Mar 2013 David
V. Aguilar (2nd time)(acting)(s.a.)
30 Mar 2013 - 7 Mar 2014
Thomas S. Winkowski
(acting) (b. 1954)
7 Mar 2014 - 20 Jan 2017 R. Gil Kerlikowske
(b. 1949)
20 Jan 2017 - 11 Apr 2019
Kevin K. McAleenan
(b. 1971)
(acting to 20 Mar 2018)
11 Apr 2019 - 15 Apr 2019 Robert E. Perez (acting)
15 Apr 2019 - 5 Jul 2019 John P.
Sanders (acting)
5 Jul 2019 - 20 Jan 2021 Mark
A. Morgan (acting)
(b. 1950)
20 Jan 2021 - 13 Dec 2021 Troy A. Miller (1st
time)(acting)
13 Dec 2021 - 12 Nov 2022 Christopher "Chris"
Magnus
(b. 1960)
12 Nov 2022 - 31 Dec 2024 Troy A. Miller (2nd
time)(acting)
31 Dec 2024 -
Peter "Pete" R. Flores (acting)
Secret Service
U.S. Secret
Service
5 Jul
1865
U.S. Secret Service (USSS) created (within the
Department
of Treasury).
1903
Begins full-time
protection of the President of United States.
1 Mar
2003
Transferred to the Department of Homeland Security.
Chiefs
5 Jul 1865 - 5 May 1869
William P.
Wood
(b. 1820 - d. 1903)
1869 - 2 Sep
1874
Hiram C. Whitley
(b. 1832 - d. 1919)
2 Sep 1874 - 2 Oct 1874
Simeon B. Benson (acting)
(b. 1833 - d. 1895)
2 Oct 1874 -
1876
Elmer
Washburn
(b. 1834 - d. 1918)
1876 -
1888
James J. Brooks
(b. 1814 - d. 1895)
30 Jun 1888 -
1890
John S. Bell
(b. 1844? - d. 1917)
(acting to 16 Feb 1889)
1891 - 31 Jan
1894
Andrew L. Drummond
(b. 1845 - d. 1921)
1 Feb 1894 -
1898
William Paxton
Hazen
(b. 1858 - d. 1909)
1898 -
1911
John Elbert
Wilkie
(b. 1860 - d. 1934)
1912 -
1917
William James
Flynn
(b. 1867 - d. 1928)
1917 - 31 Dec
1936
William H.
Moran
(b. 1862 - d. 1946)
1 Jan 1937 -
1946
Frank J.
Wilson
(b. 1887 - d. 1970)
1946 -
1948
James J. Maloney
(b. 1896 - d. 1959)
29 Nov 1948 - 31 Aug 1961 Urbanus Edmund
Baughman
(b. 1905 - d. 1978)
1 Sep 1961 -
1965
James J.
Rowley
(b. 1908 - d. 1992)
Directors, United States Secret Service
1965 - Oct
1973
James J.
Rowley
(s.a.)
Nov 1973 - 30 Nov 1981
H. Stuart
Knight
(b. 1919 - d. 2009)
Dec 1981 -
1992
John R.
Simpson
(b. 1932 - d. 2017)
2 Feb 1992 - 30 Sep 1993 John W.
Magaw
(b. 1935)
30 Sep 1993 - Dec 1993
Guy P. Caputo
(acting)
(b. 1947)
7 Dec 1993 - May
1997 Eljay B.
Bowron
(b. 1951)
6 Jun 1997 - 2 Jan 1999 Lewis
C.
Merletti
(b. 1948)
2 Jan 1999 - 4 Mar 1999 Bruce
J. Bowen (acting)
4 Mar 1999 - 27 Jan 2003 Brian L.
Stafford
(b. 1948)
27 Jan 2003 - 26 May 2006 W. Ralph
Basham
(b. 1943)
31 May 2006 - 22 Feb 2013 Mark J.
Sullivan
(b. 1955)
22 Feb 2013 - 27 Mar 2013
A.T. Smith (acting)
27 Mar 2013 - 1 Oct 2014 Julia A.
Pierson (f)
(b. 1959)
1 Oct 2014 - 4 Mar 2017 Joseph "Joe"
P. Clancy
(b. 1955?)
