US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

Successor to the US Secretary of War, subsumed under the US Defense Department in 1947.

18-Sep-1947	27-Apr-1949	Kenneth C. Royall
20-Jun-1949	12-Apr-1950	Gordon Gray
12-Apr-1950	20-Jan-1953	Frank Pace
4-Feb-1953	21-Jul-1955	Robert TenBroek Stevens
21-Jul-1955	19-Jan-1961	Wilber Marion Brucker
24-Jan-1961	30-Jun-1962	Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr.
5-Jul-1962	21-Jan-1964	Cyrus Vance
28-Jan-1964	1-Jul-1965	Stephen Ailes
2-Jul-1965	30-Jun-1971	Stanley R. Resor
1-Jul-1971	14-May-1973	Robert F. Froehlke
15-May-1973	3-Jul-1975	Howard H. Callaway
5-Aug-1975	20-Jan-1977	Martin R. Hoffmann
14-Feb-1977	20-Jan-1981	Clifford L. Alexander, Jr.
21-Jan-1981	13-Aug-1989	John O. Marsh, Jr.
14-Aug-1989	20-Jan-1993	Michael P.W. Stone
22-Nov-1993	2-Dec-1997	Togo West
2-Dec-1997	2-Jul-1998	Robert M. Walker	(acting)
2-Jul-1998	20-Jan-2001	Louis Caldera
20-Jan-2001	5-Mar-2001	Gregory R. Dahlberg	(acting)
5-Mar-2001	31-May-2001	Joseph W. Westphal	(acting)
31-May-2001	9-May-2003	Thomas E. White
10-May-2003	18-Nov-2004	Les Brownlee
19-Nov-2004	9-Mar-2007	Francis J. Harvey
9-Mar-2007	21-Sep-2009	Pete Geren
21-Sep-2009	--	John McHugh

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