United States Secretary of the Interior

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United States Secretary of the Interior
Official Seal
Incumbent: Ken Salazar since: January 20th, 2009
First	Thomas Ewing
Formation	March 8, 1849
Presidential succession	8th
Website	www.doi.gov

The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior.

The US Department of the Interior should not be confused with the concept of Ministries of the Interior as used in other countries. Ministries of the Interior correspond to the Department of Homeland Security in the US cabinet.

The Department of the Interior oversees such agencies as the Bureau of Land Management, the United States Geological Survey, and the National Park Service. The Secretary also serves on and appoints the private citizens on the National Park Foundation board. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet.

Because the policies and activities of the Department of the Interior and many of its agencies have a substantial impact in the western United States,^[1] the Secretary of the Interior typically comes from a western state; only one of the individuals to hold the office since 1949 is not identified with a state lying west of the Mississippi River. The Secretary of the Interior is eighth in the United States presidential line of succession.

The current Secretary of the Interior under Barack Obama's administration is former Senator Ken Salazar of Colorado.

[edit] Secretaries of the Interior

#	Picture	Name	State of Residence	Term of Office	President(s) served under
1		Thomas Ewing	Ohio	March 8, 1849–July 22, 1850	Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore
2		Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan	Pennsylvania	August 15, 1850–August 26, 1850	Millard Fillmore
3		Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart	Virginia	September 14, 1850–March 7, 1853
4		Robert McClelland	Michigan	March 8, 1853–March 9, 1857	Franklin Pierce
5		Jacob Thompson	Mississippi	March 10, 1857–January 8, 1861	James Buchanan
6		Caleb Blood Smith	Indiana	March 5, 1861–December 31, 1862	Abraham Lincoln
7		John Palmer Usher	Indiana	January 1, 1863–May 15, 1865	Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson
8		James Harlan	Iowa	May 16, 1865–August 31, 1866	Andrew Johnson
9		Orville Hickman Browning	Illinois	September 1, 1866–March 4, 1869
10		Jacob Dolson Cox	Ohio	March 5, 1869–October 31, 1870	Ulysses S. Grant
11		Columbus Delano	Ohio	November 1, 1870–September 30, 1875
12		Zachariah Chandler	Michigan	October 19, 1875–March 11, 1877
13		Carl Schurz	Missouri	March 12, 1877–March 7, 1881	Rutherford B. Hayes
14		Samuel J. Kirkwood	Iowa	March 8, 1881–April 17, 1882	James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur
15		Henry Moore Teller	Colorado	April 18, 1882–March 3, 1885	Chester A. Arthur
16		Lucius Q.C. Lamar	Mississippi	March 6, 1885–January 10, 1888	Grover Cleveland
17		William Freeman Vilas	Wisconsin	January 16, 1888–March 6, 1889
18		John Willock Noble	Missouri	March 7, 1889–March 6, 1893	Benjamin Harrison
19		M. Hoke Smith	Georgia	March 6, 1893–September 1, 1896	Grover Cleveland
20		David Rowland Francis	Missouri	September 3, 1896–March 5, 1897
21		Cornelius Newton Bliss	New York	March 6, 1897–February 19, 1899	William McKinley
22		Ethan Allen Hitchcock	Missouri	February 20, 1899–March 4, 1907	William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt
23		James Rudolph Garfield	Ohio	March 5, 1907–March 5, 1909	Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft
24		Richard Achilles Ballinger	Washington	March 6, 1909–March 12, 1911	William Howard Taft
25		Walter Lowrie Fisher	Illinois	March 13, 1911–March 5, 1913
26		Franklin Knight Lane	California	March 6, 1913–February 29, 1920	Woodrow Wilson
27		John Barton Payne	Illinois	March 15, 1920–March 4, 1921
28		Albert Bacon Fall	New Mexico	March 5, 1921–March 4, 1923	Warren G. Harding
29		Hubert Work	Colorado	March 5, 1923–July 24, 1928	Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge
30		Roy Owen West	Illinois	July 25, 1928–March 4, 1929	Calvin Coolidge
31		Ray Lyman Wilbur	California	March 5, 1929–March 4, 1933	Herbert Hoover
32		Harold LeClair Ickes	Illinois	March 4, 1933–February 15, 1946	Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman
33		Julius Albert Krug	Wisconsin	March 18, 1946–December 1, 1949	Harry S. Truman
34		Oscar Littleton Chapman	Colorado	December 1, 1949–January 20, 1953
35		Douglas McKay	Oregon	January 21, 1953–April 15, 1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower
36		Fred Andrew Seaton	Nebraska	June 8, 1956–January 20, 1961
37		Stewart Lee Udall	Arizona	January 21, 1961–January 20, 1969	John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson
38		Walter J. Hickel	Alaska	January 24, 1969–November 25, 1970	Richard Nixon
39		Rogers Clark Ballard Morton	Maryland	January 29, 1971–April 30, 1975	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
40		Stanley K. Hathaway	Wyoming	June 12, 1975–October 9, 1975	Gerald Ford
41		Thomas S. Kleppe	North Dakota	October 17, 1975–January 20, 1977
42		Cecil D. Andrus	Idaho	January 23, 1977–January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter
43		James G. Watt	Colorado	January 23, 1981–November 8, 1983	Ronald Reagan
44		William Patrick Clark	California	November 18, 1983–February 7, 1985
45		Donald Paul Hodel	Oregon	February 8, 1985–January 20, 1989
46		Manuel Lujan, Jr.	New Mexico	February 3, 1989–January 20, 1993	George H. W. Bush
47		Bruce Babbitt	Arizona	January 22, 1993–January 2, 2001	Bill Clinton
48		Gale Ann Norton	Colorado	January 31, 2001–March 31, 2006	George W. Bush
49		Dirk Kempthorne	Idaho	May 29, 2006 - January 19, 2009
50		Ken Salazar	Colorado	January 20, 2009– Present	Barack Obama

[edit] Living former Secretaries of the Interior

• Stewart Lee Udall
• Walter J. Hickel
• Cecil D. Andrus
• James G. Watt
• William Patrick Clark
• Donald Paul Hodel
• Manuel Lujan, Jr.
• Bruce Babbitt
• Gale Ann Norton
• Dirk Kempthorne

[edit] See also

• Living former members of the United States Cabinet

[edit] References

1. ^ Salazar, Vilsack: The West’s New Land Lords

[edit] External links

• List of Secretaries of the Interior
• The Department of Everything Else: Highlights of Interior History (1989)

v • d • e United States Secretaries of the Interior Ewing • McKennan • Stuart • McClelland • Thompson • C Smith • Usher • Harlan • Browning • Cox • Delano • Chandler • Schurz • Kirkwood • Teller • Lamar • Vilas • Noble • M Smith • Francis • Bliss • Hitchcock • Garfield • Ballinger • Fisher • Lane • Payne • Fall • Work • West • Wilbur • Ickes • Krug • Chapman • McKay • Seaton • Udall • Hickel • Morton • Hathaway • Kleppe • Andrus • Watt • Clark • Hodel • Lujan • Babbitt • Norton • Kempthorne • Salazar

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