List of Deputy Secretaries of Defense
| No. | Image | Name | Term of Office | Secretaries of Defense serving under: | President appointed by: | ||
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| Began | Ended | Days of Service | |||||
| 1 | Stephen Early | 2 May 1949 10 August 1949 |
9 August 1949 30 September 1950 |
516 | Louis A. Johnson George Marshall |
Harry S. Truman | |
| 2 | Robert A. Lovett | 4 October 1950 | 16 September 1951 | 316 | George Marshall | ||
| 3 | William Chapman Foster | 24 September 1951 | 20 January 1953 | 484 | Robert A. Lovett | ||
| 4 | Roger M. Kyes | 2 February 1953 | 1 May 1954 | 453 | Charles E. Wilson | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
| 5 | Robert B. Anderson | 3 May 1954 | 4 August 1955 | 458 | |||
| 6 | Reuben B. Robertson, Jr. | 5 August 1955 | 25 April 1957 | 629 | |||
| 7 | Donald A. Quarles | 1 May 1957 | 8 May 1959 | 737 | Charles E. Wilson Neil H. McElroy |
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| 8 | Thomas S. Gates | 8 June 1959 | 1 December 1959 | 176 | Neil H. McElroy | ||
| 9 | James H. Douglas, Jr. | 11 December 1959 | 24 January 1961 | 410 | Thomas S. Gates Robert McNamara |
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| 10 | Roswell Gilpatric | 24 January 1961 | 20 January 1964 | 1091 | Robert McNamara | John F. Kennedy | |
| 11 | Cyrus Vance | 28 January 1964 | 30 June 1967 | 1249 | Lyndon B. Johnson | ||
| 12 | Paul Nitze | 1 July 1967 | 20 January 1969 | 569 | Robert McNamara Clark Clifford |
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| 13 | David Packard | 24 January 1969 | 13 December 1971 | 1053 | Melvin R. Laird | Richard Nixon | |
| 14 | Kenneth Rush | 23 February 1972 | 29 January 1973 | 341 | |||
| 15 | William P. Clements, Jr. | 30 January 1973 | 20 January 1977 | 1451 | Elliot Richardson James R. Schlesinger Donald Rumsfeld |
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| 16 | Charles W. Duncan, Jr. | 31 January 1977 | 26 July 1979 | 906 | Harold Brown | Jimmy Carter | |
| 17 | W. Graham Claytor, Jr. | 24 August 1979 | 16 January 1981 | 511 | |||
| 18 | Frank Carlucci | 4 February 1981 | 31 December 1982 | 695 | Caspar Weinberger | Ronald Reagan | |
| 19 | W. Paul Thayer | 12 January 1983 | 4 January 1984 | 357 | |||
| 20 | William Howard Taft IV | 3 February 1984 | 22 April 1989 | 1905 | Caspar Weinberger Frank Carlucci Dick Cheney |
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| 21 | Donald J. Atwood Jr. | 24 April 1989 | 20 January 1993 | 1367 | Dick Cheney | George H. W. Bush | |
| 22 | William J. Perry | 5 March 1993 | 3 February 1994 | 335 | Les Aspin | Bill Clinton | |
| 23 | John M. Deutch | 11 March 1994 | 10 May 1995 | 425 | William J. Perry | ||
| 24 | John P. White | 22 June 1995 | 15 July 1997 | 754 | William J. Perry William Cohen |
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| 25 | John J. Hamre | 29 July 1997 | 31 March 2000 | 976 | William Cohen | ||
| 26 | Rudy de Leon | 31 March 2000 | 1 March 2001 | 335 | William Cohen Donald Rumsfeld |
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| 27 | Paul Wolfowitz | 2 March 2001 | 13 May 2005 | 1533 | Donald Rumsfeld | George W. Bush | |
| 28 | Gordon R. England | 13 May 2005 4 January 2006 |
4 January 2006 11 February 2009 |
236 1134 |
Donald Rumsfeld Robert Gates |
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| 29 | William J. Lynn III | 12 February 2009 | 5 October 2011 | 1383 | Robert Gates Leon Panetta |
Barack Obama | |
| 30 | Ashton B. Carter | 6 October 2011 | Incumbent | 417 | Leon Panetta | ||
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