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Lloyd James Austin III (born August 8, 1953) is a retired United States Army officer and current civil servant who has served as the 28th United States secretary of defense since January 22, 2021. Before retiring from the military in 2016, Austin served as the 12th commander of United States Central Command (CENTCOM), beginning in March 2013. [ 1 ]
Lloyd Austin: January 22, 2021 [2] (Confirmed January 22, 2021, 93–2) [RC 1] — — Deputy Secretary of Defense. Kathleen Hicks: February 9, 2021 [3] (Confirmed February 8, 2021 by voice vote) [V 1] — — Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. Chris Meagher: September 9, 2022 — John Kirby [4] January 20, 2021 May 27, 2022
Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin has been confirmed by the Senate as the next secretary of defense. AP Photo/Susan WalshBy all accounts, retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, just confirmed by the Senate to ...
The shortest-serving secretary of defense is Elliot Richardson, who served 114 days and then was appointed U.S. attorney general amid the resignations of the Watergate Scandal. (This is not counting deputy secretaries of defense William P. Clements and William Howard Taft IV , who each served a few weeks as temporary/acting secretary of defense).
The revelation that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had prostate cancer surgery and was later hospitalized in intensive care due to complications from that operation without President Joe Biden ...
New defense chief Lloyd Austin said he was proud and grateful to be the first African American civilian to be in charge of the nation’s military. Austin was confirmed Friday as the county’s ...
Robert C. Weaver became the first Black-American to serve in a president's cabinet when he was appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966. [4] Patricia Roberts Harris was the first black woman to serve in a presidential cabinet when she was named to the same position by President Jimmy Carter in ...
New Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the first Black person responsible for overseeing the nation’s armed forces, says his life experience has readied him to tackle extremism in the military’s ...