US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

Cabinet position until 1947, when it was integrated into the US Defense Department.

18-Jun-1789	31-Mar-1801	Benjamin Stoddert
27-Jul-1801	4-Mar-1809	Robert Smith
15-May-1809	31-Dec-1812	Paul Hamilton
19-Jan-1813	1-Dec-1814	William Jones
16-Jan-1815	30-Sep-1818	Benjamin Williams Crowninshield
1-Jan-1819	31-Aug-1823	Smith Thompson
16-Sep-1823	4-Mar-1829	Samuel L. Southard
9-Mar-1829	12-May-1831	John Branch
23-May-1831	30-Jun-1834	Levi Woodbury
1-Jul-1834	30-Jun-1838	Mahlon Dickerson
1-Jul-1838	4-Mar-1841	James Kirke Paulding
6-Mar-1841	11-Sep-1841	George E. Badger
11-Oct-1841	23-Jul-1843	Abel P. Upshur
24-Jul-1843	18-Feb-1844	David Henshaw
19-Feb-1844	28-Feb-1844	Thomas W. Gilmer
26-Mar-1844	4-Mar-1845	John Y. Mason	(1st time)
11-Mar-1845	9-Sep-1846	George Bancroft
10-Sep-1846	4-Mar-1849	John Y. Mason	(2nd time)
8-Mar-1849	22-Jul-1850	William B. Preston
2-Aug-1850	25-Jul-1852	William A. Graham
26-Jul-1852	4-Mar-1853	John Pendleton Kennedy
8-Mar-1853	4-Mar-1857	James C. Dobbin
7-Mar-1857	4-Mar-1861	Isaac Toucey
7-Mar-1861	4-Mar-1869	Gideon Welles
9-Mar-1869	25-Jun-1869	Adolph E. Borie
26-Jun-1869	4-Mar-1877	George M. Robeson
13-Mar-1877	20-Dec-1880	Richard W. Thompson
7-Jan-1881	4-Mar-1881	Nathan Goff, Jr.
7-Mar-1881	16-Apr-1882	William H. Hunt
16-Apr-1882	4-Mar-1885	William E. Chandler
7-Mar-1885	4-Mar-1889	William C. Whitney
6-Mar-1889	4-Mar-1893	Benjamin F. Tracy
7-Mar-1893	4-Mar-1897	Hilary A. Herbert
6-Mar-1897	30-Apr-1902	John D. Long
1-May-1902	30-Jun-1904	William H. Moody
1-Jul-1904	30-Jun-1905	Paul Morton
1-Jul-1905	16-Dec-1906	Charles J. Bonaparte
17-Dec-1906	30-Nov-1908	Victor H. Metcalf
1-Dec-1908	4-Mar-1909	Truman H. Newberry
6-Mar-1909	4-Mar-1913	George von Lengerke Meyer
5-Mar-1913	4-Mar-1921	Josephus Daniels
6-Mar-1921	10-Mar-1924	Edwin C. Denby
19-Mar-1924	4-Mar-1929	Curtis D. Wilbur
5-Mar-1929	4-Mar-1933	Charles Francis Adams III
4-Mar-1933	7-Jul-1939	Claude A. Swanson
2-Jan-1940	24-Jun-1940	Charles Edison
11-Jul-1940	28-Apr-1944	Frank Knox
19-May-1944	17-Sep-1947	James V. Forrestal
18-Sep-1947	24-May-1949	John Sullivan
25-May-1949	31-Jul-1951	Francis P. Matthews
31-Jul-1951	20-Jan-1953	Dan A. Kimball
4-Feb-1953	3-Mar-1954	Robert B. Anderson
3-May-1954	1-Apr-1957	Charles S. Thomas
1-Apr-1957	8-Jun-1959	Thomas S. Gates
8-Jun-1959	19-Jan-1961	William B. Franke
25-Jan-1961	20-Dec-1961	John Connally
4-Jan-1962	1-Nov-1963	Fred Korth
2-Nov-1963	28-Nov-1963	Paul B. Fay	(acting)
29-Nov-1963	30-Jun-1967	Paul Nitze
1-Jul-1967	31-Aug-1967	Charles F. Baird	(acting)
1-Sep-1967	24-Jan-1969	Paul R. Ignatius
31-Jan-1969	4-May-1972	John H. Chafee
4-May-1972	8-Apr-1974	John Warner
8-Apr-1974	20-Jan-1977	J. William Middendorf II
14-Feb-1977	24-Aug-1979	W. Graham Claytor, Jr.
24-Oct-1979	20-Jan-1981	Edward Hidalgo
5-Feb-1981	10-Apr-1987	John F. Lehman
1-May-1987	23-Feb-1988	James H. Webb
28-Mar-1988	15-May-1989	William L. Ball
15-May-1989	26-Jun-1992	Henry L. Garrett III
26-Jun-1992	7-Jul-1992	Daniel Howard	(acting)
2-Oct-1992	20-Jan-1993	Sean O'Keefe
2-Jan-1993	21-Jul-1993	Frank B. Kelso II	(acting)
22-Jul-1993	16-Nov-1998	John H. Dalton
16-Nov-1998	20-Jan-2001	Richard Danzig
20-Jan-2001	24-May-2001	Robert B. Pirie, Jr.	(acting)
24-May-2001	30-Jan-2003	Gordon R. England	(1st time)
30-Jan-2003	7-Feb-2003	Susan Livingstone	(acting)
7-Feb-2003	30-Sep-2003	Hansford T. Johnson	(acting)
1-Oct-2003	3-Jan-2006	Gordon R. England	(2nd time)
3-Jan-2006	13-Mar-2009	Donald C. Winter
13-Mar-2009	19-May-2009	B. J. Penn	(acting)
18-Jun-2009	--	Ray Mabus

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