(acting to 18 Feb 2015)
4 Mar 2017 - 25 Apr 2017 William J. Callahan
(acting)
25 Apr 2017 - 1 May 2019
Randolph D. "Tex" Alles
(b.
1954)
1 May 2019 - 17 Sep 2022 James M. Murray
(b. 1968?)
18 Sep 2022 - 23 Jul 2024 Kimberly A. Cheatle
(f)
(b. 1970)
23 Jul 2024 - 22 Jan 2025 Ronald L. Rowe, Jr.
(acting) (b. 1971)
22 Jan 2025
-
Sean M. Curran
(b. 1976?)
Citizenship and Immigration Services
![[flag of U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization 1915-1933] [flag of U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization 1915-1933]](us_ins1915.gif)
I&N Bureau Flag 1915 - 1933
|
![[flag of U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service 1933-1940] [flag of U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service 1933-1940]](us_ins1933.gif)
I&NS Flag 1933 - 1940
|
![[flag of U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service 1940-2003] [flag of U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
Service 1940-2003]](us-ins.gif)
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Bureau of Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS)
3 Mar
1891
Office of the Superintendent of Immigration (within
the
Department of the Treasury).
2 Mar
1895
Bureau of Immigration
14 Feb
1903
Transferred to Department of Commerce and Labor.
29 Jun
1906
Renamed Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization.
4 Mar
1913
Transferred to Department of Labor, and divided into two
bureaus (Immigration and Naturalization).
10 Aug
1933
The two Bureaus are reunited (Immigration and
Naturalization
Service)(INS).
14 Jun
1940
Transferred to the Department of Justice.
1 Mar
2003
Becomes the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration
Services (BCIS),
within
the Department of Homeland Security.
6 Aug 2004
Renamed United States Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS).
Superintendents of Immigration
1 Jul 1891 - 7 Apr 1893
William Dale
Owen
(b. 1846 - d. 1906)
8 Apr 1893 - 1 Mar 1895
Herman
Stump
(b. 1837 - d. 1917)
Commissioners General of Immigration
2 Mar 1895 - 30 Jun 1897 Herman
Stump
(s.a.)
1 Jul 1897 - 24 Jun 1902 Terence
Vincent
Powderly
(b. 1849 - d. 1924)
25 Jun 1902 - 4 Sep 1908 Frank
Pierce
Sargent
(b. 1854 - d. 1908)
1 Jul 1909 - 31 May 1913 Daniel
Keefe
(b. 1852 - d. 1929)
1 Jun 1913 - 13 Mar 1921 Anthony J.
Caminetti
(b. 1854 - d. 1923)
15 Mar 1921 - 15 May 1925 William
Husband
(b. 1871 - d. 1942)
15 May 1925 - 26 Apr 1933 Harry Edward
Hull
(b. 1864 - d. 1938)
27 Apr 1933 - 9 Aug 1933 Daniel W.
MacCormack
(b. 1880 - d. 1937)
Commissioners of Naturalization
4 Mar 1913 - 21 Dec 1922 Richard
Kenna
Campbell
(b. 1853 - d. 1931)
1 Jan 1923 - 9 Aug 1933
Raymond Fowler
Crist
(b. 1871 - d. 1944)
Commissioners of Immigration and Naturalization
10 Aug 1933 - 1 Jan 1937 Daniel W.
MacCormack
(s.a.)
26 Aug 1937 - 31 Jul 1940 James Lawrence
Houghteling
(b. 1881 - d. 1962)
1 Oct 1940 - 19 Jul 1942 Lemuel
Braddock
Schofield
(b. 1892 - d. 1955)
20 Jul 1942 - 20 Jul 1944 Earl Grant
Harrison
(b. 1899 - d. 1955)
9 Jan 1945 - 26 Aug 1947 Ugo
Carusi
(b. 1902 - d. 1994)
27 Aug 1947 - 9 Jun 1950 Watson B.
Miller
(b. 1878 - d. 1961)
23 Apr 1951 - 23 May 1954 Argyle R.
Mackey
(b. 1898 - d. 1968)
