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 Department states its mission to be "to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce."[2] 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.[3]
United States Secretary of Commerce | |
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United States Department of Commerce | |
Style | Mr. Secretary (informal) The Honorable (formal) |
Member of | Cabinet |
Reports to | President of the United States |
Seat | Herbert C. Hoover Building, Washington, D.C. |
Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
Term length | No fixed term |
Constituting instrument | 15 U.S.C. § 1501 |
Precursor | Secretary of Commerce and Labor |
Formation | March 15, 1913 |
First holder | William Cox Redfield |
Succession | Tenth[1] |
Deputy | Deputy Secretary of Commerce |
Salary | Executive Schedule, level I |
Website | Commerce.gov |
List of Secretaries of Commerce[4]
- Parties
No party (1) Democratic (20) Republican (18)
- Status
Denotes acting commerce secretary
No. | Portrait | Name | State of residence | Took office | Left office | President(s) | |
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1 | William C. Redfield | New York | March 5, 1913 | October 31, 1919 | Woodrow Wilson | ||
2 | Joshua W. Alexander | Missouri | December 16, 1919 | March 4, 1921 | |||
3 | Herbert Hoover | California | March 5, 1921 | August 21, 1928 | Warren G. Harding | ||
Calvin Coolidge | |||||||
4 | William F. Whiting | Massachusetts | August 22, 1928 | March 4, 1929 | |||
5 | Robert P. Lamont | Illinois | March 5, 1929 | August 7, 1932 | Herbert C. Hoover | ||
6 | Roy D. Chapin | Michigan | August 8, 1932 | March 3, 1933 | |||
7 | Daniel C. Roper | South Carolina | March 4, 1933 | December 23, 1938 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | ||
8 | Harry Hopkins | New York | December 24, 1938 | September 18, 1940 | |||
9 | Jesse H. Jones | Texas | September 19, 1940 | March 1, 1945 | |||
10 | Henry A. Wallace | Iowa | March 2, 1945 | September 20, 1946 | |||
Harry S. Truman | |||||||
– | Alfred Schindler Acting |
September 20, 1946 | October 7, 1946 | ||||
11 | W. Averell Harriman | New York | October 7, 1946 | April 22, 1948 | |||
12 | Charles W. Sawyer | Ohio | May 6, 1948 | January 20, 1953 | |||
13 | Sinclair Weeks | Massachusetts | January 21, 1953 | November 10, 1958 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | ||
– | Lewis Strauss Acting |
West Virginia | November 13, 1958 | June 30, 1959 | |||
14 | Frederick H. Mueller | Michigan | June 30, 1959 | August 10, 1959 | |||
August 10, 1959 | January 19, 1961 | ||||||
15 | Luther H. Hodges | North Carolina | January 21, 1961 | January 15, 1965 | John F. Kennedy | ||
Lyndon B. Johnson | |||||||
16 | John T. Connor | New Jersey | January 18, 1965 | January 31, 1967 | |||
17 | Alexander Trowbridge | New York | January 31, 1967 | June 14, 1967 | |||
June 14, 1967 | March 1, 1968 | ||||||
18 | C. R. Smith | New York | March 6, 1968 | January 19, 1969 | |||
19 | Maurice Stans | New York | January 21, 1969 | February 15, 1972 | Richard Nixon | ||
20 | Peter George Peterson | Illinois | February 29, 1972 | February 1, 1973 | |||
21 | Frederick B. Dent | South Carolina | February 2, 1973 | March 26, 1975 | |||
Gerald Ford | |||||||
22 | Rogers Morton | Maryland | May 1, 1975 | February 2, 1976 | |||
23 | Elliot Richardson | Massachusetts | February 2, 1976 | January 20, 1977 | |||
24 | Juanita M. Kreps | North Carolina | January 23, 1977 | October 31, 1979 | Jimmy Carter | ||
– | Luther H. Hodges, Jr. Acting |
North Carolina | October 31, 1979 | January 9, 1980 | |||
25 | Philip Klutznick | Illinois | January 9, 1980 | January 20, 1981 | |||
26 | Malcolm Baldrige, Jr. | Connecticut | January 20, 1981 | July 25, 1987 | Ronald Reagan | ||
– | Bud Brown Acting |
Ohio | July 25, 1987 | October 19, 1987 | |||
27 | William Verity, Jr. | Ohio | October 19, 1987 | January 30, 1989 | |||
28 | Robert Mosbacher | Texas | January 31, 1989 | January 15, 1992 | George H. W. Bush | ||
– | Rockwell A. Schnabel Acting |
California | January 15, 1992 | February 27, 1992 | |||
29 | Barbara Franklin | Pennsylvania | February 27, 1992 | January 20, 1993 | |||
30 | Ron Brown | New York | January 20, 1993 | April 3, 1996 | Bill Clinton | ||
– | Mary L. Good Acting |
Texas | April 3, 1996 | April 12, 1996 | |||
31 | Mickey Kantor | Tennessee | April 12, 1996 | January 21, 1997 | |||
32 | William M. Daley | Illinois | January 30, 1997 | July 19, 2000 | |||
– | Robert L. Mallett Acting |
July 19, 2000 | July 21, 2000 | ||||
33 | Norman Mineta | California | July 21, 2000 | January 20, 2001 | |||
34 | Donald Evans | Texas | January 20, 2001 | February 7, 2005 | George W. Bush | ||
35 | Carlos Gutierrez | Florida | February 7, 2005 | January 20, 2009 | |||
– | Otto J. Wolff Acting |
January 20, 2009 | March 26, 2009 | Barack Obama | |||
36 | Gary Locke | Washington | March 26, 2009 | August 1, 2011 | |||
– | Rebecca Blank Acting |
Minnesota | August 1, 2011 | October 21, 2011 | |||
37 | John Bryson | New York | October 21, 2011 | June 11, 2012 | |||
– | Rebecca Blank Acting |
Minnesota | June 11, 2012 | June 1, 2013 | |||
– | Cameron Kerry Acting |
Massachusetts | June 1, 2013 | June 26, 2013 | |||
38 | Penny Pritzker | Illinois | June 26, 2013 | January 20, 2017 | |||
– | Vacant | January 20, 2017 | February 28, 2017 | Donald Trump | |||
39 | Wilbur Ross | Florida | February 28, 2017 | January 20, 2021 | |||
– | Wynn Coggins Acting |
January 20, 2021 | March 3, 2021 | Joe Biden | |||
40 | Gina Raimondo | Rhode Island | March 3, 2021 | — |
United States Secretary Of Commerce Media
References
- ↑ 3 U.S.C. § 19
- ↑ ""US Department of Commerce, Directives Management Program"". Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved September 22, 2007.
- ↑ ""Department of Commerce - Milestones"". Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Retrieved September 22, 2007.
- ↑ ""Department of Commerce Home Page --"". Archived from the original on June 26, 2007. Retrieved September 22, 2007.