United States Assistant Secretary of War
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The United States Assistant Secretary of War was the second-ranking official within the American Department of War from 1861 to 1867, from 1882 to 1883, and from 1890 to 1940.
In 1940, the new position of United States Under Secretary of War replaced this position as the number-two office in the department. Assistant Secretary Robert Porter Patterson became the first Under Secretary. [1]
The office continued to exercise administrative duties until the department's end in 1947, when the United States Department of Defense was established.
[edit] List of Assistant Secretaries of War
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- Thomas Alexander Scott (1861- c. 1865)
- Thomas Eckert (1865-1867) -- under Edwin M. Stanton during Andrew Johnson's presidency
- George D. Meiklejohn (1897-1901) [2]
- Henry S. Breckinridge (1913-1916) -- under Lindley M. Garrison during Woodrow Wilson's presidency
- William Ingraham (c. 1916-1917)
- Mayhew Wainwright (c. 1921-1923)
- Dwight Filley Davis (1923-1925) [3]
- Patrick Jay Hurley (March–December 1929)
- Frederick Huff Payne (1930- c. 1933) [4]
- Harry Hines Woodring (1933-1936) [5]
- Louis A. Johnson (1937-1940)
- Robert Porter Patterson (1940)
- John J. McCloy (c. 1941-1945)
- Howard Peterson (c. 1945-1947)
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