The United States Secretary of Commerce is the head of the United States Department of Commerce concerned with business and industry; the Department states its mission to be "to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce."[1] 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.[2]
List of Secretaries of Commerce[3]
| No.
|
Picture
|
Secretary
|
Start of Term
|
End of Term
|
President(s)
|
| 1
|
|
William Cox Redfield
|
March 5, 1913
|
October 31, 1919
|
Woodrow Wilson
|
| 2
|
|
Joshua Willis Alexander
|
December 16, 1919
|
March 4, 1921
|
Woodrow Wilson
|
| 3
|
|
Herbert Clark Hoover
|
March 5, 1921
|
August 21, 1928
|
Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge
|
| 4
|
|
William Fairfield Whiting
|
August 22, 1928
|
March 4, 1929
|
Calvin Coolidge
|
| 5
|
|
Robert Patterson Lamont
|
March 5, 1929
|
August 7, 1932
|
Herbert Hoover
|
| 6
|
|
Roy Dikeman Chapin
|
August 8, 1932
|
March 3, 1933
|
Herbert Hoover
|
| 7
|
|
Daniel Calhoun Roper
|
March 4, 1933
|
December 23, 1938
|
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
|
| 8
|
|
Harry Lloyd Hopkins
|
December 24, 1938
|
September 18, 1940
|
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
|
| 9
|
|
Jesse Holman Jones
|
September 19, 1940
|
March 1, 1945
|
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
|
| 10
|
|
Henry Agard Wallace
|
March 2, 1945
|
September 20, 1946
|
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman
|
| 11
|
|
William Averell Harriman
|
October 7, 1946
|
April 22, 1948
|
Harry S. Truman
|
| 12
|
|
Charles W. Sawyer
|
May 6, 1948
|
January 20, 1953
|
Harry S. Truman
|
| 13
|
|
Charles Sinclair Weeks
|
January 21, 1953
|
November 10, 1958
|
Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
|
|
|
Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (Acting Secretary)
|
1958
|
1959
|
Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
| 14
|
|
Frederick Henry Mueller
|
August 10, 1959
|
January 19, 1961
|
Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
| 15
|
|
Luther Hartwell Hodges
|
January 21, 1961
|
January 15, 1965
|
John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson
|
| 16
|
|
John Thomas Connor
|
January 18, 1965
|
January 31, 1967
|
Lyndon Johnson
|
| 17
|
|
Alexander Buel Trowbridge
|
June 14, 1967
|
March 1, 1968
|
Lyndon Johnson
|
| 18
|
|
Cyrus Rowlett Smith
|
March 6, 1968
|
January 19, 1969
|
Lyndon Johnson
|
| 19
|
|
Maurice Hubert Stans
|
January 21, 1969
|
February 15, 1972
|
Richard Nixon
|
| 20
|
|
Peter George Peterson
|
February 29, 1972
|
February 1, 1973
|
Richard Nixon
|
| 21
|
|
Frederick Baily Dent
|
February 2, 1973
|
March 26, 1975
|
Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
|
| 22
|
|
Rogers Clark Ballard Morton
|
May 1, 1975
|
February 2, 1976
|
Gerald Ford
|
| 23
|
|
Elliot Lee Richardson
|
February 2, 1976
|
January 20, 1977
|
Gerald Ford
|
| 24
|
|
Juanita Morris Kreps
|
January 23, 1977
|
October 31, 1979
|
Jimmy Carter
|
| 25
|
|
Philip Morris Klutznick
|
January 9, 1980
|
January 19, 1981
|
Jimmy Carter
|
| 26
|
|
Howard Malcolm Baldrige, Jr.
|
January 20, 1981
|
July 25, 1987
|
Ronald Reagan
|
| 27
|
|
Calvin William Verity, Jr.
|
October 19, 1987
|
January 30, 1989
|
Ronald Reagan
|
| 28
|
|
Robert Adam Mosbacher
|
January 31, 1989
|
January 15, 1992
|
George H. W. Bush
|
| 29
|
|
Barbara Hackman Franklin
|
February 27, 1992
|
January 20, 1993
|
George H. W. Bush
|
| 30
|
|
Ronald Harmon Brown
|
January 22, 1993
|
April 3, 1996
|
Bill Clinton
|
| 31
|
|
Michael Kantor
|
April 12, 1996
|
January 21, 1997
|
Bill Clinton
|
| 32
|
|
William Michael Daley
|
January 30, 1997
|
July 19, 2000
|
Bill Clinton
|
| 33
|
|
Norman Yoshio Mineta
|
July 21, 2000
|
January 19, 2001
|
Bill Clinton
|
| 34
|
|
Donald Louis Evans
|
January 20, 2001
|
February 7, 2005
|
George W. Bush
|
| 35
|
|
Carlos Miguel Gutierrez
|
February 7, 2005
|
January 20, 2009
|
George W. Bush
|
| 36
|
|
Gary Locke
|
March 26, 2009
|
August 1, 2011
|
Barack Obama
|
| Acting
|
|
Rebecca Blank
|
August 1, 2011
|
October 21, 2011
|
Barack Obama
|
| 37
|
|
John Bryson
|
October 21, 2011
|
June 11, 2012
|
Barack Obama
|
| Acting
|
|
Rebecca Blank
|
June 11, 2012
|
June 1, 2013
|
Barack Obama
|
| Acting
|
|
Cameron Kerry
|
June 1, 2013
|
June 26, 2013
|
Barack Obama
|
| 38
|
|
Penny Pritzker
|
June 26, 2013
|
present
|
Barack Obama
|
Footnote: Under Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges Jr served as Interim Secretary of Commerce October 31, 1979 to January 9, 1980.
From 25 July 1987 to 19 October 1987, Clarence J. Brown Jr. was Acting Secretary
of Commerce.
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