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United States Secretary of Commerce

The United States Secretary of Commerce is the head of the United States Department of Commerce concerned with business and industry. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet.

Until 1913 there was one Secretary of Commerce and Labor, uniting this department with the Department of Labor, which is now headed by a separate Secretary of Labor.

Secretaries of Commerce
Name	Term of Office	President(s) served under
William Cox Redfield[?]	March 5, 1913 - October 31, 1919	Woodrow Wilson
Joshua Willis Alexander[?]	December 16, 1919 - March 4, 1921	Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Clark Hoover	March 5, 1921 - August 21, 1928	Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge
William Fairfield Whiting[?]	August 22, 1928 - March 4, 1929	Calvin Coolidge
Robert Patterson Lamont[?]	March 5, 1929 - August 7, 1932	Herbert Hoover
Roy Dikeman Chapin[?]	August 8, 1932 - March 3, 1933	Herbert Hoover
Daniel Calhoun Roper[?]	March 4, 1933 - December 23, 1938	Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry Lloyd Hopkins[?]	December 24, 1938 - September 18, 1940	Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jesse Holman Jones[?]	September 19, 1940 - March 1, 1945	Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Henry Agard Wallace	March 2, 1945 - September 20, 1946	Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman
William Averell Harriman[?]	October 7, 1946 - April 22, 1948	Harry S. Truman
Charles Sawyer[?]	May 6, 1948 - January 20, 1953	Harry S. Truman
Sinclair Weeks[?]	January 21, 1953 - November 10, 1958	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Frederick Henry Mueller[?]	August 10, 1959 - January 19, 1961	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Luther Hartwell Hodges[?]	January 21, 1961 - January 15, 1965	John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson
John Thomas Connor[?]	January 18, 1965 - January 31, 1967	Lyndon Johnson
Alexander Buel Trowbridge[?]	June 14, 1967 - March 1, 1968	Lyndon Johnson
Cyrus Rowlett Smith[?]	March 6, 1968 - January 19, 1969	Lyndon Johnson
Maurice Hubert Stans[?]	January 21, 1969 - February 15, 1972	Richard Nixon
Peter George Peterson[?]	February 29, 1972 - February 1, 1973	Richard Nixon
Frederick Baily Dent[?]	February 2, 1973 - March 26, 1975	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
Rogers Clark Ballard Morton[?]	May 1, 1975 - February 2, 1976	Gerald Ford
Elliot Lee Richardson[?]	February 2, 1976 - January 20, 1977	Gerald Ford
Juanita Morris Kreps[?]	January 23, 1977 - October 31, 1979	Jimmy Carter
Philip Morris Klutznick[?]	January 9, 1980 - January 19, 1981	Jimmy Carter
Malcolm Baldrige[?]	January 20, 1981 - July 25, 1987	Ronald Reagan
Calvin William Verity[?]	October 19, 1987 - January 30, 1989	Ronald Reagan
Robert Adam Mosbacher[?]	January 31, 1989 - January 15, 1992	George H. W. Bush
Barbara Hackman Franklin[?]	February 27, 1992 - January 20, 1993	George H. W. Bush
Ronald Harmon Brown[?]	January 22, 1993 - April 3, 1996	Bill Clinton
Mickey Kantor[?]	April 12, 1996 - January 21, 1997	Bill Clinton
William M. Daley[?]	January 30, 1997 - July 19, 2000	Bill Clinton
Norman Yoshio Mineta	July 21, 2000 - January 19, 2001	Bill Clinton
Donald Louis Evans[?]	January 20, 2001 - present	George W. Bush

External Links

List of Secretaries of Commerce (http://www.commerce.gov/secretaries)

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