Foreign-born Cabinet Members
The table below is organized based on the time at which a foreign-born individual was appointed to the Cabinet.
- * denotes the first foreign-born secretary of that particular department
| Name | Position | Year appointed |
Birth country | Party | Administration | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton, AlexanderAlexander Hamilton* | Treasury !Secretary of the Treasury | 1789 | British West Indies (Nevis) | No party | George Washington | |
| McHenry, JamesJames McHenry* | War !Secretary of War | 1796 | Ireland | No party Federalist |
George Washington; John Adams |
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| Gallatin, AlbertAlbert Gallatin | Treasury !Secretary of the Treasury | 1801 | Switzerland | Democratic-Republican | Thomas Jefferson; James Madison |
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| Campbell, GeorgeGeorge Campbell | Treasury !Secretary of the Treasury | 1814 | United Kingdom | Democratic-Republican | James Madison | |
| Duane, WilliamWilliam Duane | Treasury !Secretary of the Treasury | 1833 | United Kingdom | Democratic | Andrew Jackson | |
| Schurz, CarlCarl Schurz* | Interior !Secretary of the Interior | 1877 | Germany | Republican | Rutherford Hayes | |
| Wilson, JamesJames Wilson* | Agriculture !Secretary of Agriculture | 1897 | United Kingdom | Republican | William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt; William Howard Taft |
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| Straus, OscarOscar Straus* | Commerce and Labor !Secretary of Commerce and Labor | 1906 | Germany | Republican | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| Lane, Franklin KnightFranklin Knight Lane | Interior !Secretary of the Interior | 1913 | Prince Edward Island | Democratic | Woodrow Wilson | |
| Wilson, William BauchopWilliam Bauchop Wilson* | Labor !Secretary of Labor | 1913 | United Kingdom | Democratic | Woodrow Wilson | |
| Davis, JamesJames Davis | Labor !Secretary of Labor | 1921 | United Kingdom | Republican | Warren Harding; Calvin Coolidge; Herbert Hoover |
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| Celebrezze, AnthonyAnthony Celebrezze* | Health !Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare | 1962 | Italy | Democratic | John F. Kennedy; Lyndon Johnson |
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| Romney, GeorgeGeorge Romney* | Housing !Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | 1969 | Mexico | Republican | Richard Nixon | |
| Kissinger, HenryHenry Kissinger* | State !Secretary of State | 1973 | Germany | Republican | Richard Nixon; Gerald Ford |
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| Blumenthal, MichaelMichael Blumenthal | Treasury !Secretary of the Treasury | 1977 | Germany | Democratic | Jimmy Carter | |
| Albright, MadeleineMadeleine Albright | State !Secretary of State | 1997 | Czechoslovakia | Democratic | Bill Clinton | |
| Chao, ElaineElaine Chao | Labor !Secretary of Labor | 2001 | Republic of China | Republican | George W. Bush | |
| Martinez, MelMel Martinez | Housing !Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | 2001 | Cuba | Republican | George W. Bush | |
| Gutierrez, CarlosCarlos Gutierrez* | Commerce !Secretary of Commerce | 2005 | Cuba | Republican | George W. Bush | |
| Jewell, SallySally Jewell | Interior !Secretary of the Interior | 2013 | United Kingdom | Democratic | Barack Obama |
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