24 May 1954 - 5 Jan 1962 Joseph M.
Swing
(b. 1894 - d. 1984)
5 Feb 1962 - 31 Mar 1973 Raymond F.
Farrell
(b. 1911 - d. 1986)
29 Nov 1973 - 12 May 1977 Leonard F.
Chapman
(b. 1913 - d. 2000)
13 May 1977 - 1 Oct 1979 Leonel J.
Castillo
(b. 1939 - d. 2013)
22 Feb 1982 - 16 Jun 1989 Alan C.
Nelson
(b. 1933 - d. 1997)
26 Oct 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 Gene
McNary
(b. 1935)
18 Oct 1993 - 17 Nov 2000 Doris Marie
Meissner
(f)
(b. 1941)
17 Nov 2000 - 3 Aug 2001 Mary Ann
Wyrsch (f) (acting) (b. 1944)
6 Aug 2001 - 30 Nov 2002 James W.
Ziglar
(b. 1945)
1 Dec 2002 - 1 Mar 2003
Michael J. Garcia (acting) (b.
1961)
Directors, U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services
1 Mar 2003 - 16 Jun
2005 Eduardo Aguirre,
Jr.
(b. 1946)
(acting to 19 Jun 2003)
17 Jun 2005 - 25 Jul
2005 Michael J. Petrucelli (acting)
25 Jul 2005 - 21 Dec 2005 Robert C. Divine
(acting)
21 Dec 2005 - 18 Apr 2008 Emilio T. Gonzalez
(b. 1956)
21 Apr 2008 - 2 Dec 2008 Jonathan
"Jock" Scharfen (acting) (b. 1955)
2 Dec 2008 - 12 Aug 2009 Michael
Aytes (acting)
12 Aug 2009 - 23 Dec 2013 Alejandro N.
Mayorkas
(b. 1959)
23 Dec 2013 - 9 Jul 2014 Lori L.
Scialabba (f)(1st time) (b. 1959)
(acting)
9 Jul 2014 - 20 Jan 2017 León
Rodríguez
(b. 1962)
20 Jan 2017 - 31 Mar 2017 Lori L.
Scialabba (f)(2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
31 Mar 2017 - 8 Oct 2017 James W. McCament
(acting)
8 Oct 2017 - 1 Jun 2019 Lee Francis
Cissna
(b. 1966)
2 Jun 2019 - 10 Jun 2019 Mark Koumans
(acting)
10 Jun 2019 - 20 Jan 2021 Ken T.
Cuccinelli (acting) (b.
1968)
20 Jan 2021 - 3
Aug 2021 Tracy L. Renaud
(f) (acting)
3 Aug 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Ur Mendoza
Jaddou
(f)
(b. 1974)
20 Jan 2025 - 9 Feb 2025 Jennifer B.
Higgins (f)(acting)
9 Feb 2025 -
Kika Scott (f) (acting)
U.S. Border Patrol
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Patrol flag]](us_usbp.gif)
U.S.
Border Patrol
28 May 1924
Bureau of Immigration (within
Department of Labor) receives
funding to increase the "land-border patrol" functions
of
which were already being performed.
Mar
1926
Position of 'Supervisor of the Border Patrol' created.
10 Aug
1933
Part of Immigration and Naturalization Service
(INS).
14 Jun
1940
Transferred to Department of Justice along with the INS.
1 Mar
2003
Transferred to the Department of Homeland Security (as
part of U.S. Customs and Border Protection).
Supervisor of the Border Patrol, Northern
Border (in Detroit)
1926 - 1927
Ruel E.
Davenport
(b. 1878 - d. 1961)
Supervisor of the Border Patrol, Southern Border
(in El Paso)
1926 -
1927
George J. Harris
Supervisor of the Border Patrol
1927
- 1932
Ruel E.
Davenport
(s.a.)
Director of
the Border Patrol for the Canadian Border (in
Detroit)
1932 - 1933
Frank W. Berkshire
(b. 1870 -
d. 1934)
Director of the Border
Patrol for the Mexican Border, Gulf and Florida
(in El Paso)
1932 - 1933
George J. Harris
Chiefs of the United States Border Patrol
1 Jun 1933 - 1943
Willard F. Kelly
1943 - 1948
John W. Nelson
1948 - 1950
Nicholas Donald Collaer
(b. 1896 - d.
