Acting Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
When Steve Preston, the fourteenth United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, left office on January 20, 2009, with the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States, Montgomery assumed the acting position of secretary until Obama appointee Shaun Donovan was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 22; he was sworn in on January 26.
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