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Cordell Hull is the only person to have served as secretary of state for more than eight years. Daniel Webster and James G. Blaine are the only secretaries of state to have ever served non-consecutive terms. Warren Christopher served very briefly as acting secretary of state non-consecutively with his later tenure as full-fledged secretary of ...
On February 19, 1868, Lawrence introduced a bill in Congress to create the Department of Justice. President Ulysses S. Grant signed the bill into law on June 22, 1870. [8] Grant appointed Amos T. Akerman as attorney general and Benjamin H. Bristow as America's first solicitor general the same week that Congress created the Department of Justice ...
Secretary of Commerce: Wilbur Ross: 2017–2021: Secretary of Labor: Alexander Acosta: 2017–2019: Eugene Scalia: 2019–2021: Secretary of Health and Human Services: Tom Price: 2017: Alex Azar: 2018–2021: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Ben Carson: 2017–2021: Secretary of Transportation: Elaine Chao: 2017–2021: Secretary of ...
Secretary of Foreign Affairs: created in July 1781 and renamed Secretary of State in September 1789. [11] Secretary of War: created in 1789 and was renamed as Secretary of the Army by the National Security Act of 1947. The 1949 Amendments to the National Security Act of 1947 made the secretary of the Army a subordinate to the secretary of defense.
The attorney general represents the federal government in legal matters and supervises the administration and operation of the Department of Justice, which includes the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Attorneys ...
Others of Trump's nominees, though, have followed more unusual paths to government service. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whose controversial nomination barely made it through the Senate on ...
The United States secretary of state (SecState) [5] is a member of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States and the head of the U.S. Department of State. The secretary of state serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all foreign affairs matters.
Each department is headed by a secretary whose title echoes the title of their respective department, with the exception of the Department of Justice, whose head is known as the attorney general. The heads of the executive departments are appointed by the president and take office after confirmation by the United States Senate , and serve at ...