1977)
1950 - 1957
Harlon Bronson Carter
(b. 1913 - d.
1991)
1957 - 1959
James F.
Greene
(b. 1915? - d. 1995)
1960 - 1973
Donald R. Coppock
(b. 1910
- d. 2011)
1973 - 1977
Robert L. Stuart, Jr.
1977 - 1979
Robin J. Clack
(b. 1917 - d.
1981)
1979 - 1980
Donald C. Day (acting)
1980 - 1986
Roger "Buck" P. Brandemuehl
(b. c.1934)
Jun 1986 - Dec 1989 Hugh
J. Brien
1990 - 1995
Michael S. Williams
1995 - 31 Dec 1997 Douglas
"Doug" M. Kruhm
(b. 1945 - d. 2022)
1 Jan 1998 - 1 Jul 2004 Gustavo "Gus"
De La Viña (b. 1939 -
d. 2009)
1 Jul 2004 - 3 Jan 2010 David V.
Aguilar
(b. 1955)
3 Jan 2010 - 30 Nov 2015 Michael J. Fisher
(b. 1964?)
(acting to 9 May 2010)
1 Dec 2015 - 11 Oct 2016 Ronald D. Vitiello
(1st time) (b. 1963)
(acting)
11 Oct 2016 - 26 Jan 2017 Mark A.
Morgan
(b. 1965?)
26 Jan 2017 - 1 Feb 2017 Carla L. Provost
(f) (1st time) (b. 1969)
(acting)
1 Feb 2017 - 25 Apr 2017 Ronald
D. Vitiello (2nd time) (s.a.)
25 Apr 2017 - 1 Feb 2020 Carla
L. Provost (f) (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting to 9 Aug 2018)
2 Feb 2020 - 23 Jun 2021 Rodney S.
Scott
24 Jun 2021 - 30 Jun 2023 Raul L. Ortiz
(acting to 15 Aug 2021)
1 Jul 2023 - 21 Jan 2025 Jason D. Owens
21 Jan 2025 -
Michael "Mike" Banks
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
24 Sep 1981 - 1 Mar 2003,
Re-adopted 2022
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Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA)
1 Apr
1979
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) established
as an
independent agency (by merger of Federal Disaster
Assistance
Administration, Federal Preparedness Agency, Defense
Civil
Preparedness Agency and absorption of the Federal
Insurance
Administration, National Fire Prevention and Control
Administration, and the National Weather Service's
Community
Preparedness Program).
1 Mar
2003
Transferred to the Department of Homeland Security (as
Emergency
Preparedness and Response Directorate, with FEMA only as
a brand
name for
the directorate).
1 Oct
2005
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)(name
restored).
Directors of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency
1 Apr 1979 - Jul
1979 Gordon F. Vickery (acting)
(b. 1920 - d. 1996)
Jul 1979 - Aug 1979
Thomas R. Casey (acting)
Aug 1979 - Jan
1981 John
Williams Macy, Jr.
(b. 1917 - d. 1986)
Jan 1981 - Apr
1981 Bernard
T. Gallagher (acting) (b. 1922 - d.
2000)
Apr 1981 - May
1981 John W.
McConnell (acting) (b. 1921
- d. 2001)
20 May 1981 - 1 Sep 1985 Louis
Onorato "Jeff" Giuffrida (b. 1920 - d.
2012)
Sep 1985 - Nov
1985 Robert H.
Morris (1st time) (b. 1919 -
d. 2007)
(acting)
Nov 1985 - Jun
1989 Julius
Wesley Becton, Jr.
(b. 1926 - d.
2023)
Jun 1989 - May
1990 Robert H.
Morris (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
May 1990 - Aug
1990 Jerry D.
Jennings (acting) (b. 1940)
4 Aug 1990 - 20 Jan 1993 Wallace
Elmer Stickney
(b. 1934 - d. 2019)
Jan 1993 - Apr
1993 William
C. Tidball (acting)
Apr 1993 - 20 Jan 2001
James Lee
Witt
(b. 1944)
20 Jan 2001 - 15 Feb 2001 John W. Magaw
(acting)
(b. 1935)
15 Feb 2001 - 1 Mar 2003 Joe M.
Allbaugh
(b. 1952)
Under Secretaries for Emergency Preparedness and
Response
1 Mar 2003 - 12 Sep 2005 Michael DeWayne
Brown
(b. 1954)
(acting to 15 Apr 2003)
12 Sep 2005 - 25 May 2006 Robert David Paulison
(acting) (b. 1947)
Under Secretary for Federal Emergency Management
26 May 2006 - 30 Mar 2007 Robert David
Paulison
(s.a.)
