United States Secretary of Commerce |
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Formation | March 15, 1913 |
First holder | William Cox Redfield |
Succession | Tenth |
Website | www.commerce.gov |
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]
The Office of the Secretary contains a Deputy Secretary of Commerce, a Chief of Staff, a Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, an Assistant Secretary for Commerce and Intergovernmental Affairs, a Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for Administration, a Chief Information Officer, a General Counsel, an Inspector General, an Office of Business Liaison, an Office of Policy and Strategic Planning, an Office of Public Affairs, an Office of White House Liaison, and an International IPR Enforcement Coordinator.[3]
Gary Locke, former Commerce Secretary resigned on August 11, 2011 to become the United States Ambassador to China.
On May 31, 2011, President Obama nominated John E. Bryson to be U.S. Secretary of Commerce. He was sworn in as the 37th United States Secretary of Commerce on October 21, 2011.
The line of succession for the Secretary of Commerce is as follows:[4]
Contents |
No party Democratic Republican
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 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 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 | 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 | 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 Johnson | |||||||
16 | John T. Connor | New York | 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 | Texas | March 6, 1968 | January 19, 1969 | |||
19 | Maurice Stans | New York | January 21, 1969 | February 15, 1972 | Richard Nixon | ||
20 | Peter 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 | Kentucky | January 23, 1977 | October 31, 1979 | Jimmy Carter | ||
- | Luther H. Hodges, Jr. | North Carolina | October 31, 1979 | January 9, 1980 | |||
25 | Philip Klutznick | Illinois | January 9, 1980 | January 20, 1981 | |||
26 | Howard M. Baldrige, Jr. | Nebraska | January 20, 1981 | July 25, 1987 | Ronald Reagan | ||
- | Clarence J. Brown Jr. | 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 | January 15, 1992 | February 27, 1992 | ||||
29 | Barbara Franklin | Pennsylvania | February 27, 1992 | January 20, 1993 | |||
30 | Ron Brown | New York | January 22, 1993 | April 3, 1996 | Bill Clinton | ||
31 | Mickey Kantor | Tennessee | April 12, 1996 | January 21, 1997 | |||
32 | William M. Daley | Illinois | January 30, 1997 | July 19, 2000 | |||
- | Robert L. Mallett | July 19, 2000 | July 21, 2000 | ||||
33 | Norman Mineta | California | July 21, 2000 | January 19, 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 | January 20, 2009 | March 26, 2009 | Barack Obama | |||
36 | Gary Locke | Washington | March 26, 2009 | August 1, 2011 | |||
- | Rebecca Blank | Minnesota | August 1, 2011 | October 21, 2011 | |||
37 | John Bryson | New York | October 21, 2011 | Present |
Source: Department of Commerce: Secretaries
United States presidential line of succession | ||
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Preceded by Secretary of Agriculture |
10th in line | Succeeded by Secretary of Labor |
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