Chronological List of Secretaries of The Air Force
| No. | Image | Name | Term of Office | Secretaries of Defense serving under: | President appointed by: | ||
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| Began | Ended | Days of Service | |||||
| 1 | W. Stuart Symington | September 18, 1947 | April 24, 1950 | 949 | James Forrestal Louis Johnson |
Harry S. Truman | |
| 2 | Thomas K. Finletter | April 24, 1950 | January 20, 1953 | 1002 | Louis Johnson George Marshall Robert Lovett |
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| 3 | Harold E. Talbott | February 4, 1953 | August 13, 1955 | 920 | Charles Wilson | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
| 4 | Donald A. Quarles | August 15, 1955 | April 30, 1957 | 624 | |||
| 5 | James H. Douglas, Jr. | May 1, 1957 | December 10, 1959 | 953 | Charles Wilson Neil McElroy Thomas Gates |
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| 6 | Dudley C. Sharp | December 11, 1959 | January 20, 1961 | 406 | Thomas Gates | ||
| 7 | Eugene M. Zuckert | January 24, 1961 | September 30, 1965 | 1710 | Robert McNamara | John F. Kennedy | |
| 8 | Harold Brown | October 1, 1965 | February 15, 1969 | 1233 | Robert McNamara Clark Clifford Mel Laird |
Lyndon B. Johnson | |
| 9 | Robert C. Seamans, Jr. | February 15, 1969 | May 15, 1973 | 1550 | Mel Laird Elliot Richardson |
Richard M. Nixon | |
| John L. McLucas | May 15, 1973 | July 18, 1973 | 64 | Elliot Richardson James Schlesinger |
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| 10 | July 18, 1973 | November 23, 1975 | 858 | James Schlesinger Donald Rumsfeld |
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| James W. Plummer | November 24, 1975 | January 1, 1976 | 38 | Donald Rumsfeld | Gerald Ford | ||
| 11 | Thomas C. Reed | January 2, 1976 | April 6, 1977 | 460 | Donald Rumsfeld Harold Brown |
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| 12 | John C. Stetson | April 6, 1977 | May 18, 1979 | 772 | Harold Brown | Jimmy Carter | |
| Hans Mark | May 18, 1979 | July 26, 1979 | 69 | ||||
| 13 | July 26, 1979 | February 9, 1981 | 564 | Harold Brown Caspar Weinberger |
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| 14 | Verne Orr | February 9, 1981 | November 30, 1985 | 1755 | Caspar Weinberger | Ronald Reagan | |
| 15 | Russell A. Rourke | December 9, 1985 | April 6, 1986 | 118 | |||
| Edward C. Aldridge Jr. | April 6, 1986 | June 8, 1986 | 63 | ||||
| 16 | June 9, 1986 | December 16, 1988 | 921 | Caspar Weinberger Frank Carlucci |
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| James F. McGovern | December 16, 1988 | April 29, 1989 | 134 | Frank Carlucci Dick Cheney |
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| John J. Welch, Jr. | April 29, 1989 | May 21, 1989 | 22 | Dick Cheney | George H. W. Bush | ||
| 17 | Donald B. Rice | May 1, 1989 | January 20, 1993 | 1360 | |||
| Michael B. Donley | January 20, 1993 | July 13, 1993 | 174 | Les Aspin | Bill Clinton | ||
| Merrill A. McPeak | July 14, 1993 | August 5, 1993 | 22 | ||||
| 18 | Sheila E. Widnall | August 6, 1993 | October 31, 1997 | 1547 | Les Aspin William Perry William Cohen |
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| F. Whitten Peters | November 1, 1997 | July 30, 1999 | 636 | William Cohen | |||
| 19 | July 30, 1999 | January 20, 2001 | 540 | ||||
| Lawrence J. Delaney | January 21, 2001 | May 31, 2001 | 130 | Donald Rumsfeld | George W. Bush | ||
| 20 | James G. Roche | June 1, 2001 | January 20, 2005 | 1329 | |||
| Peter B. Teets | January 20, 2005 | March 25, 2005 | 64 | ||||
| Michael Montelongo | March 25, 2005 | March 28, 2005 | 3 | ||||
| Michael L. Dominguez | March 28, 2005 | July 29, 2005 | 123 | ||||
| Pete Geren | July 29, 2005 | November 4, 2005 | 98 | ||||
| 21 | Michael Wynne | November 4, 2005 | June 20, 2008 | 959 | Donald Rumsfeld Robert Gates |
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| Michael B. Donley | June 21, 2008 | October 2, 2008 | 103 | Robert Gates Leon Panetta |
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| 22 | October 2, 2008 | Incumbent | 1511 | ||||
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