United States Under Secretary of the Navy
United States Under Secretary of the Navy | |
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Department of the Navy | |
Style | Mr. Under Secretary The Honorable (formal address in writing) |
Reports to | Secretary of the Navy |
Appointer | The President with the advice and consent of the Senate |
Term length | No fixed term |
Formation | August 22, 1940 |
First holder | James Forrestal |
Succession | 18th in SecDef succession |
Salary | Executive Schedule, level III |
Website | www |
The Under Secretary of the Navy is the second-highest ranking civilian official in the United States Department of the Navy. The Under Secretary, called the "Under" in Pentagon slang, reports to the Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV).
The following men and women have held the post:[1]
No. | Name | Assumed Office | Left Office | President Appointed By | Secretary Served Under |
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1 | James V. Forrestal | August 22, 1940 | May 16, 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Frank Knox |
2 | Ralph A. Bard | June 24, 1944 | June 30, 1945 | James Forrestal | |
3 | Artemus Gates | July 3, 1945 | December 31, 1945 | Harry S. Truman | |
4 | John L. Sullivan | June 17, 1946 | September 18, 1947 | ||
5 | W. John Kenney | September 19, 1947 | September 24, 1949 | John L. Sullivan | |
6 | Dan A. Kimball | May 25, 1949 | July 31, 1951 | Francis P. Matthews | |
7 | Francis P. Whitehair | August 7, 1951 | January 29, 1953 | Dan A. Kimball | |
8 | Charles S. Thomas | February 9, 1953 | August 5, 1953 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Robert B. Anderson |
9 | Thomas S. Gates Jr. | October 7, 1953 | April 1, 1957 | Robert B. Anderson, Charles Thomas | |
10 | William B. Franke | April 17, 1957 | June 7, 1959 | Thomas S. Gates Jr. | |
11 | Fred A. Bantz | June 8, 1959 | January 20, 1961 | William B. Franke | |
12 | Paul B. Fay | February 16, 1961 | January 15, 1965 | John F. Kennedy | John Connally, Fred Korth, Paul Nitze |
13 | Kenneth E. BeLieu | February 26, 1965 | July 1965 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Paul Nitze |
14 | Robert H. B. Baldwin | July 2, 1965 | July 31, 1967 | ||
15 | Charles F. Baird | August 1, 1967 | January 20, 1969 | Paul Robert Ignatius | |
16 | John Warner | February 11, 1969 | May 4, 1972 | Richard Nixon | John Chafee |
17 | Frank P. Sanders | May 5, 1972 | June 29, 1973 | John Warner | |
18 | J. William Middendorf | August 3, 1973 | June 20, 1974 | ||
19 | David S. Potter | August 28, 1974 | April 1, 1976 | Gerald Ford | J. William Middendorf |
20 | David R. Macdonald | September 14, 1976 | February 4, 1977 | ||
21 | R. James Woolsey Jr. | March 9, 1977 | December 7, 1979 | Jimmy Carter | W. Graham Claytor Jr. |
22 | Robert J. Murray | February 7, 1980 | September 29, 1981 | Edward Hidalgo, John Lehman | |
23 | James F. Goodrich | September 29, 1981 | August 6, 1987 | Ronald Reagan | John Lehman |
24 | Henry L. Garrett III | August 6, 1987 | May 15, 1989 | Jim Webb, William L. Ball | |
25 | J. Daniel Howard | August 7, 1989 | January 20, 1993 | George H. W. Bush | Henry L. Garrett III, Sean O'Keefe |
26 | Richard J. Danzig | November 29, 1993 | May 30, 1997 | Bill Clinton | John Howard Dalton |
27 | Jerry MacArthur Hultin | November 13, 1997 | July 14, 2000 | John Howard Dalton, Richard Danzig | |
28 | Robert B. Pirie Jr. | October 12, 2000 | June 6, 2001 | Richard Danzig | |
29 | Susan M. Livingstone | July 26, 2001 | February 28, 2003 | George W. Bush | Gordon R. England |
30 | Dionel M. Aviles | October 8, 2004 | Sept 27, 2006[2] | Gordon R. England, Donald C. Winter | |
31 | Robert O. Work | May 19, 2009 | March 22, 2013 | Barack Obama | Ray Mabus |
32 | Janine A. Davidson | March 17, 2016 | January 20, 2017 | ||
– | Thomas P. Dee (acting) | February 17, 2017[3] | December 4, 2017 | Donald Trump | Richard V. Spencer |
33 | Thomas B. Modly | December 4, 2017 | Incumbent |
References
- ^ "Official U.S. Navy web page". Archived from the original on July 24, 2006. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
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