List of Foreign-born United States Cabinet Secretaries - Notes

Notes

  • a The position of Secretary of War became defunct when the Department of War became the Department of Defense in 1947.
  • b 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.
  • c The position of Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare became defunct when the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was subdivided into two separate entities in 1979.
  • d The United States Ambassador to the United Nations is a cabinet-level position under the Clinton and Obama administrations. It was not a cabinet-level position under the Bush administration from 2001 to 2009.

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