F. David Mathews

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Forrest David Mathews (born December 6, 1935) served as Secretary of the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare from 1975 to 1977. Despite being a Democrat, he served during the Republican administration of President Gerald R. Ford.

Mathews was born in Grove Hill, Alabama. He attended the University of Alabama and Columbia University (PHD 1965), and was president of University of Alabama 1969-75, 1977-1980.

Mathews currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and President of the Kettering Foundation 1981-present. He is one of only two surviving secretaries of the now defunct Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (the other is his successor, Joseph A. Califano, Jr.).

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Preceded by Caspar Weinberger

United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1975–1977

Succeeded by Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

v • d • e United States Secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare Hobby • Folsom • Flemming • Ribicoff • Celebrezze • Gardner • Cohen • Finch • Richardson • Weinberger • Mathews • Califano • Harris

v • d • e Cabinet of President Gerald Ford (1974-1977) Vice President Vacant (1974), Nelson Rockefeller (1974-1977) Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (1974–1977) Secretary of the Treasury William E. Simon (1974–1977) Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger (1974–1975) • Donald Rumsfeld (1975–1977) Attorney General William Saxbe (1974-1975) • Edward Levi (1975-1977) Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton (1974–1975) • Stanley K. Hathaway (1975) • Thomas S. Kleppe (1975-1977) Secretary of the Agriculture Earl Butz (1974–1976) • John Albert Knebel (1976-1977) Secretary of Commerce Frederick B. Dent (1974–1975) • Rogers Morton (1975) • Elliot Richardson (1975-1977) Secretary of Labor Peter J. Brennan (1974–1975) • John Thomas Dunlop (1975–1976) • William Usery, Jr. (1976-1977) Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Caspar Weinberger (1974-1975) • F. David Mathews (1975-1977) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development James Thomas Lynn (1974-1975) • Carla Anderson Hills (1975–1977) Secretary of Transportation Claude Brinegar (1974–1975) • William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. (1975–1977)