List of people who have held multiple United States Cabinet-level positions
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Unlike in many European, parliamentary cabinets, in the United States Cabinet it is generally less common for a cabinet secretary to hold multiple cabinet-level positions over the years. This is a list of the exceptions:
| Name | Offices |
|---|---|
| Edmund Randolph | Attorney General (1789 – 1794) Secretary of State (1794 – 1795) |
| Thomas Jefferson | Secretary of State (1789 – 1793) Vice President (1797 – 1801) President (1801 – 1809) |
| Timothy Pickering | Postmaster General (1791 – 1795) Secretary of War (1795) Secretary of State (1795 – 1800) |
| James Monroe | Secretary of State (1811 – 1817) Secretary of War (1814 – 1815) President (1817 – 1825) |
| William H. Crawford | Secretary of War (1815 – 1816) Secretary of the Treasury (1816 – 1825) |
| John C. Calhoun | Secretary of War (1817 – 1825) Vice President (1825 – 1832) Secretary of State (1844 – 1845) |
| Martin Van Buren | Secretary of State (1829 – 1831) Vice President (1833 – 1837) President (1837 – 1841) |
| Lewis Cass | Secretary of War (1831 – 1836) Secretary of State (1857 – 1860) |
| Roger B. Taney | Attorney General (1831 – 1833) Secretary of the Treasury (1833 – 1834) |
| Edwin M. Stanton | Attorney General (1860 – 1861) Secretary of War (1862 – 1868) |
| William M. Evarts | Attorney General (1868 – 1869) Secretary of State (1877 – 1881) |
| Walter Q. Gresham | Postmaster General (1883 – 1884) Secretary of the Treasury (1884) Secretary of State (1893 – 1895) |
| Elihu Root | Secretary of War (1899 – 1904) Secretary of State (1905 – 1909) |
| George B. Cortelyou | Secretary of Commerce and Labor (1903 – 1904) Postmaster General (1905 – 1907) Secretary of the Treasury (1907 – 1909) |
| Henry L. Stimson | Secretary of War (1911 – 1913) Secretary of State (1929 – 1933) Secretary of War (1940 – 1945) |
| Charles G. Dawes | Director of the Office of Management and Budget (1921 – 1922) Vice President (1925 – 1929) |
| Hubert Work | Postmaster General (1922 – 1923) Secretary of the Interior (1923 – 1928) |
| Henry A. Wallace | Secretary of Agriculture (1933 – 1940) Vice President (1941 – 1945) Secretary of Commerce (1945 – 1946) |
| George Marshall | Secretary of State (1947 – 1949) Secretary of Defense (1950 – 1951) |
| William P. Rogers | Attorney General (1957 – 1961) Secretary of State (1969 – 1973) |
| George P. Shultz | Secretary of Labor (1969 – 1970) Secretary of the Treasury (1972 – 1974) Secretary of State (1982 – 1989) |
| Elliot Richardson | Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (1970 – 1973) Secretary of Defense (1973) Attorney General (1973) Secretary of Commerce (1976 – 1977) |
| Rogers Morton | Secretary of the Interior (1971 – 1975) Secretary of Commerce (1975 – 1976) |
| James R. Schlesinger | Secretary of Defense (1973 – 1974) Secretary of Energy (1977 – 1979) |
| Caspar Weinberger | Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (1973 – 1975) Secretary of Defense (1981 – 1987) |
| Donald Rumsfeld | Chief of Staff (1974 – 1975) Secretary of Defense (1975 – 1977) Secretary of Defense (2001 – 2006) |
| Dick Cheney | Chief of Staff (1975 – 1977) Secretary of Defense (1989 – 1993) Vice President (2001 – 2009) |
| Patricia Roberts Harris | Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (1977 – 1979) Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (1979) Secretary of Health and Human Services (1979 – 1981) |
| Elizabeth Dole | Secretary of Transportation (1983 – 1987) Secretary of Labor (1989 – 1990) |
| James Baker | Chief of Staff (1981 – 1985) Secretary of the Treasury (1985 – 1988) Secretary of State (1989 – 1992) Chief of Staff (1992 – 1993) |
| Andrew Card | Secretary of Transportation (1992 – 1993) Chief of Staff (2001 – 2006) |
| Federico Peña | Secretary of Transportation (1993 – 1997) Secretary of Energy (1997 – 1998) |
| Norman Mineta | Secretary of Commerce (2000 – 2001) Secretary of Transportation (2001 – 2006) |
| Mike Leavitt | Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (2003 – 2005) Secretary of Health and Human Services (2005 – 2009) |
The following served in multiple cabinet positions in the Confederate States:
| Name | Offices |
|---|---|
| Judah P. Benjamin | Attorney General (1861) Secretary of War (1861 – 1862) Secretary of State (1862 – 1865) |
| John Henninger Reagan | Postmaster General (1861 – 1865) Secretary of the Treasury (1865) |
The following have served in cabinet positions in both the United States and Confederate States:
| Name | Offices |
|---|---|
| Jefferson Davis | United States Secretary of War (1853 – 1857) Confederate States President (1861 – 1865) |
| John C. Breckinridge | United States Vice President (1857 – 1861) Confederate States Secretary of War (1865) |
