Ethan A. Hitchcock (Interior)

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Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1835-1909) served under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt as U.S. Secretary of the Interior.

Born in September 19, 1835 in Mobile, Alabama, Hitchcock was in his sixties when first appointed by McKinley to be U.S. minister to Russia in 1897. He was recalled in the following year to serve in first McKinley's and then his successor Roosevelt's Cabinet. As Secretary of the Interior, Hitchcock pursued a vigorous program for the conservation of natural resources and reorganized the administration of Native American affairs. Hitchcock died April 9, 1909 in Washington, D.C.

Preceded by
Cornelius Newton Bliss		 United States Secretary of the Interior
1899–1907		 Succeeded by
James Rudolph Garfield
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