Notes
- a The Department of the Treasury was established in 1789; no African American has served yet.
- b The Department of Defense was established in 1947; no African American has served yet.
- c The Department of the Interior was established in 1849; no African American has served yet.
- d The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002; no African American has served yet.
- e The Postmaster General ceased to be a member of the Cabinet when the Post Office Department was re-organized into the United States Postal Service, a special agency independent of the executive branch, by the 1970 Postal Reorganization Act. No African American had ever served while it was a Cabinet post.
- f The Secretary of the Navy ceased to be a member of the Cabinet when the Department of the Navy was absorbed into the Department of Defense in 1947. No African American had ever served while it was a Cabinet post.
- g The position of Secretary of War became defunct when the Department of War became the Department of Defense in 1947. No African American had ever served while it was a Cabinet post.
- h The position of Secretary of Commerce and Labor became defunct when the Department of Commerce and Labor was subdivided into two separate entities in 1913. No African American had ever served while it was a Cabinet post.
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