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Vice Presidents

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Vice Presidents�
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 - James David "J.D." Vance (b. 1984) Rep

�The 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

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 Legar� (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 - 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

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 (Air Force)(b. 1968)

Department of the Army

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

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 Leb�gue 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

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

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 - d. 2019)

Marine Corps

c.1830 - 1850	1850 - 18 Jan 1939	Adopted 18 Jan 1939
Flag of the Commandant

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 Nicholas� (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)

�The 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 Po st 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 - 16 May 2025 Gary A. Ashworth (acting)
16 May 2025 - Troy Edward Meink (b. 1965)

Air Force

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, A eronautical 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 (b. 1966?)

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 )

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)

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

**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

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

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 Va cant
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 Va cant
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 Ba�uelos (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 Va cant
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 Vac ant 12 Sep 2022 - 15 Nov 2024 Marilynn "Lynn" Roberge Malerba (f)(b. 1953)16 Nov 2024 - 5 May 2025 Patricia "Patty" S. Collins (f)
(acting)
5 May 2025 - Brandon Lamont Beach (b. 1961)

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 - 16 Apr 2025 Melanie Krause (f) (acting) (b. 1984)
16 Apr 2025 - 18 Apr 2025 Gary Allen Shapley, Jr. (acting) (b. 1977)
18 Apr 2025 - Michael Faulkender (acting) (b. 1974)

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

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. Legar� (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 - 21 Apr 2025 Kathleen "Kathy" Toomey (f)
(acting)
21 Apr 2025 - William "Billy" K. Marshall III

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

DEA Flag Adopted c.1973

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 Drugs1968 - 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)

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF)

10 May 1934 Alcohol Tax Unit (ATU) of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
(withinDepartment 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 Firearms1972 - 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

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

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
**Superintendent s 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)
Superintendent s 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)
S uperintendent s of the Indian Affairs Offic e
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 - 30 Apr 2025 Bryan Mercier (acting)
30 Apr 2025 - Scott J. Davis (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

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. L�pez
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

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

1903 - 1966	![[U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) flag (Department of Interior)]]](http://www.worldstatesmen.org/us_gs2.gif "[U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) flag (Department of Interior)]")Adopted 1966

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 Meridian�
1872 - 30 Jun 1879 George Montague Wheeler (b. 1842 - d. 1902)
Director of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel�
1867 - 1879 Clarence Rivers King (b. 1842 - d. 1901)
Director of the U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Regio n2
1869 - 30 Jun 1879 John Wesley Powell (b. 1834 - d. 1902)
Director of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territorie s2
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)

�Survey dependent on the Department of War/Office of the Chief Engineer.
2Survey dependent on the Department of the Interior.

National Park Service

NPS Flag	NPS Guidon

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

Adopted 21 Jun 1895

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	Variant from 1981

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

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 1987Clarence 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 - 21 Jun 2012 John E. Bryson (b. 1943 - d. 2025)
11 Jun 2012 - 1 Jun 2013 Rebecca M. Blank (f)(2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting [for Bryson to 21 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 ofCommerce 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 1860Vacant 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 Commissioners for the Promotion of Useful Arts (Patent Board)
- Edmund J. Randolph (b. 1753 - d. 1813)
- Henry Knox (b. 1750 - d. 1806)
- Thomas Jefferson (b. 1743 - d. 1806) 21 Feb 1793 - 1 Jun 1802the 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)

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 - 31 Mar 2025 Nancy A. Hann (f)(acting) (b. 1973)
31 Mar 2025 - Laura Grimm (f) (acting)

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 Superintenden t 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

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)
Administrator s 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

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 - d. 2025)
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

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 Juli�n 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

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 Pe�a (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

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)

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, administratorof
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 - 2 Jun 2025 Charles Makings (acting)
2 Jun 2025 - Sang Yi (acting)

Department of Energy

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. Pe�a (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 ofEnergy.

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)

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 1977Robert W. Fri (acting) (b. 1935 - d. 2014)

Department of Health and Human Services

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)

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

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

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

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
CutterService 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

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 Lig hthouses
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

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?)

C itizenship and Immigration Services

I&N Bureau Flag 1915 - 1933	I&NS Flag 1933 - 1940	I&NS Flag 1940 - 2003
USCIS Flag

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 Le�n Rodr�guez (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 - 25 May 2025 Kika Scott (f) (acting)
25 May 2025 - Angelica Alfonso-Royals (f)(acting)

U.S. Border Patrol

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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)
D irector 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 Vi�a (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

F ederal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

24 Sep 1981 - 1 Mar 2003,
Re-adopted 2022

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 - 8 May 2025 Cameron "Cam" Hamilton (acting) (b. 1977?)
8 May 2025 - David Richardson (acting)

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)

Adopted 11 Sep 2018

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 - 23 Apr 2025 Adam Stahl (acting)
23 Apr 2025 - Ha Nguyen McNeill (f)(acting)

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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. Salda�a (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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