Administrators, Federal Emergency Management Agency
31 Mar 2007 - 21 Jan 2009 Robert David
Paulison
(s.a.)
21 Jan 2009 - 19 May 2009 Nancy L. Ward
(f)
(acting)
(b. 1955?)
19 May 2009 - 20 Jan 2017 William Craig Fugate
(b. 1959)
20 Jan 2017 - 23 Jun 2017 Robert "Bob" J. Fenton,
Jr.
(1st time)(acting)
23 Jun 2017 - 8 Mar 2019
William Brockmann "Brock" Long
(b. 1975)
8 Mar 2019 - 11 Jan 2021 Peter Thomas Gaynor
(b. 1958)
(acting to 16 Jan 2020)
12 Jan 2021 - 26 Apr 2021 Robert
"Bob" J. Fenton, Jr.
(2nd time)(acting)
26 Apr 2021 - 20 Jan 2025 Deanne Bennett
Criswell (f)
20 Jan 2025 - 22 Jan 2025 Tony Robinson (acting)
22 Jan 2025
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Cameron Hamilton (acting)
(b. 1977?)
FEMA predecessors
1 Dec 1950
Federal Civil Defense Administration
(FCDA)(within the Executive
Office of the President).
1 Jul 1958
FCDA
merged into the Office of Defense and Civilian
Mobilization
(ODCM)(within
the Executive Office of the President).
26 Aug
1958
ODCM renamed Office of Civil and Defense
Mobilization (OCDM).
20 Jul
1961
Civil defense functions of OCDM are transferred to the
Secretary
of Defense.
20 Sep 1961
OCDM renamed
Office of Emergency Planning (OEP).
1 Apr 1964
Secretary of Defense
transfers the Civil and Defense functions,
assigned to him, to the Secretary of the Army.
21 Oct
1968
OEP renamed Office of Emergency Preparedness.
5 May 1972
Office of Civil
Defense abolished and functions are
transferred
to the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency (DCPA)(within
the
Department of Defense).
1 Jul
1973
OEP functions are transferred to Office of Preparedness
(OP) within
the General Services Administration (GSA)
and the Federal
Disaster Assistance Administration (FDAA)
within the Department
of Housing and Urban Development.
26 Jun
1975
Federal Preparedness Agency (FPA) is established (within
the
General Services
Administration), it takes over functions of
the former Office of Preparedness
(OP).
1 Apr 1979
DCPA,
FPA, and the FDAA merged into the Federal
Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA).
Administrators of the
Federal Civil Defense Administration
(within Executive Office of the
President)
1 Dec 1950 - 15 Nov
1952 Millard Fillmore Caldwell,
Jr. (b. 1897 - d. 1984)
15 Nov 1952 - 19 Feb
1953 James Jeremiah Wadsworth (acting) (b.
1905 - d. 1984)
19 Feb 1953 - 14 Jun
1957 Frederick Valdemar "Val" Erastus
(b. 1903 - d. 1983)
Peterson (acting to 4 Mar 1953)
14 Jun 1957 - 19 Jul 1957 Lewis
E. Berry (acting)
(b. 1914 - d. 2005)
19 Jul 1957 - 1 Jul
1958 Leo Arthur Hoegh
(b. 1908 - d. 2000)
Directors, Office of
Defense and Civilian Mobilization (from
26 Aug 1958,
Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization)(within
Executive Office of the President)
1 Jul 1958 - 20 Jan
1961 Leo Arthur
Hoegh
(s.a.)
20 Jan 1961 - 27 Jan
1961 John Sutton Patterson (acting)
(b. 1902 - d. 1983)
27 Jan 1961 - 9 Mar
1961 Lewis E. Berry (acting)
(s.a.)
