United States Secretary of Transportation
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The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet.
United States Secretary of Transportation | |
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United States Department of Transportation | |
Style | Mr. Secretary (informal) The Honorable (formal) |
Member of | Cabinet |
Reports to | President of the United States |
Seat | Washington, D.C. |
Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
Term length | No fixed term |
Constituting instrument | 49 U.S.C. § 102 |
Formation | October 15, 1966 |
First holder | Alan Stephenson Boyd |
Succession | Fourteenth[1] |
Deputy | Deputy Secretary of Transportation |
Salary | Executive Schedule, level I |
Website | www |
Secretaries of Transportation
- Parties
Democratic (8) Republican (11)
Status
Denotes acting Secretary of Transportation
No. | Image | Name | State of residence | Took office | Left office | President serving under | |
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1 | Alan S. Boyd | Florida | January 16, 1967 | January 20, 1969 | Lyndon B. Johnson | ||
2 | John A. Volpe | Massachusetts | January 22, 1969 | February 2, 1973 | Richard M. Nixon | ||
3 | Claude S. Brinegar | California | February 2, 1973 | February 1, 1975 | |||
Gerald R. Ford | |||||||
4 | William T. Coleman, Jr. | Pennsylvania | March 7, 1975 | January 20, 1977 | |||
5 | Brock Adams | Washington | January 23, 1977 | July 20, 1979 | Jimmy Carter | ||
6 | Neil E. Goldschmidt | Oregon | August 15, 1979 | January 20, 1981 | |||
7 | Drew Lewis | Pennsylvania | January 23, 1981 | February 1, 1983 | Ronald Reagan | ||
8 | Elizabeth H. Dole | Kansas | February 7, 1983 | September 30, 1987 | |||
9 | James H. Burnley IV | North Carolina | December 3, 1987 | January 20, 1989 | |||
10 | Samuel K. Skinner | Illinois | February 6, 1989 | December 13, 1991 | George H. W. Bush | ||
11 | Andrew H. Card | Massachusetts | February 24, 1992 | January 20, 1993 | |||
12 | Federico Peña | Colorado | January 21, 1993 | February 14, 1997 | Bill Clinton | ||
13 | Rodney E. Slater | Arkansas | February 14, 1997 | January 20, 2001 | |||
14 | Norman Y. Mineta | California | January 25, 2001 | August 7, 2006 | George W. Bush | ||
15 | Mary E. Peters | Arizona | October 17, 2006 | January 20, 2009 | |||
16 | Ray H. LaHood | Illinois | January 23, 2009 | July 2, 2013 | Barack Obama | ||
17 | Anthony R. Foxx | North Carolina | July 2, 2013 | January 20, 2017 | |||
– | Michael Huerta Acting |
California | January 20, 2017 | January 31, 2017 | Donald Trump | ||
18 | Elaine Chao | Kentucky | January 31, 2017 | January 11, 2021 | |||
– | Steven G. Bradbury Acting |
Oregon | January 12, 2021 | January 20, 2021 | |||
– | Lana Hurdle Acting |
Virginia | January 20, 2021 | February 2, 2021 | Joe Biden | ||
19 | Pete Buttigieg | Indiana | February 2, 2021 | Incumbent |
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References
- ↑ : Vacancy in offices of both President and Vice President; officers eligible to act.