United States Secretary of the Interior

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Seal of the Department of Interior

Secretary Dirk Kempthorne (2006 – present)

The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior. The Department of the Interior oversees such agencies as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the United States Geological Survey, and the National Park Service. The Secretary also serves on and appoints the private citizens on the National Park Foundation board. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet. The Secretary typically comes from a western state; only one of the last 16 Secretaries is not identified with a state lying west of the Mississippi River.

[edit] Secretaries of the Interior

#	Name	Term of Office	President(s) served under
1	Thomas Ewing	March 8, 1849–July 22, 1850	Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore
2	Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan	August 15, 1850–August 26, 1850	Millard Fillmore
3	Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart	September 14, 1850–March 7, 1853	Millard Fillmore
4	Robert McClelland	March 8, 1853–March 9, 1857	Franklin Pierce
5	Jacob Thompson	March 10, 1857–January 8, 1861	James Buchanan
6	Caleb Blood Smith	March 5, 1861–December 31, 1862	Abraham Lincoln
7	John Palmer Usher	January 1, 1863–May 15, 1865	Abraham Lincoln
8	James Harlan	May 16, 1865–August 31, 1866	Andrew Johnson
9	Orville Hickman Browning	September 1, 1866–March 4, 1869	Andrew Johnson
10	Jacob Dolson Cox	March 5, 1869–October 31, 1870	Ulysses S. Grant
11	Columbus Delano	November 1, 1870–September 30, 1875	Ulysses S. Grant
12	Zachariah Chandler	October 19, 1875–March 11, 1877	Ulysses S. Grant
13	Carl Schurz	March 12, 1877–March 7, 1881	Rutherford B. Hayes
14	Samuel J. Kirkwood	March 8, 1881–April 17, 1882	James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur
15	Henry Moore Teller	April 18, 1882–March 3, 1885	Chester A. Arthur
16	Lucius Q.C. Lamar	March 6, 1885–January 10, 1888	Grover Cleveland
17	William Freeman Vilas	January 16, 1888–March 6, 1889	Grover Cleveland
18	John Willock Noble	March 7, 1889–March 6, 1893	Benjamin Harrison
19	M. Hoke Smith	March 6, 1893–September 1, 1896	Grover Cleveland
20	David Rowland Francis	September 3, 1896–March 5, 1897	Grover Cleveland
21	Cornelius Newton Bliss	March 6, 1897–February 19, 1899	William McKinley
22	Ethan Allen Hitchcock	February 20, 1899–March 4, 1907	William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt
23	James Rudolph Garfield	March 5, 1907–March 5, 1909	Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft
24	Richard Achilles Ballinger	March 6, 1909–March 12, 1911	William Howard Taft
25	Walter Lowrie Fisher	March 13, 1911–March 5, 1913	William Howard Taft
26	Franklin Knight Lane	March 6, 1913–February 29, 1920	Woodrow Wilson
27	John Barton Payne	March 15, 1920–March 4, 1921	Woodrow Wilson
28	Albert Bacon Fall	March 5, 1921–March 4, 1923	Warren G. Harding
29	Hubert Work	March 5, 1923–July 24, 1928	Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge
30	Roy Owen West	July 25, 1928–March 4, 1929	Calvin Coolidge
31	Ray Lyman Wilbur	March 5, 1929–March 4, 1933	Herbert Hoover
32	Harold LeClair Ickes	March 4, 1933–February 15, 1946	Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman
33	Julius Albert Krug	March 18, 1946–December 1, 1949	Harry S. Truman
34	Oscar Littleton Chapman	December 1, 1949–January 20, 1953	Harry S. Truman
35	Douglas McKay	January 21, 1953–April 15, 1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower
36	Fred Andrew Seaton	June 8, 1956–January 20, 1961	Dwight D. Eisenhower
37	Stewart Lee Udall	January 21, 1961–January 20, 1969	John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson
38	Walter J. Hickel	January 24, 1969–November 25, 1970	Richard Nixon
39	Rogers Clark Ballard Morton	January 29, 1971–April 30, 1975	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
40	Stanley K. Hathaway	June 12, 1975–October 9, 1975	Gerald Ford
41	Thomas S. Kleppe	October 17, 1975–January 20, 1977	Gerald Ford
42	Cecil D. Andrus	January 23, 1977–January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter
43	James G. Watt	January 23, 1981–November 8, 1983	Ronald Reagan
44	William Patrick Clark	November 18, 1983–February 7, 1985	Ronald Reagan
45	Donald Paul Hodel	February 8, 1985–January 20, 1989	Ronald Reagan
46	Manuel Lujan, Jr.	February 3, 1989–January 20, 1993	George H. W. Bush
47	Bruce Babbitt	January 22, 1993–January 2, 2001	Bill Clinton
48	Gale Ann Norton	January 31, 2001–March 31, 2006	George W. Bush
49	Dirk Kempthorne	May 26, 2006-	George W. Bush

[edit] Reference

[edit] External links

United States Secretaries of the Interior

Seal of the United States Department of the Interior

Ewing • McKennan • Stuart • McClelland • Thompson • C Smith • Usher • Harlan • Browning • Cox • Delano • Chandler • Schurz • Kirkwood • Teller • Lamar • Vilas • Noble • M Smith • Francis • Bliss • Hitchcock • Garfield • Ballinger • Fisher • Lane • Payne • Fall • Work • West • Wilbur • Ickes • Krug • Chapman • McKay • Seaton • Udall • Hickel • Morton • Hathaway • Kleppe • Andrus • Watt • Clark • Hodel • Lujan • Babbitt • Norton • Kempthorne

Leaders of the United States Federal Executive Departments
Agriculture • Commerce • Defense • Education • Energy • Health and Human Services • Homeland Security • Housing and Urban Development • Interior • Justice • Labor • State • Transportation • Treasury • Veterans Affairs (Past department leaders: Commerce and Labor • Health, Education, and Welfare • Navy • Post Office • War)