9 Mar 1961 - 22 Sep
1961 Frank Burton Ellis
(b. 1907 - d. 1969)
Directors, Office of
Emergency Planning (within
Executive Office of the President)
22 Sep 1961 - 2 Feb 1962
Frank Burton Ellis
(s.a.)
2 Feb 1962 - 4 Mar 1965
Edward A.
McDermott
(b. 1920 - d. 1999)
(acting to 12 Apr 1962)
4 Mar 1965 - 15 Jan 1966 Earl
Buford
Ellington
(b. 1907 – d. 1972)
23 Mar 1966 - 9 Oct 1967
Cecil Farris
Bryant
(b. 1914 - d. 2002)
9 Oct 1967 - 21 Oct 1968 Marion
Price Daniel,
Sr.
(b. 1910 - d. 1988)
Directors, Office of Emergency Preparedness (within
Executive Office of the President)
21 Oct 1968 - 20 Jan
1969 Marion Price Daniel, Sr.
(s.a.)
29 Jan 1969 - 20 Jan 1973
George Arthur Lincoln
(b. 1907 - d. 1975)
20 Jan 1973 – 1 Jul 1973 Darrell Melvin
Trent (acting) (b. 1938)
1973 -
1975
Robert E. Schnabel
(b. 1920 - d.
1981)
May 1975 - 1 Apr 1979 James K.
Hafer
Directors, Office of Preparedness (from 26 Jun 1975,
Federal Preparedness Agency)
(within the General Services
Administration)
Oct 1973 - Apr 1977
Leslie William
Bray
(b. 1921 - d. 2017)
Apr 1977 - Oct
1977 Dalimil
Kybal (acting)
(b. 1916 - d. 2010)
31 Oct 1977 - 1 Apr 1979 Joseph A.
Mitchell
(b. 1941?)
Administrators, Federal Disaster Assistance
Administration (FDAA)
(within the Department of Housing and Urban
Development)
1 Jul 1973 - 1977
Thomas P.
Dunne
(b. c.1913 - d. 1992)
1977 - 1 Apr
1979 William
H. Wilcox
(b. 1919 - d. 2004)
Assistant Secretaries of Defense (Civil Defense)(within
Department of Defense)
1 Aug 1961 - 15 Sep
1961 Adam Yarmolinsky (acting)
(b. 1922 - d. 2000)
15 Sep 1961 - 7 Apr
1964 Steuart Lansing
Pittman
(b. 1919 - d. 2013)
Directors, Office of
Civil Defense (under Secretary
of the Army within Defense Dept.)
7 Apr 1964 - 31 Dec
1966 William Porter
Durkee
(b. 1918 - d. 1982)
1 Jan 1967 - 20 Jan
1969 Joseph Romm
(b. 1920 - d. 2008)
(acting to 20 May 1968)
20 Jan 1969 - 5 May
1972 John Edward
Davis
(b. 1913 - d. 1990)
Directors, Defense Civil
Preparedness Agency (within Department
of Defense)
5 May 1972 - 20 Jan
1977 John Edward
Davis
(s.a.)
20 Jan 1977 - 20 Jul
1979 Bardyl Rifat Tirana
(b. 1937 - d. 2023)
(acting to 13 Apr 1977)
Transportation Security Administration
(TSA)
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Administration flag (U.S.)] [Transportation Security Administration
flag (U.S.)]](us_tsa.gif)
Adopted 11 Sep 2018
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Transportation Security
Administration
16 Nov
2001
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) created,
within the Department of Transportation.
1 Mar
2003
Transferred to the Department of Homeland Security.
Under Secretaries of Transportation for Security
28 Jan 2002 - 18
Jul 2002 John W.
Magaw
(b. 1935)
19 Jul 2002
- 1 Mar 2003 James Milton
Loy
(b. 1942)
(acting to 22 Nov 2002)
Administrators of the
Transportation Security Administration
1 Mar 2003 - 4 Dec 2003 James
Milton
Loy
(s.a.)
4 Dec 2003
- 3 Jun 2005 David M.
Stone
(b. 1952)
(acting to 22 Jul 2004)
Assistant
Secretaries/Administrators, Transportation Security
Administration
22 Jul 2004 - 3 Jun 2005 David M.
Stone
(s.a.)
4 Jun 2005 - 21 Jul 2005 Kenneth S.
Kasprisin (acting) (b. 1954?)
22 Jul 2005 - 20
Jan 2009 Edmund "Kip" S. Hawley III
(b. 1953 - d. 2022)
20 Jan 2009 - 30 Jun 2010 Gale
D. Rossides (f)(acting)
1 Jul 2010 - 31 Dec 2014
John S. Pistole
(b. 1956)
1 Jan 2015 - 1 Jun
2015 Melvin J. Carraway (acting)
1 Jun 2015 - 4
Jun 2015 Mark O.
Hatfield, Jr. (acting)
4 Jun 2015 - 3 Jul 2015 Francis
"Fank" X. Taylor (acting) (b.
1948)
4 Jul
2015 - 20 Jan 2017 Peter V.
Neffenger
(b. 1955)
20 Jan 2017 - 10 Aug 2017 Huban A.
Gowadia (f) (acting) (b. 1969)
10 Aug 2017 - 20 Jan 2025 David P. Pekoske
(b.
1955)
(acting 17 Aug - 15 Sep 2022)
11 Apr 2019 - 13 Nov 2019 Patricia F.S. Cogswell
(f)
(acting for Pekoske)
20 Jan 2021 - 2 Feb 2021 Darby R.
LaJoye
(b. 1976)
(acting for Pekoske)
21 Jan 2025 - 18 Feb 2025 Melanie
Harvey (f)(acting)
18 Feb 2025
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Adam Stahl (acting)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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Enforcement] [U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement]](us_ice.gif)
ICE Website
1 Mar
2003
Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),
within the
Department of Homeland Security (created by
merger of the
investigative and interior
enforcement elements of Customs
Service and Immigration and Naturalization
Service).
31 Mar
2007
Renamed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Assistant Secretaries for U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement
11 Mar 2003 - 5 Sep 2005
Michael J. Garcia
(b. 1961)
(acting to 25 Nov 2003)
6 Sep 2005 - 3 Jan
2006 John P. Clark (acting)
4 Jan 2006 - 15 Nov 2008 Julie L. Myers (f)
(b. 1969)
17 Nov 2008 - 12 May 2009 John P. Torres (acting)
12 May 2009 - Jul 2010 John T.
Morton
(b. 1966)
Directors, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Jul 2010 - 31 Jul 2013 John T.
Morton
(s.a.)
1 Aug 2013 - 21 Feb 2014 John Sandweg
(acting)
(b. 1975)
21 Feb 2014 - 16 Mar 2014 Daniel H. Ragsdale (1st
time)
(acting)
16 Mar 2014 - 23 Dec 2014 Thomas S.
Winkowski (acting) (b. 1954)
23 Dec 2014 - 20 Jan 2017 Sarah R. Saldaña (f)
(b.
1951)
20 Jan 2017 - 30 Jan 2017 Daniel H.
Ragsdale (2nd time)
(acting)
30 Jan 2017 - 30 Jun 2018 Thomas D. Homan
(acting)
(b. 1961)
30 Jun 2018 - 12 Apr 2019 Ronald D. Vitiello
(acting) (b. 1963)
13 Apr 2019 - 27 May 2019
Matthew T. Albence (1st time)
(acting)
28 May 2019 - 5 Jul 2019 Mark A. Morgan
(acting)
(b. 1950)
5 Jul 2019 - 31 Aug 2020 Matthew
T. Albence (2nd time)
(acting)
1 Sep 2020 - 31 Dec 2020 Tuong Tony Huu
Pham (acting) (b. 1973)
31 Dec 2020 - 13 Jan 2021 Jonathan
Fahey (acting)
(b. 1971?)
13 Jan 2021 - 4 Jul 2023 Tae D. Johnson
(acting)
4 Jul 2023 - 13 Jan 2025 Patrick J. "P.J."
Lechleitner
(acting)
13 Jan 2025 - 20 Jan 2025 Staci A. Barrera
(f)(acting)
20 Jan 2025 - 9 Mar 2025 Caleb Vitello
(acting)
9 Mar 2025 -
Todd M. Lyons (acting)
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